This post was last updated June 28, 2024.
As the premiere Cloud Commerce Marketplace for the managed service provider (MSP) industry, Pax8 aims to provide MSPs and their small to medium-sized business clients with the utmost in cybersecurity solutions. That’s why we’ve partnered with CrowdStrike, the gold standard of security products, to design two new bundles that bring enterprise-grade cybersecurity solutions for the SMB market.
Our partnership allows SMBs to gain access to the same provider that has delivered powerful cybersecurity to Fortune 100 companies. The Pax8 and CrowdStrike MSSP Defend bundles also deliver flexible licensing options, including packages with fewer than 200 licenses, without the burden of upfront annual payments.
Read on to learn more about CrowdStrike and why this partnership is such an exciting opportunity for MSPs and their SMB clients.
Why SMBs need enterprise-level cybersecurity (and why MSPs should provide it)
Cyber threats continue to plague businesses of all sizes. In fact, 43% of cyberattacks hit small businesses, according to Accenture, while only 14% of them are prepared to defend themselves. Unfortunately, the problem is projected to only get worse, as Cybersecurity Ventures estimates global cybercrime to grow by 15% over the next five years. The cost of each of these cybercrimes can run about $3 million for SMBs of fewer than 500 employees.
But cyberattacks can cost more than just money. There are many reasons SMBs need to be as vigilant about cybersecurity as their enterprise counterparts, such as the potential loss of data for organizations and their end customers, damage to reputation, disruption of operations, legal consequences, and loss of customer trust.
Unfortunately for many SMBs, they typically can’t access enterprise-grade security tools due to budget. Lesser solutions can result in a higher risk profile for you and your clients as well as alert fatigue, which results in less efficiency from wasted operational hours spent responding to fake threats.
As more security incidents happen, you may find yourself losing customers and facing increasing financial and legal liability. You and your clients both need a better solution so you can grow your business while reducing risk.
Introducing the CrowdStrike MSSP Defend bundles for SMBs
CrowdStrike has been among the leading providers of cybersecurity solutions for enterprise-sized companies and government-level organizations for some time now. It’s well-regarded for its ability to provide real-time protection and threat detection by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms so organizations can respond swiftly to security incidents.
Now, as CrowdStrike seeks to empower SMBs with the same solutions that have been protecting larger organizations, Pax8 has become the only place for MSPs, and the SMBs they serve, to access this powerful technology. As the leading SMB Cloud Commerce Marketplace, Pax8 is the sole location to access two new cybersecurity bundles offered exclusively through Pax8 and CrowdStrike: the MSSP Defend bundle and the MSSP Advanced Defend bundle. The Pax8 Marketplace also allows for a monthly purchase of CrowdStrike, with no minimums.
What protection do the MSSP Defend bundles offer?
Each bundle provides a powerful mesh solution to cover businesses and deliver security never available to SMBs.
MSSP Defend bundle
- NGAV
Falcon Prevent provides best-in-class prevention by blocking brand-new malware, exploits, and advanced malware-free attacks by using ML and AI, alongside a behavioral approach that analyzes indicators of attack. - EDR
Falcon Insight enables advanced endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities by providing deep visibility into metadata generated by the endpoint. - Device control
Falcon Device Control ensures the safe utilization of USB devices across your organization. By combining extensive visibility into the devices used across your organization and granular control, admins can ensure only approved devices are used. - Firewall management
Falcon® Firewall Management leverages the world’s leading AI-native platform for unified host firewall control. Through this platform, you can easily create and enforce host firewall policies through a single agent. - Data retention
Falcon Threat Graph, the EDR module of the platform, generates a significant amount of metadata. Instead of storing this data on the endpoints or on an on-prem server, it’s stored in the cloud platform where you have access to all the activity across your environment’s endpoints.
MSSP Advanced Defend bundle
- NGAV
Falcon Prevent provides best-in-class prevention by blocking brand new malware, exploits, and advanced malware-free attacks by using ML and AI, alongside a behavioral approach that analyzes indicators of attack. - EDR
Falcon Insight enables advanced EDR capabilities by providing deep visibility into metadata generated by the endpoint. - Device control
Falcon Device Control ensures the safe utilization of USB devices across your organization. By combining extensive visibility into the devices used across your organization and granular control, admins can ensure only approved devices are used. - Managed hunting
Falcon Adversary OverWatch hunts threat actors 24/7 targeting your business across endpoints, identities, and cloud environments by leveraging the comprehensive visibility of the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® platform. - Firewall management
Falcon® Firewall Management leverages the world’s leading AI-native platform for unified host firewall control. Through this platform, you can easily create and enforce host firewall policies through a single agent. - Data retention
Falcon Threat Graph, the EDR module of the platform, generates a significant amount of metadata. Instead of storing this data on the endpoints or on an on-prem server, it’s stored in the cloud platform where you have access to all the activity across your environment’s endpoints. - Data collection
Falcon Data Replicator provides the ability to import/export data collected by the Falcon platform from all the sensors installed across all the managed endpoints in near real-time.
For the MSPs who purchased the CrowdStrike MSSP Defend Plus bundle, you’ll automatically switch over to the new MSSP Advanced Defend bundle.
Why CrowdStrike and Pax8?
SMBs shouldn’t have to forego having adequate cybersecurity just because the right technology isn’t offered to them. These new offerings aim to provide an all-encompassing solution to SMBs that can help prevent, detect, and respond to cyberthreats. Because SMBs only would need certain modules from the usual suite of 20 that an enterprise business would require, CrowdStrike has included only the features that are essential for SMBs to keep it affordable.
Among cybersecurity providers, CrowdStrike stands out from the crowd by providing a number of differentiators, including:
- Industry-leading EDR, anti-virus, and endpoint management, all in one platform
- 100% legitimacy accuracy with zero false positives
- Trusted by more than half of the Fortune 500, including Zoom, Goldman Sachs, Sony, and more
- High ratings by industry watchers like Gartner, Forrester, MITRE, and IDC
Purchasing and provisioning these bundles through Pax8 also provides several benefits, such as:
- It provides the first, and currently only, place SMBs can acquire these bundled offerings
- The option for monthly payments, with no minimums
- Allowing for packages of fewer than 200 licenses
- The added value of Pax8 customer support
- Multitenant licensing
- They can be co-managed by both the customer and partner, if desired
- They offer a single, lightweight agent that doesn’t slow down the end-user business process
- Updates are done automatically, without notifying or impacting end users
- Turnkey, same-day deployment
- The industry-leading low false-positive rate keeps teams efficient and focused on what really matters
Start empowering your SMB clients by simplifying their cybersecurity
It’s easy to get started with CrowdStrike. The The Pax8 MSSP Defend bundles are now live on the Pax8 Marketplace, where you can purchase, provision, and manage your cloud solutions, all in one place.
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