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Innovation wins. Why smaller beats bigger

Benedict Jones spent years working for McAfee and Sophos. While doing threat research at Sophos, he spotted a problem in mobile threat defence that nobody had actually fixed. He’s now CEO and founder of Trustd Mobile, and the story of how he got there says more about MSP buying decisions than most vendor pitches ever […]

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AI adoption that pays off is built around keeping humans in the driver’s seat

I’ve spent enough time around AI adoption now to notice a pattern. Ask a business how AI is going for them and the honest answer is, lately, β€œwe’ve got Copilot, and it’s not great.” That gap between the hype and the reality is exactly where Samantha North operates. Sam runs an AI transformation agency, helping […]

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The Planting Seeds philosophy. Selling into schools takes years, not quarters

It’s tempting for MSPs to write off event sponsorship in education as a waste of money. You sponsor an event, hand out flyers, follow up with an email, and hear nothing back. Rick Cowell says you’re judging it on the wrong timescale. Rick spent 20 years as a school network manager, and he founded the […]

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The risk awareness radar. A superpower every MSP needs to train

Most of the cyber incidents landing on our desks these days start with someone believing a lie. It’s not a brilliant piece of code that causes most breaches. A convincing email, a confident phone call, and a fake sense of urgency can make people hand over exactly what the attacker needs. Last week I talked […]

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Tools Change. Teach People How to Keep Up

β€œMake everyone one percent better and it compounds across the team.” That’s the line Joe Head wrote about his own job and when I read it back to him, he didn’t hesitate. β€œThat is 100% the objective,” he said. Joe runs AI adoption for an 80-person team as the only AI automation specialist in the […]

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Breaking the MSP Echo Chamber: The Power of Community

MSPs spend too much time talking to other MSPs and not enough time talking to the people they’re supposed to serve.Β  That’s Paul Croker’s view of some of the channel’s biggest growth problems. Β  While most industry events bring technology professionals together, they rarely put them in the same room as the business leaders making […]

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The OSI Model and Its Two Missing Layers

Cybersecurity failures now happen beyond the OSI stack. Faulty governance, the human factor, and AI tools create new attack surfaces. After seven years working across cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and Zero Trust architecture, Jayal Yadav explains how we got here and what organizations still get wrong. β€œThe original seven layers of the OSI model still matter. […]

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When Buyers Discount MSPs With One Big Customer

Your biggest customer loves you. Three years together. They trust you, pay on time, and refer others. From where you sit, that’s loyalty. From where a buyer sits, that’s a $$$ discount on your exit. This perception gap kills more MSP deals than bad financials. Sam Levy saw it constantly when he led tech mergers […]

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