#127 - MSP Accreditation - Self-Regulate or Be Regulated | FROM THE TRENCHES

Who decides whether an MSP is qualified to hold the keys to a client's business? Right now, mostly nobody, and Josh Peterson suspects insurance companies are quietly taking the job, the same way an insurer, not the FAA, decided which plane he was allowed to fly. MJ Shoer is Chief Community Officer at GTIA, the IT channel association formerly known as CompTIA, and ran his own MSP for close to nineteen years. In this conversation he argues the industry has to regulate itself before regulators do it instead, and explains the self-regulatory organization GTIA is building with Texas A&M to accredit the whole MSP business. \---------- What We Cover in This Episode \- Compare how an insurer and the FAA decide who flies, and what it means for MSPs \- Unpack why an insurer might pay $30K of a $50K incident cleanup bill \- Weigh what government regulation could do to small MSPs \- Explain why it is easier to become an MSP than a genealogical researcher \- Introduce CRITS, the consortium GTIA launched with Texas A&M \- Map what an accreditation of an entire MSP would measure \- Connect AI and cybersecurity, and the new Managed Intelligence Alliance \- Debate whether the Trustmark was ever worth more than a logo \- Set the bar: a checkbox on every cyber insurance form \- Trace how CompTIA became GTIA \---------- Guest Links Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mshoer/ Company Website: https://gtia.org \---------- Subscribe & Follow BMK Vision YouTube (Video Podcast): https://www.youtube.com/@beringmckinleyvision?sub\_confirmation=1 Learn More About the Vision Platform: https://beringmckinley.com/vision Apply to Be a Guest: https://beringmckinley.com/blog#speaker-form \---------- SEO Keywords \- MSP accreditation \- MSP self-regulation \- MSP regulation \- cyber insurance for MSPs \- GTIA \- Cybersecurity Trustmark \- CRITS \- self-regulatory organization \- MSP standards \- managed service providers \---------- Credits Host: Josh Peterson Guest: MJ Shoer, GTIA Producer: Bering McKinley Episode: #127 - MSP Accreditation - Self-Regulate or Be Regulated