A Managed Service Provider (MSP) provides their clients with a wide range of IT services, including network management, software support, and hardware maintenance. However, as cyber threats evolve, MSPs are increasingly expected to provide comprehensive security solutions to their clients. This can be a significant challenge, as they may need more specialized expertise, tools, and resources.

This article will explore the benefits a managed service provider might expect when partnering with an MSSP. We will also discuss how MSPs can select the right MSSP partner, develop effective partnerships, and ensure their clients’ security needs are met. By partnering with an MSSP, MSPs can differentiate themselves in a crowded market, enhance their value proposition, and provide more comprehensive services to their clients.

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The complexity of healthcare service demands robust technical infrastructure. Advances in patient treatment, research, diagnostic tools and even predictive analytics and AI have pushed technologies available to healthcare providers, which means that these organizations turn to expert providers to give them new tools and features to revolutionize their patient care models. This increased reliance on Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) or a Managed Service Providers (MSP) means that these organizations must rely on HIPAA-compliant technologies, which means counting on HIPAA-compliant vendors to provide them.

Here, we discuss why HIPAA compliance is so important to MSPs, and why MSPs must not only be compliant but work with security experts and compliant partners as part of their operations.

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Cyber threats aren’t new, but hackers have increasingly turned their attacks on vulnerable managed service providers and their clients. With the data that managed service providers store for those clients, they are a treasure trove for attackers who would use that data to attack those clients, or the MSP itself, with malware and ransomware. 

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