Cybersecurity vendor Centrify announced a new tier to its existing channel partner program to allow national system integrators and consulting partners to support the resale and deployment of SaaS applications such as Microsoft Office 365. Centrify announced the addition to its partner program structure during the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Orlando.

The new partner tier is expected to provide Centrify’s system integrator and consulting partners with an easier way to secure more Office 365 deployments through the company’s cloud identity platform. The company said thousands of other SaaS and on-premise applications including ServiceNow, Box and Salesforce also will be supported through its identity platform.

Centrify said its new tier will allow national system integrators and consulting partners to utilize an easy-to-use authentication and authorization solution, thus making it simpler for SIs and their customers to protect their cloud assets with the same reliability as their on-premise solutions.

“Our new category in our partner program is enabling the secure deployment of new cloud applications through the use of our Azure-based cloud identity platform, while leveraging customers’ existing identity infrastructure investments,” said Craig Gadberry, senior director of Business Development at Centrify, in a statement.

In April, the company announced the release of Centrify Privilege Service, a cloud-based identify management solution designed to protect and monitor privileged accounts.