Partner Newsletter October 2021

Dear ,

This month Guardian360 celebrated its 6th anniversary. Time flies when you're having fun!

Looking back at the past 6 years, we can conclude that our holistic view on information security is well received by our partners and their clients. In the past months we have welcomed a number of new partners and the amount of clients that we support to get in control of information security is increasing rapidly.

In this partner newsletter:
we inform you about the outcomes of the roadmap consultation with our platinum partners.
we introduce the end user pricelist as of January 1, 2022.
you can read read about our new platinum partner Visolity.
we tell you about the onboarding of Guardian360 services on PLTFRM and Cloudblue.
we look back at the IT-SA in Germany.

Happy reading on behalf of the Guardian360 team,

Jan Martijn Broekhof
Managing Director

Lighthouse update

On Monday, September 27, we held our quarterly Lighthouse platform roadmap consultation with our platinum partners Avensus, Intermax, SLTN and Solimas. The result of this consultation is that we have adjusted our roadmap to give more priority to the following functionalities in the coming months:

Improve searching, filtering and sorting of issues.
Daily email reporting also possible once a week or month.
Delete user accounts.
Delete organizations.
Only show the standards on the dashboard and on the non-conformity index that a customer is paying for.

We are happy with the involvement and input of our platinum partners. The partners themselves say that they really appreciate to be so involved in the further development of our platform. The next session is planned for early January.

GPL End User as of January 1, 2022

Effective January 1, 2022, our GPL end user for our services will be increased. On the one hand we are doing this because we are adding more value to our clients with our Lighthouse platform, on the other hand we are facing increasing costs for personnel, hosting and energy.

We have received several requests from our partners to make it possible to offer additional services with the bundles at a competitive rate. In the new GPL this request is honored, Guardian360 partners can easily offer an addon at a discounted rate.

The new GPL only applies to new customers who place their order after January 1, 2022. Quotes issued in December 2021 will be accepted by Guardian360 under the 2021 conditions with a 30-day validity period.

New platinum partner Visolity

Cyber security is one of the focal points of Visolity's services. The race between cyber criminals and security professionals is sharpening and the consequences of cyber crime are increasing. "At Visolity we are therefore pleased to be working with Guardian360: a truly Dutch company with the mission to develop the best security platform in the world"; says Steven Adema, Consultant at Visolity.

Visolity is Platinum Partner of Guardian360 and that is no coincidence. The two companies fit very well together in terms of offering, vision and DNA. The interest of the customer is leading for both companies. Both Visolity and Guardian360 are knowledge-driven organizations that see it as their responsibility and task to inform their customers and help them make the right decisions. Transparent and clear in their advice. Selling is still about helping the customer to buy!

Guardian360 services via PLTFRM and Cloudblue

PLTFRM was founded to create successful collaborations between like-minded customers and service providers. PLTFRM independently directs the collaboration and guarantees its long-term success. With this method PLTFRM aims to democratise IT managed services.

The catalog and channel management solution of Cloudblue simplifies and unifies indirect and direct channel operations as well as procurement with a single platform. Cloubblue aims to boost efficiency, speed time to revenue and establish a scalable business quickly.

Guardian360 understood early on that we are part of an ecosystem of solutions used by our partners. Onboarding on PLTFRM and Cloudblue makes it even easier for our partners to purchase our services and offer them to customers.

German trade mission and IT-SA visit

In the week of October 11th, Guardian360 was participating in a trade mission that was organised by RVO, CG München, Security Delta (HSD) en Innovation Quarter. Because Guardian360 is also aiming to support German organisations with its security services, it made sense to participate in this mission.

Jan Martijn Broekhof, founder and managing director of Guardian360, participated in several round table discussion with representatives of the Bavarian chamber of commerce, German research institutes and governmental organisations. Also, Jan Martijn was a panellist during the 6th International Town Hall Meeting at IT-SA.

Wanted: Front-end developer with excellent design skills

Guardian360 is looking for a front-end developer with a passion for design, to expand its existing development team.

The sooner we find an additional front-end developer with excellent design skills, the sooner we can serve our partners with new dashboards, workflows and such. So please let us know when you know someone that fits the job description!

If we hire the front-end developer that was recommended by you, we will reward you with a dinner in a Michelin star restaurant.