Stellar Cyber Named Winner for Top 10 Cybersecurity Startups for Black Unicorn Awards 2021 by Cyber Defense Magazine

Open XDR Platform Makes Company a Standout in a Hotly Competitive Market Space

Santa Clara, CA, August 9, 2021 — Stellar Cyber, the innovator of Open XDR – the only intelligent, next-gen security operations platform – today announced that it has been named one the Top 10 Cybersecurity Startups for 2021 at the Black Unicorn Awards for 2021, which take place each year during the Black Hat USA conference.

Stellar Cyber competed against many of the industry’s leading cybersecurity startups for this prestigious award.  

“We’re pleased to name Stellar Cyber as a Winner for the Top 10 Cybersecurity Startups for 2021 among a small, elite group of startups in our third annual Black Unicorn awards,” said judges Robert R. Ackerman Jr. of www.allegiscyber.com, David DeWalt of www.nightdragon.com, Dr. Peter Stephenson of Cyber Defense Labs and Gary Miliefsky of www.cyberdefensemediagroup.com.  

“Our Open XDR platform, which incorporates our new XDR Kill Chain™ and incident-based event reporting, is a real game-changer in the XDR space,” said Steve Garrison, vice president of marketing at Stellar Cyber. “We are happy to add this Top 10 Cybersecurity Startup award to our trophy wall.”

About Stellar Cyber:
Stellar Cyber’s Open XDR platform delivers Everything Detection and Response by ingesting data from all tools, automatically correlating alerts into incidents across the entire attack surface, delivering fewer and higher-fidelity incidents, and responding to threats automatically through AI and machine learning. Our XDR Kill Chain™, fully compatible with the MITRE ATT&CK framework, is designed to characterize every aspect of modern attacks while remaining intuitive to understand. This reduces enterprise risk through early and precise identification and remediation of all attack activities while slashing costs, retaining investments in existing tools and accelerating analyst productivity. Typically, our platform delivers a 8X improvement in MTTD and an 20X improvement in MTTR. The company is based in Silicon Valley. For more information, contact https://stellarcyber.ai.

About Cyber Defense Awards:
This is Cyber Defense Magazine’s 9th year of honoring cybersecurity innovators, in this case the Black Unicorn Awards for 2021 on our Cyber Defense Awards platform. In this competition, judges for these prestigious awards includes cybersecurity industry veterans, trailblazers and market makers Gary Miliefsky of CDMG, Dr. Peter Stephenson of CDMG, Robert R. Ackerman Jr. of Allegis Cyber and David DeWalt of NightDragon with much appreciation to emeritus judge Robert Herjavec of Herjavec Group.  To see the complete list of Winners for the Black Unicorn Awards for 2021 please visit https://cyberdefenseawards.com/black-unicorn-awards-Winners-2021/ 

About Cyber Defense Magazine
Cyber Defense Magazine was founded in 2012 by Gary S. Miliefsky, globally recognized cyber security thought leader, inventor and entrepreneur and continues to be the premier source of IT Security information. We are managed and published by and for ethical, honest, passionate information security professionals. Our mission is to share cutting-edge knowledge, real-world stories and awards on the best ideas, products and services in the information technology industry. We deliver electronic magazines every month online for free, and limited print editions exclusively for the RSA, BlackHat and IPEXPO conferences and our limited edition paid reprint subscribers. Learn more about us at http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com. Cyber Defense Magazine is a proud member of the Cyber Defense Media Group (CDMG).

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