Make Cybersecurity a Priority in 2025

October 08, 2024 | By Emily Matzelle

Participate in Exclusive Cybersecurity Programs If your business plans to make cybersecurity a higher priority in 2025, you’re not alone. In fact, according to the CompTIA State of Cybersecurity 2025 report, 78% of firms surveyed are making the same plans. But making plans is not the same as executing on your plans, and that’s where the CompTIA Community comes in.

Membership in the CompTIA Community affords you the opportunity to participate in our exclusive Cybersecurity Programs, including the CompTIA Community ISAO (Information Sharing and Analysis Organization), for MSP and solution provider company members. The value of this member benefit is access to credible threat intelligence, a proactive peer group intent on sharing real-time information and an opportunity to set yourself up as a cybersecurity expert. In addition, members get unlimited access to CompTIA Community cybersecurity tools and resources.

CompTIA Community Cybersecurity Programs, including the ISAO, are included in the MSP and solution provider membership as part of our commitment to helping these businesses combat cybersecurity threats. Vendors, distributors and associate members have the option to upgrade their membership to include cybersecurity programs.

Stay Ahead of Threats with the CompTIA Community ISAO

The CompTIA Community ISAO is the only cybersecurity information sharing and analysis organization built to address the unique needs of MSPs, managed security services providers, solutions providers, and other channel businesses.

It provides tools and resources to develop and strengthen your company’s cybersecurity practice, including:

Proactive, actionable threat intelligence and analysis of potential impacts
Peer-to-peer best practice sharing in the Cyber Hub, an online discussion group
An understanding of your business’s unique risk factors with Security Scorecard
Ability to submit potential threats through a dedicated platform
Regular opportunity to gather virtually with monthly member meetups

>> Learn more about the CompTIA Community ISAO

Differentiate Yourself with the CompTIA Cybersecurity Trustmark

In today’s competitive world, your reputation is everything. The CompTIA Cybersecurity Trustmark offers a path for MSP and solution provider members who are looking to showcase their commitment to industry best practices by adhering to this industry standard of safeguards a d providing a designation that assures they have met or exceeded the standards set forth by industry peers.

The Cybersecurity Trustmark is foundationaly based on the Center for Internet Security’s 18 Critical Security Controls, as well as safeguards from other globally recognized frameworks, to form industry-accepted best practices. A dedicated team of volunteers regularly reviews the safeguards and updates the Cybersecurity Trustmark.

“CompTIA is a well-known organization and a number of folks require CompTIA Security+ certification to work with them. Having that brand recognition could help employees know that we

are serious about cybersecurity,” said Yong Oh, senior associate director at AEM, a Virginia-based MSP that has earned the trustmark. “Out of all the different frameworks that I’m aware of, the

CompTIA Cybersecurity Trustmark is probably the most comprehensive. Most of the controls would really help defend or safeguard a company’s security posture.”

As part of the CompTIA Community, MSP members have an exclusive opportunity to earn the trustmark as a membership add-on and differentiate themselves from the competition.

>> Learn more about the CompTIA Cybersecurity Trustmark

Keep Cybersecurity Top of Mind All Year Long

While October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, you can turn to the CompTIA Community for timely and relevant cybersecurity tools and resources throughout the entire year.

For example, the CompTIA State of Cybersecurity 2025 report identifies cybersecurity imperatives across the enterprise architecture framework:

Business architecture: Aligning budget and actions with stated priority
Application architecture: Defining workflow that ensures secure operations
Data architecture: Securing data in all phases to drive AI and analysis
Technology architecture: Providing a tactical foundation for cybersecurity success

And the CompTIA Community – North America Cybersecurity Interest Group put together the new Cybersecurity Guidebook for MSPs: Best Practices for Protecting Clients. This guidebook is intended to help MSPs do their homework, partner with the right people, nurture the right business and regularly communicate with clients about their cybersecurity posture.

Of course, cybersecurity is a hot topic and one that we consistently cover. Browse our cybersecurity resources.

Join the CompTIA Community

MSP company membership is a strategic investment in your business and your career. When you join the CompTIA Community everyone at your company will benefit from: