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Hear directly from some of the industry's most influential MSP leaders as they share their perspectives on the future of managed services and the evolving cybersecurity landscape. From AI and security services to profitability, customer expectations, and business growth, discover how leading MSPs are adapting to change, navigating new challenges, and preparing for what's next.

Live from Nashville, Joe Smolarski announces big innovations to the WatchGuard Unified Security Platform, including: Agentic AI, Shadow AI, T175, Network management and more.

Vince Hwang announces new innovations to the WatchGuard Unified Security Platform.

This week on the podcast, we cover a few takeaways from Microsoft's recent Digital Defense Report. Before that, we discuss the recent Citrix Netscaler zero-days that were potentially under active exploit for weeks before disclosure before reviewing an interesting a bug bounty report on a Microsoft internal tool that was exposed externally.

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30,000+ devices compromised. 7,000+ crypto wallets targeted. Roughly $10M stolen. And that’s only one story. This week on The 443: Security Simplified, Marc Laliberte and Corey Nachreiner unpack a new wave of security incidents where identity, access, and AI collide. They cover: WaterPlum activity spanning 100+ countries More than 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets impacted, worth roughly $10M ShinyHunters’ claimed theft of 3 TB of FBI-related data An AI agent reportedly accessing Australian government health data beyond its intended permissions.

This week on the podcast, we cover yet another rogue AI security incident that Australia's Prime Minister disclosed in front of the United Nations last week. Before that, we discuss an FBI alert on WaterPlum, a North Korean threat actor targeting IT professionals. Then, we cover the FBI themselves becoming a victim of cyberattack, this time by ShinyHunters.

Most MSP client reviews cover what got installed. The endpoint agent was deployed, the firewall rules were tuned, and the tickets were closed inside the SLA. Meanwhile, boards, insurers, and auditors are asking for something more: a clear account of the business's current security and compliance risks. The partner who can provide that answer earns client trust and increases credibility.

This week on the podcast, we break down how a heap overflow in an image-decoding library nobody thinks about became a pull request inside OpenAI's internal monorepo. Three researchers chained it with an OpenAI single sign-on flaw to hijack employee ChatGPT and Codex accounts in under 72 hours; and had an AI write the exploit for them. Before that, we cover the actively exploited maximum-severity authentication bypass in Cisco's Identity Services Engine. Then we close with RatHat, a new Android malware that enables Wireless Debugging, reads its own pairing code from the screen, and asks a commercial AI assistant where to tap.

Artificial intelligence is no longer a future consideration for MSPs because it is already reshaping how leading providers run their businesses, protect their clients, and create new revenue streams. Separating real business value from hype requires a clear-eyed, practitioner-driven perspective.