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Guardz is the unified cybersecurity platform purpose-built for MSPs. We consolidate the essential security controls, including identities, endpoints, email, awareness, and more, into one AI-native framework designed for operational efficiency. Our identity-centric approach connects the dots across vectors, reducing the gaps that siloed tools leave behind so MSPs can respond to user risk in real time. With 24/7 AI + human-led MDR, Guardz utilizes agentic AI to triage at machine speed while expert analysts validate, mitigate, and guide response, giving MSPs scalable protection without adding headcount.

SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence is a holistic platform designed from the ground up to proactively detect and assess cyber threats, providing actionable insights with contextual relevance. Organizations increasingly require enhanced visibility into their publicly accessible assets and the vulnerabilities associated with them. Relying solely on External Attack Surface Management (EASM) solutions is inadequate for mitigating cyber risks; instead, these technologies should form part of a comprehensive enterprise vulnerability management framework. Companies are actively pursuing protection for their digital assets in every potential exposure area. The conventional focus on social media and the dark web no longer suffices, as threat actors continuously expand their methods of attack. Therefore, effective monitoring across diverse environments, including cloud storage and the dark web, is essential for empowering security teams. Additionally, for a thorough approach to Digital Risk Protection, it is crucial to incorporate services such as site takedown and automated remediation. This multifaceted strategy ensures that organizations remain resilient against the evolving landscape of cyber threats.

Daylight combines cutting-edge agentic AI with top-tier human skills to offer an advanced managed detection and response service that transcends mere notifications, striving to “take command” of your cybersecurity landscape. It ensures comprehensive monitoring of your entire environment, leaving no gaps, while providing context-sensitive protection that adapts and evolves based on your systems and historical incidents, including communications through platforms like Slack. This service boasts an exceptionally low rate of false positives, the quickest detection and response times in the industry, and seamless integration with your existing IT and security tools, accommodating limitless platforms and integrations while delivering actionable insights through AI-enhanced dashboards without unnecessary noise. With Daylight, you receive true comprehensive threat detection and response without the need for escalations, round-the-clock expert assistance, tailored response workflows, extensive visibility across your environment, and quantifiable enhancements in analyst efficiency and response time, all designed to transition your security operations from a reactive stance to a proactive command approach. This holistic approach not only empowers your team but also fortifies your defenses against evolving threats in the digital landscape.

Adaptive Security is OpenAI’s investment for AI cyber threats. The company was founded in 2024 by serial entrepreneurs Brian Long and Andrew Jones. Adaptive has raised $50M+ from investors like OpenAI, a16z and executives at Google Cloud, Fidelity, Plaid, Shopify, and other leading companies. Adaptive protects customers from AI-powered cyber threats like deepfakes, vishing, smishing, and email spear phishing with its next-generation security awareness training and AI phishing simulation platform. With Adaptive, security teams can prepare employees for advanced threats with incredible, highly customized training content that is personalized for employee role and access levels, features open-source intelligence about their company, and includes amazing deepfakes of their own executives. Customers can measure the success of their training program over time with AI-powered phishing simulations. Hyper-realistic deepfake, voice, SMS, and email phishing tests assess risk levels across all threat vectors. Adaptive simulations are powered by an AI open-source intelligence engine that gives clients visibility into how their company's digital footprint can be leveraged by cybercriminals. Today, Adaptive’s customers include leading global organizations like Figma, The Dallas Mavericks, BMC Software, and Stone Point Capital. The company has a world class NPS score of 94, among the highest in cybersecurity.

ESET Protect Advanced offers a comprehensive cybersecurity solution for businesses of any size. It offers advanced endpoint security against ransomware and zero-day threats. It also includes full disk encryption to ensure legal compliance and data security. The solution uses adaptive scanning, cloud sandboxing and behavioral analysis for proactive cloud-based threats defense. Mobile threat protection secures Android and iOS with anti-malware and anti-theft. It also offers cloud app security, mail server protection, vulnerability and patch management, and cloud app protection. Multi-factor authentication and extended detection and reaction (XDR) improve threat detection and response. The solution provides a single pane of glass remote management to provide visibility into threats and users. It also offers advanced reporting and customized notifications.

