Cybersecurity service providers are firms whose main business, or a separately reported unit, is delivering security as a service carried out by people: managed detection and response (MDR), managed security services (MSS), outsourced security operations centres (SOCs), incident response and forensics, penetration testing and security consulting. They differ from cybersecurity product vendors, which mainly sell software licences, subscriptions and appliances.
This 2026 edition ranks 50 providers. Eight that publish a cybersecurity services revenue figure come first, ordered by that revenue in US dollars; the largest is Orange Cyberdefense, with €1.3 billion in 2025. The other 42 publish no usable revenue figure and are ordered by the size of their published cybersecurity workforce, then by customer count and, for one firm, by SOC locations.
The ranking is separate from this site's list of the top cybersecurity companies, which orders listed product vendors such as Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and CrowdStrike by total revenue. Here CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks appear only through their services arms, measured on services alone.
Contents
- Overview
- Market context
- How the ranking was built
- Methodology
- The list
- Full ranking table
- By country
- Notable changes in 2026
- Alternatives by use case
- Frequently asked questions
- See also
At a glance
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Orange Cyberdefense
— European enterprises and public bodies wanting managed detection, consulting and integration from one provider
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Leonardo (Cyber & Security Solutions)
— Defence, government and critical-infrastructure buyers needing sovereign cyber and secure communications
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Atos (Cybersecurity Services)
— Large European organisations already outsourcing infrastructure or workplace services to Atos
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ReliaQuest
— Enterprises that want an AI-assisted security operations platform run with ReliaQuest staff
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NG NCC Group
— Organisations needing penetration testing, assurance and managed detection from a specialist firm
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CrowdStrike (Professional Services)
— Breach response and compromise assessment for organisations already on, or moving to, Falcon
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Kudelski Security
— Mid-sized and large organisations in Switzerland, Europe and the US wanting vendor-neutral MDR
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CISO Global
— US mid-market firms wanting dedicated security staff under monthly contracts
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Deloitte
— Large enterprises combining cyber strategy, regulatory work and managed operations
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AC Accenture (Accenture Cybersecurity)
— Global transformation programmes where security is built into cloud and AI work
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H HCLTech
— Enterprises outsourcing infrastructure and wanting security operations from the same supplier
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Wipro (CyberTransform)
— Multinationals wanting a large offshore-backed security operations and consulting bench
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K Kyndryl
— Organisations whose core infrastructure Kyndryl already runs and that want recovery built in
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ND NTT DATA
— Global companies wanting SOC coverage across Asia, Europe and the Americas
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T Thales (Cyber)
— Governments and regulated industries buying encryption products and managed detection together
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LTM (LTIMindtree)
— Enterprises wanting cybersecurity delivered as a managed service alongside application work
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DXC Technology
— Existing DXC outsourcing clients adding security operations
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BT (BT Business Security)
— UK and multinational network customers wanting security bundled with connectivity
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CGI
— Government and utility clients in Canada, Europe and the US
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Inspira Enterprise
— Banks and government bodies in India, the Middle East, ASEAN and the Americas
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Coalfire
— Cloud providers and SaaS companies preparing for FedRAMP, PCI or SOC 2 audits
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I-TRACING
— French and European enterprises seeking an independent alternative to IT-group security units
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LevelBlue
— Mid-sized and large organisations wanting MDR, consulting and forensics from one pure-play MSSP
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EI Ensign InfoSecurity
— Governments and critical-infrastructure operators in Singapore and the wider Asia-Pacific region
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Cyderes
— Enterprises wanting managed detection with identity and exposure management
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Advens
— French organisations wanting an independent European provider with a sovereignty focus
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C CPX
— UAE government entities and critical-infrastructure operators
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HA Help AG
— Enterprises and government entities in the Gulf
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I Integrity360
— European and South African mid-market and enterprise organisations
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KA Kroll (Cyber and Data Resilience)
— Insurers, law firms and companies needing breach response with legal defensibility
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Truesec
— Nordic organisations wanting incident response and MDR from a regional specialist
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SecurityHQ
— Organisations in the UK, Middle East and India wanting a 24/7 MSSP
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Quorum Cyber
— Microsoft-centric organisations wanting MXDR
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NVISO
— Organisations in Belgium, Germany and Austria wanting MDR and offensive testing
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Swisscom
— Swiss enterprises and public bodies wanting a domestic SOC
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Ontinue
— Microsoft Defender and Sentinel customers wanting an MXDR service
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Sygnia
— Large enterprises facing advanced attacks that need incident response and OT expertise
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C Cipher (Prosegur)
— Latin American and Iberian companies already using Prosegur security services
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PA Palo Alto Networks (Unit 42)
— Organisations needing incident response retainers tied to a major security platform
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SS Sophos (incl. Secureworks)
— Small and mid-sized organisations, often via channel partners, wanting MDR
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Arctic Wolf
— Mid-market organisations wanting MDR with links to cyber insurers
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Optiv
— Large US enterprises wanting a single partner for advice, product deployment and operations
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GuidePoint Security
— US organisations wanting assessment, architecture and incident response alongside product sourcing
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Critical Start
— Organisations wanting MDR with contractual response-time commitments
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Nomios
— European companies buying network and security integration with 24x7 support
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E eSentire
— Mid-sized firms wanting MDR with unlimited threat hunting and incident handling
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TT Telefónica Tech
— Spanish-speaking and UK customers wanting security from a telecoms-backed provider
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A Avertium
— Mid-market and enterprise organisations combining compliance with MXDR
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Eye Security
— European small and mid-sized businesses wanting MDR and insurance under one contract
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IBM (IBM Consulting cybersecurity services)
— Large enterprises and governments wanting X-Force incident response and managed SOC services
Overview
A cybersecurity service provider sells security work rather than a security product. The main service lines are:
- Managed detection and response (MDR) and managed security services (MSS): round-the-clock monitoring of a client's endpoints, networks, cloud and identity systems by analysts in a security operations centre, with the provider investigating alerts and containing threats.
- Incident response and digital forensics: investigation and recovery after a breach, often sold as a retainer and often appointed through a cyber insurer's panel.
- Offensive security: penetration testing, red teaming and vulnerability assessment.
- Consulting and assurance: strategy, governance, risk and compliance work, audit preparation and regulatory assurance.
- Integration: design and deployment of security products bought from vendors.
The category overlaps with several neighbouring ones. Penetration testing companies are a narrower group covered by this site's separate list; SIEM tools and other security software are products that providers in this list operate on clients' behalf; and general IT outsourcing companies often run security as one tower within a larger contract. The providers here fall into four broad types: consultancies and IT services groups with cyber practices (Deloitte, Accenture, HCLTech, Wipro), telecoms operators with security subsidiaries (Orange, BT, Swisscom, Telefónica), defence groups (Leonardo, Thales) and specialist MSSPs and MDR firms (LevelBlue, Arctic Wolf, eSentire, Integrity360).
Market context
Few providers disclose what they earn from security services, which makes the market hard to size from primary sources. Where figures exist they show growth in Europe: Orange Cyberdefense grew 6.8% in 2025 while its parent's wider business-services segment declined, and Leonardo's Cyber & Security Solutions revenue rose 23.1% to €798 million. Not every provider grew. NCC Group's core cyber revenue fell 4.0% at constant currency in the year to September 2025, with North America down 12.9%, and Kudelski Security's revenue fell 9.2% in 2025 as it moved away from lower-margin resale.
