Morrisville, N.C. – October 9, 2025 – SilverSky, a cybersecurity innovator offering powerful managed extended detection and response (MxDR) services, today announced that it has been selected as winner of the “XDR Solution Provider of the Year” award in the 9th annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program. Conducted by CyberSecurity Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization, the annual program recognizes the most innovative companies, products, and technologies driving progress in the global information security industry.
SilverSky offers the most comprehensive managed detection and response (MxDR) solution in the industry, with unlimited security alert ingestion, transparent pricing, and full EDR protection from Cynet Elite or All-in-One agents. The company’s round-the-clock SOC enhances security team productivity and effectiveness through AI-driven threat detection, situational awareness, and real-time automated response.
Additionally, SilverSky’s Lightning platform provides fast, actionable guidance to help teams address threats before they cause damage, and delivers customized response plans with real-time security insights, audit trails, and full alert transparency. Fast threat detection with high-fidelity insights reduces noise for quick SOC analysis and resolution, and false positives are reduced by 95%. The platform is built with over 250+ behavioral analytic detections.
The Lightning MxDR ingests telemetry from over 100 data sources, allowing businesses to keep existing technologies and integrate them into a single view. In addition, the company’s elite team of experts monitor security activity, hunt for threats, respond to events, and provide tactical and strategic guidance. A comprehensive customer portal details incident investigations, groups alert activity based on business requirements, documents SOC analyst support, and offers tailored response playbooks.
SilverSky Lightning services give security teams visibility inside the network, on endpoints, and across cloud environments, and a view of the external global threat landscape. Based on specific customer risk profiles, alert impact scores are analyzed through SilverSky’s global SOC, and skilled analysts respond to critical issues 24/7.
“Thank you to CyberSecurity Breakthrough for the ‘XDR Solution Provider of the Year’ award! We are on a mission to protect our customers with comprehensive, adaptive security services that maximize technology and automate responses, while empowering security analysts to hunt for threats, react and respond immediately,” said Richard Dobrow, CEO of SilverSky. “With over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, our long heritage of service delivery, and our personalized customer service experience have all taught us that the best way to stay ahead of the game is to change it.”
The mission of the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards is to celebrate excellence and spotlight breakthrough innovation driving the global cybersecurity industry forward. Covering a wide range of categories – including Cloud Security, Threat Intelligence, Risk Management, Fraud Prevention, Mobile Security, Application Security, Identity Management, and more – the annual program highlights the solutions and organizations redefining how we safeguard the digital world.
The 2025 awards program received thousands of nominations from more than 20 countries around the world, representing everything from disruptive startups to established global enterprises. This year’s winners embody the cutting edge of cybersecurity technology, delivering next-generation protection and resilience in today’s increasingly complex threat landscape.
“It’s the human enhanced response that differentiates SilverSky. Understanding global threat activity is crucial for protecting our personal data, businesses, and critical infrastructure as companies and organizations navigate the digital landscape. Cybersecurity is essential in today’s digital world – but it’s also complex,” said Steve Johansson, managing director, CyberSecurity Breakthrough. “SilverSky helps to minimize that complexity and increase the effectiveness of security programs. The company’s platform and services fortify organizations with a team of skilled engineers and global 24/7 security operation centers that support and protect their customers’ attack surface as vigorously as their bottom lines.”
About SilverSky
Medium-sized enterprises face the same cybersecurity threats, compliance mandates, and business risk as Fortune 500 companies. SilverSky is a leader in enabling these companies to meet regulatory requirements, proactively respond to threats, and rapidly reduce risk. State-of-the-art Managed Detection and Response services are delivered through their global Security Operations Centers, which were developed based on military-grade security, and are powered by the latest integrated technology. SilverSky has more than 20 years of operational success defending thousands of customers in some of the most demanding industry sectors. To learn more about us, please visit www.silversky.com.
About CyberSecurity Breakthrough
Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in information security and cybersecurity technology companies, products and people. The CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards provide a platform for public recognition around the achievements of breakthrough information security companies and products in categories including Cloud Security, Threat Detection, Risk Management, Fraud Prevention, Mobile Security, Web and Email Security, UTM, Firewall and more. For more information visit CyberSecurityBreakthrough.com.
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Company Contact:
Clark Easterling
Vice President, Marketing
SilverSky
ceasterling@silversky.com