LevelBlue has been named Editor's Choice for Managed Detection and Response (MDR) in Cyber Defense Magazine's Top InfoSec Innovators awards for 2026. The award was announced on October 20, 2026, during CyberDefenseCon 2026 in Orlando, Florida.
It's a recognition we're especially proud of. MDR sits at the heart of what LevelBlue does every day: helping organizations detect threats faster, respond with confidence, and stay one step ahead of attackers.
About the Top InfoSec Innovators Awards
Now in its 14th year, Cyber Defense Magazine's awards program honors the cybersecurity companies doing the most to get ahead of tomorrow's threats. Winners are chosen by a panel of industry veterans and investors, including Ron Gula of Gula Tech Adventures, Gary Miliefsky of Cyber Defense Media Group, Katie Gray of In-Q-Tel, and Robert R. Ackerman Jr. of DataTribe.
The Top InfoSec Innovators are announced each fall at CyberDefenseCon, an invitation-only gathering of top global CISOs. This year's list recognizes 147 companies, and you can see the full list of 2026 winners on the Cyber Defense Awards site.
"LevelBlue embodies three major features we judges look for with the potential 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.
What sets LevelBlue MDR apart
As the world's largest pure-play managed security service provider, LevelBlue brings together intelligence-led security, AI-powered managed services, and deep cyber expertise to stop threats faster. Our MDR offering draws on the combined strengths of Trustwave, Cybereason and Alert Logic, each a long-standing name in detection and response, now united under one roof.
That combination gives customers:
- Round-the-clock detection and response from experienced security operations teams
- Threat intelligence that turns visibility across thousands of organizations into faster, better-informed action
- Incident response readiness, so organizations know exactly what to do when an alert becomes an incident
- Flexibility to protect cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments, including regulated and high-risk industries
A track record of recognition
This is the third year in a row that LevelBlue has been named a Top InfoSec Innovator, and the latest in a long run of Cyber Defense Magazine honors for the teams that now make up LevelBlue.
In 2025, LevelBlue was named Market Leader for Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP), Most Innovative for Threat Exposure Management and Publisher's Choice for Unified Threat Management. In 2024, we won Best Solution for MDR Provider, plus Publisher's Choice honors in Security Consulting and Threat Intelligence, and in 2023, AT&T Cybersecurity (now LevelBlue) was named Most Innovative in Threat Intelligence. Trustwave, now part of LevelBlue, built its own MDR track record in Cyber Defense Magazine's sister program, the Global InfoSec Awards, announced each spring at RSAC. It was named Market Leader for Global Managed Threat Detection and Response in 2021, Best Solution for both Cloud MDR Provider and Global MDR Service Provider in 2022, and Editor's Choice for MDR Service Providers in 2023. Across the two programs, LevelBlue and Trustwave have now been recognized for MDR in five of the last six years.
Thank you to our teams and customers
This recognition belongs to our security operations teams, who work around the clock to detect and stop threats, and to the customers who trust us to protect what matters most.
We're grateful to Cyber Defense Magazine and its judges for this recognition. To learn how LevelBlue MDR can help your organization detect and respond to threats faster, explore our MDR services or talk to an expert.
