Critical Start Recognized as Industry Leader
in Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Managed Cyber Risk
Reduction (MCRR); Randy Watkins Awarded Top Chief Technology
Officer
PLANO,
Texas, May 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at RSA
Conference, Critical Start, a leading provider of Managed Detection
and Response (MDR) cybersecurity solutions and pioneer of Managed
Cyber Risk Reduction (MCRR), is thrilled to announce that it has
been honored as a Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) Global Infosec Award
winner in Best Product Managed Cyber Risk Reduction (MCRR)
and Hot Company Managed Detection and Response (MDR).
Randy Watkins, Chief Technology
Officer at Critical Start, also garnered recognition as
Publisher's Choice Chief Technology Officer. The CDM Global
InfoSec Awards honor information security innovators who provide
unique and compelling products and services.
In today's turbulent cyber threat environment, Critical Start
disrupts the security space with a complete portfolio of services
designed to reduce and mitigate risk exposure. The company's MDR
service provides 24x7x365 threat monitoring, investigation, and
response across customers' endpoints, network, identities, cloud
workloads, and applications that simplify the critical elements of
cybersecurity for an organization. Critical Start's MCRR solutions
go beyond reactive threat-based detect and response measures to
support organizational security programs across all six functions
of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity
Framework (NIST CSF 2.0).
"Critical Start embodies three major features we judges look for
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.
"In the face of rapidly evolving cyberattacks, organizations
urgently need to adopt innovative, holistic, and proactive
strategies to mitigate cybersecurity risks," said Rob Davis, CEO and Founder of Critical Start.
"We are honored to receive these awards from Cyber Defense Magazine
in recognition of our commitment to providing leading-edge services
and technology to address those needs. I'd also like to extend a
huge congratulations to Critical Start's CTO, Randy Watkins, for his recognition in this
year's awards as Publisher's Choice Chief Technology Officer - we
couldn't agree more that he is well-deserving of this
accolade."
Winners of the Global InfoSec Awards will be celebrated at the
2024 RSA conference beginning on May
6. The complete list of winners can be found at
http://www.cyberdefenseawards.com/.
For more information on the Critical Start product suite, visit
the link here or visit the Critical Start team at RSAC 2024 at
Booth #449.
About Critical Start
Organizations today face the challenge of aligning their cyber
protection measures with their risk appetite. CRITICALSTART®, a
pioneer of the industry's first Managed Cyber Risk Reduction
solutions, provides holistic cyber risk monitoring via its Cyber
Operations Risk & Response™ platform, paired with a human-led
risk and security operations team, combined with over 8 years of
award-winning Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services. By
continuously monitoring and mitigating cyber risks, Critical Start
enables businesses to proactively protect their critical assets
with a measurable ROI. The company's platform provides maturity
assessments, peer benchmarking, posture and event analytics, and
response capabilities. Its risk and security operations team
evaluates and actions threats, risks, vulnerabilities, and performs
comprehensive threat intelligence research. Critical Start enables
organizations to achieve the highest level of cyber risk reduction
for every dollar invested, allowing them to confidently reach their
desired levels of risk tolerance.
Follow Critical Start on LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram.
About CDM InfoSec Awards
This is Cyber Defense Magazine's twelfth year of honoring
InfoSec innovators from around the Globe. Our submission
requirements are for any startup, early stage, later stage, or
public companies in the INFORMATION SECURITY (INFOSEC) space who
believe they have a unique and compelling value proposition for
their product or service. Learn more at
www.cyberdefenseawards.com
About the Judging
The judges are CISSP, FMDHS, CEH, certified security
professionals who voted based on their independent review of the
company submitted materials on the website of each submission
including but not limited to data sheets, white papers, product
literature and other market variables. CDM has a flexible
philosophy to find more innovative players with new and unique
technologies, than the one with the most customers or money in the
bank. CDM is always asking "What's Next?" so we are looking for
best of breed, next generation InfoSec solutions.
About Cyber Defense Magazine
Cyber Defense Magazine is the premier source of cyber security
news and information for InfoSec professionals in business and
government. We are managed and published by and for ethical,
honest, passionate information security professionals. Our mission
is to share cutting-edge knowledge, real-world stories and awards
on the best ideas, products, and services in the information
technology industry. We deliver electronic magazines every
month online for free, and special editions exclusively for the RSA
Conferences. CDM is a proud member of the Cyber Defense Media
Group. Learn more about us
at https://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com and visit
https://www.cyberdefensetv.com and
https://www.cyberdefenseradio.com to see and hear some of the most
informative interviews of many of these winning company
executives. Join a webinar
at https://www.cyberdefensewebinars.com and realize that
infosec knowledge is power.
Contact:
Abigail Dellapina
criticalstart@luminapr.com
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