TitanHQ has announced a new partnership with the French Value Added Distributor (VAD) Exer that will see the company’s award-winning cloud-based spam filtering, DNS filtering, and email archiving solutions offered to Exer partners throughout France.
Exer is a leading VAD in France. The company currently works with more than 600 value added resellers (VARs) and integrators in France and specializes in network security, enterprise mobile infrastructure, Wi-Fi, and a range of cybersecurity and managed services. The new collaboration will increase the choice of solutions available to French VARs and will help them improve security for their clients and meet their compliance requirements.
For more than two decades, TitanHQ has been developing innovative cybersecurity solutions for SMBs and MSPs to protect against the ever-growing range of cyberthreats. Starting off by offering anti-spam solutions, the company’s product portfolio has been expanded to include DNS filtering and email archiving.
The solutions have now been adopted by more than 7,500 businesses and are offered by over 1,500 MSPs around the globe. SpamTitan now blocks more than 7 billion spam emails each month, WebTitan blocks more than 60 million malicious websites every month, and ArcTitan is used to securely archive and store more than 10 million emails a month.
Over the past few years, TitanHQ has enjoyed excellent growth and has expanded its global footprint considerably. One of the company’s aims in 2019 is to increase its client base in France. The partnership with Exer was therefore a no brainer.
“Our advanced threat protection for email and web security was designed to keep businesses productive and information secure. We are pleased to be offering the Exer partner community choice, enhanced functionality and greater overall value,” explained TitanHQ Executive VP, Rocco Donnino.
Exer was keen to expand its range of cybersecurity solutions to better protect its clients from an ever-increasing range of web-based and email-based threats. The volume of cyberattacks now being conducted means cybersecurity has never been so important.
“Collaboration with TitanHQ is an opportunity to represent a brand internationally recognized on 3 key technologies: Web Content Filtering, Anti-Spam, and Email Archiving. We are eager to propose these security solutions to ours VARs,” explained Exer CEO, Michel Grunspan. “Our regional presence and our expertise will be our strength for asserting the presence of TitanHQ in the French market”
French VARs can find out more about TitanHQ’s email security, web security, and email archiving solutions at Exer’s Tour De France events over the next few months. The events start in Lille on May 23, 2019 at Hameau de la Becque and will be taking place at various cities throughout France over the following months.
TitanHQ, the leading provider of cloud security solutions for SMBs, has announced a new partner program has been launched to support Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), Cloud Distributors, Wi-Fi Providers, OEM Partners and Technology Alliance Partners..
TitanHQ started its journey in 1999. Initially, the company provided anti-spam solutions to local businesses in Ireland. Over the next two decades, the company expanded its range of products to include DNS filtering and email archiving solutions and is now a leading global player of cloud-based cybersecurity solutions.
While TitanHQ initially focused on meeting the needs of the SMB market, its products have been developed to meet the needs of MSPs. For instance, TitanHQ solutions are available with a range of hosting options, including the ability to host the solution within the MSPs own environment, and they can be provided in white-label form ready to take MSP’s branding.
TitanHQ’s cloud-based solutions have been developed to be easy to implement, use, and manage and are already a firm favorite with MSPs.
To make TitanHQ cloud security solutions even more attractive for MSPs, the existing partner program has been significantly enhanced and relaunched as TitanShield.
The TItanShield Partner Program makes it even easier to offer TitanHQ cloud security products to clients. Partners benefit from access to engineers, a highly capable support team that understands the needs of MSPs, and a dedicated account manager.
Partners have access to APIs to allow them to easily sell, onboard, manage and deliver advanced network security solutions directly to their client base from within their own user interfaces. In addition, partners receive free access to sales and technical resources, deal registration and lead generation resources, and benefit from flexible, volume-based monthly pricing models and profitable margins.
Under the new, enhanced partner program, customers are separated into their specific areas of expertise to ensure that each can be provided with focused information for the markets and customers they serve.
“Our program takes a unique and strategic approach for our partners and can be customized to fit all business models,” said Rocco Donnino, Executive VP of Strategic Alliances at TitanHQ.
If you want to become a highly valued member of the TitanHQ TitanShield Partner Program, enrollment is now open. Call TitanHQ today or email partners@titanhq.com for further information.
In our previous post we explained why managed service providers (MSPs) should be offering a web filtering service to their customers and the benefits that can be gained by customers and MSPs alike. In this post we explain what makes WebTitan Cloud the go-to web filtering solution for MSPs and why so many MSPs have chosen TitanHQ as their web filtering partner.
Why WebTitan Cloud is the Best Web Filter for MSPs
One problem MSPs face before they can start offering a web filtering service to their clients is how to incorporate the solution into their service stacks and their existing cloud offerings. While there are many providers of web filtering services, not all solutions have been developed with MSPs in mind. TitanHQ differs in that respect.