Consolidation continued through 2025 and 2026. Sophos completed its purchase of Secureworks on 3 February 2025. LevelBlue bought Trustwave in August 2025 and Cybereason in November 2025, having already acquired Stroz Friedberg and Elysium Digital, and now calls itself the world's largest pure-play MSSP. Accenture closed its largest security acquisition, CyberCX of Australia, on 27 February 2026, adding about 1,400 professionals. Red Canary's website now redirects to Zscaler's MDR service, and Quorum Cyber and Ontinue have announced a combination.
Providers are also redesigning services around AI agents. Accenture launched Cyber.AI with Anthropic in March 2026, Unit 42 sells an agentic offensive security service, and Critical Start reports that its agentic AI auto-resolves most alerts before an analyst sees them.
How the ranking was built
Entries are ordered in four tiers. Tier one contains providers that publish cybersecurity services revenue, either in a filing or annual report or, for one private company, in a company statement; they are ranked by that revenue in US dollars. Tier two contains providers that publish the number of people in their cybersecurity business, ranked by that number. Tier three contains providers that publish neither and are ranked by published customer count. Tier four, ranked by number of SOC locations, contains IBM alone. Ties within a tier are broken alphabetically.
A provider in a lower tier is not necessarily smaller than one above it. Deloitte, for example, says Gartner ranks it the largest security services provider by revenue, but it is placed in tier two because no revenue figure is published. The tiers reflect what each company discloses.
Methodology
Scope. A company qualifies if its main business, or a unit it reports or describes separately, is cybersecurity services: MDR or MSS, SOC operations, incident response, testing or security consulting. Product vendors are included only through a separately reported services line (CrowdStrike professional services) or a named services unit (Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42), and only the services figure is used. To keep the list to providers of meaningful scale, a company needed at least US$20 million of disclosed cyber services revenue, at least 200 published cybersecurity staff, or at least 1,000 published customers.
Revenue tier. The latest full fiscal year available is used. Non-dollar amounts are converted at the Federal Reserve's G.5A annual average rates for the calendar year in which most of the fiscal year falls: €1 = US$1.1306 and £1 = US$1.3192 for 2025, and €1 = US$1.0820 for 2024. Atos is ranked on the €450 million of fiscal 2024 revenue it moved when it transferred Cybersecurity Services from Eviden to Atos, the only figure it has published for the business. ReliaQuest's figure is a company statement of 'more than US$400 million' for 2025. Leonardo's sector revenue includes secure cloud and mission-critical communications as well as cyber. CrowdStrike's line excludes Falcon Complete MDR, which it counts as subscription revenue.
Headcount and customer tiers. These figures are as published by each company on its website or in a press release, in its own wording (practitioners, professionals, experts, team members), and were not independently audited. Some cover a wider group than security delivery staff. Kyndryl's covers cyber resilience professionals, CPX's includes physical-security work, LevelBlue's covers only its SpiderLabs unit and Unit 42's covers only threat researchers. Thales and I-TRACING publish revenue figures without a fiscal year, so they are ranked by headcount.
Exclusions. Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Capgemini, Tech Mahindra, Cognizant, PwC, EY, KPMG, Booz Allen Hamilton and Google's Mandiant all run large security services businesses, but none had a revenue, headcount, customer or SOC figure on a page that could be opened for this edition, so they are not ranked. Castellum was left out because cybersecurity is one of several lines of business alongside electronic warfare, IT and system modernisation. SideChannel (US$7.35 million revenue in fiscal 2025) fell below the revenue threshold. No figure in this list was estimated.
The list
1
Orange group's cybersecurity services subsidiary; largest disclosed cyber services revenue
Best for: European enterprises and public bodies wanting managed detection, consulting and integration from one provider
Orange Cyberdefense is the cybersecurity services subsidiary of the French telecoms group Orange. The parent describes it as the European leader in cybersecurity services and states that it generated revenue of €1.3 billion in 2025 from managed security services, consulting and integration. Orange's full-year results put the unit's 2025 growth at 6.8%, or about €80 million, in a year when the wider Orange Business segment shrank. The unit lists more than 3,300 experts, 36 detection centres across 23 countries and what it calls Europe's first private CERT. In May 2026 it entered Spain with MasOrange, placing teams in Madrid and Barcelona, as part of a plan to reach €2 billion of revenue by 2030.
Services
- Managed detection and response
- Security consulting and audit
- Integration of security products
- CERT incident response
- Revenue (2025)
- €1.3bn (≈US$1.47bn)
- Experts
- 3,300+
- Detection centres
- 36, in 23 countries
- Parent
- Orange SA
- Core services
- Managed security and MDR; consulting; integration; CERT
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Separately reported cyber, secure-cloud and critical-communications sector of Italy's Leonardo
Best for: Defence, government and critical-infrastructure buyers needing sovereign cyber and secure communications
Cyber & Security Solutions is one of the sectors that the Italian aerospace and defence group Leonardo reports on its own. In 2025 the sector recorded revenues of €798 million, up 23.1% from €648 million, with new orders of €1,052 million, an order backlog of €1,326 million and EBITA of €80 million, a 10.0% return on sales. Its offer is organised into Cyber & Resilience, Secure Digital & Cloud and Mission Critical Comms, and its Global Cybersec Centre monitors client environments on a continuing basis. The revenue figure is wider than pure security services: 2025 orders included TETRA radio networks for Italian police forces and cloud work under the Polo Strategico Nazionale programme. Its main entities are Leonardo SpA and Leonardo UK.
Services
- Cyber resilience for military and critical infrastructure
- Global Cybersec Centre monitoring
- Secure and sovereign cloud
- Mission-critical communications
- Revenue (2025)
- €798m (≈US$902m)
- Orders (2025)
- €1,052m
- EBITA (2025)
- €80m (ROS 10.0%)
- Parent
- Leonardo S.p.A.
- Core services
- Cyber resilience; secure digital and cloud; mission-critical communications
3
French IT group whose cybersecurity services business was moved from Eviden into Atos in 2025
Best for: Large European organisations already outsourcing infrastructure or workplace services to Atos
Atos Group reports in two strategic business units, Atos and Eviden. In its fiscal 2025 results it restated 2024 figures to reflect the transfer of the Cybersecurity Services business from Eviden to Atos, a move that shifted €450 million of fiscal 2024 revenue between the two units. That restatement is the most recent separately disclosed figure for the business and is used here. Group revenue in fiscal 2025 was €8,001 million, and Eviden, which keeps cybersecurity products and mission-critical systems, recorded €1,039 million. Atos named a cybersecurity contract with the European Commission among its main 2025 signatures and describes cybersecurity as one of three strategic pillars alongside agentic AI and digital sovereignty. The Austrian consultancy SEC Consult is part of Atos.
