CloudHesive has announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named it to the 2017 Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Managed Security 100 category. This annual list recognizes North American solution providers with innovative approaches to delivering managed services. Their offerings help companies navigate the complex and ever-changing landscape of IT, improve operational efficiencies, and maximize their return on IT investments.

In today’s fast-paced business environments, MSPs play an important role in helping companies leverage new technologies without straining their budgets or losing focus on their core business. CRN’s MSP 500 list shines a light on the most forward-thinking and innovative of these key organizations.

CloudHesive, a SOC2 audited AWS Partner headquartered in the Miami / Fort Lauderdale area, is a new breed of cloud services provider that facilitates cost-effective, highly scalable, and secure cloud solutions. They also have a managed security practice that helps to increase the security posture of their customer’s deployments in the cloud.

The CloudHesive team helps companies deploy mission-critical workloads onto a reliable platform to reduce operating costs, increase productivity and strengthen security — while meeting controls sets for FedRAMP, PCI, SOC2 or HIPAA. By partnering with some of the most notable cloud infrastructure companies, CloudHesive wraps traditional cloud offerings (public, private or hybrid) with cloud-centric security controls, such as data at rest encryption, Docker container encryption, endpoint security, intrusion detection, log management, vulnerability management, and continuous monitoring throughout the environment lifecycle.

“Our team is customer focused so it’s great to be recognized as a managed security service provider that is helping deliver and manage secure cloud solutions,” said Jim Walker, CEO, CloudHesive. “We pride ourselves on our customers’ success, which is why we have worked so hard to over deliver on our commitments.”

CloudHesive also helps build security best practices into the application development process so that security controls are maintained throughout a customers Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Configuration Management lifecycles.

“Managed service providers play an increasingly important role in the day-to-day operations of businesses across North America,” said Robert Faletra, CEO of The Channel Company. “MSPs help organizations streamline their spending, effectively allocate limited resources, and benefit from advanced expertise in the latest technologies. We congratulate the service providers on CRN’s 2017 MSP500 list, who have continually succeeded in meeting their customers’ changing needs and help them get the most out of their IT investments.”

The MSP500 list is featured in the February 2017 issue of CRN and online at www.CRN.com/msp500.