Virtual Event

March 3, 2026 | 12:00PM ET | Online

DEEP DIVE: MSP Risks & Liability

DEEP DIVE: MSP Risks & Liability

Staying out of legal and contractual trouble is one of the toughest challenges MSPs face. In this virtual Deep Dive event, we’ll explore the biggest risks around compliance, SLAs, and marketing promises, and show how to protect your IT business while building client trust. Bring your questions and best practices! We welcome your feedback during this interactive, live event.

At this interactive online event we’ll cover:

  • The best tools that protect your business from legal and contractual pitfalls.
  • The most profitable services MSPs are selling to reduce client risk.
  • Specific examples of MSP success turning liability management into a growth engine.

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March 3, 2026 | 12:00PM ET

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Online

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Sessions for Tuesday, March 3, 2026

12:05 PM
MSP Risks & Liability
Join industry legal expert Blair Dawson for an in-depth look into the real legal and contractual problems that put MSPs at risk. We'll deliver the steps that IT leaders need to take to reduce liability, protect revenue, and turn risk management into a growth driver. Bring your questions to this interactive session!
12:35 PM
How MSPs Prove Due Care and Reduce Liability
Sponsored by N-Able
MSPs are increasingly exposed to legal, contractual, and compliance risk when security controls fail or cannot be proven. Today, it’s no longer enough to deploy security tools. MSPs are expected to demonstrate due diligence, due care, and adherence to best practices across every customer environment. This session explores where MSP liability typically emerges, often not from advanced attacks, but from gaps in security fundamentals such as vulnerability management, patching, monitoring, and incident response. It outlines what auditors, clients, and insurers now expect MSPs to be able to show when incidents occur. Attendees will gain a practical framework for identifying liability risk in their current security approach, improving consistency across environments, and strengthening their ability to defend SLAs, compliance obligations, and client trust through clear evidence and reporting.

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Executive Director
The ChannelPro Network

Jonathan Browning joined ChannelPro as the executive editor in 2023. His goal is to serve the channel community by covering the issues that matter most to MSPs, VARs, technology integrators, and IT consultants. He has successfully served in marketing, sales, and IT leadership positions throughout his career, including roughly six years in marketing director roles for Massachusetts-based managed services providers.
MSP Risks & Liability
Mar 3, 2026 12:05pm
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McDonald Hopkins

Blair has extensive experience in data privacy and cybersecurity. Her practice focuses on responding to data security incidents while ensuring clients remain compliant with legal requirements, as well as managing operational and reputational impact. She works with clients to contain the incident, minimize disruption to business operations, deliver effective communications and minimize exposure to litigation and investigations. She also provides pre-breach/compliance support to place clients in the best position possible from a business, insurance, regulatory and incident response standpoint. She holds IAPP certifications (FIP, CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM) and a M.S. Cybersecurity. She is Board Member for The Cyber Helpline, Member of the IWCA, Board Member for WISP and a Member for the WiCyS. She is a Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law teaching cybersecurity and data privacy. She was also awarded Crain's Chicago Business Notable Women in Law 2024.
MSP Risks & Liability
Mar 3, 2026 12:05pm
N-able Head Nerd
N-Able

Joe has had many roles at N able since joining in 2017. Initially a Channel Sales Representative, his transitions included Sales Engineer and becoming one of the original Partner Success Managers before landing in his current role as N sight Head Nerd in 2022. In that time, Joe has expanded his areas of expertise to include Mac, Analytics, Cloud Commander, Operational Efficiency and as of September 2025, becoming the Adlumin MDR Head Nerd.
How MSPs Prove Due Care and Reduce Liability
Mar 3, 2026 12:35pm
Founder, Publisher
The ChannelPro Network

Michael Siggins is the founder and publisher of The ChannelPro Network. Since March 2007 the network has been providing targeted business and technology information for the IT channel. Via its print and online properties, the network delivers expert opinion, analysis, news, product reviews, and advice vital to business success. Michael is also president and publisher of ChannelPro: The Insider’s Guide to SMB, the only channel media property dedicated to the needs of channel professionals working in the SMB marketplace. Prior to founding The ChannelPro Network, Michael worked for more than 14 years at IDG, the world’s leading technology media, events, and research company.
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Mar 3, 2026 12:00pm

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