LevelBlue takes home twin 2026 global info sec awards. LevelBlue is proud to announce that Cyber Defense Magazine has named it the winner of its Global InfoSec Awards 2026 for Trailblazing Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) and Market Disruptor Threat Detection, Incident Response, Hunting and Triage Platform. "LevelBlue embodies three major features we judges look for to become winners: understanding tomorrow's threats, today, providing a cost-effective solution, and innovating in unexpected ways that can help mitigate cyber risk and get one step ahead of the next breach," said Gary S. Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine. This year marks the 13th time Cyber Defense Magazine has honored industry standouts with its awards, which will be officially received during the RSAC 2026 Conference. The winners were determined by a panel of CISSP, FMDHS, CEH, and certified security professionals who voted based on their independent review of the company's submitted materials. LevelBlue's Award List Grows * LevelBlue Named a Finalist for the 2026 SC Media Awards for Best Managed Security Service * 2026 Gartner(R) Market Guide for Outsourced Managed Security Services * IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Security Service Edge Services, 2025 "LevelBlue embodies three major features (...) understanding tomorrow's threats, today, providing a cost-effective solution, and innovating in unexpected ways that can help mitigate cyber risk and get one step ahead of the next breach." Gary S. Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine MSSP Powerhouse Over the last year, LevelBlue further secured its position as the world's largest pure-play provider of managed security services, acquiring Trustwave, Cybereason, and Aon's cybersecurity and intellectual property litigation consulting groups. This integration significantly scales LevelBlue's global footprint and service depth, particularly in North America, Europe, and Asia. By leveraging Cybereason's market-leading position in Japan, LevelBlue now offers a more robust international delivery model. Here is how this combined expertise benefits its clients: * Advanced XDR + MDR Synergy: By merging Cybereason's XDR technology with Trustwave's MDR excellence, Trustwave has bolstered its native detection capabilities. This reduces dwell time and ensures threats are contained with machine-speed precision. * Premier DFIR Capabilities: Integrating Cybereason's forensics with the expertise of Stroz Friedberg creates a global powerhouse for Digital Forensics and Incident Response. Trustwave provide insurance partners and legal counsel with unmatched, technology-agnostic forensic intelligence. * Unified Threat Intelligence: The union of Cybereason's researchers and LevelBlue SpiderLabs provides clients with deeper visibility into emerging attack vectors and actionable, real-time insights. * Agentic AI Innovation: Trustwave combine Cybereason's AI tools with LevelBlue's proprietary agentic AI to accelerate investigation cycles. This high-speed integration filters out the noise of false positives, allowing human experts to focus on critical threats. * Total Defense (Offensive + Defensive): Its portfolio now offers a seamless loop of security - from proactive penetration testing and risk assessments to continuous, reactive monitoring - ensuring total operational resilience. * Technology-Agnostic Flexibility: Trustwave optimize your current security stack - whether it's built on Microsoft, SentinelOne, or hybrid infrastructure - to maximize your existing investments and improve overall outcomes. About levelblue. LevelBlue is a globally recognized cybersecurity leader that reduces cyber risk and fortifies organizations against disruptive and damaging cyber threats. Its comprehensive offensive and defensive cybersecurity portfolio detects what others cannot, responds with greater speed and effectiveness, optimizes client investment, and improves security resilience. Learn more about Trustwave.

