I’m delighted to announce the launch of Sophos MSP Elevate, a brand new business-accelerating program for managed service suppliers (MSPs). With the brand new program, Sophos allows MSPs to broaden their enterprise with high-value, differentiated cybersecurity choices that elevate their clients’ cyber defenses and rewards progress with further funding to gasoline additional success.
With the rising complexity and class of as we speak’s cyberattacks, organizations are more and more turning to MSPs for twenty-four/7, human-led monitoring and administration of their cybersecurity environments. This has made Managed Detection and Response (MDR) a serious focus for MSPs with 81% presently providing a MDR service, based on the Sophos MSP Views 2024 report. MSP Elevate helps MSPs to distinguish themselves as a high-value supplier to clients by delivering distinctive business-enhancing advantages, together with an unique high-value Sophos MDR service providing.
Managing a number of cybersecurity platforms is a serious overhead for MSPs and consumes worthwhile billable hours. MSPs estimate that consolidating on a single platform would slash their day-to-day administration time by 48%*. MSP Elevate consists of Community-in-a-Field bundles that allow MSPs to handle the complete community stack by way of the unified Sophos Central platform, freeing-up workers for enterprise era actions. Moreover, the one largest perceived threat to MSP’s companies is the scarcity of in-house cybersecurity experience*. Sophos’ community options reply mechanically to threats throughout the client surroundings, enabling MSPs to raise their clients’ defenses with out including workload.
As Chris Bell, senior vp of world channel, alliances and company improvement, Sophos, says:
“MSP Elevate is the primary of many business-driving MSP applications following the powerhouse union of Sophos and Secureworks. As a channel-first group that defends greater than 250,000 clients of MSPs, we’re always searching for alternatives to reward our companions and put money into their success once they develop their enterprise with us. MSP Elevate fuels long-term progress for our companions by offering MSPs with unique resolution entry, reductions, rebates and coaching to ship the absolute best worth to clients.”
Sophos MSP Elevate program advantages embody:
- Unique Entry to the Sophos MDR Bundle for MSP: Contains entry to Sophos MDR Full premium service tier with 24/7 incident response, 1 yr information retention, Sophos Community Detection and Response (NDR), and all Sophos integration packs, enabling defenders to leverage all accessible telemetry from throughout the client surroundings to speed up menace detection and response.
- Simplified Gross sales Course of: Accelerates time to deployment and reduces MSP overhead. With the brand new MDR Bundle for MSP, companions can rapidly and simply allocate a single SKU to the client for all their present and future MDR wants.
- Discounted Community-in-a-Field {Hardware} Bundle: Entry to Sophos’ superior community safety options, together with Sophos Firewall, Sophos Swap and Sophos Wi-fi Entry Factors at a big low cost. These merchandise work collectively to automate menace response and are managed by way of Sophos Central.
- Development-Based Rebates: As a part of our dedication to develop with and put money into our companions, this system will acknowledge and reward MSPs that improve their Sophos MSP month-to-month billings.
- Architect-Degree Coaching Courses: Equip MSPs to extend their in-house providers supply capabilities with trainings on Sophos Endpoint and Sophos Firewall.
- Invite-Solely Entry to Sophos Summits: Achieve unique entry to hands-on coaching and enablement, Ask the Specialists classes, attend unique Sophos occasions and meet with Sophos govt management to affect the Sophos roadmap and MSP technique.
- Future advantages – Introduction of latest program advantages to extend MSP’s profitability, buyer defenses and general worth as a service supplier.
MSP Elevate allows MSPs to rapidly deploy a complete MDR service that eliminates blind spots by leveraging all accessible telemetry from throughout the purchasers’ surroundings. This enhanced visibility accelerates menace detection and response whereas delivering improved return for patrons on their present know-how investments. Moreover, the service adapts seamlessly because the know-how surroundings evolves over time, future-proofing clients’ defenses and offering each business and cybersecurity peace of thoughts.
MSP Elevate is a non-exclusive dedication to promote Sophos’ best-in-class cybersecurity options accessible on the Sophos Central platform, together with Sophos MDR, Sophos Endpoint powered by Intercept X, and Sophos Firewall. To entry this system advantages, MSPs must decide to a minimal month-to-month spend for a 12-month interval. As a pre-requisite to becoming a member of MSP Elevate, companions must be a part of the MSP Flex program, which allows MSPs to supply Sophos options on a month-to-month billing foundation.
Suggestions on this system from Sophos MSPs has been great, with Craig Faiers, gross sales director, Arc, commenting:
“Becoming a member of MSP Elevate is a no brainer. This new program provides additional rocket gasoline to the MSP progress trajectory we’ve loved with Sophos over the past 17 years. Not all MDR choices are the identical, and I’m excited to have the ability to provide a superior service primarily based round worth and high quality of outcomes that can elevate my clients’ defenses and differentiate my enterprise on this more and more crowded market.”
With 80% of MSPs providing MDR by way of a specialist vendor for supply*, companions can select to have Sophos totally ship the MDR service or to make use of Sophos to enhance in-house groups, together with for the availability of out-of-hours protection. That is notably essential contemplating 88% of ransomware assaults begin exterior of normal enterprise hours, based on Sophos’ Energetic Adversary report.
Sophos MDR is the service most trusted by MSPs to safe their shoppers and presently defends greater than 18,000 MSP-managed buyer environments in opposition to superior threats, together with ransomware. This unmatched breadth of buyer protection delivers unparalleled insights into assaults on MSP-managed environments which can be frequently leveraged to replace clients’ defenses in real-time, optimizing their safety from ever-evolving assaults.
To be taught extra about MSP Elevate, go to www.sophos.com/elevate. Sophos companions can join the MSP Elevate Program on the Sophos Associate Portal at https://lp.sophos.com/msp-elevate.
*In line with the Sophos MSP Views 2024 report
