Fortanix Customer Success

Always-on support across the customer lifecycle

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Fortanix Customer Success

When it comes to cybersecurity there are millions of jobs unfulfilled and this problem gets acute with encryption and key management as more specialized skills are required. Due to the serious shortage of skills and trained personnel, it is becoming increasingly hard for enterprises to derive the best value out of their newly acquired data security solutions and are struggling to deploy the right security processes. At the same time, there has been a continuous uptick in data breaches and time to resolve security incidents has been increasing. The data security challenge for enterprises has now compounded.

We understand these challenges faced by your enterprise. And that is why we have devised Fortanix Services to help our customers solve these challenges and create cyber resilience across their organization. Right from planning, deployment, and implementation (PDI) to offering ongoing optimization and support, we cover entire customer lifecycle. Your business is of great value to us and we are committed to providing you with the entire range of services to succeed in this project.

Fortanix Services Methodology:Services offered across customer lifecycle

Step 1: Planning, Deployment, and Implementation

PLANNING, DESIGN & DEPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE

  • DSM Deployment Service
  • Additional Cluster Deployment Services

IMPLEMENTATION ASSISTANCE
(specific use case implementation)

TRAINING ASSISTANCE

  • DSM Basic Training
  • Advanced Training

Step 2: Operate

SUPPORT PROGRAM

  • Standard Support
  • Premium 24x7 support―1 year
  • Premium 24x7 support―3 year

Step 3: Optimize

TECHNICAL ACCOUNT MANAGER ASSISTANCE (TAM SERVICE)

  • Technical Account Manager ― Enterprise
  • Technical Account Manager ― Professional
  • Technical Account Manager ― Essentials

Key Benefits

  • Training that helps your personnel become cybersecurity experts.
  • Delivered by our experts reducing risk and faster time-to-value.
  • Best practice deployment and recommendations to mitigate risks, increase performance and maximize business value.
  • Includes knowledge transfer and As-Built documentation.
  • Designed to provide proactive support. Assigned a designated pool of Customer Success Engineers.
  • Optimize performance of your solution to its highest capability.
  • Get strategic view on new features, roadmap helping you adopt new technology faster.

What we offer: Scope of services

1. QUICKSTART PACKAGE

The package is designed to help customers get started with Fortanix Data Security Manager and get to understand the best practices, test, and validate the deployment.

  • As part of this package, a Fortanix Professional Services engineer will work with your team to plan, design, and implement Data Security Manager use cases, including:
  • Fortanix DSM Hardware or Virtual Appliance deployment up to 5 nodes
  • Cluster configuration
  • Fortanix DSM user onboarding
  • Foundational understanding of Fortanix DSM functions and navigation
  • Guidance on creating Fortanix DSM accounts, groups, policies, and role separation
  • External log integration (Supported external log integration services)
  • SSO authentication
  • Email Configuration

2. IMPLEMENTATION SERVICE

Implementation service is a customized service designed to help our customers get started with Fortanix solution and get the required assistance for the following.

  • Requirements gathering/solution workshop, and assistance with implementation planning.
  • Recommendation for design architecture best practices.
  • Cluster Deployment & Configuration (up to 5 nodes for On-prem).
  • Test and Validation of the Deployment.
  • Provide As-built documentation with architectural diagrams, configuration, and test results.
  • Support customers on a specific use case and/or includes custom development.
  • Typical use cases include Transparent Database Encryption, Secrets Management, Tokenization, Code Signing etc.
  • Post deployment support for 2 weeks.
  • Priced as per the deployment configuration, cluster nodes and additional use cases.
  • Implementation and Integration Services are offered at a daily rate.

Note: All the above services are delivered remotely.

3. TRAINING PACKAGE

We equip your personnel with the skills and expertise required to manage the Fortanix platforms on a day-to-day basis and above all, train them to become cybersecurity experts. Package includes 1- day Basic and 2-day advanced training.

BASIC TRAINING

  • Introduction to Data Security Manager
  • Understand the different security objects, policy coverage and configurable options such as Single Sign-On and Syslog integration
  • Price as a fixed price

ADVANCED TRAINING

  • Concepts Integrator
  • Learn how Data Security Manager integrates with the entire encryption stack.
  • Hands-on labs on integrating with Cloud KMS and Cloud native technologies
  • Learn how to integrate with database and other native technologies.
  • Advanced Administration and a lot more!

4. FORTANIX SUPPORT PROGRAM

Fortanix Support Program provides our customers with 24/7 access to our support engineers, latest software updates, fixes, and new feature releases. This allows an organization’s data security framework to stay current and always be on guard against data breaches and malicious attacks.

STANDARD SUPPORT

  • All customers receive standard support as part of their subscription.
  • Business hours access to Fortanix Support (online case submission only)
  • Online support for defects and non-critical issues via our knowledge portal
  • Access to all software updates and patches via support portal
  • Included with software licenses.

PREMIUM SUPPORT

  • Support services are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
  • Configuration assistance
  • Advanced hardware replacement
  • Priced based on sized of deployment, per node per year.

5. TECHNICAL ACCOUNT MANAGER SERVICE (TAM)

The Technical Account Management service offering is designed to provide proactive support, so your organization is prepared to take full advantage of your investment in Fortanix and help you attain your long-term business and technology objectives. As part of this offering, you will be assigned a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM) who will be a Fortanix subject matter expert, advocate, and advisor.

The Technical Account Management services, activities, and deliverables include:

  • SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT FOR ALL PROJECTS, ISSUES, AND ESCALATIONS. Provides direct connections to expertise from product management, engineering, and services to help you succeed.
  • HOLDS REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROJECT PROGRESS AND RESULTS REVIEWS, providing operational status and key metrics to ensure activities are aligned with your stated business and technology objectives. Conducts Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs)
  • PROVIDES BEST PRACTICES to identify optimization opportunities and periodic comparison of your processes to known industry best practices from our product teams and years of experience.
  • SOLUTION WORKSHOPS that provide next steps and outcome-based plans for building new use cases and taking them live
  • QUARTERLY PRODUCT FEATURE PREVIEWS AND TRAINING. TAM helps keep your team updated about what is coming up and trains your team to use new features and functionalities.
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