SentryNet provides transparent security for MSPs, offering a compelling new layer to their stack – a transparent threat and content filtering service that operates independently of the cybersecurity stack.
Instead, SentryNet seamlessly blends Internet connectivity with threat and content filtering, allowing you to protect your customers without complicating your stack.
In this article we explore three areas where SentryNet is an ideal complement for the cybersecurity offering of any MSP, and how your MSP can improve your cybersecurity offering without adding complexity using SentryNet.
Protect customers from threats and unwanted content using AI-driven filtering
Every MSP is providing a cybersecurity option to their customers, with passionate supporters of different vendors all confident that their preferred offering is the best. No matter what cybersecurity stack an MSP is offering, it’s likely that their customers are already exposed to the risk of accessing Internet sites that are dangerous or that contain unwanted content in a way that is only detected or blocked after the connection has been made and the unwanted content accessed.
What if your MSP could provide Internet connectivity to your customers that included the filtering of threats and unwanted content, protecting them from even reaching those Internet sites? That’s exactly what SentryNet delivers, and it benefits customers in three key areas:
- SentryNet does not complicate their systems at all, with no hardware or software to install, update or manage.
- The load on their Internet connection is reduced by preventing any traffic from unwanted threats and content from being generated.
- Their MSP can configure SentryNet to protect them from threats and unwanted content to suit their specific needs and other cybersecurity policies.
At the same time, your MSP also benefits from deploying SentryNet as a way to improve your cybersecurity offering in several ways:
- SentryNet empowers you to create policies and allow/deny lists that together can cater to any specific filtering requirements with ease.
- Your MSP can use allow/deny lists across multiple policies and customers, allowing you to effectively “whitelist” domains you don’t want to be blocked, such as phishing simulation services.
- Your MSP can also use the same feature to instantly protect multiple customers from an emerging threat simply by adding the offending domain to a shared deny list. This can be done in seconds and will apply to all customers regardless of their specific cybersecurity stack (firewall, EDR/MDR/XDR, etc) – try that with your preferred vendor’s solution!
- SentryNet is available at a fixed cost regardless of the number of users, which makes it easier to sell and avoids needing to bill customers per user (but you still can if you want to).
SentryNet provides an ideal option if your MSP is seeking to improve your cybersecurity offering without adding complexity.
Your MSP can improve security and increase margins simply by upgrading the connectivity services of customers with SentryNet.
Since SentryNet does not interfere with or depend in any way on the specific cybersecurity stack or configuration of customers, MSPs can leverage the powerful controls provided by SentryNet to protect all customers from threats and unwanted content, as a “first layer” of control before firewalls and other measure take effect.
This structure allows MSPs to rapidly respond to new threats and protect all customers in one step, while also avoiding complexity and improving performance.
Nothing to install, update or manage – SentryNet can be deployed in a few minutes
MSPs are used to cybersecurity that is complex and that requires careful planning, deployment and ongoing monitoring and management, and in many ways, this is both desirable and essential to provide customers with effective protection. However, as part of any effort to improve your cybersecurity offering with SentryNet, MSPs will find that adding SentryNet to their cybersecurity stack is extremely simple, and that managing SentryNet for customers is a highly efficient process.
The deployment of SentryNet for a customer takes only a few minutes and involves simply using SentryNet as the DNS servers for the customer’s connection. If the customer has a SentryNet service, their MSP can associate that service with a defined policy to apply the specific configuration that suits the customers’ needs. There is no equipment to install, no changes to make to existing cybersecurity, and nothing to install, update or manage on any of the customer’s devices.
This approach provides many benefits for MSPs, because SentryNet is compatible with any cybersecurity stack due to the nature of its design. Your MSP can improve your cybersecurity offering with SentryNet without needing to make any changes to any of your existing offerings – improving cybersecurity protection for customers has never been so easy.
