Thrive
Setting New Benchmarks in Proactive Threat Management

Modernizing IT infrastructure is a complex but necessary endeavour for businesses aiming to remain competitive and innovative. However, this process is fraught with significant challenges, such as budget constraints, downtime, skilled workforce, and the intricate selection process for choosing the right vendors.

That’s where Thrive can help.

Thrive delivers global technology outsourcing for cybersecurity, cloud, networking, and other complex IT requirements. Its NextGen platform enables customers to increase business efficiencies through standardization, scalability, and automation, delivering technology returns on investment (ROI).

“We ensure Fortinet customers and partners have the security operations to support market needs and demands,” says Rob Stephenson, CEO of Thrive.

By combining the latest edge technology with adaptive security from Fortinet, Thrive has developed multiple offerings to cover the broad needs of its diverse client base. Its unique approach, called ‘Equipment-Based Managed Services’ (EBMS), includes essential components like Fortinet Firewalls within security and WAN Managed Services. This strategy is similar to including a cable box with a cable subscription, offering clients a bundled, long-term solution that ensures top-tier security and operational efficiency.

Thrive's clientele spans various industries, focusing on heavily regulated sectors like finance, healthcare, legal, and manufacturing. Compliance mandates for firms operating in such stringent regulatory environments demand robust security measures. Fortinet's solutions enable Thrive to cater to these specific requirements by providing the necessary capabilities for continuous monitoring, incident response, and evidence collection—essential for regulatory audits.

The company collaborates closely with clients' IT teams to schedule maintenance windows during nights, weekends, and holidays. This approach minimizes the impact on daily operations, allowing businesses to upgrade their systems without significant interruptions. Additionally, its professional product and engineering teams conduct thorough due diligence to select industry-leading vendors and state-of-the-art products, presenting clients with well-researched options that deliver meaningful innovation and benefits. Thrive offers multiple products in each category at different price points, ensuring solutions that fit every budget.

Implementing Fortinet's technologies has yielded tangible results for Thrive and its customers. The company utilizes Fortinet’s Unified Threat Response solution (FortiAnalyzer, FortiSIEM, and FortiSOAR) to strengthen its managed detection and response (MDR) platform. These solutions allow Thrive to centralize event logs and telemetry data from its clients’ IT infrastructure—including networks, servers, and cloud services—enabling its security operations team to spot anomalies more quickly and with minimal effort thanks to AI and automation. Additional offerings, powered by FortiManager for NextGen firewall management and FortiEDR for real-time endpoint detection and response (EDR), are further enhanced through strong integrations within the Fortinet Security Fabric. By swiftly detecting and neutralizing threats such as compromised user accounts and ransomware attacks, the company ensures minimal disruption to business operations.

For example, Transmarine, a shipping agency, avoided building internal teams and infrastructure for security and networking by partnering with Thrive. This collaboration allowed Transmarine to implement a plug-and-play solution for its security and networking needs.

“We decided to work with Thrive for our security and networking needs because we were impressed with its effectiveness and knowledge in these fields, which gave us confidence in its ability to deliver,” says Travis Sirmon, Director of Technology at Transmarine Navigation.

We ensure Fortinet customers and partners have the security operations to support market needs and demands

Thrive’s familiarity with Transmarine’s environment enabled it to seamlessly implement the necessary measures to ensure compliance on both the network and security fronts, significantly alleviating the strain on Transmarine’s resources and allowing them to focus on serving their clients effectively.

Thrive’s experienced team equips the company to handle diverse systems and a variety of cyber threats effectively. It continuously develops and updates service offerings to stay ahead of emerging threats. Recent additions include incident response and remediation as well as dark web monitoring, enhancing Thrive’s comprehensive security suite.

The Thrive team is comprised of industry and technical subject matter experts dedicated to ensuring that customers optimize their business performance through the strategic implementation of their IT infrastructure. Every customer is aligned with a team that knows their company, industry and technology goals inside and out. Thrive’s POD approach drives better strategies, service, and business outcomes via local subject matter experts augmented by 24x7x365 resources around the globe.

Thrive's commitment to personalized support and proactive problem-solving empowers clients to focus on their core business objectives while enjoying peace of mind, knowing their IT infrastructure is in capable hands. As a result, Thrive fosters long-term client relationships and sets a benchmark for excellence in IT infrastructure modernization and security.