Malwarebytes has bolstered its channel portfolio offerings during the last several months and has grown its partners network, extending the reach of its
ThreatDown solutions for MSPs.
In March, the cybersecurity company offered MSPs and MSSPs a
15-day trial of its ThreatDown OneView, which comprised a multi-tenant management console that allows administrators to manage users, customize permissions, and monitor activity across multiple accounts. The platform also provides real-time visibility into security events for faster detection and response.
During the same time, the Santa Clara, California-based company also rolled out its Partner Sales and Technical Certification Program that offered training programs tailored to each partner’s business model, enabling them to drive sales, support ThreatDown offerings, and simultaneously scale their businesses.
Since last year, Malwarebytes has added a number of channel partners to its lineup, including British technology solutions provider
CMS Distribution in February and, a month later, Eastern European provider
Bakotech.
Fraud Losses are Growing
At the recent RSA Conference 2025 in San Francisco, Malwarebytes took another step, launching a
new partner program that gives ISPs, financial services, and HR benefit providers easier access to tools to protect clients in such areas as financial services, HR benefits, and internet services their customers against a rising tide of online fraud.
According to the vendor, the program is designed to provide its AI-powered personal security solutions to protect devices from a range of threats, including viruses, ransomware, spyware, infostealers, and scams.
Oren Arar, vice president of business development for Malwarebytes, emphasized that the new program “is a direct response to the alarming surge in cybercrime impacting consumers around the globe. By partnering with us, organizations can enhance their own security posture while delivering essential protection their customers and employees need to stay safe in today's digital landscape.”
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission in March reported that in 2024, the number of fraud reports it received was roughly the same as the year before, but one in three who reported incidents said they lost money to fraud (up from one in four in 2023) and, in total,
$12.5 billion was stolen, $2.5 billion more than in 2023. $3 billion was lost in scams that started online.
Touching All the Bases
According to the cybersecurity vendor, the new Malwarebytes program is designed to provide its AI-powered security solution that can protect devices from a range of threats, including viruses, ransomware, spyware, infostealers, and scams. It also gives MSPs, MSSPs, and other partners multiple options for privacy protection, identity shielding, and cybersecurity.
The offerings cover everything from mobile phones to desktop computers, including network traffic and personal data. Partners also have the option of creating a custom and co-branded solution integrate into their own ecosystem.
Platforming Security
Offerings partners such a comprehensive program makes sense in a rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape that is heavily influenced by AI, according to
Zeus Kerraval, principal analyst with
ZK Research.
In particular, security tools are increasingly being offered as part of a larger, highly integrated platform rather than a collection of point products that users have to integrate and manage.
“Best-of-breed solutions everywhere doesn’t lead to best-in-class security,” Kerraval told MSSP Alert.
For example, organizations have found that tools like endpoint detection and response (EDR) or network detection and response (NDR) only give part of the picture of a security incident. Extended detection and response (XDR) solutions can not only tell what happened, by why and what can be done, the analyst said.
In addition, with more organizations – as well as cybercrime groups – shifting to AI, the demand for a platform offering grows. AI means data, and protecting data is best done with a platform of effective and integrated tools, Kerravala said.