Services
- Managed security and detection services
- Security consulting and assessment
- Identity and access management services
- Penetration testing through SEC Consult
- Revenue (FY2024, restated transfer)
- €450m (≈US$487m)
- Group revenue (2025)
- €8,001m
- Listed on
- Euronext Paris
- Core services
- Managed security services; consulting; identity; SEC Consult testing
4
Tampa-based security operations company that disclosed more than US$400m of 2025 revenue
Best for: Enterprises that want an AI-assisted security operations platform run with ReliaQuest staff
ReliaQuest is a privately held security operations company headquartered in Tampa, Florida, which sells an AI-assisted security operations platform together with the people who operate it. Executive biographies on its website state that the company grew to more than US$400 million in revenue in 2025 and is valued at over US$3.4 billion, with investors including KKR, EQT and FTV Capital. The same page gives slightly different scale figures in different biographies: more than 1,000 employees and over 1,500 customers in one, and over 1,200 teammates and more than 1,000 customers in another. The revenue figure is company-stated rather than audited, which should be borne in mind when comparing it with the filed figures of listed peers.
Services
- Security operations platform
- Managed detection and response
- Threat hunting
- Security operations consulting
- Revenue (2025)
- More than US$400m (company statement)
- Employees
- 1,000–1,200+
- Headquarters
- Tampa, Florida, US
- Ownership
- Private; investors include KKR, EQT, FTV Capital
- Core services
- Security operations platform with managed detection and response
5
NG
UK-listed cyber consultancy, testing and managed detection firm
Best for: Organisations needing penetration testing, assurance and managed detection from a specialist firm
NCC Group describes itself as a people-powered, tech-enabled cyber security and software escrow business with about 2,200 colleagues across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. In the year to 30 September 2025 its Cyber Security division generated revenue of £238.9 million, including £11.5 million from the non-core Crypto and DetACT businesses; excluding them, the division's revenue was £227.4 million, down 4.0% at constant currency. Group revenue was £305.4 million, of which £66.5 million came from the Escode software escrow business, now classed as discontinued while the board considers a sale. North American cyber revenue fell 12.9% at constant currency, and finance and IT have been centralised in hubs in Manchester and Manila.
Services
- Penetration testing and technical assurance
- Managed detection and response
- Incident response
- Cyber consulting and regulatory assurance
- Cyber Security revenue (FY to Sep 2025)
- £238.9m (≈US$315m)
- Group revenue
- £305.4m
- Employees
- c. 2,200
- Listed on
- London Stock Exchange
- Core services
- Technical assurance and testing; managed detection and response; consulting
6
Endpoint security vendor whose incident response and advisory arm reports its own revenue line
Best for: Breach response and compromise assessment for organisations already on, or moving to, Falcon
CrowdStrike is ranked in this list only on its professional services line, which covers incident response, forensic investigation, breach recovery, technical assessments, strategic advisory and SIEM consulting. In the fiscal year ended 31 January 2026 that line produced US$247.3 million of revenue, up from US$192.1 million, against total company revenue of US$4,812.0 million. The figure understates CrowdStrike's service activity, because its Falcon Complete managed detection and response offering is sold as a subscription and counted in subscription revenue. The company had 10,698 full-time employees at the fiscal year end. CrowdStrike also appears in this site's ranking of cybersecurity product companies, which uses total revenue.
Services
- Incident response and breach recovery
- Forensic investigation
- Technical and strategic advisory
- Falcon Complete managed detection and response
- Professional services revenue (FY to Jan 2026)
- US$247.3m
- Total revenue
- US$4,812.0m
- Employees
- 10,698
- Listed on
- Nasdaq
- Core services
- Incident response; forensics; advisory; Falcon Complete MDR
7
Swiss Kudelski Group's cybersecurity segment, focused on MDR and advisory
Best for: Mid-sized and large organisations in Switzerland, Europe and the US wanting vendor-neutral MDR
Kudelski Security was created in 2012 when the Swiss Kudelski Group entered the cybersecurity market. The group reports it as a separate Cybersecurity segment, whose net revenues were US$98.5 million in 2025, a 9.2% decline that the annual report attributes partly to a deliberate shift towards managed detection and response and advisory work. The segment posted an EBITDA loss of US$13.9 million, and management expects it to reach EBITDA break-even in 2027. Kudelski Security lists four Cyber Fusion Centers in Europe and the US, two R&D centres in Switzerland and India and more than 400 dedicated consultants, engineers and specialists, with its headquarters at Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne.
Services
- Managed detection and response from four Cyber Fusion Centers
- Security advisory
- OT security
- Technology resale and integration
- Segment revenue (2025)
- US$98.5m
- Staff
- 400+ dedicated specialists
- Founded
- 2012
- Headquarters
- Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland
- Listed on
- SIX Swiss Exchange (parent)
- Core services
- MDR; advisory; technology resale
8
Scottsdale-based managed security services provider filing with the SEC
Best for: US mid-market firms wanting dedicated security staff under monthly contracts
CISO Global is a US cybersecurity and compliance services company with its principal executive offices in Scottsdale, Arizona. Its 2025 Form 10-K reports total revenue of US$26.6 million, down from US$30.8 million, of which security managed services contributed US$23.8 million, professional services US$2.2 million and software US$0.6 million. The company says its staff work as dedicated partners on recurring monthly contracts rather than as project consultants. It is the smallest firm in the revenue-ranked group and is included because it clears the list's US$20 million revenue threshold for this tier; other listed micro-caps with cyber service lines were left out because they fell below it.
Services
- Security managed services
- Compliance and audit support
- Professional services
- Cybersecurity software
- Revenue (2025)
- US$26.6m
- Of which managed security
- US$23.8m
- Headquarters
- Scottsdale, Arizona, US
- Core services
- Security managed services; compliance; professional services
9
Professional services network with the largest published cyber practitioner count
Best for: Large enterprises combining cyber strategy, regulatory work and managed operations
Deloitte is a global network of professional services member firms whose cyber practice spans strategy, risk, engineering and managed services. Deloitte US states that the practice has more than 35,000 cybersecurity practitioners and more than 2,700 cyber clients across major industries, and operates in more than 150 countries and territories with over 30 years of experience. The same page cites a Gartner market share report ranking Deloitte the number one security services provider worldwide by revenue; Gartner's underlying revenue figures are not public, so Deloitte is ranked here by headcount. Deloitte does not report cyber revenue separately in its global results.
Services
- Cyber strategy and risk
- Managed detection and response
- Identity and access management
- Incident response and forensics
- Cyber practitioners
- 35,000+
- Cyber clients
- 2,700+
- Coverage
- 150+ countries and territories
- Ownership
- Partnership network of member firms
- Core services
- Cyber strategy; managed detection and response; identity; cyber risk
10
AC
IT services leader with 30,000+ cyber professionals and a long string of security acquisitions
Best for: Global transformation programmes where security is built into cloud and AI work
Accenture's cybersecurity business stated in March 2026 that it has more than 30,000 cybersecurity professionals, in an announcement of its Cyber.AI offering built with Anthropic. The company has bought security firms steadily: by August 2025 it had completed 20 security acquisitions since 2015, including Morphus, MNEMO Mexico and Innotec Security. Its largest, CyberCX of Australia and New Zealand, brought about 1,400 cybersecurity professionals and closed on 27 February 2026. Accenture does not disclose security revenue separately; the company as a whole had approximately 786,000 people at the time of the March 2026 announcement.