TitanHQ’s web filtering solution, WebTitan Cloud, has been developed specifically to meet the needs of MSPs and make it as easy as possible for the solution to be added to their existing cloud offerings. WebTitan Cloud seamlessly integrates within existing workflows regardless of whether MSPs self-host, use AWS, Azure, or other cloud platforms.
Why WebTitan is Perfect for MSP’s
Save on customer support time, hours and cost. No more costly ransomware call outs.
Gives your clients excellent protection against malware, ransomware, and phishing attacks.
Real time LIVE updating of malware and malicious threats with an active database of 650 million users driving the AI driven protection.
Easy filtering at multiple levels with the capability to recognize users in many different ways.
Protection from web threats for office and remote users.
Reporting with full AD integration – Easy to show your customers the volume of malicious attacks you have prevented.
Great for improving revenue – Generate regular monthly revenue for very little effort.
Easy client account administration via a central control panel.
Multiple hosting options: Deployed in our cloud, a private cloud, or in your data center.
Intuitive controls with low management overhead.
API driven for advanced back-end integration in your own systems, including billing and reporting.
Flexible pricing to suit your business, including monthly billing.
Multi-tenant solution with advanced customer management features.
Highly scalable with no latency.
Highly customizable – can be provided as a white label ready for your logos and color scheme.
Leading alternative to OpenDNS Cisco Umbrella at a fraction of the price.
Industry-leading technical support and customer service.
No punitive terms, measures, or sharp practices and a fully transparent pricing policy with no hidden costs.
How Does WebTitan Cloud Integrate into MSPs Management Systems?
To make integration as easy as possible, TitanHQ uses RESTful API, which allows fast and risk-free integration into MSPs management systems. WebTitan Cloud uses the OAuth 1.0 protocol for authentication and has a full set of keys and secrets in the WebTitan Cloud user interface (UI). Once an MSP has signed up, no further registration or authentication is necessary. The API client provides the appropriate oauth_signature to authorize requests to protected resources.
Overly complex user interfaces are a problem with many cloud-based solutions. With WebTitan Cloud, the UI is made as clean and easy to use as possible. MSPs can remove all elements from the UI that are not required to keep the UI clean and simple. WebTitan Cloud can also be integrated into MSP cloud interfaces to create a better user experience and greater consistency for customers.
Having information at your fingertips is important when customers send in requests or when reports are required on web use and blocking. WebTitan Cloud allows MSPs to create and integrate a full suite of high-level system and customer reports into their own management consoles.
Onboarding new customers is also a quick and simple process, which can be integrated into current MSP on-boarding processes. New customer accounts can easily be created (or deleted) from within an MSP’s own UI, in addition to performing updates and listing all current customer accounts.
MSPs can connect to WebTitan Cloud to manage their customers settings, including locations, whitelists, and blacklists. Customers that would prefer to manage their own settings can perform a limited number of operations themselves using APIs. Since WebTitan Cloud is available in a full white label, customers who do access their own settings can be given a UI with MSP branding rather than TitanHQ’s to maintain consistency and help reinforce the MSPs brand.
TitanHQ also operates an extremely competitive pricing strategy with generous margins for MSPs and aligned monthly billing cycles through the TitanShield MSP Program.
If you have yet to start offering web filtering to your clients as part of your service stack or if you are unhappy with your current provider’s product, contact TitanHQ today and as about becoming a member of the TitanShield MSP Program. Product demonstrations can also be scheduled on request.
Feedback from MSP Clients
“WebTitan is an outstanding tool for most reliable content filtering. The monitoring feature of this specific product is quite unique that totally monitors all the process of online working and also secures all the data. Additionally, its set-up is superb easy and it can be done in just few minutes that save my time and energy as well.” – Kristie H. Account Manager
“WebTitan is fairly easy to setup. It is available as a cloud based solution or on prem. You can get as simple or as complicated with your filtering as you like, it will handle most situations with ease. It has provided us with a stable web filtering platform that has worked well for us for many years.” – Derek A. Network Manager
“WebTitan is outstanding software that helps me a lot in minimizing viruses. The thing I like most about WebTitan is that it is extremely easy to use and configure. I like its clear interface. It lets us block malicious content and spam easily. It is no doubt an amazing product helping us a lot in kicking out harmful bad stuff.” – Randy Q. Software Engineer
“By reducing malware-related security incidents, you’re reducing your number one uncontrollable expense: the people on your IT operations team, like your help desk techs.” – MSP, Washington, US
“a key part of our security stack as we’ve scaled to over 6,000 managed endpoints, while decreasing virus and malware related tickets by 70%.” – MSP, Boston, US
“It has paid for itself many times over by reducing malware calls.” – MSP, Toronto, Canada
A web filtering service allows Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to better protect their clients from accidental malware downloads and phishing attacks while improving their bottom lines. Further, by preventing phishing attacks and malware infections, they can reduce the amount of time they spend fighting fires. For busy MSPs, the latter will be especially beneficial.