Cybereason launches vulnerability management product that is integrated into their endpoint protection platform. Cybersecurity company Cybereason, whose pending acquisition by LevelBlue was announced last month, has launched a new Vulnerability Management product, a powerful capability seamlessly integrated into the Cybereason Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP). This new solution is designed to help organizations proactively reduce their attack surface and strengthen their security posture by providing continuous, automated assessment of software vulnerabilities. The Cybereason Vulnerability Management transforms your endpoint security from purely reactive threat detection to proactive risk reduction. By continuously assessing applications on your endpoints, it identifies known software weaknesses and delivers precise, actionable recommendations for patching. This means you gain critical foresight, understanding your weaknesses and eliminating common entry points before attackers can exploit them. Channelbuzz has an integrated workflow that is built directly into its existing Endpoint Protection Platform," said Eddie Powers, Sales Engineer at Cybereason. "The tool accurately identifies applications with common vulnerabilities and exposures, and shifts the focus from reacting to attacks. We combine our real time threat detection with continuous vulnerability assessment." The Cybereason Vulnerability Management product extends an organization's endpoint protection from purely reactive threat detection to proactive risk reduction. It continuously assesses applications on endpoints, identifies known software vulnerabilities (CVEs), and delivers precise, actionable recommendations for patching. This empowers Information Security, IT Operations, and Compliance teams to know their weaknesses before attackers can exploit them. The new product addresses the challenge of tool sprawl by integrating vulnerability management directly into the Cybereason EPP. Unlike standalone vulnerability scanners that add complexity and overhead, this solution leverages the same lightweight agent and management console, providing a unified view of both active threats and potential weaknesses in a single pane of glass. The Cybereason Vulnerability Management product offers proactive risk reduction, shifting the security focus from solely reacting to attacks to identifying and mitigating common entry points that attackers exploit. Its integrated workflow eliminates the need for separate tools by consolidating vulnerability data within the Cybereason Defense Platform and simplifying the security operations. Unlike standalone vulnerability scanners, it's built directly into your Cybereason EPP, leveraging the same lightweight agent and console. This eliminates tool sprawl and simplifies operations. Its Actionable Intelligence provides clear, prioritized patch recommendations, telling teams exactly what software to update and to which version, saving valuable time and effort. Automated assessments and reporting streamline vulnerability management, reducing manual overhead. It leverages a robust, continuously updated vulnerability intelligence database for comprehensive and current insights. In addition, its comprehensive visibility combines real-time threat detection with continuous vulnerability assessment for a holistic understanding of an organization's endpoint risk posture. The product works by having the Cybereason agent continuously collect metadata on installed applications. This data is then cross-referenced against a robust, continuously updated vulnerability intelligence database. When a match is found, the system flags the vulnerability and provides detailed, prioritized guidance within the Cybereason console. "With intuitive views and powerful export options, and an easy way to download patches, this platform makes it easy to identify, prioritize and respond to vulnerabilities quickly," Powers concluded. The Cybereason Vulnerability Management product is available now.

MSSP LevelBlue to acquire Cybereason, expanding MDR and XDR capabilities. LevelBlue, the world's largest pure-play MSSP, has announced it intends to acquire MDR and XDR leader Cybereason. LevelBlue, a leading Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) has announced it intends to acquire Cybereason, a cybersecurity vendor known for its extended detection and response (XDR) and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solutions. The acquisition will allow LevelBlue to integrate Cybereason's XDR capabilities with LevelBlue's own AI-powered MDR and incident response solution. Terms of the deal were not disclosed publicly. "Joining LevelBlue marks an exciting new chapter for Cybereason," said Manish Narula, CEO of Cybereason. "This acquisition strengthens our collective capabilities across XDR, MDR, offensive security, DFIR, and cybersecurity consulting services, enabling us to unlock additional value for our clients and their counsel and cyber insurance partners globally." This is LevelBlue's third acquisition this year, after acquiring Trustwave and Aon's Cybersecurity & IP Litigation Consulting Groups. Cybereason was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. The company has raised approximately $938 million to $970 million across multiple funding rounds and is estimated to employ up to 1,000 people. LevelBlue (formerly AT&T Cybersecurity) was launched at the RSA Conference in 2024, as a joint venture between AT&T and the cybersecurity investment firm WillJam Ventures. LevelBlue offers cyber-consulting, managed security services, and threat intelligence. Following its acquisition of Trustwave, a leading MDR provider, LevelBlue shot to become the world's largest pure-play MSSP company. LevelBlue CEO and Chairman Bob McCullen was previously a co-founder CEO at Trustwave for more than 16 years. "The addition of Cybereason is a strategic leap forward in our mission to become the most complete cybersecurity partner for our clients and strategic partners," said McCullen, LevelBlue. As part of the acquisition, LevelBlue will add SoftBank Corp., SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and Liberty Strategic Capital as investors. Steven T. Mnuchin, former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Managing Partner of Liberty Strategic Capital, will also join LevelBlue's board of directors. "LevelBlue has rapidly established itself as a leader in integrated managed security services, and I look forward to helping guide its growth at a time when organizations worldwide are seeking trusted partners who understand the complexity of today's threat landscape," Mnuchin said. This acquisition is the latest in a trend of consolidation setting the pace in the MSSP space. Joel is the Director of Content and a co-founder at Expert Insights; a rapidly growing media company focussed on covering cybersecurity solutions. He's an experienced journalist and editor with 8 years' experience covering the cybersecurity space. He's reviewed hundreds of cybersecurity solutions, interviewed hundreds of industry experts and produced dozens of industry reports read by thousands of CISOs and security professionals in topics like IAM, MFA, zero trust, email security, DevSecOps and more. He also hosts the Expert Insights Podcast and co-writes the weekly newsletter, Decrypted. Joel is driven to share his team's expertise with cybersecurity leaders to help them create more secure business foundations. Stay ahead in cybersecurity. Join thousands of IT leaders reading Decrypted every week.