Services
- Cyber strategy and transformation
- Managed security operations
- Cloud, identity and data security
- Cyber resilience and incident response
- Cybersecurity professionals
- 30,000+
- Security acquisitions since 2015
- 20 (as of Aug 2025)
- Listed on
- New York Stock Exchange
- Core services
- Cyber strategy; managed security; cloud and identity security; incident response
11
H
Indian IT services group with 8,500+ cybersecurity professionals and ten fusion centres
Best for: Enterprises outsourcing infrastructure and wanting security operations from the same supplier
HCLTech, the Noida-based IT services company, runs a cybersecurity practice that it says has 29 years of history. Its cybersecurity services page lists more than 8,500 cybersecurity professionals, ten Cybersecurity Fusion Centers, more than 50 global delivery centres and over 800 active client engagements. The fusion centres deliver what the company calls universal managed threat detection and response, built on its SecIntAI framework. An older section of the same page still gives 8,000-plus professionals, an example of how vendor-published headcounts drift between page updates.
Services
- Universal managed threat detection and response
- Identity and access management
- Zero-trust architecture
- Governance, risk and compliance
- Cybersecurity professionals
- 8,500+
- Fusion centres
- 10
- Client engagements
- 800+
- Listed on
- NSE and BSE
- Core services
- Managed detection and response; identity; zero trust; GRC
12
Bengaluru IT services group with 8,000+ security staff and eight cyber defence centres
Best for: Multinationals wanting a large offshore-backed security operations and consulting bench
Wipro's cybersecurity practice describes its staff as 'cybersecurists' and states that it has more than 8,000 of them, serving more than 600 clients in over 60 countries from eight global cyber defence centres. The practice covers consulting, managed security operations, identity, cloud security and risk services. Wipro does not report cybersecurity revenue separately, so its position here rests on the published headcount. With eight cyber defence centres for 600-plus clients, it runs fewer, larger delivery hubs than NTT DATA or Orange Cyberdefense. Its headcount is close to HCLTech's, the nearest comparable Indian IT services peer in this list.
Services
- Managed security operations
- Strategy and risk consulting
- Identity and access management
- Cloud and application security
- Cybersecurity staff
- 8,000+
- Clients
- 600+
- Cyber defence centres
- 8
- Listed on
- NSE, BSE and NYSE
- Core services
- Managed security; consulting; identity; cloud security
13
K
Infrastructure services company with 7,500+ cyber resilience professionals
Best for: Organisations whose core infrastructure Kyndryl already runs and that want recovery built in
Kyndryl, the New York-listed infrastructure services company, sells security under a cyber resilience banner that combines protection, detection and recovery. Its service page states that the offering is backed by more than 7,500 cyber resilience professionals, technology from over 40 partners and more than 30 years of IT security and infrastructure work. It cites a 2025 NelsonHall NEAT leader rating for attack surface management and an AWS Resilience Competency. The headcount covers resilience and recovery staff as well as security specialists, so it is broader than a pure SOC count.
Services
- Security operations and managed detection
- Cyber incident recovery
- Zero-trust and identity services
- Security assessment and advisory
- Cyber resilience professionals
- 7,500+
- Technology partners
- 40+
- Listed on
- New York Stock Exchange
- Core services
- Security operations; cyber recovery; zero trust; incident recovery
14
ND
Japanese IT services group with 7,500+ cyber professionals and 49 SOCs
Best for: Global companies wanting SOC coverage across Asia, Europe and the Americas
NTT DATA Group, the Tokyo-headquartered IT services company, states that it has more than 7,500 cybersecurity professionals, more than 80 cybersecurity delivery centres and 49 security operations centres. That SOC count is the highest published by any firm in this list. Its security business sells consulting, managed security, identity and OT security across the group's operating companies. NTT DATA does not publish cybersecurity revenue, so it is ranked by headcount; on SOC count alone it would sit higher.
Services
- Managed security services from 49 SOCs
- Cybersecurity consulting
- Identity and access management
- OT and IoT security
- Cybersecurity professionals
- 7,500+
- Security operations centres
- 49
- Delivery centres
- 80+
- Core services
- Managed security; consulting; OT and identity security
15
T
French defence and security group with 6,000 cyber professionals across products and services
Best for: Governments and regulated industries buying encryption products and managed detection together
Thales combines cybersecurity products, such as data protection and application security, with consulting, integration and managed detection services. Its cybersecurity marketing page gives 6,000 cybersecurity professionals, 30,000 cybersecurity customers and more than US$2 billion of cybersecurity revenue, alongside 80,000 group employees. Because the revenue figure is undated and mixes product licences with services, it is not used for ranking; Thales is placed by headcount instead. The services side includes security operations centres and incident response for critical infrastructure and government clients.
Services
- Managed detection and response
- Cybersecurity consulting and integration
- Data protection and encryption
- Incident response
- Cybersecurity professionals
- 6,000
- Cybersecurity customers
- 30,000
- Cyber revenue (undated, products and services)
- US$2bn+
- Listed on
- Euronext Paris
- Core services
- MDR and SOC services; consulting; encryption and identity products
16
Indian IT services company with a 4,000-person cyber practice and nine defence centres
Best for: Enterprises wanting cybersecurity delivered as a managed service alongside application work
LTIMindtree, which now brands itself LTM, publishes a snapshot of its cybersecurity practice: a headcount of 4,042-plus, more than 260 clients including 26 Fortune 500 companies, nine Cyber Defense Resiliency Centers, over 30 intellectual-property assets and accelerators and more than 35 strategic alliances. The practice sells cybersecurity as a service, covering detection and response, identity, cloud security and DevSecOps. As a unit of a broad IT services firm, it does not report its own revenue. Its client count is the smallest among the large Indian practices listed here.
Services
- Cyber Defense Resiliency Service
- Identity and access management
- Cloud and application security
- Governance and compliance
- Practice headcount
- 4,042+
- Clients
- 260+
- Cyber Defense Resiliency Centers
- 9
- Listed on
- NSE and BSE
- Core services
- Cyber defence as a service; identity; cloud security
17
US IT services company with 3,200+ cyber services professionals and 12 SOCs
Best for: Existing DXC outsourcing clients adding security operations
DXC Technology, the US IT services company, publishes the scale of its security business on its cybersecurity page: more than 3,200 cybersecurity services professionals worldwide, 12 security operations centres, 4.5 million threats processed daily and more than 450 customers. DXC packages detection and response, identity, data protection and advisory into a single managed offering. Security revenue is not broken out in its filings. The ratio of staff to customers, roughly seven professionals per customer on the published figures, points to a business built around large outsourcing accounts rather than standardised mid-market MDR. DXC's SOC count matches IBM's published location count.
Services
- Managed detection and response
- Identity and access management
- Data protection
- Security advisory
- Cyber services professionals
- 3,200+
- SOCs
- 12
- Customers
- 450+
- Listed on
- New York Stock Exchange
- Core services
- Managed detection and response; identity; data protection
18
UK telecoms group's security business with 3,000 security professionals
Best for: UK and multinational network customers wanting security bundled with connectivity
BT Group sells managed security through its business division, combining network-based protection with managed detection, consulting and incident response. Its cybersecurity page states that BT has 3,000 security professionals and describes the company as one of the largest security and network providers. The headcount includes staff who protect BT's own networks, which differ from client-facing service teams. BT does not report security revenue separately. BT's position in this list rests on that single figure; it does not publish a SOC count or a customer number for its security business. Its services are aimed mainly at organisations that already buy network connectivity from BT, in the UK and internationally.
