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Microsoft Ignite 2025: the ‘need-to-know’ highlights
Catch our comprehensive summary of the highlights from Microsoft Ignite 2025, combined with the resources and links you need to dig into the detail!
Hornetsecurity
The global expert in email cloud security, compliance and backup for Microsoft 365.
Immutable Cloud Protection Against Data Loss & Ransomware
Whether it be bush fires, flash floods or ransomware threats, Hornetsecurity’s Immutable Cloud Storage solution has your back.
Backup and replication for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware servers, plus physical servers, VM Backup V9 assures that data cannot be erased, modified, or deleted by anyone for a set period of time. Totally tamper-proof cloud storage. What a welcome relief!
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Solution Offerings
VM Backup V9 - Immutable Protection against Data Loss and Ransomware
A powerful, reliable, and easy-to-use backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines (VMs) and physical Windows servers.
365 Total Protection Enterprise - Next-Gen Microsoft 365 Security
The all-in-one protection suite for Microsoft 365 security, backup and compliance.
Security Awareness Service - SAS
Fully automated Awareness Benchmarking, Spear-Phishing-Simulation and E-Training to sensitize and protect employees against cyber threats.
Hornetsecurity and Crayon are better together.
We have a joint commitment to developing long-term relationships with partners and MSPs, who are keen to embrace our simple to use, effective, encompassing software.
Hornetsecurity Partner Program.
Prosper with the advantages of the Hornetsecurity Product Portfolio.
With Hornetsecurity, partners are fully enabled to market next-gen IT security. We will work hand in hand with your team to help you tell the Hornetsecurity cyber story. This story includes automatic backups for Microsoft 365 files, the highest detection rates on the market, and AI-based filter mechanisms to back it up.
Our Security Lab findings are leveraged to provide data and content that partners can use to prove that Hornetsecurity provides optimal protection against spam and malware.
Want to step up your game against advanced threats like ransomware? Working with Hornetsecurity will move that plan from paper into action.
Drive new streams of revenue with our employee behaviour indexing features and tools and take your customers through first-class security awareness training courses. With Hornetsecurity, you can create positive cyber learning for your customers, using phishing simulations and AI monitoring.
Frequently Asked Questions
Partners can choose between traditional perpetual licences alongside monthly SAS plans.
Hornetsecurity is ideal for the small to medium sized(SMB) market. Over 50,000 SMBs globally are protected by Hornetsecurity solutions.
Hornetsecurity R&D is conducted in labs across Europe. The epicentre of its DevOps is in Germany.
With every Microsoft 365 environment.
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