2022 SC Awards Finalists: Best Security Company

Cisco’s platform approach makes it simpler to derive value from the company’s portfolio. The SecureX platform offers an easy way to integrate products, achieve greater visibility across control points, and improve efficiency to lower costs and strengthen security. The portfolio delivers solutions to customers’ most pressing needs: extended detection and response (XDR), network transformation (SASE), trusted access (Zero Trust), and risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM). Cisco continues to drive a program of radical simplification to deliver ease of use (product), ease of transaction (buying programs) and ease of market engagement (simplified product names).

CrowdStrike is innovating relentlessly across the CrowdStrike Falcon platform – efforts that are yielding new innovations across cloud security, managed services, security & IT operations, threat intelligence, identity protection and log management. The platform is powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud, a data fabric that uses AI to correlate trillions of data points – including security events, threat activity, threat intelligence and data from across the enterprise. This approach is what allows CrowdStrike to continue extending its protection across new and growing areas of enterprise risk including endpoints, cloud workloads, identities and data.

In response to recent current events, Sophos has stepped up in a big way. As of early March 2022, Sophos is providing support to Ukrainian organizations and consumers by offering free access to the entire Sophos portfolio of solutions to help protect them from cyberattacks. It’s also closely monitoring the evolving cyberthreat landscape, and sharing regular threat intelligence with the industry at large to help keep organizations protected. Sophos also continues to stay at the forefront of helping businesses securely transition to more permanent virtual, work-from-home environments, and protecting against COVID-19 threats.

Splunk’s vision is a world where data provides clarity, elevates discussion and accelerates progress, while the mission concentrates on removing the barriers between data and action, so that everyone thrives in the Data Age. In the last year, Splunk removed technological barriers through innovation with the launch of Enterprise Security 7.0, empowering everyone to harness the value of data so they can act decisively and easily move from investigation to action, and enabled security teams to reduce false positive rates by 30% and alert volumes by 80%. Many organizations look to Splunk as their first tool to monitor and investigate security incidents, and SURGe was developed to support security teams, improve operational processes and strengthen defenses.

WatchGuard makes it easy for partners to deliver better security services to customers by offering a flexible program, products that enable security-as-a-service, enhanced education/training tools, and solutions for simplified management, intelligent protection and actionable visibility. WatchGuard ’s USP radically simplifies how MSPs protect customers, while enabling rapid, efficient and profitable growth. With it, partners and customers can spend less time on security, and more time on initiatives that grow and strengthen their business.