“MSPs have historically provided remote monitoring and security management for on-premises PCs, servers, apps and network devices, but as their customers migrate to mobile and the cloud their clients’ IT management challenges are fundamentally changing as identity becomes the new perimeter,” said Gary Taggart, Senior Vice President of Sales at Centrify. “With specific MSP product enhancements to Centrify’s IDaaS offering and a new MSP-oriented channel programme, MSPs can now not only better secure their clients’ expanding SaaS and mobile deployments, but also delight their clients’ end users with single sign-on to thousands of SaaS applications such as Office 365, Google Apps, Concur and others.”
The Centrify User Suite provides a single Active Directory- or cloud-based login to corporate resources, including mobile devices, Macs and cloud apps. Centrify has enhanced the User Suite product to enable MSPs to offer an IDaaS product in a scalable way. MSPs can now use Centrify User Suite to create private tenants for their customers, and can easily login and manage those tenants (including enabling/disabling tenants they have created), all from a single pane of glass.
Centrify has also introduced a new MSP programme to augment the existing Centrify Channel Partner Network (CCPN) by helping service providers bring secure access, authentication and authorisation to customers who rely on their cloud assets, whether fully hosted or co-located, to deliver the same level of security as an on-premises network. In addition, the subscription model widens the range of potential Centrify partners and creates a new revenue stream for existing partners who want to conduct some portion of their business as an MSP.
“This is yet another example of Centrify taking a unique partner-friendly approach to this market that is in stark contrast to other vendors in the Identity-as-a-Service market who primarily sell direct and often cut partners out of deals,” Taggart continued. “Whether it’s a small business that relies solely on a service provider or a big business that counts on a service provider for additional services, Centrify’s MSP programme ensures secure access in all environments.”