Partner Programme for MSPs
Partner with Layer 7
Your clients need penetration testing, Cyber Essentials certification and managed security. Offer all three under your own brand, delivered by a specialist partner: co-delivered alongside your team, or white-labelled where a client needs it.
You keep the client relationship throughout.
The pledge
You keep the client
Most specialists your clients could go to are the same firms that would happily sell to them direct. We are not. When you partner with us, the relationship, the renewal and the branding stay yours. We deliver the work with you or invisibly behind you, and we never approach or sell to your client without your say-so. We will put that in writing, in our partner agreement.
The basics
Why partner with Layer 7
Your clients are being asked to prove their security. Auditors want a penetration test. Insurers and tenders want Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus. Enterprise customers want ongoing assurance that risks are being managed. So they turn to you.
Building all of that in-house rarely stacks up. Credible testing needs CREST and Cyber Scheme qualified testers, kept current. Certifying to Cyber Essentials properly means being a licensed Certification Body, not sub-brokering it through someone else and hoping. Managing exposure across a client estate means running an exposure-management platform and knowing how to interpret it. Few MSPs can justify all three.
Partnering closes the gap in one move. We are a single specialist partner who can test, certify and manage, all to a standard your clients' auditors will accept, all delivered through you.
What you can offer
Any of our secure, assure and manage services
Our full range is open to you, delivered through your brand and to a standard your clients' auditors will accept. These three are what clients ask for most, but you can offer any service across secure, assure and manage.
Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus
Managed security
The bundle
One partner, not three
Most firms do one of these. A pen testing house cannot certify. A certification platform cannot test. A managed-security provider sells you monitoring and nothing that proves it to an auditor. So an MSP ends up stitching two or three suppliers together, each with its own contract, its own relationship with your client, and its own view on who owns the account.
We do all three, and we do them as one partner. A single agreement. One team that can run a client's penetration test, certify them to Cyber Essentials Plus off the back of it, and keep the risks closed with managed exposure management afterwards. Test, certify, manage. Under your brand, with your client staying yours.
The partner model
How we work with you
We prefer to work as a true partner, alongside your team, with both names visible. Where a client needs us out of sight, we white-label instead. Pick the model per engagement, or mix both across your client base.
Preferred
Co-delivered
Where a client needs it
White-label
Either way: you own the commercial relationship and the renewal, you decide the branding, and we integrate with your existing delivery processes so nothing slows down.
Build or partner
Why partner rather than build
Build in-house
Partner with
CREST / Cyber Scheme testers Build in-house Recruit, vet, retain and keep qualified Partner with Layer 7 Included, day one
Cyber Essentials certification Build in-house Become and maintain a licensed CB Partner with Layer 7 We are a CB since 2014
Managed exposure platform Build in-house Licence, configure and run an exposure-management platform Partner with Layer 7 Run for you, interpreted by specialists
Utilisation risk Build in-house You carry the bench between jobs Partner with Layer 7 We carry it
Time to offer Build in-house Months, across three capabilities Partner with Layer 7 Live as soon as the partnership is signed
Your client relationship Build in-house Yours Partner with Layer 7 Stays yours
The demand is real and growing, but few MSPs generate enough volume to justify building testing, certification and a managed platform in-house. Partnering turns all three into service lines you can switch on now, without the fixed cost or the recruitment risk.
The process
From handshake to delivery
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Partner onboarding
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You bring the requirement
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We deliver, with you or behind you
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You keep the client
Pricing & engagement
Partner pricing, built around your business
Clear, transparent pricing, tailored to how you work. No portal to reverse-engineer, no wholesale list you have to decode. Once we understand your clients and the mix of testing, certification and managed services you need, we agree partner pricing built around your business, with fixed prices per engagement and no hidden extras.
You talk to a specialist, not a sales desk.
FAQ
Partner Programme questions
Will you sell to my client directly?
No. You keep the client relationship, the renewal and the branding. We deliver the work with you or behind you, and we never approach or sell to your client without your agreement. It is written into our partner agreement.
Can I start with one service and add others later?
Yes. Most partners start with the service their clients are asking for most, often penetration testing or Cyber Essentials, and add the others as demand grows. It is one agreement and one partner either way.
Can the work carry my branding?
Yes. By preference we co-deliver, with both names visible; or we white-label it as yours alone where a client needs us out of sight. Your call, per engagement.
Are you actually a Cyber Essentials Certification Body?
Yes. We have been an IASME-licensed Cyber Essentials Certification Body since the scheme launched in 2014, for both Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus. Your client is certified by a licensed body, not sub-brokered through a third party.
What qualifications do your testers hold?
Our testers hold individual CREST and Cyber Scheme qualifications, both recognised by the NCSC. All testing is delivered in-house, never offshored or subcontracted.
How does the managed security side work if I already run managed IT?
It sits alongside what you do. We add the specialist exposure-management layer, continuous vulnerability management, patching, attack surface management and Microsoft 365 monitoring, that most MSPs do not run in-house. We complement your stack; we do not replace it or take it over.
How does partner pricing work?
Clear, transparent pricing, tailored to you. Once scope is agreed we quote a fixed price per engagement with no hidden extras, so you can quote your client with confidence. No published wholesale list, because we build pricing around your business.
Where are you based, and who will I deal with?
We are based in the North East and work with partners across the UK. You deal with our own specialists directly, not a broker desk or a portal.
One partner to test, certify and manage
Tell us about your clients and what they are being asked for. We will set up a partnership and give you CREST-qualified testing, Cyber Essentials certification from a licensed body, and managed security, co-delivered with your team or white-labelled where needed. You keep the client.