MSP Partnerships
TKOResearch works with MSPs, MSSPs, and co-managed IT providers that need principal-level security review, AI-security expertise, incident defensibility support, or a credible second set of eyes for customer-facing security decisions.
Why MSPs call
Customers expect identity security, endpoint coverage, cloud visibility, incident communication, cyber-insurance support, executive explanations, AI guidance, and defensible answers after something goes wrong.
That is a lot to put on an account team, help desk, vCIO, or lean security practice.
TKOResearch helps MSPs bring senior, independent security judgment into the moments where credibility matters: before a customer launches an AI system, after a serious incident, during a security assessment, or when leadership needs a clear technical answer instead of another tool recommendation.
What TKOResearch is
TKOResearch is an independent cybersecurity research and advisory firm focused on AI security, autonomous-agent risk, technical review, and high-stakes security decisions.
For MSP partners, TKOResearch provides scoped expert review, written findings, customer-ready technical language, and senior advisory support when the issue requires deeper judgment than a standard assessment or tool report.
What TKOResearch is not
The role is focused: help your team answer hard security questions clearly, technically, and defensibly.
Partnership use cases
A practical review of whether the customer's security coverage, artifact capture, identity posture, and incident readiness can withstand scrutiny after an incident.
Best for customers asking
A review of the MSP's own security delivery model: alert handling, artifact capture, escalation, customer communication, Microsoft 365 identity coverage, and post-incident reporting.
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A focused review for customers deploying AI agents, LLM workflows, RAG systems, MCP-connected tools, AI coding assistants, or agentic automation.
Best for customers asking
A senior review of Microsoft 365 identity posture, privileged access, MFA, conditional access, app consent, mailbox forwarding, audit logging, and account-compromise exposure.
Best for customers asking
Support for MSPs that need help turning technical findings into a clear customer-facing explanation after an incident.
Best for customers asking
Partnership structure
The MSP introduces TKOResearch to the customer for a defined engagement. Best when the customer wants independent review or when the issue is sensitive enough that direct expert engagement is cleaner.
TKOResearch supports the MSP under a clearly defined scope, with the MSP remaining the primary customer relationship owner. Best for assessments, executive readouts, AI-security reviews, and customer security planning.
TKOResearch supports the MSP behind the scenes with technical review, language, findings, or senior judgment. Best for complex account situations, incident follow-up, proposal review, or customer-facing security questions where the MSP needs a second set of eyes.
What MSP partners get
Example partner deliverables
Common partner scenarios
Partner standards
The goal is not to scare customers.
The goal is to help MSPs and their customers make better security decisions with a defensible technical basis.
Why MSPs call TKOResearch
Not every MSP can keep a former national-security technical leader, threat-research director, incident-response leader, AI-security specialist, and expert-review resource on staff.
TKOResearch gives MSPs access to that level of judgment for specific customer situations, without requiring a full-time hire or a broad consulting retainer.
Most partnerships start with a short call. We identify the customer problem, define the deliverable, agree on whether the engagement is referral, co-branded, or advisory support, and keep the scope tight.
The output is tied to the decision that needs to be made.
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