Not long ago, compliance was a niche concern, primarily affecting industries like healthcare and finance. But not anymore.
Today, businesses across every sector face growing compliance pressure driven by cyber insurance requirements, breach notification laws and vendor contracts. Even companies outside of heavily regulated industries are now subject to compliance obligations. Whether they realize it or not, many clients, including yours, must meet at least some regulatory requirements.
Although helping clients tackle compliance might seem overwhelming, it doesn’t have to be. With Compliance Manager GRC, you can efficiently and affordably roll out a continuous compliance program for every client, often in 10 minutes or less.
In this post, we’ll break down why every MSP should offer continuous compliance services, how tools like Compliance Monitor and Risk Manager can help you get started quickly, and how ongoing compliance monitoring can differentiate your MSP business, strengthen your client relationships and boost your bottom line.
Ignoring compliance can be a fast path to disaster
We get it. Compliance seems like a maze of legal jargon, regulatory frameworks, overlapping standards and rules that seem to change the moment you understand them.
Compliance also appears to be labor-intensive. Traditional compliance work involves manually collecting evidence, tracking controls and documenting policies. Multiply that by your entire client base and you’ve got a time-sink that few MSPs can afford.
Plus, it’s risky. One overlooked detail or misconfigured setting could lead to audit failures, fines, or even worse, disgruntled clients pointing the finger at you. It’s no surprise that many MSPs hesitate to offer compliance services at all.
But here’s the problem: You’re already doing compliance work even if you don’t call it that — and that means you’re already on the hook.
The good news? You don’t have to become a compliance expert to offer comprehensive compliance services. With tools like Compliance Manager GRC, you can automate the heavy lifting, eliminate the guesswork and start delivering real value in minutes.
Congratulations! You’re in the compliance business
If you’re an MSP, you’re already in the compliance business. How? When you configure firewalls, deploy endpoint protection, manage backups or set password policies, you’re implementing security controls that map directly to compliance requirements.
Do you help clients with PCI documentation, cyber insurance questionnaires or vendor risk assessments? If so, you’re already operating in compliance-adjacent territory, even if you don’t realize it.
Now imagine this: One of your clients fails an audit. Their IT practices are to blame — and so are you, their IT service provider. Even if you weren’t officially responsible for compliance, your fingerprints are all over the systems and policies being evaluated.
Pretending compliance isn’t your responsibility doesn’t eliminate your liability. It just means you’ll be unprepared when that liability shows up at your door.
Lose the compliance game, lose the client
Compliance isn’t just a checkbox anymore. It’s a key business priority driven by factors like cyber insurance eligibility, breach notification laws, third-party vendor assessments and mounting regulatory pressure. Clients are realizing that staying compliant is essential to staying in business, and they’re looking for trusted partners to guide them.
That trusted partner should be you.
That’s why smart MSPs are adding Compliance-as-a-Service to their portfolios. They’re packaging it with their cybersecurity offerings, using tools that automate the process and marketing themselves as full-service partners. If you’re only covering the technical side and leaving compliance up to the client (or no one), you’re leaving a major service gap, which your competitors are happy to fill.
Don’t let your clients outgrow you
When clients realize that their business is out of compliance or, even worse, that an auditor is knocking on their door asking for documentation they can’t provide, their stress ratchets up and their costs mount. They’re going to look for someone who can deliver answers fast. If you’re not positioned to help them, they may look elsewhere, and once they switch providers, they’re not likely to come back.
Businesses are in desperate need of compliance help – in a study by Credit Safe, 50% of the respondents cited a lack of compliance leadership and direction as the primary reason for compliance failures. Offering continuous compliance services allows you to meet your clients’ needs at any time and support them through every stage of their growth. This reinforces your role as a reliable strategic partner while future-proofing your own business
Meet Compliance Monitor: Continuous compliance monitoring you can deploy in just 10 minutes
What if delivering comprehensive, high-quality, continuous compliance services were easy? Imagine how excited you’d be to add compliance to your offerings if it didn’t require hours of work, piles of paperwork or deep expertise — and you could roll it out to every client in just 10 minutes.
Now you can with Compliance Monitor, the latest feature in Compliance Manager GRC. It takes the complexity out of compliance, replacing it with automation, simplicity and speed. It’s a game changer for MSPs.
Compliance Monitor enables you to:
- Monitor 1,500+ security configurations mapped to two dozen+ compliance frameworks
- Deploy easily with a lightweight agent install — no disruption, no downtime
- Track compliance automatically so you don’t have to manually check every setting
Compliance Monitor handles the heavy lifting so you can focus on your clients and your business.
How it works (yes, it really is that simple)
Getting started with Compliance Monitor is fast and intuitive. The entire process from deployment to remediation can take 10 minutes or less per client.
Here’s how to do it:
- Deploy agents – Install lightweight agents on your clients’ devices.
- Enable Compliance Monitor – Choose the relevant frameworks and enable continuous monitoring.
- Review and remediate – View flagged misconfigurations and applied guided fixes, which are typically simple registry or group policy changes.
Behind the scenes, Compliance Monitor is on top of all of the details, like monitoring real-time settings and mapping them to standards like NIST, HIPAA, PCI-DSS and more, so you don’t have to worry. No more guesswork. No more compliance chaos. Just happy customers and a healthy profit from adding a much-needed ongoing service.
Turn compliance into your next growth engine
Compliance isn’t just a checkbox. It’s a high-value business opportunity. And with Compliance Monitor, you can turn it into a growth engine that helps you:
- Retain clients – Clients increasingly expect compliance support. If you don’t offer it, they’ll find someone who does.
- Unlock recurring revenue – Deliver high-margin compliance services without hiring expensive specialists.
- Reduce risk – Automate tracking, remediation and documentation to protect both your clients and your MSP business.
Compliance isn’t one-and-done. It’s ongoing. MSPs who help clients stay compliant over time become trusted, irreplaceable partners.
Don’t wait for clients to ask — be the hero today !
With Compliance Monitor, you can build a repeatable, scalable compliance offering that adds value, boosts retention and positions your MSP as a full-service partner without adding to your stress level.
Ready to see how easy compliance can be?
Schedule a demo today and see how you can roll out continuous compliance for every customer in minutes.
