https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/series/is-your-msp-lying-to-you/ Recent content in Is Your MSP Lying to You on Damien Dye's Blog Hugo en-GB Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/is-your-msp-lying-to-you-part1/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/is-your-msp-lying-to-you-part1/ Part 1 of 3. Some MSPs lie; most never have to, because the vendors whose products they recommend pay them and nobody must tell you. The tells that you are being sold to rather than engineered for: the free fix refused, requirements never written down, one option on the shortlist, no open source line, and the addresses you rent forever. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/is-your-msp-lying-to-you-part2/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/is-your-msp-lying-to-you-part2/ Part 2 of 3. Cloud for a business all in one building. The firewall brand with the most exploited vulnerabilities on CISA's list. Backups nobody has restored, reports that never reach you, an agent on every machine answering to a console you have never seen. What the ICO found at Advanced and Capita, and the keys that open all of it. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/is-your-msp-lying-to-you-part3/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/is-your-msp-lying-to-you-part3/ Part 3 of 3. What the SLA actually promises, what the liability cap is worth, and what the excuses sound like when it fails: the meeting about an invented crisis, the day it becomes your fault, the account that goes quiet, the advice that costs them money, what leaving really involves, and why nobody regulates the selling.