Services
- Managed network and firewall security
- Managed detection and response
- Security consulting
- Incident response
- Security professionals
- 3,000
- Listed on
- London Stock Exchange
- Core services
- Managed network security; MDR; consulting; incident response
19
Canadian IT and consulting firm with 1,700+ security specialists and eight SOCs
Best for: Government and utility clients in Canada, Europe and the US
CGI, founded in 1976, offers cybersecurity as part of its IT and business consulting services. Its cybersecurity page lists more than 1,700 experienced and credentialed security specialists and eight security operations centres that run around-the-clock detection and prevention, and notes that it supports access control for more than ten million industrial IoT assets for an industry-wide service. The firm is strongest in public-sector, energy and utilities work. CGI's figure of eight SOCs is the same as Wipro's and Integrity360's.
Services
- Managed security services from eight SOCs
- Security consulting
- OT and industrial IoT security
- Identity and access management
- Security specialists
- 1,700+
- SOCs
- 8
- Founded
- 1976
- Listed on
- TSX and NYSE
- Core services
- Managed security; consulting; OT and IoT security
20
India-origin cybersecurity services firm with 1,500+ professionals
Best for: Banks and government bodies in India, the Middle East, ASEAN and the Americas
Inspira Enterprise is a cybersecurity services company that says it has worked for more than 18 years with over 600 organisations in more than 20 countries across the Americas, the Middle East and Africa, India and ASEAN. It states that its services, covering advisory, intelligence, detection, response and OT/IoT security, are run by more than 1,500 professionals and 50 domain specialists from five AI-powered Cyber Fusion Centers. It is one of the few specialist providers in this list based in India rather than a division of a larger IT group.
Services
- Managed detection and response
- Cyber advisory
- Identity and access governance
- OT and IoT security
- Professionals
- 1,500+
- Organisations served
- 600+
- Cyber Fusion Centers
- 5
- Core services
- MDR; advisory; identity; OT/IoT security
21
US compliance assessment and security services firm with 1,000+ staff
Best for: Cloud providers and SaaS companies preparing for FedRAMP, PCI or SOC 2 audits
Coalfire is a US cybersecurity firm best known for compliance assessments, which it combines with penetration testing, security engineering and managed services. Its company page lists more than 1,000 expert team members, more than 1,000 clients across major industries, more than 900 employee licences and certifications and over 20 years in cybersecurity. It states that it has been named to Consulting Magazine's list of fastest-growing firms four years in a row. Unlike most firms in this tier, Coalfire is primarily an assessor rather than a SOC operator.
Services
- FedRAMP, PCI and SOC 2 assessment
- Penetration testing
- Cloud security engineering
- Managed security services
- Team members
- 1,000+
- Clients
- 1,000+
- Ownership
- Private
- Core services
- Compliance assessment; penetration testing; managed security
22
French cybersecurity services firm with 1,000+ experts and a 24/7 CERT
Best for: French and European enterprises seeking an independent alternative to IT-group security units
I-TRACING is a French cybersecurity services company with 21 years of operation. Its home page lists more than 1,000 cyber experts, more than 600 enterprise customers, more than 50 technology partners, annual growth above 30% and revenue of more than €230 million. The site does not state the fiscal year of the revenue figure, so the company is ranked here by headcount rather than in the revenue group. It runs a 24/7 CERT for incident response alongside managed detection, identity and consulting services.
Services
- Managed detection and response
- 24/7 CERT incident response
- Identity and access management
- Security integration and consulting
- Cyber experts
- 1,000+
- Enterprise customers
- 600+
- Revenue (year not stated)
- €230m+
- Core services
- MDR; CERT; identity; integration
23
Dallas-based MSSP that absorbed Trustwave, Stroz Friedberg and Cybereason in 2025
Best for: Mid-sized and large organisations wanting MDR, consulting and forensics from one pure-play MSSP
LevelBlue, headquartered in Dallas, describes itself as the world's largest pure-play managed security services provider, a position it built through acquisitions in 2025. It completed the purchase of Trustwave on 19 August 2025 and of Cybereason on 25 November 2025, after earlier deals for Stroz Friedberg and Elysium Digital; the Cybereason transaction also brought SoftBank Corp., SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Liberty Strategic Capital in as investors. LevelBlue does not publish a total headcount; its SpiderLabs unit alone is described as a global team of more than 1,000 consultants, threat hunters and incident responders, the figure used for ranking.
Services
- Managed security services and MDR
- Incident response and forensics (Stroz Friedberg)
- Offensive security (SpiderLabs)
- Strategic advisory
- SpiderLabs team
- 1,000+
- Headquarters
- Dallas, Texas, US
- Ownership
- Private
- Core services
- MSS and MDR; incident response; offensive security; consulting
24
EI
Singapore-based pure-play cybersecurity services firm with close to 1,000 professionals
Best for: Governments and critical-infrastructure operators in Singapore and the wider Asia-Pacific region
Ensign InfoSecurity presents itself as Asia's premier cybersecurity provider and managed security services provider, with pure-play cybersecurity expertise. Its home page states that it has close to 1,000 professionals in cybersecurity. It sells managed detection, consulting, threat intelligence and engineering services, and is placed immediately below the firms reporting 1,000 or more because its own figure is given as 'close to' that number. It is one of two Asia-Pacific specialists in this list, alongside Inspira Enterprise, that are not divisions of larger groups. Its figure is the published total and is not split between managed services and consulting.
Services
- Managed security services
- Managed detection and response
- Cybersecurity consulting
- Threat intelligence
- Professionals
- Close to 1,000
- Core services
- MSS and MDR; consulting; threat intelligence
25
US managed security provider with 800+ security professionals and five SOCs
Best for: Enterprises wanting managed detection with identity and exposure management
Cyderes is a managed cybersecurity services provider that sells managed detection and response, identity and access management and exposure management. Its home page lists more than 800 dedicated security professionals, over 250 security engineers, more than 100 unique cyber certifications and five global 24/7 security operations centres. It positions its services around unified visibility of assets, access and exposures. It does not publish a customer count or revenue, so its ranking rests on the professional headcount it reports.
Services
- Managed detection and response
- Identity and access management services
- Exposure management
- Offensive security
- Security professionals
- 800+
- Security engineers
- 250+
- SOCs
- 5
- Ownership
- Private
- Core services
- MDR; identity; exposure management
26
Independent French cybersecurity services firm with 600 experts
Best for: French organisations wanting an independent European provider with a sovereignty focus
Advens is a French cybersecurity services company that emphasises its independence and its certification as a B Corp. Its home page states that it has 600 experts across France and Europe, who deliver managed detection and response, consulting and security integration. The company presents its independence as a guarantee of European control over client data, a theme it shares with other French providers in this list. It does not publish revenue. Advens is one of three France-headquartered specialists in this ranking, with I-TRACING and Orange Cyberdefense.
