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The virtual gathering brought together experts from the emerging market to help attendees develop best practices for starting and growing an IoT services business.

A wave of new offerings introduced last month is part of the vendor’s ongoing transformation from its roots as a maker of monitors and projectors to its new identity as a supplier of solutions for communication, collaboration, digital signage, and more.

The new functionality, which supplements existing risk analytics capabilities, factors dangerous end user behavior like recycling passwords into an organization’s risk assessment, and flags employees in need of extra security training.

With help from partners and some transferrable skills, the jump from IT to IoT can be a short one.

The security features, in particular, arrive at a time when the documentation platforms and other systems MSPs store sensitive data in are increasingly under attack from cybercriminals.

An industry first, according to Webroot, the new feature is designed to safeguard DNS traffic from snooping and manipulation, and is especially relevant at a time when millions of work-from-home employees are relying on poorly secured home networks.

The latest additions to an ongoing partner enablement push launched last year include a 24×5 customer care team, an expanded onboarding team for newcomers to SolarWinds MSP products, and a new set of partner advisory groups.

As businesses gradually return to work and re-evaluate tech needs for the next normal, the distributor and its vendors expect investments in cloud, security, infrastructure, endpoints, and more.

Cloud computing and “”everything as a service”” have turned the sales process into a buying journey with new milestones—and no ending point.

Both offerings add new capabilities to Fortify, the suite of security solutions that ConnectWise acquired along with MSP software and service provider Continuum last year.