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OpenVPN partners with managed service providers, MSPs, and Value Added Resellers, VARs. Our partner network consists of over 200 resellers, distributors, and managed service providers.
The OpenVPN partner program is ideal for VARs and MSPs who are looking for:
  • Boosted managed service revenue.
  • Portfolio diversification.
  • Unmatched technical support. 
In other words, the OpenVPN partner program is ideal for anyone who uses security services to drive growth while providing best-of-breed security solutions to your customers.  During the onboarding process, we will discuss your potential customer pipeline and business goals to help you create a plan to get the most of our partnership.  
OpenVPN offers a variety of benefits to our partners. A few of them include: 
  • Wholesale pricing on AWS.
  • Easy integration with cloud providers such as GCP,  Oracle, Azure or BlueOcean in a BYOL model.
  • Technical pre/post sales support for partners. 
  • Special Partner Pricing.
Additionally, OpenVPN is 100% focused on cybersecurity and providing secure ZTNA essentials. This means that both of our products, Access Server and CloudConnexa, were developed to cover the same need in different ways to keep your, and your customers’, information secure.
When bundling software with a larger vendor, you may find yourself paying for features and benefits that you don’t actually need, leading you to rest on a mountain of shelfware that doesn’t fit your business needs. Because you’re tied to what is offered in a bundle, you may find that you are not able to get the best-of-breed software that would benefit you the most.  Bundling software may also put you at a higher risk of a security breach. For example, a 2020 data breach of SolarWinds customers put thousands of customers at risk. The result of a breach can be far more costly than the savings you may have gained from bundling your software in the first place.
OpenVPN takes security seriously. After all, OpenVPN is the foundation for ZTNA essentials and secure remote access. Trail of Bits recently released a security assessment of OpenVPN and reported “ The audit did not uncover any significant flaws that could impact system confidentiality, integrity, or availability in the time provided.”  OpenVPN's Access Server and CloudConnexa are each packed with features that can help you close more deals in a secure environment. For example, OpenVPN helps to protect your clients' data with powerful encryption. Your clients trust you to keep their data safe and their connections strong. OpenVPN empowers you to do just that.
OpenVPN is 100% focused on cybersecurity and protecting your data. Our products are built on the open source OpenVPN protocol, which is routinely audited for security and safety. The OpenVPN protocol has set the industry standard for secure remote access, and our company remains independent and dedicated to bringing a higher level of security to all of our customers.  Our self-hosted Access Server, as well as our fully hosted Cloud Connexa, are designed with you and your customers needs in mind. Our products offer unparalleled security, flexibility, and ease of use to build the foundation for the rest of your cybersecurity programs. We also offer DNS-based content filtering to monitor and block domain names by content category, and stop threats without requiring you to tunnel internet traffic.
OpenVPN is currently offering 50% margins on your first 3 customers. Margins vary based on the type of business opportunity, ranging from 10-20%. Please reach out to a member of our team for more detailed information. Special additional margins may be available.
OpenVPN does not have a required sales quota in order to remain in our partner network.
To discuss the OpenVPN partner pricing model, please contact our partnership team.
Setting up and managing customer accounts is easy and can be done through one single pane of glass in our Admin portal.  To get started setting up your accounts, check out our tutorials on YouTube. Please reach out to a member of our technical support team for additional assistance.  
Our marketing team is happy to help create collateral for your team to utilize. Please reach out to our partner team for access to co-branded materials, email marketing templates, and social media posts to use at your discretion.
To get started, you’ll connect with our partnerships team who will walk you through our onboarding process. During onboarding, we will collect some basic business information and discuss our tiered Partner Incentive Plan to align our partnership goals. 
You can read more about current OpenVPN partners and their success stories here.
If you’re an existing partner, please reach out to Richard Melo for partnership questions. If you have a technical question or need technical support, please submit a ticket to our team.
You can read about OpenVPN licensing on our Licensing page. For additional questions, please reach out to a member of our team.
OpenVPN® Inc. offers two secure networking solutions for small, medium, and enterprise businesses. CloudConnexa™ provides secure communication between an organization’s distributed workforce, IoT/IIoT devices, and the online services they rely on daily, with a secure virtualized network offered as a service. OpenVPN Access Server, our self-hosted solution, simplifies the rapid deployment of a secure remote access solution with a web-based graphic user interface and built-in OpenVPN Connect Client installer. Both products are based on the market-proven OpenVPN protocol and trusted by some of the world’s most renowned brands for their unmatched flexibility, scalability, and ease of use.  MSPs may find CloudConnexa preferable due to simpler access, configuration, and ability to toggle between clients without needing to login to a separate server. Additionally, CloudConnexa users can access our Cyber Shield feature. This built-in feature of CloudConnexa is an easy-to-use, customizable IDS/IPS and Content Filtering feature that protects remote access. You can read more about the differences between Access Server and CloudConnexa on our product comparison page.
OpenVPN is a well-known name in the cyber security space for providing one of the best VPN protocols. The OpenVPN open source project, also called Community Edition (CE), is the open source Virtual Private Network (VPN) project. It creates secure VPN connections over the internet using a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS. It has emerged to become the de-facto standard in the open source networking space. The project was started by OpenVPN co-founder James Yonan and is published under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It has over 50 million downloads to date and is a community-supported OSS project. OpenVPN Access Server and CloudConnexa are secure remote access solutions designed specifically for businesses, built on the open source project. Access Server and Cloud Connexa come in a single package to simplify the implementation of a VPN remote access solution. These include an economical licensing model based on concurrent connections, are easy to set up and scale, and can be deployed simply on the cloud.  You can read more about OpenVPN’s relationship to the open source community here. 
The OpenVPN Admin Portal in CloudConnexa is the single pane of glass where you can see and manage all of your customer connections without needing separate login credentials. This user-friendly portal is where you can manage specific content filters, user permissions, internet gateway selection, isolated overlay networks, and more.
There is no restriction on the number of connections or clients you can manage in CloudConnexa or Access Server. Users can establish a cluster of Access servers or deploy several connectors across different regions on CloudConnexa for load balancing and redundancy. Additionally, users can set up multiple WPCs on CloudConnexa. This feature is particularly beneficial for MSPs looking to segregate their clients.
MSPs typically use OpenVPN products to build on their managed cybersecurity services. Contact our partner team to get started. Once you have spoken with a member of our team, you will be sent a series of onboarding emails and other helpful information to get started.
VARs resell our products or may offer them as part of a bigger solution. Contact our partner team to get started. Once you have spoken with a member of our team, you will be sent a series of onboarding emails and other helpful information to get started.
If you’re an MSP using CloudConnexa, you can access the Admin portal through the CloudConnexa platform. In the CloudConnexa Admin portal, you can add, configure, and manage customers. The Admin portal also provides technical support contact options. OpenVPN Access Server offers a similar Admin portal experience, however this will require separate login credentials for each individual customer server.  For more information, schedule a Demo Session. Or visit our YouTube channel.
OpenVPN Cloud Connexa and Access Server are free to install and use for a maximum of three/two simultaneous VPN connections (respectively). You can trial the full feature set without having to pay anything up front. This gives you the freedom and flexibility to test our products in a live environment for your customers. When you’re ready to add more, you can seamlessly transition without having to start fresh.  When you’re ready to connect more users, you can send an email to Sales@openvpn.net or open a Sales & Billing Ticket here with the Cloud ID you want to activate, the desired amount of connections, and terms. We’ll send you a quote, and can submit a PO followed by an Invoice for credit card payment or additional payment methods. If you have larger projects that require more than the 2 test connections, we can provide those to your team at your request.
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