The ChannelPro Network’s Cybersecurity Online Summit: Risk and Reward, a live, single-day event held on April 18, gathered cybersecurity, compliance, legal, and managed services experts to discuss the latest security trends and threats, and how MSPs, VARs, and consultants who serve small and medium-size businesses can keep clients safer while also boosting profits.
The virtual event was the second of this year’s four online summits featuring leading channel professionals addressing top-of-mind issues and trends in cybersecurity, cl
“ChannelPro’s Cybersecurity Online Summit packed a lot of valuable information for our audience into one day – how to how compliance as a service, how to bundle and price security services, ways to build a security-first culture, and more,” says Michael Siggins, president and publisher of The ChannelPro Network. “Like all our events this year, both in-person and online, the Cybersecurity Online Summit delivered compelling content in lively, interactive formats that are unique in our industry.”
The April 18 summit featured the following sessions:
- The Price Is Right: A Guide to Bundling and Pricing Security Services – In a fun and lively takeoff on “The Price Is Right” game show, industry leaders Ed Correia, Will Nobles, and Erick Simpson offered tips and guidance on how MSPs can get their security stack bundled and priced to make good margin. Their advice included why MSPs should have tiered offerings, why they probably need to raise their prices, and how to have a productive conversation with customers around security.
- The MSP’s Court – Attorney Bradley Gross answered questions live from the audience on the risks and liabilities associated with providing cybersecurity.
- How to Build a Security First Culture at Your MSP – CompTIA’s Chris Johnson, senior director of cybersecurity compliance programs, walked through best practices MSPs should be following to lock down vulnerabilities in tools, processes, and people. He also reviewed the new CompTIA Cybersecurity Trustmark.
- Compliance as a Service – Compliance experts Leia Kupris Shilobod, Karl Bickmore, and Rebecca Herold shared the ins and outs of how MSPs can add compliance as a service to their portfolio.
- Ransomware Story Slam – Leading-edge managed service providers Michael Cocanower and Oli Thordarson shared their white-knuckle rescue and recovery stories and the lessons learned in this Moth-style story slam. The audience got to vote on who had the best outcome and takeaways they could apply to their own incident responses.
Topics and dates for upcoming online summits are:
- Cybersecurity: Next Gen Now – July 18
- Managed Services and Cloud: Operational Excellence – Dec. 6
To register, go here.
And coming up on May 9-10 in Chicago is the ChannelPro SMB Forum, a two-day in-person event. To register, go here.
Additional dates and locations for the 2023 ChannelPro SMB Forum tour are:
- Bay Area, Calif. (West Coast) – June 7-8
- New Jersey (Northeast) – Aug. 9-10
- Boston (New England) – Sept. 6-7
- Atlanta (Southeast) – Oct. 10-11
And the brand-new ChannelPro Defend: SMB Cybersecurity Strategies for IT Solution Providers, a conference in collaboration with CompTIA, is scheduled for November 1-2 in Southern California. To register, go here.
For information on all upcoming ChannelPro events go to ChannelProEvents.com
