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With an expanded schedule of cities for 2020, ChannelPro has launched its “Game Theory” tour to help MSPs, IT consultants, VARs, and integrators win big in business.

Cloud backup is less expensive, you don’t have to maintain the hardware, and it’s an easy off-site storage solution.

Executives like SonicWall CEO Bill Conner (pictured) increasingly see forging alliances with dozens of outsourced SOC operators as a more efficient way to build a managed security channel than recruiting thousands of MSPs one by one.

Called AirGap and quietly added to the vendor’s X360 platform four months ago at no extra cost, the new system employs a variety of techniques to stop ransomware and other attacks from tampering with data that is often a company’s last line of defense.

In the completion of deals announced late last year and early this one, Sophos has been formally acquired by Thoma Bravo and Veeam has been bought by Insight Partners.

Frank Abagnale, of “Catch Me If You Can” fame, was one of many speakers at the IT membership group’s conference yesterday in Long Beach, Calif., to discuss challenges and opportunities in cybersecurity.

Priced at $4 per firewall per month, the new service feeds inbound and outbound data directly from Cisco Meraki, Fortinet, SonicWall, Sophos, and WatchGuard products to RocketCyber’s SOC, where analysts look for malware, spam, and other threats.

Called the Malwarebytes Premier Partner Program, it includes a track for MSPs offering monthly pricing and a consumption-based tiering structure aligned with recurring revenue business models, according to channel exec Mike LaPeters (pictured).

The new offering, which will include one set of tiers but different tracks for VARs and MSPs, will sell and support a unified portfolio of “cyber resilience” products covering security and data protection.

The new system is designed to help MSPs implement best practices based on a widely respected—and—increasingly mandatory, standard for preventing, detecting, and responding to cyber-attacks.