Why is Web Filtering Important?
There are several reasons why MSP clients will benefit from a web filtering service. First and foremost, a web filter will help to prevent their customers’ employees from visiting phishing websites and malicious URLs. Most phishing attacks start with a phishing email, so a powerful spam filtering solution is essential. While commercial spam filters such as SpamTitan will block more than 99% of spam and phishing emails, additional protections are required to protect against the 1% that bypass spam defenses.
Naturally end user security awareness training will help in this regard, but as the 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report shows, 30% of delivered phishing messages are opened by end users and 12% of those users also click on malicious links in the messages.
A web filter is an additional layer of anti-phishing and anti-malware defenses that kicks in when malicious links are clicked and when end users attempt to visit other malicious sites while browsing the Internet. With a web filter in place, when an employee attempts to access a malicious web page, that attempt will be blocked before any content is downloaded. Instead of displaying the web page, a block page will be displayed.
Web filters also allow companies to carefully control the types of content their employees can access. This allows them to enforce acceptable internet usage policies with ease. Employers can prevent their employees from accessing NSFW content such as pornography, illegal content and, if tighter controls are required to improve productivity, other categories of web content such as dating sites, social media networks, gambling sites, and gaming sites.
With a web filter in place, security and productivity can both be quickly improved and the gains in both of those areas is likely to more than pay for the cost of the web filtering package provided by their MSP.
Cloud Based Web Filtering Solutions for MSPs
Convincing customers to implement a web filtering solution should be straightforward given the number of phishing attacks that are now being conducted and the cost of mitigating phishing attacks and malware infections. The cost of web filtering is tiny by comparison.
For MSPs, cloud-based filtering solutions are the natural choice. They can be implemented in minutes once a customer request has been received, no hardware is required, there is no software to install, and patching is handled by the service provider. All that is required from the MSP is a brief set up and configuration for each customer and ongoing management and reporting.
However, not all cloud-based web filtering solutions make set up, management and reporting simple. WebTitan Cloud differs in this respect. Not only does the solution offer excellent protection, the solution has been developed specifically with MSPs in mind. The ease of integration into MSP’s back-end systems and management has made WebTitan Cloud the go-to web filtering solution for MSPs.
In our next post we will explain how WebTitan Cloud differs from other web filtering solutions, why it is the easiest solution for MSPs to integrate into their existing cloud offerings, and how TitanHQ makes getting started, provisioning new customers, and managing customer accounts a quick and easy process requiring the minimal management overhead.
TitanHQ has released WebTitan Cloud version 4.12. The new version of the award-winning 100% cloud-based web filtering solution incorporates new features at tweaks to improve the user experience and make the solution an even more attractive option for managed service providers (MSPs).
One of the most exciting new features that will benefit businesses and MSPs alike is the ability to implement location-based filtering controls, naturally accompanied by granular, location-based reports.
It was already possible to implement organization-wide filtering controls and set different policies for departments, user groups, roles, and individuals in an organization. The new feature increases the flexibility of the solution with location-based controls. The new feature will be of great benefit to businesses operating across multiple locations, where content control requirements may need to be different for satellite offices. MSPs will be able to offer location-based controls to clients and better manage web filtering for customers with a presence in multiple countries. The location controls can be applied to control content whether users are on or off the network.
As with user and role-based content controls, when a user attempts to access a web page that contravenes the policy that they have been assigned, the content will be blocked and no web page content will be downloaded – in contrast to many appliance-based web filtering solutions. The user will be presented with a customizable block screen that can incorporate the company or MSP’s branding.
There will be occasions when an individual or group needs to bypass policy controls. With WebTitan, this can easily be achieved using cloud keys rather than making changes to policies. The cloud key can be used to bypass the block pages and access content that would normally be blocked by location, company, or other policies.
To make management as easy as possible, all policies and locations are managed through a single user interface. MSPs can manage all locations and customer accounts through a single pane of glass, which improves visibility into all customers’ accounts and locations.
Also of interest to MSPs will be WebTitan’s enhanced search functionality. While it was possible to run reports to obtain information about a specific customer and their traffic, a search filter has now been added to the history page. This allows administrators to search by location name with autocomplete. When a customer account is selected, admins can get second-by-second information about all traffic within that location without having to run a location report.
MSPs already have a multi-tenant, highly scalable, brandable, and easy to use web filtering solution with multiple hosting options that can be offered to customers at an attractive price point, which is why the solution has proven so popular with the MSP market. It is hoped that the new additional features will make the solution even more useful for MSPs to allow them to better serve their SMB clients while making web filtering for SMBs even more straightforward.
