LevelBlue has been named the Growth and Innovation Leader in the Frost Radar: Managed Security Services in the Americas, 2026 report, a recognition that reflects our continued focus on helping organizations simplify cybersecurity operations, strengthen resilience, and navigate an increasingly complex threat landscape.
In the report, Frost & Sullivan recognized LevelBlue for its broad managed security portfolio, integrated platform strategy, and investments across AI, automation, MDR, incident response, and cyber resilience.
“LevelBlue is the Growth and Innovation leader on the Frost Radar,” Frost & Sullivan’s Lucas Ferreyra, Senior Industry Analyst, Cybersecurity Practice, wrote in the report. The firm noted that “thanks to smart investments, the Trustwave acquisition, and R&D initiatives that prioritize the most important megatrends in the cybersecurity landscape, the firm can address customer needs and deliver on the most advanced security outcomes.”
A Unified Approach to Cyber Resilience
According to Frost & Sullivan, LevelBlue’s strength lies in its ability to deliver integrated security operations across the full cybersecurity lifecycle.
“LevelBlue offers a broad and increasingly integrated MSS portfolio that spans advisory, exposure management, managed network security, managed cloud security, MDR/MXDR, threat hunting, incident response, and digital forensics,” Ferreyra stated in the report.
Frost also highlighted LevelBlue’s operational model, noting that the company positions itself “as a full-lifecycle security partner, supporting customers from program design and predeployment advisory (Day 0) through onboarding (Day 1) and eventually day-to-day operations (Day 2).”
This integrated approach has become increasingly important as organizations face expanding attack surfaces, AI-enabled threats, growing regulatory pressure, and persistent cybersecurity skills shortages.
Platform Innovation and AI-Driven Security Operations
Frost & Sullivan specifically cited LevelBlue’s platform consolidation and AI initiatives as major differentiators in the market.
“A central aspect of LevelBlue’s innovation initiatives is its platform consolidation effort,” said Ferreyra, noting the company is working “to unify technologies and capabilities inherited from LevelBlue USM Anywhere, Trustwave Fusion, automated policy management tools, Open Threat Exchange (OTX), and Security Colony into a more harmonized operating environment.”
The report added that this strategy “supports improved analyst workflows, stronger telemetry enrichment, visibility for customer stakeholders, and greater automation across the entire service.”
Frost & Sullivan also recognized LevelBlue’s focus on AI and automation, writing that the company has been “investing in and releasing AI-driven managed detection and response security features and agentic AI capabilities that assist analysts with triage, routing, and response.”
The report emphasized that these capabilities are especially critical “in a managed services context, where consistency, speed, and multitenant scalability are essential.”
Building One of the Industry’s Most Comprehensive MSS Portfolios
Frost & Sullivan pointed to LevelBlue’s expanding breadth of capabilities and ability to deliver unified security operations across diverse customer environments.
“LevelBlue now has one of the most comprehensive offerings in the MSS space—one that delivers overarching visibility and coverage of the environment unified into a single platform,” the report stated.
The analyst firm also highlighted the value of the company’s broader framework, which combines “managed SASE/SSE, managed WAAP, managed firewall, vulnerability and exposure management, mobile endpoint security, MDR, managed SIEM, co-managed SOC, consulting, DFIR, and government-focused services under a unified operating philosophy.”
Importantly, Frost noted that this approach gives customers flexibility in how they build and evolve their security programs.
“The result is a broad and highly interconnected portfolio that allows customers to go for a best-of-breed strategy, to leverage existing security investments, or to seek fewer vendors according to what they need, ultimately receiving unified security operations.”
Trustwave Integration Recognized as a Market Milestone
The report repeatedly highlighted the significance of LevelBlue’s acquisition and integration of Trustwave.
“In August 2025, LevelBlue finalized its acquisition of Trustwave in one of the most important developments in the firm’s evolution and the development of the broader MSS sector,” Frost & Sullivan wrote.
The analyst firm further stated that “LevelBlue handled the acquisition of Trustwave exemplarily, understanding the value in its people and capabilities and embracing them fully to improve the quality, depth, and breadth of the company’s services.”
Frost & Sullivan noted that the acquisition strengthened LevelBlue’s capabilities through “Trustwave Fusion platform functionalities, cloud-native MDR capabilities, world-class SpiderLabs threat intelligence, offensive security services, strategic advisory, penetration testing, incident response, database security, and email security.”
The report also recognized LevelBlue’s additional acquisitions of Stroz Friedberg, Cybereason, and Alert Logic as strategic moves that continue expanding the company’s capabilities across MDR, incident response, advisory services, and cyber resilience.
Positioned for the Future of Managed Security
As managed security services continue evolving toward AI-augmented operations, platform unification, and outcome-driven security programs, Frost & Sullivan believes LevelBlue is well positioned for the future of the market.
“LevelBlue has a keen understanding of where the MSS market is heading,” Frost & Sullivan wrote, citing “tighter integration across the security lifecycle, more automation and AI, and a fully synergistic managed and professional services portfolio that creates a positive feedback loop to increase cyber resilience.”
The report concluded that LevelBlue’s “platform-led strategy is in line with customer expectations—particularly organizations looking for a partner that can support incident and response operations along with a more strategic security transformation.”
For organizations navigating today’s evolving threat landscape, LevelBlue remains focused on delivering intelligence-led, AI-powered managed security services designed to help clients secure what’s next.
Read Frost & Sullivan’s full report here.
Source: Frost & Sullivan, Frost Radar™: Managed Security Services in the Americas, 2026.
