- MSSPs Look to Compliance Services to Boost Offerings, Revenue
- Top 10 Most Read Cybersecurity Stories for 2024
- 8 Cybersecurity Trends and Opportunities for 2025
Each week, ChannelE2E compiles a list of the top stories we’ve covered about what’s going on in the security services market from our affiliate brand, MSSP Alert. Here’s this week’s round-up of news from MSSP Alert.
MSSPs Look to Compliance Services to Boost Offerings, Revenue
Compliance Scorecard’s recent acquisition of PrivacyMSP put a spotlight on the trend of offering compliance as a managed service, giving MSSPs and MSPs a way to address a growing concern for businesses in an increasingly active regulatory environment while giving themselves a new revenue stream.
“Compliance services are emerging as a significant and growing revenue stream for managed security service providers,” Tim Golden, founder and CEO of Dover, N.H.-based Compliance Scorecard, told MSSP Alert. “The increasing complexity of global regulatory landscapes and heightened cybersecurity threats drive this trend.”
Golden pointed to such data protection laws – such as SOC 2, HIPAA, and the Defense Department’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program – as examples of proliferating data protection laws. He also noted that many cyber insurance policies require that companies adhere to specific compliance standards for coverage and customer demands for integrated security and compliance services.
Top 10 Most Read Cybersecurity Stories for 2024
Cybersecurity threats and breaches in 2024 didn't slow down. But MSSPs have been there to detect issues, respond to incidents and protect organizations from cyber criminals.
In 2024, our Top 10 Most Read Stories at MSSP Alert reflect MSSP and security-focused MSPs' concentration on what matters most to the cybersecurity channel — vulnerabilities, breaches, business deals, the cybersecurity marketplace, top cybersecurity certifications and breach liability. Here's a round up of our top stories in 2024.
8 Cybersecurity Trends and Opportunities for 2025
The holiday season is not only a time to celebrate and look back on the year that was but also to begin looking to the next 12 months and what they may hold. Making predictions is always a dicey practice, particularly in an ever-evolving industry like cybersecurity and its cat-and-mouse existence, where security pros react to something new bad actors are doing, and vise-versa.
Still, there are themes that can be expected to hold true given what is known about trends and that will shape the cyber landscape in 2025, and experts in the field have spent the past several weeks passing around their expectations. Unsurprisingly, generative AI – whose tentacles are rapidly expanding into seemingly all parts of life and business – is expected to play an important role for threat actors to hone their attacks and threat intelligence experts to bulk up their protections.
As Dan Rasmussen, senior vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Division at Hughes Network Systems – an MSSP Alert MSSP 250 company – said, “as AI-enabled cyber threats become mainstream, cybersecurity will become the #1 priority across industries. Cybersecurity will rapidly transition to ‘machines fighting machines,’ as AI will go beyond simply helping humans to also helping itself.”
