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# MSSP multi-tenant

Manage Cortex XSIAM MSSP multi-tenant environments with centralized or customer-owned licensing for client security operations.

Cortex XSIAM supports pairing multiple Cortex XSIAM environments with a single main account enabling MSSPs to easily manage security on behalf of their clients.

The following license options are available for MSSP multi-tenants:

| Option                       | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Central licensing management | The MSSP acquires a license for the main tenant (parent account) with resource allocations of total endpoints and/or GB for child tenants. From the main tenant, the administrator can then dynamically create child tenants and allocate the resources among its child tenants. All child tenants are automatically paired to the main tenant and the licenses are all owned by the main tenant. |
| Customer-owned license       | The MSSP acquires a license for its parent tenant. All end customers must acquire their own licenses in a separate contract. The child tenants must be manually paired to the main tenant.                                                                                                                                                                                                        |


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