Services
- Managed detection and response
- Security consulting
- Integration of security products
- Incident response
- Experts
- 600
- Ownership
- Independent
- Core services
- MDR; consulting; integration
27
C
UAE cyber and physical security company with 600+ professionals
Best for: UAE government entities and critical-infrastructure operators
CPX is a cyber and physical security company based in the United Arab Emirates that serves governments, enterprises and critical infrastructure. Its home page lists more than 600 professionals in consulting, services and solutions, more than 200 government and enterprise clients, more than 14 nation-wide transformation programmes, over 50 services and more than 100,000 end-users protected. Its portfolio runs from security architecture and OT security to AI security and incident response. The headcount includes staff working on physical-security and products as well as cyber services.
Services
- Security consulting and architecture
- Managed security services
- OT security
- AI security
- Professionals
- 600+
- Government and enterprise clients
- 200+
- Headquarters
- United Arab Emirates
- Core services
- Consulting; managed services; OT and AI security
28
HA
Middle East cybersecurity firm with 600+ practitioners and SOCs in the UAE and Saudi Arabia
Best for: Enterprises and government entities in the Gulf
Help AG was co-founded in Germany in 1995 and has since become a Middle East cybersecurity provider. Its website lists more than 600 cybersecurity practitioners, more than 500 clients among leading enterprise and government entities and two cyber SOCs in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, and says the company is entirely focused on cybersecurity. The firm's history page records its first independent SOC and its SOC-CMM Level 3 certification, and notes that Dr Aleksandar Valjarevic became acting chief executive on 10 September 2025.
Services
- Managed security services from SOCs in the UAE and KSA
- Zero-trust solutions
- Security consulting
- Incident response
- Cybersecurity practitioners
- 600+
- Clients
- 500+
- SOCs
- 2 (UAE and KSA)
- Founded
- 1995 (Germany)
- Core services
- MSS and SOC; consulting; zero trust; incident response
29
I
Cybersecurity specialist with 600+ experts and eight SOCs, from Dublin to Cape Town
Best for: European and South African mid-market and enterprise organisations
Integrity360 is a cybersecurity specialist that operates from Dublin to Cape Town. Its home page lists eight global SOCs, more than 600 security experts and 21 years of experience. It combines vendor-agnostic consulting, testing and integration with 24/7 managed detection, and its site announces managed OT security services and a completed SOC 2 certification. It does not publish revenue. Its staff and SOC figures are on the same scale as Help AG's and CPX's, the two Gulf providers with similar headcounts.
Services
- 24/7 managed detection and response
- Penetration testing
- Security integration
- Managed OT security
- Security experts
- 600+
- SOCs
- 8
- Ownership
- Private
- Core services
- MDR; testing; integration; OT security
30
KA
Risk advisory firm with a 550-strong cyber team and a large incident response caseload
Best for: Insurers, law firms and companies needing breach response with legal defensibility
Kroll is a risk and financial advisory firm whose Cyber and Data Resilience practice combines incident response, forensics, managed detection and breach notification. The London-based Redscan, described as a Kroll business, lists more than 550 experts in the cyber team and more than 3,000 incidents managed per year. A 2026 Kroll incident response brochure gives more than 300 DFIR experts worldwide, more than 1,000 IR cases a year and a place on the panels of more than 85 insurance carriers. The two caseload figures differ in scope and are reported as Kroll gives them.
Services
- Incident response and digital forensics
- Managed detection and response (Kroll Responder)
- Offensive security
- Breach notification
- Cyber team
- 550+
- DFIR experts
- 300+
- Insurance panels
- 85+ carriers
- Ownership
- Private
- Core services
- Incident response; forensics; MDR; breach notification
31
Stockholm-based Nordic cybersecurity company with 440+ specialists
Best for: Nordic organisations wanting incident response and MDR from a regional specialist
Truesec was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Stockholm. Its company history records about 80 employees in the 2010s, about 180 in 2021 when it partnered with IK Partners, about 250 after expanding into Finland, and more than 440 dedicated cybersecurity experts and specialists in 2026, when it also acquired Subset. It operates seven offices and sells incident response, managed detection, offensive testing and technical training. The history shows the firm roughly doubling in size between 2021 and 2026.
Services
- Incident response
- Managed detection and response
- Offensive security testing
- Technical training
- Experts and specialists
- 440+
- Founded
- 2005
- Headquarters
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Ownership
- Private
- Core services
- Incident response; MDR; offensive security
32
Global MSSP with 400+ analysts and engineers across six SecOps centres
Best for: Organisations in the UK, Middle East and India wanting a 24/7 MSSP
SecurityHQ is a managed security services provider offering detection and response, threat and adversary intelligence, exposure management and advisory services. Its company page states that it has more than 400 analysts and engineers working across six global security operations centres, with a timeline that includes SOC openings in Pune, Dubai, London and Riyadh. The company also sells its own incident management and analytics platform to clients. It publishes no revenue or customer figure, so it is ranked by the analyst and engineer headcount it reports.
Services
- Managed detection and response
- Threat and adversary intelligence
- Exposure management
- Security advisory
- Analysts and engineers
- 400+
- SOCs
- 6
- Core services
- MDR; threat intelligence; exposure management
33
Edinburgh-based Microsoft-focused MDR provider combining with Ontinue
Best for: Microsoft-centric organisations wanting MXDR
Quorum Cyber was founded in Edinburgh in 2016 and specialises in managed security built on Microsoft technology. Its company page lists more than 350 employees across the UK, US, Canada and the UAE, more than 400 customers and over 1,000 Microsoft certifications, and records its status as a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Security. The site announces that Quorum Cyber and Ontinue are combining their Microsoft-first MXDR businesses; the two are listed separately here because they still publish separate figures.
Services
- Managed extended detection and response on Microsoft
- Incident response
- Governance, risk and compliance
- Threat intelligence
- Employees
- 350+
- Customers
- 400+
- Founded
- 2016
- Headquarters
- Edinburgh, UK
- Core services
- Microsoft MXDR; incident response; GRC
34
Brussels-founded pure-play security firm with 300+ experts
Best for: Organisations in Belgium, Germany and Austria wanting MDR and offensive testing
NVISO is a pure-play cybersecurity firm founded in 2013. Its website says that more than 300 specialised security experts work in Belgium, Germany, Austria and Greece, and lists offices in Brussels, Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna and Athens. It has delivered managed detection and response since 2021 to clients such as Bekaert, according to a customer statement on the site, and also provides offensive security, consulting and ISO 27001 support. NVISO and Swisscom both report about 300 security staff and are ordered alphabetically under the list's tie rule.
Services
- Managed detection and response
- Penetration testing and red teaming
- Security consulting
- ISO 27001 support
- Security experts
- 300+
- Founded
- 2013
- Core services
- MDR; offensive security; consulting
35
Swiss telecoms operator with 300 cybersecurity professionals serving 1,000+ enterprises
Best for: Swiss enterprises and public bodies wanting a domestic SOC
Swisscom, the Swiss telecoms operator, runs a cybersecurity services business for Swiss enterprise customers. Its security services page says customers can draw on the specialist knowledge of 300 cybersecurity professionals and that more than 1,000 Swiss enterprise customers use its cybersecurity solutions. The offer includes managed security operations, consulting and network-based protection delivered from Switzerland. It is ranked by the headcount figure, which ties with NVISO's 300 under the list's tie rule. Its customer figure of more than 1,000 Swiss enterprises is not used for ranking because the headcount takes precedence.
