Katie Bavoso

because they run their businesses the right way, because that's how they know they're going to get more clients through word of mouth.

So the reason I say all this and temper myself is to say, in my personal opinion, I think that it protects small businesses from the hype.

Because especially in a world where the cyber attacks are not targeting large businesses anymore, it is open season.

Schools, hospitals, children's hospitals, it doesn't matter.

They're going for everybody.

Exactly.

Exactly.

We're seeing a blurring of the lines between nation state and rogue gangs like Scattered Spider.

So I think that it's important to...

The safe option is to go with an MSP, especially for in a small business, a small to mid-sized business, which could be anywhere from 25 people, even up to 500 people in quite a bit more than you would assume still counts as a small to mid-sized business.

I think going with an MSP, going with a provider and solution, solution to service provider.

is the smart thing to do.

I think it's going to protect them.

And I think it's also going to introduce things that perhaps they would not have thought to introduce.

Because you have everybody using the Kleenex of the AI system right now, OpenAI's ChatGPT.

They might not even know anything about Claude.

And it could be 10 times better for their use case than they realize.

So I think that it's important to consider

at some point, like you got to have people in there that aren't just going to say yes to everything.

You really need to ask the tough questions here.