Channel Programs

Palo Alto’s Michael Khoury on what’s actually changing for partners in the NextWave revamp

Palo Alto Networks’ Michael Khoury joins In The Channel to walk through the ground-up redesign of the NextWave partner program – from the elimination of discount caps to the new platform adoption incentives and the CyberArk identity opportunity.

In The Channel

Tanium Canada’s new country leader on why autonomous IT isn’t just an enterprise play anymore

Tanium’s newly appointed Canada country manager explains how a unified national sales structure, a major Government of Canada win, and a shift toward autonomous IT are creating new opportunities for Canadian solution providers beyond the traditional enterprise space.

In The Channel

Your tools are the threat: ESET’s Tony Anscombe on MSP supply chain risk

A 277% spike in RMM abuse. MFA bypasses through inherited VPN configurations. Attackers targeting backup infrastructure before they even start encrypting. In this second conversation with ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe, we dig into how the tools MSPs rely on every day have become the primary attack surface – and what the practical path forward looks like.

In The Channel

Communications 101: Gareth Pettigrew on why PR has never mattered more for MSPs

As the industry shifts from search to chat, earned media has become one of the primary ways LLMs surface information about companies – which means partners who aren’t thinking about communications are increasingly invisible. Gareth Pettigrew, who spent years in communications at Cisco and Okta, including leading Cisco’s partner communications efforts, breaks down why PR matters more now than it ever has, why it doesn’t have to be the heavy lift you think it is, and offers a practical week-by-week roadmap for MSPs ready to start – no budget or comms team required.

Identity

Okta’s Canadian bet: Data cell, 600 employees, and a plan to triple the business

Okta is running over 80 percent of Canadian revenue through partners and betting big on regulated verticals with a new Montreal-based data cell. Country manager Ryan Sydor talks about what that investment looks like and where it’s headed.

Channel Programs
Identity

Beyond the password vault: 1Password’s channel chief makes the case for identity security as an MSP practice

1Password’s Larissa Crandall joins the podcast to discuss why identity security has become the front door of the security conversation and what that shift means for MSPs. From the company’s evolution beyond password management to the staggering 82-to-1 ratio of non-human to human identities, Crandall makes the case that the identity opportunity is bigger – and more urgent – than most partners realize.

In The Channel

WatchGuard CEO Joe Smolarski on doubling MSP margins, the Kaseya playbook, and why Canada’s cybersecurity moment is now

WatchGuard’s new CEO sits down for a wide-ranging conversation about why 2026 may be the year MSPs stop being commodity IT providers – and what the company’s 30-year track record, Kaseya-honed economics playbook, and new Bell Cyber partnership mean for Canadian partners.

In The Channel

ESET’s cybersecurity scholarship is building a talent pipeline

ESET Canada country manager Bob Bonneau joins In The Channel to talk about the company’s Women in Cybersecurity Scholarship — now in its eleventh year and fifth year in Canada — and why the talent it produces isn’t ending up where you might expect.

In The Channel

From NetSuite President’s Club to grain-to-bottle whisky in the Eastern Townships

In the first episode of our “Life after the channel” series, former Gurus Solutions founder Martin McNicoll talks about trading SaaS targets for organic farming, why owning the whole supply chain matters more to him now than it did then, and what it’s like to plant oak trees for barrels you’ll never use.