Are you an MSP focused on growing sustainable, profitable revenue?
Do you want to deliver consistently strong, defensible cybersecurity to your clients?
Do you want to reduce the cost and complexity of security delivery?
Do you want to develop confident, capable cybersecurity leaders on your team?
Do you serve smaller businesses and nonprofits?
The MSP Cybersecurity Accelerator™
from SecureTheVillage
From IT Vendor to Trusted Cybersecurity Partner
A Growth Path for MSPs.
A unique high-value hands-on, learn-by-doing, learn-together cohort-based online program for MSPs serving smaller organizations, created by MSPs and cybersecurity leaders who have faced the same challenges and found what works.
A program for MSP leaders who are serious about improving results—not just learning concepts.
“As the cybersecurity needs of our clients have grown, we didn’t just adapt, we thrived. And this program is a large part of the reason why.”
— Jason Makevich, Greenlight Cyber
The MSP Cybersecurity Accelerator™ from SecureTheVillage is for MSP owners and leaders who are ready to:
Get that trusted Seat at the Table. Close more opportunities. Grow your MSP.
Deliver superior cybersecurity services aligned with International cybersecurity standards
Position your MSP as a Trusted Cybersecurity Partner
SecureTheVillage is a cybersecurity nonprofit supporting the needs of everyday organizations and people - many in underserved communities - to protect their organizations, their families, and themselves from the increasing dangers of cybercrime.
SecureTheVillage is a proud member of Nonprofit Cyber, a first-of-its-kind international coalition of more than 50 implementation-focused cybersecurity nonprofits who collaborate and work together on projects to enhance joint action to improve cybersecurity.
SecureTheVillage was founded by Dr. Stan Stahl, a nationally recognized leader in applying cybersecurity to the unique needs of smaller organizations. Our innovative hands-on, learn-by-doing, learn-together online cohort programs are backed by the findings of neuroscience.
We offer high-value programs in three areas.
Smaller businesses and nonprofits
The MSPs who support them
Families and individuals
Our vision is to reach that tipping point where effective cybersecurity management for everyday organizations becomes the norm rather than the exception.
What You Get - Return on Investment
As you master the skills in the MSP Cybersecurity Accelerator™ Program, the return on your investment grows.
Each program element by itself provides a significant return. Taken together, they amplify and support each other. The total ROI is greater than the sum of the parts.
Since all the learning takes place in a safe peer-group setting, you also build a trusted peer network that supports your ongoing growth.
Business Development
That Seat at the Table
Higher close rates
Lower cost of customer acquisition
Stronger long-term client relationships
Greater influence with senior leadership
Reasonable Cybersecurity
Provide superior service to your client
Improve skills and capabilities of your people
Grow company revenues
Lower operational costs
The MSP Cybersecurity Accelerator™
How It Works
Two 90-minute online sessions each month. Focused Collaboration.
Combines peer learning, structure, and accountability.
Every session delivers value you can immediately apply.
MSP Business Development
From Technical Expert to Trusted Security Partner
Earning the Seat at the Table
In this program element you learn to win more business without selling harder by building trust, credibility, and executive relevance.
Reasonable Cybersecurity
From Point Solutions to Processes
Delivering the Cybersecurity Your Clients Need
In this program element you systematically and methodically improve the cybersecurity practices you deliver to clients—while also finding opportunities to lower your cybersecurity costs.
MSP Cybersecurity Accelerator™ Program Elements
Core Themes and Skill Development
Business Development
Speak the Language of Business Disruption. Learn how to discuss cybersecurity without leading with cybersecurity. Develop situational awareness around how cyber incidents disrupt business operations.
Build Trust by Listening First. Discover what matters most to the client—professionally and personally. Listen empathetically and strategically.
Productive Listening & Decision Psychology. Learn why intelligent people hear the same message—and walk away with different conclusions. And how to manage it.
Reasonable Cybersecurity
Align: Align your security practices to the internationally recognized Center for Internet Security (CIS), Controls, v8.1, thereby supporting legal requirements for reasonable security.
Actionable Goals: Set and meet actionable goals to improve your cybersecurity management processes, improve the usefulness and quality of the cybersecurity tools you use, and your quality management practices.
Continual Improvement: Develop an ongoing habit of continual cybersecurity improvement.
Your Guides
Meet Your Mentors
George Usi
CEO of Omnistruct
George Usi is an Internet pioneer, IPv6 Internet Hall of Famer, California Bar Association Trainer, award-winning internet scientist, and an enterprise cyber risk and governance leader with over 30 years of experience. He has helped large-scale enterprises and service providers, manufacturers, food and beverage industry experts, public sector, and the Defense Industrial Base consulting, conducting research, shaping cybersecurity policy standards, and advocating next generation protocols alongside experts like Jim Bound, Dr. Vint Cerf, Paul Vixie, and Dr Larry Roberts.
George is Chair of SecureTheVillage, and Founding Chair Emeritus of the California IPv6 Task Force. Learn more about him at www.omnistruct.com and https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgeusi/
Jason Makevich, CISSP
Founder & CEO of PORT1 and Greenlight Cyber
Jason Makevich is a dedicated IT and cybersecurity leader with nearly 30 years of experience helping small and mid-sized businesses strengthen security, modernize IT, and reduce business risk. As Founder & CEO of Greenlight Cyber and PORT1, he leads organizations focused on helping SMBs and managed service providers adopt stronger, more effective cybersecurity practices.
Jason is a CISSP and signatory of the Cybersecurity Tech Accord. In addition to leading Greenlight Cyber and PORT1, he serves on the Advisory Board for SecureTheVillage, helping to guide the organization’s mission and safeguard the community. As an MSP Accelerator mentor and leader of SecureTheVillage’s nonprofit cybersecurity leadership group, he brings decades of hands-on leadership and cybersecurity experience to help providers and nonprofit leaders better protect the communities and organizations they serve. Learn more about him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmakevich/