Right of Boom event growth mirrors cybersecurity’s importance for MSPs

The vast majority of MSPs offer some form of managed cybersecurity services in 2025. The live event Right of Boom 2025 provides a snapshot of the top product categories, emerging technologies, new company launches, and new educational opportunities in cybersecurity available to MSPs this year. With cybersecurity managed services forecast to grow 15% in 2025 to over US$100bn, MSPs and other channel partners are fighting to ensure their customers build the right strategies in the event of a breach.

A focus on business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)

Years ago, BCDR was pitched as a resiliency solution for natural disasters, but the rise of ransomware attacks has made this technology central to MSP cybersecurity offerings. Some of the Canalys Managed BDR Matrix 2025 Champions were on hand at Right of Boom including Acronis, Axcient, Dropsuite, and N-able, with its Cove data protection suite.

BCDR solutions have matured since those early days. Complete solutions protect the entire IT estate, recognizing today’s hybrid infrastructure needs that include backup of on-premises devices, cloud, software-as-a-service (SaaS) backup such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, and everything in between.

Key drivers of MSP customer BCDR adoption in 2025 are data protection requirements that go hand-in-hand with compliance. This use case is growing as MSPs look to automate data protection for CMMC and FedRAMP compliance, for example, as well as alignment with the cybersecurity framework CIS Critical Security Control 3 for data protection. Because data is the fuel for artificial intelligence (AI), the rise of AI is also boosting this use case.

Datto founder McChord launches new BCDR company

Datto founder Austin McChord together with former Datto executives Michael Fass and Carlson Choi have launched a new BCDR company, Slide, aimed at MSPs. McChord is chairman of the new company, with Fass and Choi serving as CEO and COO respectively.

Slide is pitching increased BCDR speed, including the use of all solid-state memory and the fastest networking protocols, as a key differentiator. Yet the excitement around the launch of Slide is more about the return of McChord, upstaging discussions of the speeds and feeds of the new BCDR appliance. The Datto story provides important context in the launch of Slide. Datto had been a popular vendor in the MSP space, from its founding in the early 2000’s to its IPO in 2020, the company had been known for innovation and customer-centricity. The company was eventually acquired by Kaseya in 2022 for US$6.2bn, ten times its reported revenue.

At Right of Boom, McChord said the Kaseya deal wasn’t the ending he and his team hoped for. Slide CEO Michael Fass (former general counsel and head of human resources at Datto) pledged that Slide would return to the values that helped build Datto, including an MSP-only focus, 24/7 phone support and a promise to help partners at every touchpoint. That includes a no-commitment pricing model (MSPs have loudly complained about Kaseya’s long-term contracts). Slide execs said MSPs can cancel their service with the touch of a button.

The Slide launch comes at a moment when many MSPs are disenchanted with private equity’s impact on some of the industry’s most maturing vendors. There’s significant demand in today’s market for upstart companies that spark innovation and can commit to making MSPs their primary, if not only, route to market.

Protecting against deep fakes and social engineering

Deep fakes are among the most significant attack vectors facing organizations today. This method often involves persuading employees to transfer corporate funds using deepfake videos of CEOs or other executives. Solutions to protect end-customers have not yet been widely available for MSPs to offer their end customers.

Vendor Netarx has introduced a solution for MSPs to offer their customers protection from deep fake videos, voice scams and phishing attempts. The solution leverages artificial intelligence to recognize individuals (for the video portion) and provides users with a red, yellow or green icon – indicating whether a video or voice call is legitimate. It works with video conferencing solutions Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and Zoom as well as office productivity suites such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.

Former MSP owner Sandy Kronenberg started Netarx to protect enterprises in the finance vertical. The MSP solution provides a multi-tenant view and PowerShell scripts to enable deployment via any RMM or endpoint management solution.

MSP cybersecurity education

Right of Boom has introduced a CIS mastery course for MSPs in partnership with CIS and John Strand’s AntiSyphon Training (a division of Black Hills Information Security). The course includes 300 modules, a lab component for demonstrating competence, a 100-question certification test, and AntiSyphon’s Core SOC Skills and Intro to Pen Testing. The announcement expands CIS training to two platforms, the existing SAND platform and now AntiSyphon. The training is intended to help MSPs deliver CIS controls at scale.

One of the features of Right of Boom this year was a live Capture the Flag game produced by cyber skills and training platform MetaCTF. Right of Boom is bringing that experience to its MSP followers virtually throughout the year through the introduction of Boom Games, also hosted by MetaCTF. These are free biweekly challenges that help MSPs improve their cyber resilience skills. The platform provides scoreboards and a community of cybersecurity professionals.

Right of Boom, cybersecurity and MSP 3.0

2025 marks the start of a new cybersecurity-first era for managed services. From BCDR to phishing protection to data protection to threat detection and response and more, these services have become core to what customers expect managed service providers to deliver. MSPs will have the option of building these services themselves, selling them from a vendor, or partnering with another channel partner. The one option they don’t have – not having a cybersecurity plan for their customers.