LevelBlue is a cybersecurity company and managed security services provider that positions itself as the world’s largest pure-play MSSP. It combines intelligence-led security, AI-powered operations, and deep cyber expertise to help organizations reduce cyber risk, improve visibility, and build resilience across hybrid environments.
Its portfolio spans managed security, threat intelligence, incident response, advisory services, and security operations technology. LevelBlue is built to support organizations that need always-on defense, faster containment, and practical security outcomes, particularly in regulated, complex, and high-risk environments where resilience and continuity are critical.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
LevelBlue delivers a mix of managed security services, consulting, incident response, and security software that can augment internal teams or operate as an outsourced security partner. Its capabilities extend across cloud, network, endpoint, identity, email, data, vulnerability, and exposure use cases, with services designed to work with existing customer environments rather than force a full technology reset.
The company emphasizes operational flexibility through cloud-native security operations platforms, open integrations, and support for heterogeneous technology stacks. Its platform ecosystem connects telemetry, analytics, automation, and threat intelligence across managed and co-managed deployments, helping customers centralize monitoring, streamline investigations, and coordinate response actions across multiple security tools and cloud environments.
LevelBlue also supports a broad partner ecosystem that includes MSSPs, MSPs, and resellers. That channel focus expands how its services and platforms are delivered, while giving partners access to managed offerings, incident response support, exposure management capabilities, and security operations technology they can extend to their own customers.
Products and Services
- Cyber Advisory: Strategic consulting and professional services focused on risk reduction, security maturity, compliance alignment, assessments, and transformation planning.
- Managed Cloud Security: Managed protection for cloud, hybrid, and remote environments, including services such as SASE, SSE, WAAP, and Microsoft-aligned cloud security support.
- Data Security: Data and database security services for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, covering vulnerability assessment, access governance, monitoring, and threat detection.
- Managed Detection & Response: 24/7 managed threat detection, investigation, hunting, and response that uses customer telemetry, AI-assisted analysis, and expert-led operations to contain active threats.
- Email Security: Managed email protection services that address phishing, malware, business email compromise, and data leakage across Microsoft and gateway-based environments.
- Managed Network Security: Managed network defense services spanning firewall operations, DDoS defense, and related controls to improve visibility, protection, and resilience across distributed environments.
- Exposure Management: Services that help organizations continuously identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities and broader cyber exposures across their digital footprint.
- Security Operations Platforms: LevelBlue’s security operations software layer for centralizing visibility, investigations, workflows, and response across managed security services and customer environments.
- Incident Readiness & Response: Preparedness and response services that include readiness assessments, playbook development, tabletop exercises, digital forensics, and active incident response support.
- SpiderLabs Threat Intelligence: Threat intelligence, research, threat hunting, and offensive security expertise delivered by LevelBlue SpiderLabs to inform detection, response, and security strategy.
- USM Anywhere: An open XDR platform designed to centralize threat detection, response, reporting, and security operations across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Fusion Security Operations Platform: A cloud-native security operations platform used within LevelBlue managed services to improve visibility, investigation, orchestration, and response at enterprise scale.
- LevelBlue MailMarshal: A layered email security offering that helps block phishing, malware, and other email-borne attacks while supporting policy enforcement and message control.
- Managed Web Application & API Protection: A managed WAAP service that combines web application firewall, DDoS mitigation, bot protection, and foundational API security for internet-facing applications.
- Exposure Management for Partners: A partner-focused exposure management offering built for MSSPs and MSPs to deliver scalable vulnerability and exposure management services through the LevelBlue ecosystem.
Target Customers
LevelBlue primarily serves organizations with complex security requirements, especially enterprises and public sector entities operating in regulated, hybrid, or high-risk environments. Its industry focus includes government, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, retail, and hospitality, where continuous monitoring, rapid response, and compliance support are especially important.
The company also targets organizations that want to extend lean internal security teams with outside expertise or consolidate multiple security functions under a managed model. In addition, LevelBlue serves MSSPs, MSPs, and resellers through its partner program, enabling those firms to package LevelBlue technology and services into their own customer offerings.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- Azure Marketplace: LevelBlue has a verified Azure Marketplace presence for USM Anywhere sensor deployment, making it easier for customers to extend monitoring into Microsoft Azure environments.
- Amazon Web Services: LevelBlue supports AWS environments through USM Anywhere sensor deployment and native collection of AWS security and infrastructure telemetry, including services such as CloudTrail and CloudWatch.
- Google Cloud: LevelBlue supports Google Cloud environments through GCP sensor deployment and cloud log collection within USM Anywhere, extending visibility across multi-cloud estates.
Key People
- Bob McCullen: Chairman & CEO
- Sundhar Annamalai: Chief Strategy Officer
- Neil Manna: Chief Financial Officer
- David Yaches: Chief Revenue Officer
- Jesse Emerson: Chief Product Officer
- Keith Ibarguen: Chief Technology Officer
- Kory Daniels: CISO
- Scott Scheppers: Chief Experience Officer
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Employees: 1,001-5,000
- Annual Revenue: Undisclosed
- Parent Company: Joint venture between WillJam Ventures and AT&T
- Subsidiaries: Trustwave, Stroz Friedberg, Cybereason, and Elysium Digital
- Publicly Listed: No (privately held)
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: Representative Vendor, Gartner Market Guide for Outsourced Managed Security Services (2026). Representative Service Provider, Gartner Market Guide for Cybersecurity Incident Response Retainer Services (2026). Representative Vendor, Gartner Market Guide for Co-Managed Security Monitoring Services (2025).
- IDC: Major Player, IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Security Service Edge Services 2025 Vendor Assessment. Major Player, IDC MarketScape: Worldwide XDR Software 2025 Vendor Assessment. Leader, IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Emerging Managed Detection and Response 2024 Vendor Assessment. Major Player, IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cybersecurity Consulting Services 2024 Vendor Assessment. Major Player, IDC MarketScape: U.S. National Civilian Government Professional Security Services 2024 Vendor Assessment.
