Guardz, which focuses on SMB-focused MSPs, lets their partners provide AI-native unified detection and response platform for SMBs.
Dor Eisner, CEO and co-founder of Guardz
SMB-focused cybersecurity company Guardz, which lets MSPs and IT professionals provide an AI-native unified detection and response platform for SMBs, has announced that their solution is now available in the Pax8 Marketplace. It provides 24/7 managed detection and response (MDR) services, backed by real-time threat intelligence and automated response.
The alliance between Guardz and Pax8 is focused on an increasingly problematic situation for MSPs. 77% of MSPs struggle with juggling multiple cybersecurity solutions, each with its own alerts, data streams, and integration challenges. The result is a fragmented approach which burdens them with manual processes, slows response times, increases operational overhead, and limits scalability. The enterprise platforms are too complex and resource-heavy, while point solutions multiply overhead, create silos, and rarely integrate well, resulting in gaps in protection.
The future of cybersecurity depends on unifying these tools into a cohesive, intelligent ecosystem. Guardz and Pax8 are addressing this challenge by empowering MSPs to streamline their security stack and better protect their clients against an increasingly complex threat landscape. Leveraging Pax8’s trusted Marketplace and the Guardz 24/7/365 MDR solution gives MSPs the tools to offer scalable, automated, and effective protection.
“We’re proud to partner with Pax8 to deliver Guardz’s powerful solution to more MSPs and their clients — especially as cyber threats continue to escalate and resources remain stretched thin,” said Dor Eisner, CEO and co-founder of Guardz.
Guardz is the third company that Eisner has founded in the last decade, but Guardz differs from its predecessors, which were enterprise focused, because it is for smaller companies, who tend not to be well protected,” he said. “We are well positioned to help MSPs secure and insure clients.”
“Our vision was to empower MSPs, and to provide them both with cybersecurity and with insurance based on carriers they partner with,” Eisner added. “They want to get into the security market and generate the revenue stream from it Our vision was to empower MSPs, and to provide them both with cybersecurity and with insurance based on carriers they partner with. It’s the combination of cybersecurity and insurance that makes us distinct.
“We focus on small business and aren’t interested in upmarket,” Eisner stated. “We define our market as the 100 employees and below space, the S in SMB, which is 98% of the market.”
Access to the Pax8 Marketplace simplifies procurement, billing, and provisioning, providing Guardz partners with enhanced scalability and growth opportunities. For Pax8 MSPs, the collaboration provides robust, multi-layered cybersecurity protection across identities, endpoints, email, cloud, and data, specifically designed for SMBs. It also strengthens MSP-client relationships through automated risk reports, continuous monitoring, compliance, and cyber insurance enablement—all within a unified AI-native platform.
“This partnership expands access to our AI-driven unified detection and response platform for more MSPs, providing them with the automation they need to protect their clients while growing their cybersecurity practices.,” Eisner said.”
Pax8 is a distributor with a reach of almost 40,000 MSPs worldwide that defines itself as the technology marketplace of the future, linking partners, vendors, and SMBs through AI-powered insights and comprehensive product support.
“We are thrilled to welcome Guardz to the Pax8 Marketplace,” said Oguo Atuanya, Corporate Vice President of Vendor Experience at Pax8. “Having a unified MDR solution further empowers our partners to provide best-in-class security to their SMB customers.”
THE Pax8 marketplace has no extra contracts, no additional billing systems to manage, and no complicated provisioning. It means that MSPs don’t need to build or manage their own SOC to deliver reliable protection. It also provides cybersecurity services with less operational overhead.
