Augmentt – VAR To MSP via M365 security services
Many organisations are looking to outsource parts of their cybersecurity solution. As a result, the IT services market is growing year on year. Many VARs (Value Added Resellers) are looking to diversify their business offerings to provide services for this growing market. We’ve published a few articles recently on how VARs can take advantage of solutions to become managed service providers (MSPs) in this space. In this article, we present another route to the managed services market via Augmentt, outline an upcoming webinar on the topic, and detail an offer to existing VARs of a free trial of the Augmentt platform.
Augmentt - M365 Security, Simplified
Many businesses and public sector organisations have adopted Microsoft 365 (M365) to deliver their core Microsoft Office productivity applications, email, Teams collaboration, and more from the Cloud via Microsoft’s mature and stable SaaS platform. While using M365 can initially seem easy and trivial, most organisations soon realise that it needs managing to control costs and deliver robust data cybersecurity.
M365 is a platform of services that organisations must configure for their particular needs. This configuration also applies to initial security settings and ongoing security management over time. M365 is not secure by default when first set up by an organisation when they open an account. The security settings that are applicable to each organisation need to be applied and maintained. Many organisations don’t know this and think that Microsoft handles security for them in M365. This is not the case. In the same way that organisations own and are responsible for protecting data in M365, they are also responsible for M365 cybersecurity.
Applying and maintaining M365 security is not an easy task. The supplied tools and configuration forms have various settings spread across multiple screens. Securing M365 in the current threat landscape is a specialised and time-consuming process. One that requires deep knowledge of where in M365 particular settings are located and also knowledge of the threat landscape. You can get a glimpse of the complexity involved in securing M365 deployments by looking at the documentation Microsoft supplies on the topic. Here are two starting pages that provide entry points into the documentation:
As the information on those pages shows, a lot needs to be done to secure M365.
Doing M365 security correctly is almost certainly beyond the abilities of most general businesses and likely beyond many dedicated MSPs. Even if MSPs have the skills to secure M365, the time required to deliver it via manual configuration across their clients will be unfeasible. Augmentt simplifies security for M365 and enables MSPs to proactively secure their customer's M365 environments. By adopting Augmentt, MSPs will get the ability to do security posture audits on M365 deployments. These posture audits provide recommendations across all of the M365 security and compliance checks required for complete security management. An at-a-glance overview provides an easy-to-follow roadmap showing what's needed to secure each tenant on M365. The Platform also allows MSPs to easily configure the necessary settings from within Augmentt rather than across the multiple settings screens in M365 admin consoles.
The way the Augmentt Platform simplifies M365 security is an opening and opportunity for VARs looking to transition to MSPs, and for existing MSPs looking to offer enhanced service offerings. Augmentt’s multi-tenant platform allows MSPs to effortlessly monitor, identify, and safeguard against security risks in M365 environments with visibility across all end-users. Adopting Augmentt simplifies the work needed to make M365 secure and allows MSPs to make configuration and ongoing management of M365 a valuable service offering for their clients.
Augmentt provides audits of M365 environments to identify potential security risks, enables the set up of alerts and tickets for any security threats, and identifies measures to address any security gaps to safeguard the environment before entering into an ongoing monitoring status. This enables MSPs to provide their customers with a managed security service that transfers M365 security auditing to the MSP without the burden of using the standard M365 configuration tools.
The Augmentt Platform is not just for auditing M365. It is a wide-spectrum SaaS analysis solution with knowledge of over 22,000 SaaS applications that may be in use across your organisation. In many cases, without the knowledge of the IT team. This is a data security issue and, most likely a cost issue, as some departments will be paying for a SaaS app that may duplicate functionality already available via other SaaS apps.
Read more about the Augmentt platform and what it delivers for MSPs via https://www.augmentt.com/platform/.
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Webinar: How to Sell Cybersecurity Services with M365 Threat Reports
Renaissance will hold a 45-minute online webinar with Augmentt on?the 13th of September at 2 pm. Michael Conway from Renaissance (LinkedIn), plus Co-founder and chairman of Augmentt Gavin Garbutt (LinkedIn), will outline how you can build an MSP service offering and help your customers to:?
Improve Security?— Easily track usage of unauthorised SaaS applications to enforce SaaS security policies.
Save Money?— Help internal finance teams reduce costs through Microsoft license usage monitoring and management.
Streamline Operations?— Help internal operations teams improve efficiencies through centralised SaaS license management and administration.
Speaking about the upcoming webinar, Gavin said:
“I would like to personally invite you to this game-changing webinar that explores how MSPs grow and scale cybersecurity services by leveraging Microsoft 365 Security Audits & Management. In today’s digital landscape, offering proactive and robust cybersecurity solutions is not just an option; it’s a necessity.
As co-founder and former CEO of N-able and now co-founder and Chairman of Augmentt, I’ve helped thousands of MSPs across the globe grow their business and increase profitability. This webinar is for MSPs who want to dramatically increase: Microsoft cybersecurity revenues, your techs’ productivity, and business profitability.
Join me to learn how to secure your client’s number 1 critical business application and uncover new cybersecurity revenues.”
You can sign up to attend the webinar via https://renaissance.renaissance.ie/c/405643.
Get a Free Trial of the Full Augmentt Platform
While waiting for the webinar, you can take advantage of a 14-day free trial of the entire Augment platform by visiting the URL?https://www.augmentt.com/free-sign-up/renaissance. This is a genuine full-platform trial that includes the following:
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Conclusion
The Augmentt platform is an excellent route to new or additional MSP services for your clients. Join us for the upcoming webinar, take advantage of the free trial, and?reach out to us?if you have any questions.