Services
- Managed security operations
- Security consulting
- Network and cloud security
- Incident response
- Cybersecurity professionals
- 300
- Enterprise customers
- 1,000+
- Listed on
- SIX Swiss Exchange
- Core services
- Managed SOC; consulting; network security
36
Zürich-founded Microsoft-focused MXDR provider with 250+ staff
Best for: Microsoft Defender and Sentinel customers wanting an MXDR service
Ontinue was founded in 2023 in Zürich, spun out of a European MSSP, and delivers AI-assisted managed extended detection and response for organisations built on Microsoft security tools. Its company page lists more than 250 colleagues across Europe, North America and India, with headquarters in Zürich and Redwood City, California. Quorum Cyber's website announces that the two firms are combining. With 250-plus staff it ties with Sygnia, and the two are ordered alphabetically under the list's tie rule.
Services
- Managed extended detection and response
- Microsoft security optimisation
- Threat hunting
- Incident response
- Colleagues
- 250+
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- Zürich, Switzerland and Redwood City, US
- Core services
- Microsoft MXDR
37
Incident response and cyber readiness firm with 250+ team members
Best for: Large enterprises facing advanced attacks that need incident response and OT expertise
Sygnia is a cyber readiness and incident response firm with offices including New York, Singapore and London. Its about page lists more than 250 team members, among them security architects and adversarial and forensic experts, and more than 500 clients worldwide; its home page adds that it has led cyber engagements in 60 countries over 12 years. Gartner has included it in its market guide for digital forensics and incident response retainer services for four consecutive years, according to a 2025 company notice.
Services
- Incident response and retainers
- Cyber readiness and ransomware preparation
- OT security
- Cloud security
- Team members
- 250+
- Clients
- 500+
- Core services
- Incident response; readiness; OT and cloud security
38
C
Cybersecurity division of the Spanish security group Prosegur
Best for: Latin American and Iberian companies already using Prosegur security services
Cipher is the division of the Spanish security group Prosegur dedicated to digital protection. Its about page states that it has more than 200 cybersecurity professionals with a presence in five countries and more than 20 years of operation. Its services centre on extended managed detection and response, red-team testing, governance, risk and compliance and PCI-DSS work. Cipher and Unit 42 both report about 200 staff and are ordered alphabetically under the tie rule. Cipher is the only provider in this list that belongs to a physical-security group.
Services
- Extended managed detection and response
- Red-team services
- Governance, risk and compliance
- PCI-DSS assessment
- Cybersecurity professionals
- 200+
- Parent
- Prosegur
- Core services
- xMDR; red team; GRC; PCI-DSS
39
PA
Threat intelligence, incident response and consulting arm of Palo Alto Networks
Best for: Organisations needing incident response retainers tied to a major security platform
Unit 42 is the threat intelligence, incident response and security consulting arm of Palo Alto Networks. Its page lists more than 200 threat researchers and more than 1,000 engagements a year, and says it analyses 30 million malware samples a day. Palo Alto Networks does not report Unit 42 revenue separately. Its 200-plus figure counts researchers rather than the full consulting staff, so the unit's position here is conservative; the parent company appears in this site's product-vendor ranking.
Services
- Incident response and retainers
- Threat intelligence
- Cyber risk management consulting
- Offensive security
- Threat researchers
- 200+
- Engagements per year
- 1,000+
- Parent
- Palo Alto Networks (Nasdaq)
- Core services
- Incident response; threat intelligence; consulting
40
SS
Security vendor with 35,000 MDR customers that bought Secureworks in 2025
Best for: Small and mid-sized organisations, often via channel partners, wanting MDR
Sophos is a security software and services company that has become one of the largest MDR providers by customer count. It states that its security operations portfolio is trusted by more than 75,000 organisations, including 35,000 Sophos MDR customers. Sophos completed its acquisition of Secureworks on 3 February 2025, when Secureworks merged into a Sophos subsidiary and left public markets, bringing Secureworks' managed detection and response business into the group. Sophos is ranked by customer count because it publishes neither services revenue nor a services headcount.
Services
- Managed detection and response
- Extended detection and response
- Incident response
- Advisory services
- MDR customers
- 35,000
- Security operations customers
- 75,000+
- Ownership
- Private
- Core services
- MDR; XDR; incident response; advisory
41
Security operations provider serving 10,000+ organisations
Best for: Mid-market organisations wanting MDR with links to cyber insurers
Arctic Wolf sells security operations as a service built around its Aurora platform. Its company page states that it delivers detection, response and remediation to more than 10,000 organisations worldwide and that its platform ingests and analyses more than 10 trillion security events each week. The company works with insurance and channel partners. It does not publish revenue or headcount, so it is ranked on customer count. Its customer count is the second highest published in this list, behind Sophos.
Services
- Managed detection and response
- Managed risk
- Incident response
- Security awareness
- Customers
- 10,000+
- Events analysed
- 10 trillion+ per week
- Ownership
- Private
- Core services
- MDR; incident response; risk management
42
US cybersecurity advisory, integration and managed services firm with 6,000+ clients
Best for: Large US enterprises wanting a single partner for advice, product deployment and operations
Optiv is a US cybersecurity firm that advises on, deploys and operates security programmes. Its about page says more than 6,000 clients use its services, and its home page states that it serves 73% of the Fortune 100 and that 95% of its clients are repeat clients. Its business mixes consulting and managed services with the resale and integration of security products, which distinguishes it from pure MDR providers. Optiv does not publish revenue or a services headcount.
Services
- Cybersecurity advisory
- Product deployment and integration
- Managed security services
- Identity and data security
- Clients
- 6,000+
- Ownership
- Private
- Core services
- Advisory; integration; managed services
43
US security solutions provider serving 5,900+ organisations
Best for: US organisations wanting assessment, architecture and incident response alongside product sourcing
GuidePoint Security was founded in 2011 and says it has become a trusted adviser and partner to more than 5,900 organisations of all sizes across every industry. It combines consulting, penetration testing, incident response and managed services, and runs a training programme, GuidePoint Security University, to bring new entrants into the profession. Its published customer count is close to Optiv's, and the two firms compete for similar large US accounts that buy both advice and technology. GuidePoint does not publish revenue, headcount or a SOC count, so it is ranked by organisations served.
Services
- Security consulting and architecture
- Penetration testing
- Incident response
- Managed security services
- Organisations served
- 5,900+
- Founded
- 2011
- Ownership
- Private
- Core services
- Consulting; testing; incident response; managed services
44
US MDR provider protecting 2,500+ organisations
Best for: Organisations wanting MDR with contractual response-time commitments
Critical Start was founded in 2012 by three security experts who had led incident response and threat work. Its home page states that it protects more than 2,500 organisations, runs more than 600 analyst investigations a day with an average alert-to-verdict time of 13 minutes, and backs response times with contractual service levels. It supports more than 100 integrations across clients' security tools. Critical Start and Nomios both report more than 2,500 customers and are ordered alphabetically under the list's tie rule. Critical Start publishes no revenue or headcount.
