In an era of constant phishing attempts and AI-generated cyber threats, offering comprehensive cybersecurity coverage can be a challenge. As a managed service provider (MSP) or managed intelligence provider (MIP), you can’t deliver the same solutions as years’ past and assume your clients are secure. Luckily, there’s a way to make sure your clients are covered against modern threats: Pax8 Security Coverage.
Security Coverage is a new feature nestled inside Opportunity Explorer in the Pax8 Marketplace. It helps you evaluate your clients’ security posture through the lens of the CIS Critical Security Controls (CIS Controls), which offer global best practices for cybersecurity.
Moving From Piecemeal Solutions to Intelligent Defense
Security Coverage flips the traditional process of selling security. Instead of starting with solutions and trying to justify their value, you can now start with a trusted framework and see exactly how your clients measure up.
Security Coverage helps you:
- Follow a trusted framework by choosing a CIS Control and seeing which Pax8 Marketplace solutions meet it.
- Evaluate your clients’ security posture by instantly identifying which safeguards are covered, partially covered or exposed.
- Act with confidence by turning those insights into clear, data-backed recommendations for your clients.
Security Coverage makes transparency actionable and is available directly within Opportunity Explorer in the Pax8 Marketplace.
Why This Matters Right Now
We’re entering a new era in which intelligence and outcomes define value in the eyes of your clients.
They no longer want a list of tools. They want clarity. In a time when nearly every SMB has faced cyber threats but 76% of SMBs lack the necessary skills to properly address security issues, clients want proof that their technology partner understands how to strengthen their security and compliance.
Security Coverage helps you deliver that proof while creating new business opportunities:
- Grow Revenue: Every identified gap becomes a reason to help clients improve their protection.
- Increase Efficiency: Automated mapping saves hours of manual research and analysis.
- Reduce Risk: By aligning with CIS Controls, you bring transparency and confidence to every client conversation, helping build long-lasting trust.
When you can show, not just tell, why your recommendations matter, you elevate the entire client relationship.
Future-Proofing Businesses with Data and Intelligence
Security Coverage represents an important step in Pax8’s broader intelligence strategy — using data to help our partners make smarter, faster and more informed decisions.
Connecting the global best practices laid out in the CIS Controls with Marketplace insights about your clients’ coverage lays the groundwork for partners like you to offer intelligent recommendations. In the future, this will evolve into automated suggestions that help you deliver value to your clients faster and at scale. Our goal is to create an intelligent Marketplace that anticipates your clients’ needs to help you be proactive and serve them with clarity and confidence.
Your Next Step
The path to Managed Intelligence starts with understanding what you already have and where you need to grow. Navigate to Security Coverage within Opportunity Explorer to visualize your clients’ current security posture by each of the 18 CIS Controls. This gives you the backing you need to make recommendations that are aligned to industry standards, helping create trust, transparency and — most importantly — comprehensive security coverage.
Remember, it’s not about what products you sell. It’s about providing measurable value and proof that your clients are truly protected. Explore Security Coverage today in the Pax8 Marketplace.
