Solutions Partner for Security
To earn the designation Solutions Partner for Security, your partner capability score for security must meet the qualification requirements. The partner capability score is measured by partner performance, skilling, and customer success, and is informed by data that is already recorded in Partner Center.
To attain a Solutions Partner for Security designation, you must earn a minimum of 70 points and must have one or more points for each of the four metrics:
- Have one or more points for each of the following five metrics.
- Performance - Net customer adds
- Skilling – Intermediate certifications
- Customer success – Usage growth
- Customer success – Deployments
Security partners can target providing services and solutions on Microsoft 365 workloads or on Azure services. Therefore, valuation requirements are focused on both Microsoft 365 usage and performance, and on Azure revenue.
Skilling category
The skilling category measures the capability and skills acquired by a partner through the number of certified individuals in their organization.
For Security, there's one metric in the Skilling category:
- Intermediate certifications
Intermediate certifications
Eligible intermediate certifications
Step 1:
To earn points for this metric, you must have certified individuals in your organization:
Step 2:
There should be at least one individual certified as a Microsoft Security Operations Analyst This may be the same individual as in Step 1, or a different individual
Step 3:
Each individual (same as above or different) should be certified in any one of the certifications listed below:
Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect expert
Or
Or
Then
Course SC-100T00--A: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect
Microsoft Security Operations Analyst
Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator
Microsoft Information Protection and Compliance Administrator Associate
Scoring
- Each certified individual gets 6.6 points, for up to a maximum of 40 points, obtained from six qualifying individuals.
Important consideration(s):
- Steps #1 and #2 are prerequisites to Step #3 and don't add any points directly. However, Steps #1 and #2 must be completed before any points are awarded in this metric. Points are awarded for certifications earned in Step #3 once the first two steps are complete.
- Individuals can be counted more than once across the different steps, but only once per step. Each certified individual is counted only once toward your points if they have completed multiple certifications in Step #3. However, the individuals counting toward Steps #1 or #2 can be the same or different as the individuals counting toward Step #3.
- Some of these certifications may have prerequisites listed on the certification website (Select on individual certification link). Those prerequisites need to be completed for an individual to complete certification
Examples:
- Individual A complete Step 1, individual B complete at least one of the 2 certifications in Step 2, individual C complete at least one of the certifications in Step 3. In this case, the prerequisites are satisfied, and the individual (C) qualifies for points and hence you would be awarded 6.67 points.
- Individuals A and B complete Step 1, individuals C and D complete Step 2 and individuals E, F and G complete at least one of the certifications each in Step 3. In this case, the prerequisites are satisfied, and 3 individuals qualify for points (E, F, G), hence you would be awarded 3*6.67 = 20 points.
- Individuals A and B complete all three Steps. In this case the prerequisites are satisfied, and 2 individuals (A, B) qualify for points, hence you would be awarded 2*6.67 = 13.3 points.
- Individuals A and B complete Step 1 and 3, In this case, the prerequisites aren't satisfied, and no points would be awarded since at least 2 individuals must complete Step 2 before any points can be awarded. Once 2 individuals (A, B or others) complete Step 2, 2 individuals would qualify (A, B) and your organization would be awarded 2*6.67 = 13.3 points.