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ThreatLocker is a Zero Trust Platform that prevents cyber threats by blocking unknown applications, enforcing least privilege, and controlling what can run across your environment. Using Allowlisting, Ringfencing, Network Control, and more, ThreatLocker stops ransomware, zero-day attacks, and unauthorized activity before execution, rather than relying on detection after the fact. Built for modern IT and cybersecurity teams, the platform delivers centralized visibility and policy management across endpoints, users, and applications. ThreatLocker reduces attack surface, limits lateral movement, and supports compliance with detailed audit logs. With fast deployment, a large built-in application library, and streamlined approvals, organizations can strengthen security while minimizing operational overhead and maintaining business continuity.

Criminal IP is a cyber threat intelligence solution that provides decision-ready threat intelligence, and attack surface management solutions to security teams worldwide. By continuously scanning the global internet, Criminal IP aggregates and contextualizes threat signals across IPs, domains, URLs, and attack infrastructure, covering malicious indicators, known vulnerabilities, exposed assets, and attacker behavior. Criminal IP's mission is to give organizations real visibility into their cyber landscape and accelerate threat detection and response by delivering the intelligence needed to outsmart attackers.

Criminal IP ASM delivers a threat intelligence-powered approach to attack surface management by combining continuous asset discovery with deep threat analysis across IPs, domains, OSINT, and associated infrastructure. Built on Criminal IP’s advanced scanning and enrichment capabilities, it brings Threat Intelligence context such as vulnerability intelligence, C2 detections, malicious IP/domain correlations, and dark web exposure into every layer of asset discovery in an integrated approach that empowers security teams to proactively identify, prioritize, and mitigate threats before they are exploited.

Detect, investigate, and resolve security incidents and threats using a single, scalable SIEM solution. Log360 provides you with actionable insights and analytics-driven intelligence for real-time security monitoring, advanced threat detection, incident management, and behavioral analytics-based anomaly detection. Built as the bedrock for your SOC, ManageEngine Log360 comes with out-of-the-box correlation and workflow rules, dashboards, reports, and alert profiles to help you address vital security issues with little manual intervention.

ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer is an on-premise log management solution designed for businesses of all sizes across various industries such as information technology, health, retail, finance, education and more. The solution provides users with both agent based and agentless log collection, log parsing capabilities, a powerful log search engine and log archiving options. With network device auditing functionality, it enables users to monitor their end-user devices, firewalls, routers, switches and more in real time. The solution displays analyzed data in the form of graphs and intuitive reports. EventLog Analyzer's incident detection mechanisms such as event log correlation, threat intelligence, MITRE ATT&CK framework implementation, advanced threat analytics, and more, helps spot security threats as soon as they occur. The real-time alert system alerts users about suspicious activities, so they can prioritize high-risk security threats.

Empower Your Current Team to Achieve Enterprise-Level Security An all-in-one solution with SIEM, endpoint visibility, 24/7 monitoring, and automated response to reduce complexity, increase visibility and speed up time to respond. We handle the security heavy lifting, so you get time back in your day. With out-of-the-box detections, pre-filtered alerts, and response playbooks, IT teams can achieve real security value with Blumira. Quick Deployment, Immediate Results: Integrates with your tech stack and fully deploy, with no warm-up period, in hours All-You-Can-Eat Data Ingest: Predictable pricing and with unlimited data logging for full-lifecycle detection Compliance Made Easy: 1 year data retention included, pre-built reports, and 24/7 automated monitoring 99.7% CSAT Support: Solution Architects for product support, the Incident Detection and Response Team creating new detections, and 24/7 SecOps support

Daylight merges lightning-fast agentic AI with elite human expertise to deliver a next-gen managed detection and response service that goes beyond alerts, aiming to “take command” of your cyber-frontier. It promises full coverage of your environment with no blind spots, context-aware protection that continuously learns from your systems and past cases (including Slack chats), near-zero false positives, the industry’s lowest mean time to detection and mean time to response, and deep integration with your IT and security stack so it supports unlimited platforms, unlimited integrations, and delivers actionable, noise-free insights via AI dashboards. With Daylight, you get true end-to-end threat detection and response (no escalation games), 24/7 expert support, custom response workflows, environment-wide visibility, and measurable improvements in analyst utilization and response speed, all built to shift your security operations from reactive to commanding.

Reflectiz is the AI-powered web exposure company trusted by hundreds of global organizations, including Cox Communications, DAZN, Village Roadshow, Leeds United, and lastminute.com, to continuously monitor and protect everything that executes on their live websites. The platform observes real browser execution, not configuration, capturing every script, pixel, and third or fourth-party tool as it runs, and using AI to detect malicious code, unauthorized data flows, and behavioral change the moment it happens. It deploys with zero code changes, zero agents, and no access to customer data, typically live within one business day. One engine powers four hubs, each answering a different question about the same website: Security Hub detects web threats that traditional tools like WAFs miss, from Magecart skimming to AI-generated scripts. Privacy Hub verifies user data is only collected and shared as authorized, supporting GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and PIPEDA. Offensive Hub runs continuous, agentic penetration testing at up to 10x the capacity of manual pentesting. PCI Module automates PCI DSS 4.0.1 Requirements 6.4.3 and 11.6.1 with audit-ready evidence. Together they give Security, Privacy, Compliance, and Digital teams one 360-degree view of web risk instead of four disconnected tools. Reflectiz's Exposure Rating draws on an intelligence database built from monitoring millions of websites, and the platform has been recognized with a 2026 Fortress Cyber Security Award, a 2025 Top InfoSec Innovator award, and G2 High Performer status. Customers consistently cite fast, zero-touch onboarding and hands-on expert support alongside the platform.

ManageEngine Endpoint Central gives IT teams a single platform to manage and secure every device across the organization, eliminating the need to juggle multiple point tools. Patch management is automated across Windows, macOS, Linux, and 1000+ third-party applications. Software deployment, OS imaging, and remote desktop capabilities allow administrators to provision, update, and troubleshoot endpoints without physical presence. Security capabilities include vulnerability assessment, application control, device control, browser security, endpoint privilege management, EDR, NGAV protection against malware and zero-day threats, and private access for secure remote connectivity. BitLocker and FileVault encryption management adds data protection across Windows and macOS fleets. Mobile device management extends control to iOS and Android, supporting corporate-owned and BYOD environments. Available on-premises or in the cloud across five editions: Free, Professional, Enterprise, UEM, and Security.

Iru (formerly Kandji) is an all-in-one, AI-powered security and compliance platform designed to simplify IT management and strengthen enterprise protection. Built on the Iru Context Model, it unifies identity, endpoint, and compliance into a single intelligent system that understands users, devices, and applications in context. With passwordless workforce identity, advanced endpoint detection, and automated compliance, Iru delivers both security and efficiency without the complexity of multiple tools. Its integrated approach enables IT teams to secure access, prevent threats, and maintain continuous audit readiness—all from one intuitive platform. Trusted by over 5,000 companies including Plaid, Notion, Airbus, and Vercel, Iru transforms how modern businesses manage digital trust. The result is reduced IT workload, improved employee experience, and enterprise-grade protection built for the AI era.