Services
- Managed detection and response
- Contractual response-time SLAs
- Incident response
- Mobile SOC application
- Organisations protected
- 2,500+
- Founded
- 2012
- Core services
- MDR with contractual SLAs
45
European network and security integrator and managed services provider with 2,500+ customers
Best for: European companies buying network and security integration with 24x7 support
Nomios Group is a European provider of security and networking services. Its about page lists 25 offices across Europe, with local experts in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands among other countries, more than 2,500 customers, 24x7 global support and an average customer satisfaction score of 8.9. Its work is weighted towards integration and managed network security rather than pure MDR. It ties with Critical Start on the published customer figure and is placed second of the two alphabetically. It does not publish revenue or a security headcount.
Services
- Security and network integration
- Managed security services
- SOC services
- 24x7 support
- Customers
- 2,500+
- Offices
- 25 in Europe
- Core services
- Integration; managed security; SOC
46
E
Canadian MDR pioneer serving 2,000+ organisations in 80+ countries
Best for: Mid-sized firms wanting MDR with unlimited threat hunting and incident handling
eSentire was founded in 2001 and is based in Waterloo, Ontario. Its March 2026 release announcing the appointment of James C. Foster as chief executive states that it protects more than 2,000 organisations in over 80 countries across 35 industries, using its Atlas security operations platform. Its service combines 24/7 SOC coverage with threat hunting and incident handling. It does not publish revenue or headcount; its position rests on the customer figure in the March 2026 release. Its customer figure is the published total across all industries served.
Services
- Multi-signal managed detection and response
- 24/7 SOC-as-a-service
- Incident response
- Threat hunting
- Organisations protected
- 2,000+
- Founded
- 2001
- Headquarters
- Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Core services
- MDR; threat hunting; incident response
47
TT
Telefónica's cyber, cloud and IT services unit with 1,700+ cyber customers and 11 SOCs
Best for: Spanish-speaking and UK customers wanting security from a telecoms-backed provider
Telefónica Tech is the digital services unit of the Spanish telecoms group Telefónica, covering cybersecurity, cloud and IT services. Its UK and Ireland managed security page cites 6,200 professionals across the whole unit, a global network of 11 security operations centres and more than 1,700 global cyber security customers, among them Santander, Lidl and Bosch. The unit does not report cybersecurity revenue separately from cloud and IT services, so it is ranked on the customer figure. Its 11 SOCs are among the larger published networks.
Services
- Managed security services (NextDefense)
- Managed detection and response
- Cloud security
- Security consulting
- Cyber customers
- 1,700+
- SOCs
- 11
- Parent
- Telefónica SA
- Core services
- MSS and MDR; cloud security; consulting
48
A
US managed security and compliance provider serving 1,200+ organisations
Best for: Mid-market and enterprise organisations combining compliance with MXDR
Avertium is a US managed security and compliance services provider. Its home page says more than 1,200 mid-market and enterprise organisations across 15 industries use its services, and lists two 24/7 Cyber Fusion Centers, more than 900,000 devices under management and more than 400 certifications. It sells assessments, security architecture and Microsoft-verified MXDR, and positions compliance and security as a single programme. It publishes no revenue or headcount, so its place depends on the customer figure, which is the second smallest in the customer tier.
Services
- Managed extended detection and response
- Compliance services
- Security assessment and roadmap
- Security architecture
- Organisations served
- 1,200+
- Cyber Fusion Centers
- 2
- Core services
- MXDR; compliance; assessment
49
Dutch MDR provider that bundles detection with cyber insurance for 1,000+ firms
Best for: European small and mid-sized businesses wanting MDR and insurance under one contract
Eye Security was founded in 2020 by three veterans of Dutch national security. It combines managed detection and response with incident response and cyber insurance under one operating model, and states that it is trusted by more than 1,000 European organisations. It presents its European ownership and independence as part of its offer to mid-sized businesses. Combining detection with insurance in one product is unusual among the firms in this ranking, most of which work alongside insurers rather than providing cover. It is the smallest provider by published customers that met the list's threshold of 1,000.
Services
- Managed detection and response
- Incident response
- Cyber insurance
- Security monitoring
- Organisations
- 1,000+
- Founded
- 2020
- Core services
- MDR; incident response; cyber insurance
50
IBM's X-Force and managed security services business, ranked on SOC locations
Best for: Large enterprises and governments wanting X-Force incident response and managed SOC services
IBM sells cybersecurity services, including managed security services, X-Force incident response, threat intelligence and penetration testing. IBM publishes neither security services revenue nor a security headcount. Its list of security operations centre locations names four global delivery sites, in Bangalore, Wroclaw, Costa Rica and Hortolandia, and nine regional SOCs in Wroclaw, Budapest, Riyadh, Sydney, Tokyo, Madrid, Bogota, Hursley and Markham, or 12 distinct locations. That count places IBM in the final tier of this ranking, which is a consequence of its limited disclosure rather than a measure of its size.
Services
- Managed security services
- X-Force incident response
- Threat intelligence
- Penetration testing
- SOC locations
- 12 distinct sites
- Listed on
- New York Stock Exchange
- Core services
- Managed security; X-Force incident response; threat intelligence
Frequently asked questions
What is the largest cybersecurity services company?
Among companies that publish a figure, Orange Cyberdefense is the largest, with €1.3 billion of revenue in 2025, about US$1.47 billion. Several firms that do not publish security revenue may be larger. Deloitte says Gartner ranks it the largest security services provider by revenue and reports more than 35,000 cyber practitioners, and Accenture reports more than 30,000 cybersecurity professionals.
What is the difference between an MSSP and an MDR provider?
A managed security services provider (MSSP) traditionally runs and monitors security tools such as firewalls and SIEM platforms and passes alerts to the client. A managed detection and response (MDR) provider takes on investigation and response as well, using its own analysts and usually its own detection platform to contain threats. Many firms in this list, including LevelBlue, Integrity360 and SecurityHQ, now sell both.
How is this list different from a list of cybersecurity companies?
Lists of cybersecurity companies usually rank product vendors such as Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and CrowdStrike by total revenue. This list ranks firms that sell security services: monitoring, response, testing and consulting. Product vendors appear only through separately measured services units, such as CrowdStrike's professional services revenue or Unit 42's published team size.
Why are some large consultancies missing?
Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Capgemini, PwC, EY, KPMG, Booz Allen Hamilton and Google's Mandiant all have large security practices, but none had a cybersecurity revenue, headcount, customer or SOC figure on a page that could be opened for this edition. The list does not estimate figures, so these firms were left out rather than placed by guesswork.
Which cybersecurity service providers have the most customers?
Among published figures, Sophos reports 35,000 MDR customers and more than 75,000 organisations using its security operations portfolio. Thales reports 30,000 cybersecurity customers across products and services, and Arctic Wolf says it serves more than 10,000 organisations. Optiv reports more than 6,000 clients and GuidePoint Security more than 5,900.
Which providers run the most security operations centres?
NTT DATA publishes the highest count, with 49 security operations centres and more than 80 delivery centres. Orange Cyberdefense lists 36 detection centres in 23 countries, DXC 12 SOCs, IBM 12 SOC locations, Telefónica Tech 11, HCLTech ten fusion centres and CGI, Wipro and Integrity360 eight each.
Who bought Secureworks and Trustwave?
Sophos completed its acquisition of Secureworks on 3 February 2025, when Secureworks merged into a Sophos subsidiary and ceased to be publicly traded. LevelBlue completed its acquisition of Trustwave on 19 August 2025 and later bought Cybereason, as part of a series of deals that it says made it the largest pure-play managed security services provider.
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