{"id":2150,"date":"2020-04-07T16:12:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T12:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2025-04-18T00:01:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T20:01:34","slug":"sonicwall-launches-enhanced-managed-security-services-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/sonicwall-launches-enhanced-managed-security-services-program\/","title":{"rendered":"SonicWall&#8217;s enhanced Managed Security Services Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SonicWall unveiled an enhanced version of its SecureFirst Managed Security Service Provider (MSSPs) Program to provide the licensing models, resources and tools needed to help MSSPs profitably scale and accelerate their managed security services business, leveraging SonicWall\u2019s technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Built on the SonicWall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonicwall.com\/partners\/sonicwall-university\/\">SecureFirst<\/a> Partner Program, the enhanced three-tiered MSSP program offers benefits such as flexible pricing options, tailored premier technical support access, access to MSSP field sales and technical specialists, increased access to co-marketing funds as well as specialization training and assessments for sales and technical staff.<br> \u201cAs organizations in the region are forced to review their business continuity plans as a result of the ongoing health crisis, cybercriminals are capitalizing on trends that play on human behavior and response to fear. In addition, the explosion of exposure points has not only increased the attack surface area of organizations, it has also taxed IT departments that increasingly call upon MSSPs to help mitigate the rapidly growing threat volume,\u201d said SonicWall Vice President, Global MSSP &amp; Carrier Sales, Luca Taglioretti. \u201cWe\u2019re combining our 28 years of experience, data and technology with our partner-led culture to deliver the next round of enhancement to our MSSP program.&nbsp; We are helping organizations be prepared for an influx of cyberattacks, and are giving participating partners, both regionally and globally, a competitive edge.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taglioretti added, \u201cDue to the\nunprecedented need to quickly and efficiently deploy security to rapidly\nexpanding remote workforces, SonicWall will include its Secure Mobile Access\n(SMA) solution for MSSPs, allowing managed security service providers to\nswiftly deploy and scale on-demand security and connectivity at costs based on\nthe number of concurrent users.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specific to the MSSP program tiers \u2014 MSSP Protect, MSSP Powered, MSSP Powered Plus \u2014 partners will be offered new program benefits including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Expanded annual and monthly pricing model licenses<\/li><li>Aggressive volume-based pricing based on assets under management<\/li><li>Priority access to Premier Support tier 3 engineers<\/li><li>Increased access to MDF, including accruals for Powered Plus partners <\/li><li>Support from a new and expanding <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/mssp\/\">MSSP <\/a>strategic account management team, globally.<\/li><li>Addition of Secure Mobile Access (SMA) to MSSP portfolio<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Participating MSSPs will continue to be required to meet annual revenue requirements, have a operating NOC or SOC with Help Desk L1\/L2 Support capabilities, as well as sales and technical staffing criteria. Authorized <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/mssp\/\">MSSP<\/a>s will need to be established in the SecureFirst program at the Silver level or above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese enhancements to our<a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/mssp\/\"> MSSP<\/a> program are aimed at bringing value to participating partners in the areas of flexible pricing options including monthly subscriptions, simplified operations through our automation tools, priority technical support access and go-to-market collaboration,\u201d said SonicWall Vice President, Global Channel Sales, HoJin Kim. \u201cSonicWall is perfectly poised to help MSSPs looking to expand their managed security practice lead in the market and drive enhanced scalability and profits.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SonicWall unveiled an enhanced version of its SecureFirst Managed Security Service Provider (MSSPs) Program to provide the licensing models, resources and tools needed to help MSSPs profitably scale and accelerate their managed security services business, leveraging SonicWall\u2019s technology. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1595,9621],"tags":[1103,1100,1104,1101,875,313],"contributor":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","category-emerging-technologies","tag-launch_","tag-mssp","tag-secure_mobile_access","tag-securefirst","tag-security_solutions","tag-sonicwall"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SonicWall-techxmedia-2.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Rabab","author_link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/author\/rabab\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}