Joy Beland

JOY BELAND serves as the Vice President of Cybersecurity Compliance for Summit 7, as well as Board Member for MSPs for the Protection of Critical Infrastructure, Innocent Lives Foundation and MSPCyberX.

Joy’s path to expertise in CMMC and regulatory standards encompasses decades of experience in both the Managed Service Provider (MSP) and security vendor space. Starting her own MSP in 1997, Joy focused on delivering secure IT solutions to over 85 small and medium businesses in the Los Angeles area for twenty-one years and sold that practice in 2018. She then joined the Continuum/ConnectWise family, where she led the development of the MSP industry’s first Cybersecurity Fundamentals bootcamp, educating over 3,000 MSPs in a two-year span.

In 2020, Joy pivoted to the CMMC ecosystem by joining Edwards Performance Solutions as their CMMC Training Program Manager, where she led the team to deliver CMMC’s first ever Certified CMMC Professional (CCP) five-day bootcamp, as well as achieving the coveted Provisional Assessor and Provisional Instructor status with the Cyber AB. In 2022, she joined Summit 7 as the VP of Partnerships, where she built their channel partner program from the ground up while continuing to teach the CCP and CCA classes, and joining partner C3PAO firms as a CCA Lead Assessor for Joint Surveillance Voluntary Assessments with DIBCAC.

In November 2024, Joy was promoted to her current role as VP of Cybersecurity Compliance, leading Summit 7 through their dual CMMC Level 2 Assessment Certifications, as well as managing internal readiness for ISO 27001, RMF, SOC 2 Type 2 and CMMC Level 3 assessments.

Joy’s mission is to incorporate Governance, Risk and Compliance into daily language and skillsets for service providers and defense contractors alike, in support of protecting our American dream.

Joy holds the CMMC Lead CCA & PI, CRISC, CISM, and QTE certifications.