Fortra Achieves AWS Small and Medium Business (SMB) Competency Status

Posted on August 14, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS August 14, 2024– Fortra, global cloud security leader, announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) SMB Competency status.

AWS Small and Medium Business (SMB) Competency Partners have a proven track record of facilitating exceptional customer success. This designation also denotes that its offerings have been vetted by AWS as meeting the highest standards of quality. SMB Partners provide offerings across the full range of needs of the SMB customer and have demonstrated an ability to deliver these solutions repeatedly and at scale. The AWS Competency Program helps customers identify AWS Partners with deep industry experience and expertise. Achieving the AWS SMB Competency differentiates Fortra as a cybersecurity provider and AWS Partner with the SMB and cloud security skillsets necessary to solve customer challenges around cloud security, removing obstacles to business growth and performance.

“Fortra is proud to add AWS SMB Competency status to our other AWS-validated qualifications,” said Renee Ritter, VP, Channel at Fortra. “We make it our goal to extend our customers’ business and security capabilities across their hybrid architectures and on-premises environments, helping them capitalize on the reliability, agility, and scalability that AWS provides.”

As part of the AWS Partner Network, Fortra provides solutions that SMB customers need to securely build, expand, and migrate applications and data to the cloud. Advanced Fortra solutions like Fortra’s XDR, Fortra’s Digital Guardian for DLP and, Fortra’s Digital Risk Protection help SMBs address their top security and compliance challenges by bridging resource, skills, and knowledge gaps. These solutions provide an additional layer of security to customer workloads on AWS.

Only a handful of AWS Partners have earned the AWS SMB Competency, underscoring Fortra’s differentiated ability to solve customer security challenges across the entire SMB customer segment and emphasizing its status as a leading ISV in cloud security. Fortra’s other AWS Validated qualifications include Level 1 MSSP ISV Competency, Security ISV Competency, and Containers ISV Competency.

“Through our strategic alliance, Fortra has delivered managed security solutions (such as MDR) to a host of our small business clients, particularly those with cloud environments or those undergoing a cloud transformation,” stated Jason McKay, Chief Product Officer at RapidScale. “We look forward to continuing to grow our alliance with Fortra to best serve our customers.”

 

About Fortra - Fortra is a global cybersecurity company and cloud security leader for customers of all segments. Offering a vast portfolio of best-in-breed solutions under one unified head, Fortra is pioneering a powerful and straightforward approach to cybersecurity. Visit our Fortra AWS solutions page to see how our cybersecurity solutions for hybrid architectures can provide added capabilities for SMB customers.  

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