SentinelOne expands PartnerOne for AI security services

SentinelOne has expanded its PartnerOne programme for resellers and managed service providers, adding new certifications and deployment resources for AI security services.

The expansion targets value-added resellers and service providers, including MSSPs, MSPs and MDR providers, that want to build offerings around SentinelOne's Singularity platform.

Under the updated programme, partners can gain certifications covering implementation, customisation, administration, and ongoing professional and managed services tied to SentinelOne's AI security and Autonomous SOC products.

An Australian example already exists through AUCyber, which provides SentinelOne-based managed security and Prompt Security services locally. The broader programme is intended to give partners the tools to scope, implement and manage similar offerings.

LevelBlue, GuidePoint and World Wide Technology have been named launch partners. Wider availability across SentinelOne's partner network is expected in the coming months.

New tracks

The programme includes a Prompt Security Implementation Engineer Certification focused on deployments for employees and AI code assistants. Training includes an online learning path and an exam for engineers delivering the service.

Partners are also being offered early access to Singularity Agentic Detection and Response, or ADR, which is designed to govern and monitor AI agents and respond to unintended or malicious activity.

Further additions include Endpoint and Identity Implementation Engineer Certification, an AI Recon Assessment Service for customer conversations about AI security posture, and a set of Autonomous SOC-related assessment and implementation tracks.

Those ASOC elements include a data strategy assessment service and implementation learning paths for AI data pipelines, Purple AI and hyperautomation, and AI SIEM. Certified delivery partners will also receive access to delivery packages including scoping guides, statement-of-work templates, deployment runbooks, project plans and best-practice materials.

Barry Padgett, President and Chief Operating Officer of SentinelOne, said channel partners would play a central role in the company's AI security push.

"AI Security represents the biggest cybersecurity opportunity for the channel in decades, and we view our VAR and managed service providers as the force multipliers for SentinelOne's AI Security business," Padgett said. "We want our partners to own the service layer as a decisive advantage for us and our customers alike. The introduction of our partner-led AI Security Services will give partners the skills, expertise and offerings needed to meet rapidly growing customer demand today, and the foundation on which to build high-growth, durable AI Security practices into their broader portfolio."

Partner role

The announcement comes as suppliers and service providers try to define how AI security work will be divided between software vendors and channel partners. In this case, SentinelOne is giving partners a formal route to package advisory, deployment and managed services around products that address both AI use inside organisations and AI in security operations.

GuidePoint said customer concerns centre on visibility and control over data access as AI tools spread across businesses.

"Customers are asking how to adopt AI without losing track of who and what can reach their data. Our work in AI governance and agentic AI security shows us exactly where that gap opens up. As a launch partner for SentinelOne's AI Security Services, we can pair that advisory depth with certified expertise on the platform and take customers from assessment through implementation," said Mark Thornberry, Chief Business Officer of GuidePoint.

World Wide Technology framed the issue as part of a broader contest between enterprise adoption and attacker activity.

"Every enterprise is racing to put AI to work, and attackers are racing right alongside them. As a launch partner for SentinelOne's AI Security Services, WWT is helping customers turn AI security from a growing concern into an operational capability, bringing together the expertise, technology and services needed to innovate securely and at scale," Cochrane said.

LevelBlue, which is participating as an MSSP launch partner, pointed to the operational side of the market, where customers may need external help not only to deploy controls but also to run security operations on an ongoing basis.

"Customers adopting AI need more than a deployment plan; they need a partner to run security operations alongside them every day. Building on our expanding partnership with SentinelOne, LevelBlue brings the global scale as its MSSP launch partner for AI Security Services to take customers from implementation to ongoing managed operations, helping them secure their use of AI and build toward a managed Autonomous SOC," Annamalai said.