Jon Marinaro, Technical Sales Director at Celerium, presents Network Defender during a live demo on ChannelPro Round-up. He emphasizes simplicity, fast deployment, and value:
Problem statement: Many security tools are designed for large enterprises and then pared down for MSPs, resulting in unnecessary complexity, misfit tools, and wasted resources.
What Network Defender offers:
• Agent-less, hardware-free, software-free setup—runs via the firewall you already have.
• Integrates directly with firewalls (rather than sitting separately) to streamline protection.
• Uses over 300 million intrusion prevention signatures from global threat feeds, scoring and curating blocklists that are meaningful for each client.
• Designed for “set-and-forget” usage—takes ~15 minutes to deploy, with minimal ongoing maintenance.
Benefits for MSPs:
• Immediate ROI in hours, not months.
• Real-world example: one MSP in Kentucky caught redirect malware targeting a utility company, preventing fraud and downtime.
• Another partner reduced load on Cisco firewalls by offloading malicious traffic, avoiding costly hardware upgrades.
• Reporting tools (“monthly catch-22 reports”) that show exactly how many threats were blocked—useful for proving value to clients.
Pricing & trial:
• MSP tier is $60 per firewall per month.
• Free 30-day trial offered so MSPs can test before committing.
• Works fully cloud-based but integrates directly with firewalls (including SonicWall, with which Celerium has a long-standing partnership).