Managed service providers
You run dozens of client environments and get the call when something breaks, wherever the cause happens to sit.
A whitepaper for managed service providers
Watching the whole house
Why watching the front door is no longer enough, and how to bring your clients' security, performance, SEO and uptime into a single view. Fifteen pages, free, no form.
Edition · 2026.1
When anyone can hack, you can no longer afford to work reactively.
A serious attack no longer requires specialist knowledge. Ask an AI model the right question and you get a step-by-step plan and working code. This whitepaper shows what that means for your client portfolio, why four separate tools still leave you blind, and how to move from reactive to proactive within ninety days.
Straight download. No email address, no form, no follow-up mail.
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- Length
- 15 pages
- Format
- PDF, A4
- Languages
- NL, EN, DE
- Price
- Free
What is inside
Eight chapters, a maturity model, a ninety-day plan and a sixteen-question checklist you can hold up against a single client.
- 01
The barrier is gone
Why knowledge is no longer the scarce ingredient in an attack, and what that does to the number of attempts on your clients.
03 - 02
They look at you, not the attacker
What a client reports, what is actually going on and what it costs. Including why a four-hour SLA is worth nothing when the client calls first.
04 - 03
Four tools, no coherence
How an expiring certificate slips past a green uptime dashboard, and three symptoms of a fragmented picture.
05 - 04
The whole house: four layers
Uptime and stack, from click to integration, the door and the lock, and before the client. What belongs in each layer.
06 - 05
From measuring to intervening
A five-level maturity model, and the three agreements that make the jump from collected to connected.
10 - 06
Proving it to clients and auditors
What NIS2, ISO 27001 and your own quarterly review ask of you, and why you start with the report rather than the certification.
11 - 07
Proactive in ninety days
Three blocks of thirty days, with the pitfall that wrecks most rollouts: switching on alerting before the thresholds are right.
12 - 08
A checklist for your own estate
Sixteen questions to hold up against one client, with a score that tells you where to start first.
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Who this is written for
For anyone responsible for websites, systems and integrations that belong to someone else.
Web agencies and hosting companies
You deliver sites and webshops, and notice that maintenance is increasingly about demonstrable control and less about running updates.
IT leads
You have to show internally that availability, security and findability are under control, with figures rather than a feeling.
An angry phone call is not an alert. It is an invoice you can no longer prevent.
Rather see how it works straight away?
Ask for a demo in which we measure your own domains instead of our demo environment. Or read what Guard does first.