SentinelOne and High Wire Networks Forge Strategic AI Cybersecurity Alliance

At a glance

• Expanded Partnership: High Wire Networks’ Overwatch managed security business expanded its partnership with SentinelOne in March 2025.
• AI Platform: Overwatch uses SentinelOne’s Singularity platform and Purple AI for detection, threat hunting and automated response.
• Sold Through MSPs: Managed service providers resell Overwatch’s managed detection and response under their own brands.
• Smaller Customers: The MSP model brings managed detection to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that can’t staff their own security team.
• Early Access: Overwatch joined SentinelOne’s UXIP program, which gives early access to beta features.

Overwatch builds on SentinelOne

High Wire Networks announced on March 18, 2025, that its Overwatch cybersecurity business is expanding its partnership with SentinelOne. Overwatch sells managed detection and response and other managed security services through managed service providers, and those MSPs often serve small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that have no security staff of their own. The new deal adds AI.

What the partnership covers

Overwatch runs SentinelOne’s Singularity platform for its customers. It pulls together logs from cloud services, endpoints and firewalls. Analysts see the whole attack.

SentinelOne’s Purple AI, a generative AI assistant for security analysts, supports threat detection, hunting and automated response inside Overwatch’s service.

Faster triage with Purple AI

The practical gain is speed. Correlating data from several sources and letting an AI assistant handle routine queries can cut the time from alert to response from hours to minutes on a good day. Overwatch is also in SentinelOne’s UXIP program, which gives it early access to beta features.

Built for MSPs

For MSPs, the attraction is a managed security service they can resell without hiring a full security operations center. The service can automatically find, isolate and contain threats on customer systems.

Why SMBs are the target market

Small and medium-sized businesses are frequent targets because attackers expect weak defenses. Few can pay for round-the-clock monitoring.

What it means for the MSP market

The deal reflects a wider trend. MSPs are turning to security vendors’ platforms and AI tools so they can offer managed detection at a price small clients will pay, and competing providers are building similar services on other vendors’ platforms.

What MSP customers should check

For SMBs that buy security through an MSP, the question is what sits behind the service. Customers should ask which platform their provider uses, who watches the alerts at night, and how fast someone responds when the AI flags a threat.

Frank Jones, CISSP

Frank Jones has loved computers from the age of 13. Frank got his hacking career started when he downloaded a war dialing program that he used to detect dial up modems in his hometown of Chicago. Frank Jones now works as a JAVA coder and cyber security researcher.