Is Your IT Provider Securing Your DNS? What Business Owners Need to Know

DNS is the internet's phone book. If your IT provider isn't monitoring and securing it, employees can silently be redirected to fake sites that steal credentials or deliver ransomware — with no visible warning. Here's what the October 2025 BIND 9 vulnerabilities exposed, and what every business owner should…

Backup Is Not Business Continuity: The Crucial Difference

KNP was a 158-year-old logistics company in Northamptonshire, England. When hackers from the Akira ransomware gang guessed an employee’s weak password, they encrypted the company’s data and locked its internal systems. KNP paid the ransom. The attackers never restored access. The company entered administration and ceased trading. Nearly 700…

When to Fire a Client: MSP-Client Fit and the Cost of Keeping the Wrong Ones

ScalePad’s 2025 MSP Business Trends Report surveyed over 1,300 managed service providers. The finding that should keep every MSP owner up at night isn’t about ransomware or AI disruption. It’s this: 36% of MSPs have client retention rates below 50%. Nearly four in ten MSPs are losing more clients…

QBRs That Actually Matter: Strategic Conversations, Not Sales Pitches

Your client stopped showing up to QBRs. Not because they are busy. Because the meeting stopped mattering. According to Scopable, two consecutive missed QBR invitations is not a scheduling problem. It is a retention signal. Clients skip these meetings for one of two reasons: they do not believe the…