Criminal IP is a cyber threat intelligence search engine that detects vulnerabilities in personal and corporate cyber assets in real time and allows users to take preemptive actions. Coming from the idea that individuals and businesses would be able to boost their cyber security by obtaining information about accessing IP addresses in advance, Criminal IP's extensive data of over 4.2 billion IP addresses and counting to provide threat-relevant information about malicious IP addresses, malicious links, phishing websites, certificates, industrial control systems, IoTs, servers, CCTVs, etc. Using Criminal IP’s four key features (Asset Search, Domain Search, Exploit Search, and Image Search), you can search for IP risk scores and vulnerabilities related to searched IP addresses and domains, vulnerabilities for each service, and assets that are open to cyber attacks in image forms, in respective order.

ThreatLocker is a Zero Trust security platform that stops cyber threats by allowing only approved applications and activity to run. It removes standing admin rights, enforces least privilege, and gives organizations precise control over software behavior. With capabilities like application control, ringfencing, and device and storage restrictions, it prevents ransomware, zero day exploits, and unauthorized actions before they can execute. Purpose built for IT and security teams, ThreatLocker offers centralized management and full visibility across endpoints, users, and applications. It helps shrink the attack surface, restrict lateral movement, and meet compliance requirements with detailed auditing. Quick to deploy and easy to manage, the platform includes a large maintained application library and simplified approval workflows, enabling stronger security with less operational burden while keeping the business running smoothly.

Bitdefender Small Business Security provides robust, enterprise-level cyber-defense tailored for smaller companies, ensuring protection across various platforms including Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. With a centralized management system that is user-friendly, it allows organizations lacking dedicated IT personnel to efficiently implement and oversee their security measures from a single interface. The solution features a multi-layered approach to endpoint protection, incorporating machine learning, behavioral analysis, real-time monitoring, process termination, and rollback capabilities to safeguard against both known and emerging threats. Additionally, it includes ransomware prevention and remediation strategies that detect unusual encryption activities and facilitate file recovery from backups. Users are also protected against fileless attacks, with measures like memory and back-injection interference as well as script blocking. The software further enhances security by preventing phishing and fraud through the blocking of malicious websites and alerting users accordingly, while offering advanced exploit protection with real-time shields for common applications such as browsers, Office software, and Adobe Reader, thus ensuring all-encompassing endpoint security. This comprehensive suite of features makes it an ideal choice for small businesses seeking to fortify their cybersecurity defenses.

Log360 is a SIEM or security analytics solution that helps you combat threats on premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment. It also helps organizations adhere to compliance mandates such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR and more. You can customize the solution to cater to your unique use cases and protect your sensitive data. With Log360, you can monitor and audit activities that occur in your Active Directory, network devices, employee workstations, file servers, databases, Microsoft 365 environment, cloud services and more. Log360 correlates log data from different devices to detect complex attack patterns and advanced persistent threats. The solution also comes with a machine learning based behavioral analytics that detects user and entity behavior anomalies, and couples them with a risk score. The security analytics are presented in the form of more than 1000 pre-defined, actionable reports. Log forensics can be performed to get to the root cause of a security challenge. The built-in incident management system allows you to automate the remediation response with intelligent workflows and integrations with popular ticketing tools.

Athena Security uses advanced concealed weapons detection systems to deliver a unified, AI-driven entryway solution for hospitals, K–12 schools, casinos, places of worship, government buildings, and commercial facilities across the U.S. The Apollo 500 enables seamless walk-through screening to detect weapons in real time, giving operators more actionable data points than traditional systems for faster, more confident decisions. Athena’s AI-powered X-ray leverages iPad technology to modernize screening and improve threat detection. Athena’s Hospital Visitor Management System integrates with EPIC to connect identity, access, and screening data. Innovations include the Ambulance Bay WDS for stretcher screening and secondary screening for bags and lower extremities to reduce human error. Designed with compliance in mind, Athena aligns with California AB 2975, which mandates weapons detection screening at key hospital entrances by 2027 to improve safety and reduce workplace violence. DHS-aligned workflows ensure testing, controls, and compliance, while telepresence and AR alert glasses provide real-time support. All systems connect in one platform for centralized monitoring and enterprise reporting.