Not all companies can comprehensively address the security needs of their environments. Lack of resources and staff often impede small and medium businesses to properly monitor systems and networks. Sometimes the most effective means of protecting the most critical assets is to hand off all or portions of the requirements.
The offerings recognized in this category provide a turnkey approach to an organization’s primary technical security needs, whether it be through a colocated device at the client organization facility or a completely outsourced solution.
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FINALIST | BEST MANAGED SECURITY SERVICE
AT&T MANAGED SECURITY SERVICES
Company: AT&T Cybersecurity
Noteworthy: Security operations centers fueled with continuous threat intelligence backed by the Open Threat Exchange (OTX), a community of over 145,000 cybersecurity professionals submitting more than 20 million threat indicators per day.
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FINALIST | BEST MANAGED SECURITY SERVICE
ELITE MANAGED SERVICE
Company: Castra Managed Services
Noteworthy: With over 2,000 customers on six continents, Castra monitors and manages over 33+ trillion events per day and over 400,000+ customer assets.
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FINALIST | BEST MANAGED SECURITY SERVICE
ESENTIRE MANAGED DETECTION AND RESPONSE
Company: eSentire
Noteworthy: Security operations center has over the past 12 months stopped more than 2 billion signals that bypassed traditional security controls.
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FINALIST | BEST MANAGED SECURITY SERVICE
FALCON COMPLETE
Company: CrowdStrike
Noteworthy: Comes with a guarantee that CrowdStrike will provide up to $1 million of coverage to address breaches that occur within the protected environment.
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FINALIST | BEST MANAGED SECURITY SERVICE
RAPID7 MANAGED SERVICES
Company: Rapid7
Noteworthy: Provides real-time insight into vulnerabilities and attackers by leveraging research projects (Sonar, Heisenberg), pentesting, Cyber Threat Alliance, Metasploit community and customers' 1.2+ trillion weekly security events.