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Compliance:Build, Partner, or Pass?

Clients are being pushed to act on compliance—and they’re making decisions with or without your MSP. Watch leaders debate how MSPs can capitalize on this opportunity (before it passes to a competitor) with the right service model.

Compliance

Compliance demand is rising. Is your MSP ready to lead, partner, or step aside?

Your clients may not be asking you about compliance yet—but cyber insurance requirements, supply chain mandates, and regulatory pressure are likely forcing them to think about it. And if you aren’t proactively discussing it with them, a competitor or specialist likely is.

To get ahead of these conversations, MSP need to answer one question for themselves: is compliance a service you build in-house, deliver through a specialist partner, or pass on and let someone else own?

In this MSP Crossfire session, channel leaders will debate the models head-on—no theory, no hedging. Expect candid opinions on choosing the right approach for your business, plus real-world lessons on how to successfully deliver compliance services.

Bring your hardest questions and boldest perspectives to this live discussion.

In This Session

1

Where Compliance Demand Is Coming From

Insurers, supply chains, and regulators are driving requests your clients can't answer alone.

2

What Waiting Costs You

The revenue, relationships, and renewals that quietly move to whoever answers the question first.

3

When Building In-House Makes Sense

What a compliance practice actually takes to stand up, and when it burns cash instead of earning it.

4

Where Partners and Specialists Fit

How (and when) MSPs should use partners to start selling compliance before they’re fully staffed.

5

The Risk and Liability Questions to Settle First

What you take on the moment you tell a client you'll handle their compliance.

Who should watch

Built for MSP leaders deciding where AI belongs in the service model.

MSP Owners and Executives

Evaluating AI management as a potential service opportunity.

vCIOs and Client Strategy Leaders

Advising clients on responsible AI adoption and governance.

Service Managers and Operations Leaders

Determining what it would take to support client AI at scale.

Agenda

Warm-up

Where compliance demand comes from

What clients are being asked for right now, and why most of them can't answer it alone.

Debate

How MSPs should meet this opportunity

What each model takes to deliver, and which one fits your size, staffing, and appetite for risk.

Your Turn

Audience Q&A

Bring your compliance questions to MSPs who do this work every day.

The panel

Hear from the people shaping the conversation.

Meet the operators and experts bringing firsthand perspective to the discussion.

Luis Giraldo

Moderator/Host

Luis Giraldo

Chief Evangelist

ScalePad

Melondie Vernon, Deputy CISO, Access One

Speaker

Melondie Vernon

Deputy CISO

Access One

Jason Slagle, President, CNWR

Speaker

Jason Slagle

President

CNWR

Ready to join the debate?

Join the full candid discussion.

Explore different perspectives and leave with practical insight you can put to work.