Optiv Security Inc. is a cybersecurity services and solutions company focused on helping organizations manage cyber risk. Its operating model spans strategic advisory, technology deployment and ongoing operations, enabling clients to engage the company for program design, managed security, resilience planning, risk reduction and technology integration. The company positions itself as a single cyber partner for organizations dealing with complex hybrid, multicloud and AI-driven environments.
Optiv Security Inc. serves roughly 6,000 clients across major industries and supports them through a broad ecosystem of technology partners. Its portfolio covers security operations, identity, data, applications, cloud, infrastructure and risk, with offerings designed to connect business priorities to practical security programs. Proprietary assets such as Optiv Market System™ underscore its emphasis on benchmarking, rationalization and more informed security investment decisions.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Optiv Security Inc. delivers cybersecurity through an advise, deploy and operate model that spans strategy, managed security, risk, integration, technology services and business transformation. Its capabilities extend across security operations, threat detection and response, identity security, data security, application security, cloud security, cyber recovery, compliance, offensive security and operational resilience. The company also supports AI adoption with governance, risk and security services tailored to different stages of the AI lifecycle.
A core strength is Optiv Security Inc.’s ability to connect advisory work with implementation and ongoing operations. It helps clients assess current maturity, select and source technologies, integrate controls into existing environments, optimize tool usage and sustain outcomes through managed and co-managed services. Its approach is designed for hybrid and multicloud environments and is reinforced by a large partner ecosystem, cloud marketplace transactions and a generally vendor-agnostic orientation where solution fit is critical.
Products and Services
- Optiv Market System™: A proprietary security intelligence platform and reference architecture that benchmarks a client’s technologies, processes and policies against industry frameworks, peer data and Optiv intelligence to identify gaps, rationalize spend and guide security program decisions.
- Optiv Managed Detection and Response (MDR): A managed detection and response service that integrates, deploys, optimizes and operates threat monitoring technologies across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments, with 24/7 visibility, investigation and response support.
- Optiv AI Security Services: AI-focused advisory and security services that help organizations build, govern and scale AI use through readiness assessments, policy development, risk management, application security, training and operational support.
- Cyber Fusion Center: A managed security operations offering that helps organizations mature their security program through continuous optimization, tailored configurations, SOAR-enabled processes, reporting and program management.
- Optiv’s Cyber Recovery Solution (CRS): A cyber resilience service that combines critical data protection, isolated recovery design, recovery playbooks, exercises and governance to help organizations recover securely from disruptive cyber incidents.
- Application Security: Application security services spanning testing, advisory, program development and technology services to secure software and applications from simple websites to complex cloud-based platforms across the SDLC.
- Cloud Security: Cloud security and transformation services that help clients define strategy, assess posture, integrate cloud-native controls, improve multicloud and hybrid security, and align cloud adoption with business and compliance goals.
- Data Governance: Data governance services focused on discovering, classifying, governing and protecting sensitive data across cloud, on-premises and AI environments, including lifecycle controls, stewardship and privacy alignment.
- Identity and Access Management: Identity services covering IAM strategy, identity governance, digital access management, privileged access, authentication modernization and managed identity operations across workforce, partner and customer use cases.
- Risk Assessments and Compliance: Risk and compliance services that include security and risk assessments, compliance readiness, third-party risk support, risk program development, automation, metrics and reporting.
- Managed Machine Identity Services: A managed service for discovering, automating and governing certificates and cryptographic machine identities across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments.
- Operational Technology Services: OT security services that advise, deploy and operate protections for industrial control systems, SCADA environments and connected operational assets, with an emphasis on safety, uptime and resilience.
Target Customers
Optiv Security Inc. primarily serves enterprises and other organizations with complex cybersecurity requirements, especially those that need outside expertise to design, integrate or operate security programs at scale. Its typical buyers include CISOs, CIOs, security operations leaders, identity teams, risk and compliance leaders, and IT organizations looking to improve resilience, modernize operations or rationalize security investments.
Its market coverage spans major industries, with visible emphasis on financial services, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, consumer goods and retail, as well as education, aerospace, government and oil and gas. Optiv Security Inc. is particularly relevant for organizations in regulated or high-risk environments, businesses undergoing digital transformation or cloud migration, and teams adopting AI while trying to maintain governance, security and compliance discipline.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Optiv Security Inc. maintains an AWS Marketplace seller presence with cybersecurity offerings that include AI security, cloud security assessments, penetration testing, managed services and related professional security engagements.
- Azure Marketplace: Optiv Security Inc. offers consulting services through Azure Marketplace for areas such as Azure access management, Microsoft Sentinel migration and tuning, data governance and protection, and related Microsoft security implementations.
- Google Cloud Marketplace: Optiv Security Inc. has a verified Google Cloud Marketplace presence through its Google Cloud partnership, including marketplace-accessible security software partner solutions and documented offerings such as Optiv MDR and co-managed Google SecOps.
Key People
- Kevin Lynch: Chief Executive Officer
- Marc Cabi: Chief Financial Officer
- John Hurley: Chief Revenue Officer
- Heather Rim: Chief Marketing Officer
- William Croutch: Executive Vice President and General Counsel
- Daniel Wilbricht: Executive Vice President, Optiv + ClearShark President
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Denver, Colorado, United States
- Employees: Approximately 2,400
- Annual Revenue: $3.7B+ in sales
- Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc. (majority owner)
- Subsidiaries: Optiv + ClearShark, including ClearShark LLC and ClearShark Services Inc.
- Publicly Listed: No; privately held, majority-owned by KKR & Co. Inc. (NYSE: KKR)
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: Recognized in Gartner Market Guide for Outsourced Managed Security Services (2026). Recognized in Gartner Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response (2025). Recognized in Gartner Market Guide for DFIR Retainer Services (2025). Recognized in Gartner Market Guide for Co-Managed Security Monitoring Services (2025).
- Forrester: Recognized in The Cybersecurity Consulting Services Landscape, Q3 2025. Recognized in The Managed Detection and Response Services Landscape, Q3 2024.
- IDC: Leader in the 2025–2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Cybersecurity Governance, Risk and Compliance Consulting Services Vendor Assessment. Included in IDC PlanScape: Zero Trust Security Services (2024). Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Cybersecurity Consulting Services (2024). Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Cybersecurity Risk Management Services (2023).
