And in new legislation moving through Congress – a definition of a managed services provider. The term ‘managed service provider’ means an entity that delivers services, such as network, application, infrastructure, or security services, via ongoing and regular support and active administration on the premises of a customer, in the data center of the entity (such as hosting), or in a third-party data center.” It’s contained within Senate bill 2875, an amendment to the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
Why do we care?
The current draft defines a small business too. It’s not law yet, so learning all the specifics isn’t the next step… just know how detailed it is. This will have wide reaching implications for anyone in IT service delivery, as it reaches all the way into the SMB and broadly defines the entire space.
That chorus of “don’t regulate us”… in just that last story, an example of how working with law enforcement changed the outcome and led to an arrest. Think about THAT.