UK-based Inforcer raises €17.5M to help manage Microsoft 365 security policies easily

London-based Inforcer, a provider of Microsoft multi-tenant management solutions, has raised $19M (approximately €17.53M) in a Series A round of funding.

The round was led by Meritech Capital, a firm focused on vendors serving the managed service provider (MSP) community, following previous investments in Huntress and Rewst.

Tanner Bhonslay of Meritech Capital will join Inforcer’s board, along with Christian Nagele, a former co-founder of Centrastage (now Datto RMM).

Bhonslay says, “Jamie (co-founder) and the inforcer team truly embody the Channel-First’ mentality and have dedicated their careers towards improving the operations of MSPs.”

“By streamlining the configuration of Microsoft security policies in a multi-tenant fashion, inforcer empowers MSPs to strengthen their security posture, increase internal efficiency, and upsell novel security offerings, ensuring MSPs remain competitive amidst a rapidly changing landscape.”

Capital utilisation

Inforcer co-founder, Jamie Daum, says, “With inforcer, we’re helping MSPs to differentiate and build new Microsoft security service offerings that were previously not scalable. To help with the high cost of Microsoft experts, we are building a community and a learning path for MSPs to upskill their teams and strengthen their client security.”

“Ultimately, inforcer enables MSPs to sell high-margin wrap-around recurring services underpinned by a globally recognised brand that end users already trust and rely on, Microsoft.”

“This industry has always thrived under healthy, almost communal competition, driven by the openness of MSPs to share knowledge amongst themselves,” adds Daum.

The funds will help Inforcer support its research, development, and improvement of its technologies. This will speed up product updates and allow for the introduction of new features more quickly.

Simplifying security policies

Founded in 2022 by Jamie Daum, Will Connor, Rory McInerney and Richard Thompson, Inforcer utilises Microsoft 365’s built-in security technologies to assist managed service providers (MSPs) in securing end-user environments and ensuring compliance with cybersecurity regulations.

Inforcer automates the deployment of Microsoft policies and security baselines across multiple tenants, a process typically handled manually, allowing MSPs to offer new security services built on existing Microsoft technologies included in clients’ licenses. 

The company provides ongoing reporting, remediation tools, and regular product updates aligned with Microsoft’s release schedule, helping MSPs capitalise on the Secure Score-as-a-Service initiative, a key Microsoft focus.

CEO Daum, says, “Having witnessed the evolution from break-fix to managed services and more recently to managed security services, we’re seeing a trend of MSPs re-skilling their teams to leverage the Microsoft security stack and become Managed Microsoft Security Service Providers—what we call MSP 2.0.”

Inforcer offers rapid deployment of Microsoft tenants and security policies, in-depth auditing and reporting on policy changes, daily backups with on-demand restoration, automated customer-specific security policies, optional policy libraries for regulatory compliance, and tools to showcase the benefits of security services to end-users.

Since its launch in 2022, Inforcer has been adopted by major MSPs across North America, EMEA, and APAC, becoming a key tool in their software stack.