MSP 1337
Educational sound bytes to help MSPs and their clients navigate Cyber Security. Cybersecurity maturity is a journey, don't go it alone. Interviews and guidance from fellow MSPs and other Industry experts.
Our goal is Secure Outcomes and together we can make a difference.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 255
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Getting Started
Paralysis Analysis are commonplace among MSPs, Businesses large and small when it comes to taking on Cybersecurity. As we come off Cybersecurity awareness month we are tackling cybersecurity and inc…
Ounce of Prevention = Pound of Cure
After we talked about the pre/post-boom I thought we should cover the security services side of being an MSP. Join me with Joshua Smith of Varonis as we talk about understanding what it is that we a…
Pre/Post Boom
What have you done to prepare for ransomware or other incidents that can cause repercussions that impact your business? Do you have a plan in place for post-boom or after an event has happened? This …
Cybersecurity for SMB MSP
Businesses come in all shapes and sizes, and when it comes to cybersecurity, there is no one size fits all. I sit down with William Mulcahey of M6 Managed IT to discuss what it means as a smaller MS…
Cyber Insurance. A no brainer!
Sitting down with Jeremiah Grossman of Bit Discovery and Jeffrey Smith of Cyber Risk Underwriters to talk about the need to have cyber insurance. What it covers and how relatively inexpensive it is …
Hoodies vs Suits
Power is out... now what?
We recently talked about BCDR and making sure there is a plan in place that is communicated. It felt like we left a few things out so this week I sat down with Charles Love again to hash out some of…
Business Continuity (BCDR)
I don't think there are any MSPs who aren't dealing with backups of data for their clients, whether it is for onsite data or cloud services it has become par for the course. In this episode I sit do…
Adding an "s" to MSP (Compliance and Me)
Security and Compliance go hand in hand, but we live in a world where cybersecurity obligations are still driven by what our clients might require of us.
You don't have to become an MSSP to prioriti…
Finger Pointing
Power outages, slow internet, ransomware, and many other scenarios cause a finger to get pointed at someone. I know I have had a few fingers pointed at me and I know that I have also done my own sha…
Recent Breaches in the Media
With T-Mobile, AT&T, and now even Microsoft reporting breaches questions start to come up as to what can be done. Why is this happening? Don't these companies focus on securing our information? I h…
O365 Cybersecurity Tips and Tricks
We have all had an opportunity to work with a Microsoft product or two in our careers. This week I sit down with Charles Love to recap some recent O365 challenges we both faced and better prepared f…
HIPAA Compliance?
It seems we have covered different cybersecurity frameworks and the challenges MSPs face to become compliant, but until now we haven't talked specifically about HIPAA compliance. As an MSP you might…
Cyber Insurance. Am I Covered?
It seems that more often than not we talk about Cyber Insurance. The last two episodes we talked specifically about risk and going back to December 2020, Episode 8, we talked about cyber insurance a…
Prospect Scorecard
Last we we discussed client risk and even a bit about our own risks. Throughout our discussion I kept thinking we need a way to score our prospective or existing clients to help determine those that…
Risky Clients
Most of us can relate to a client grading system. We grade client's prompt bill payments, how they treat our techs, demands, or requests that sometimes seem outlandish or impossible. In our ever-chan…
Zero Trust
If you haven't seen the NIST definition of Zero Trust then you have come to the right episode. I sit down with Bryan Sullo of Clock Tower Technologies to discuss what Zero Trust really means to thos…
Imposter Syndrome
Do you ever feel like you aren't the expert? You are meeting with a prospect or an existing client, and you suddenly doubt your abilities... If you have ever been there and felt like you were just w…
Communication Etiquette and Protocols
Starting with Communication and what is appropriate? We will discuss the different types of communication and when they should be used to have effective communication. When to use Chat, when to use…
Gas Prices and Meat Shortages
As the podcast series has grown to more than 30 episodes it is starting to feel like Deja vu. We have topics to choose from that will likely go on indefinitely but is there a pattern to this madnes…