Sophos has launched Sophos MSP Elevate, a program designed to help managed service providers (MSPs) expand their business with high-value cybersecurity offerings. The program aims to enhance customers’ cyber defenses and rewards growth with additional investment. With the increasing complexity of cyberattacks, organizations increasingly rely on MSPs for 24/7, human-led monitoring and management of their cybersecurity environments. The program aims to differentiate MSPs as high-value providers by offering an exclusive high-value Sophos MDR service.

Managing multiple cybersecurity platforms is a major overhead for MSPs and consumes valuable billable hours. MSPs estimate that consolidating on a single platform would slash their day-to-day management time by 48%*. MSP Elevate includes Network-in-a-Box bundles that enable MSPs to manage the full network stack through the unified Sophos Central platform, freeing up staff for business generation activities. Furthermore, the biggest perceived risk to MSPs’ businesses is the shortage of in-house cybersecurity expertise*. Sophos’ network solutions respond automatically to threats across the customer environment, enabling MSPs to elevate their customers’ defenses without adding workload.

Chris Bell, Senior Vice President of Global Channel, Alliances and Corporate Development, Sophos, says: “MSP Elevate is the first of many business-driving MSP programs following the powerhouse union of Sophos and Secureworks. As a channel-first organization that serves more than 250,000 MSP customers of MSPs, we are constantly looking for opportunities to reward our partners and invest in their success when they grow their business with us. MSP Elevate fuels long-term growth for our partners by providing MSPs with exclusive solution access, discounts, rebates, and training to deliver the best possible value to customers.”

Sophos MSP Elevate program benefits include:

  • Exclusive Access to the Sophos MDR Bundle for MSP: Includes access to Sophos MDR Complete premium service tier with 24/7 incident response, 1 year data retention, Sophos Network Detection and Response (NDR), and all Sophos integration packs, enabling defenders to leverage all available telemetry from across the customer environment to accelerate threat detection and response.
  • Simplified Sales Process: Speeds up time to deployment and reduces MSP overhead. With the new MDR Bundle for MSP, partners can quickly and easily allocate a single SKU to the customer for all their current and future MDR needs.
  • Discounted Network-in-a-Box Hardware Bundle: Access to Sophos’ advanced network security solutions, including Sophos Firewall, Sophos Switch, and Sophos Wireless Access Points at a significant discount. These products work together to automate threat response and are managed through Sophos Central.
  • Growth-Based Rebates: As part of Sophos’ commitment to grow with and invest in partners, the program will recognize and reward MSPs that increase their Sophos MSP monthly billings.
  • Architect-Level Training Courses: Equip MSPs to increase their in-house services delivery capabilities with training on Sophos Endpoint and Sophos Firewall.
  • Invite-Only Access to Sophos Summits: Gain exclusive access to hands-on training and enablement, Ask the Experts sessions, attend exclusive Sophos events and meet with Sophos executive leadership to influence the Sophos roadmap and MSP strategy.
  • Future benefits: Introduction of new program benefits to increase MSP’s profitability, customer defenses, and overall value as a service provider.

MSP Elevate enables MSPs to quickly deploy a comprehensive MDR service that eliminates blind spots by leveraging all available telemetry from across the customers’ environment. This enhanced visibility accelerates threat detection and response while delivering improved return for customers on their existing technology investments. Furthermore, the service adapts seamlessly as the technology environment evolves, future-proofing customers’ defenses and providing both commercial and cybersecurity peace of mind.

MSP Elevate is a non-exclusive commitment to sell Sophos’ best-in-class cybersecurity solutions, including Sophos MDR, Sophos Endpoint powered by Intercept X, and Sophos Firewall, available on the Sophos Central platform. To access the program benefits, MSPs need to commit to a minimum monthly spend for 12 months. As a pre-requisite to joining MSP Elevate, partners need to be part of the MSP Flex program, which enables MSPs to offer Sophos solutions on a monthly billing basis.

With 80% of MSPs offering MDR through a specialist vendor for delivery*, partners can choose to have Sophos fully deliver the MDR service or to use Sophos to augment in-house teams, including for the provision of out-of-hours coverage. This is particularly important considering 88% of ransomware attacks start outside of standard business hours, according to Sophos’ Active Adversary report.

Sophos MDR is the service most trusted by MSPs to secure their clients and currently defends more than 18,000 MSP-managed customer environments against advanced threats, including ransomware. This unmatched breadth of customer coverage delivers unparalleled insights into attacks on MSP-managed environments that are continually leveraged to update customers’ defenses in real-time, optimizing their protection from ever-evolving attacks.

To learn more about MSP Elevate and to sign up, visit www.sophos.com/elevate.