The simplicity and ease of deployment of SentryNet provides numerous benefits for MSPs and their customers:
- Risk free trial – Customers can be given a risk free trial of the service without any messy software deployments or configurations to worry about.
- Deployed in a few minutes – The deployment of SentryNet can be done in just a few minutes, with minimal effort and no cybersecurity compatibility requirements.
- Benefits for customers – Customers benefit from enhanced cybersecurity, content management and improved performance.
- Benefits for your MSP – Your MSP benefits from the ability to protect customers as a “first line of defence” and they gain the ability to rapidly protect all customers from new threats.
Put simply, your MSP can improve your cybersecurity offering with SentryNet without adding complexity or extra work for your technical team.
Rapidly protect customers from new threats, whatever their cybersecurity stack
For many MSPs the goal is to bring all of their customers up to a single consistent cybersecurity ‘stack’ where all customers have the same systems and configurations in place. This would obviously make things easy for the MSP by reducing the number of systems and combinations they need to manage, and in theory it would also help their customers who would benefit from having the ‘ideal’ cybersecurity measures in place, as recommended by their MSP. In reality however, it is extremely difficult for any MSP to achieve this, and when the goal is to improve your cybersecurity offering this can be a challenge.
SentryNet provides a valuable opportunity for MSPs because it fills the gap between ‘raw’ Internet connectivity and their cybersecurity systems, and it allows the MSP to rapidly protect all of their customers from an emerging threat in one step, in less time than it took to read this sentence. This is possible because SentryNet was designed with the needs of MSPs in mind, and it operates by combing the effects of policies and lists.
Policies define the specific threats and content types that are to be audited or blocked, as well as the threat rating levels where threat actions apply and the days and times when content restrictions can be overridden. MSPs can define as many policies as they need to meet the needs of their customers, and policies can be shared between customers.
Lists define a set of Internet sites that will always be allowed, or blocked, overriding the policies that they are linked to. Each policy can include multiple allow or deny lists, and lists can be shared across customers using this approach.
So, how does this allow your MSP to rapidly protect customers from new threats?
MSPs can create shared lists across multiple or even all customers so that, in the event of a newly discovered threat, or a supply chain issue, the MSP only needs to add the offending Internet site to a shared deny list and all customers are immediately protected. This mechanism does not depend on any feature of the cybersecurity stack of the customer, so it does not matter if they are using a Cisco, Meraki, Fortinet, Sophos, Palo Alto or any other firewall device – they are protected.
SentryNet delivers a valuable new tool to MSPs allowing them to rapidly respond to new threats and protect multiple or all customers without needing to make any changes to the various types of cybersecurity configuration each customer has.
As a result, the MSP can:
- Provide a new rapid protection mechanism to the customer – by showing how a specific site can be quickly blocked.
- Ensure that necessary sites are “whitelisted” – providing a useful feature to ensure that cybersecurity awareness training, and similar legitimate sites, are never blocked.
Your MSP can improve your cybersecurity offering with SentryNet
SentryNet – Transparent Security for MSPs is fast and easy to deploy, and it requires no software or hardware to be deployed to operate. Instead, customers using a SentryNet connection are transparently protected from threats and unwanted content under policies that can be controlled and tailored to their needs.
In summary, with SentryNet, your MSP can Improve your cybersecurity offering by:
- Protecting customers from threats and unwanted content without adding complexity to the cybersecurity stack.
- Improving performance by eliminating unwanted traffic before it affects the customers connectivity.
- Empowering MSPs to rapidly protect customers from new threats, whatever cybersecurity solutions they depend on.
There are many reasons to improve your cybersecurity offering with SentryNet, but the best one is simply that your MSP can increase margins by adding SentryNet to their cybersecurity stack.
In this article we have explored just some of the ways that your MSP can deliver better cybersecurity outcomes for their customers without adding complexity. The best way to find out more about SentryNet is to have one of our team take you through the platform on a 1:1 call that you can book HERE.
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