I’m planning a new 10-episode podcast on how MSSPs can improve their profitability while improving service quality, decreasing employee stress, and generally becoming better companies. I plan to record our first episode during the first week of September and release on a biweekly schedule.

My next step is to find guests. If you or someone you know would be an EXPERT on one of these topics, please DM me.

The content is related to and to some degree follows from this whitepaper: Nearshore Cyber

This is the tentative production schedule:

September 5, 2025 (Friday)
September 19, 2025 (Friday)
October 3, 2025 (Friday)
October 17, 2025 (Friday)
October 31, 2025 (Friday)
November 14, 2025 (Friday)
December 1, 2025 (Monday)
December 12, 2025 (Friday)
December 29, 2025 (Monday) — moved from December 26
January 9, 2026 (Friday)

Here’s the plan so far. It needs a lot of work, but it’s a start:

Podcast Plan: MSSP Margin Protection and Nearshore Strategies

Episode 1 – The Margin Crisis in MSSP/MDR

Theme: The financial and operational pressures facing managed security and MDR providers.

Topics & sub‑topics:

• Wage inflation and the labour shortage: discuss rising SOC salaries and why the cybersecurity industry faces about 20 % annual turnover.

• Attrition and replacement costs: explain why replacing a skilled analyst costs 1.5–2× their salary and specialised roles often remain

Podcast Plan: MSSP Margin Protection and Nearshore Strategies

Episode 1 – The Margin Crisis in MSSP/MDR

Episode 1 – The Margin Crisis in MSSP/MDR