From AI-powered EDR vendors to widely used MDR platforms, here’s a look at 20 key companies in endpoint and managed security.
Coolest Endpoint And Managed Security Companies
Spurred by the surging adoption of AI tools that are escalating security risks on endpoint devices, the endpoint security market is seeing a resurgence of growth in demand. While EDR (endpoint detection and response) and EPP (endpoint protection platform) have been seen as essential tools for protecting organizations for many years now, some vendors report that a new phase of demand for endpoint security is now underway in connection with the deployment of GenAI applications such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude, as well as AI web browsers such as Perplexity’s Comet and ChatGPT Atlas.
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Growth of the market for modern endpoint security surged 17.6 percent to reach total revenue of $14.51 billion in 2024, according to the most recent figures available from IDC. The top six market-share leaders—Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Broadcom, Trellix, Sophos and SentinelOne—all saw double-digit percentage growth for their endpoint security offerings, IDC reported.
At the same time, the MDR (managed detection and response) market has continued to see huge demand—though there as well, AI is driving major transformation. MDR is especially poised to be reshaped as it is far more reliant on human involvement than most other segments of cybersecurity. That leads to a strong potential for AI to augment or even replace some functions of the human analyst responsible for delivering MDR.
For CRN’s 2026 Security 100, CRN is recognizing 20 endpoint and managed security vendors that have stood out over the past year through delivering a combination of technical advancements and expanded opportunities for solution and service provider partners.
What follows are the 20 endpoint and managed security companies that made CRN’s Security 100 list for 2026.
Bitdefender
Florin Talpes
Co-Founder, CEO
Major product expansions at Bitdefender have included the debut of a stand-alone version of its PHASR (proactive hardening and attack surface reduction) endpoint security offering. The vendor called it the “first” product in endpoint security to bring together dynamic security hardening based on behavior with threat intelligence delivered in real time—ultimately bringing a more proactive approach to thwarting ransomware.
Blackpoint Cyber
Gagan Singh
CEO
Blackpoint Cyber unveiled what it called a “unified security posture and response” offering with the launch of its new CompassOne platform. The platform builds on the company’s MSP-focused managed detection and response (MDR) offering, with new features for security posture rating and cloud posture along with revamped capabilities for existing tools.
Broadcom
Hock Tan
President, CEO
Recent updates from Broadcom have included the rollout of new security capabilities and enhancements for VMware Cloud Foundation. Broadcom-owned VMware launched a new Cyber Compliance Advanced Service for VCF, a revamped Avi Load Balancer, native vSAN S3 Object Storage and enhanced security capabilities for vDefend for private cloud, the company said.
Coro
Joe Sykora
CEO
Coro offers numerous security tools—spanning categories including endpoint, network, email, cloud apps, data protection and security awareness training—through its single-agent platform focused on SMBs. Recent updates to the platform included in Coro 3.7 include an improved user interface enabling greater threat prioritization and faster response, the company said.
CrowdStrike
George Kurtz
Co-Founder, CEO
CrowdStrike has launched new capabilities for its Falcon platform as the adoption of AI tools has led to increased risk on endpoint devices. The introduction of Falcon AI Detection and Response (AIDR) provides a massive boost to security around AI prompts and agent interactions, the company said. Key functionality includes deeper visibility into AI usage than what’s available from existing tools, according to CrowdStrike.
eSentire
Kerry Bailey
CEO
MDR vendor eSentire recently introduced a new licensing model for partners enabling usage of a dedicated instance of the Atlas Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platform. The move allows partners to integrate in-house security services while deploying new offerings more quickly, according to the company.
ESET
Richard Marko
CEO
ESET unveiled the availability of its managed detection and response offering, Protect MDR, to its MSP partners. The company said the offering would be delivered as an add-on service to ESET Protect Enterprise or Protect Elite and would offer response times of as little as 20 minutes. Protect MDR provides proactive threat hunting as well as the advantage of having access to the latest ESET research and threat intelligence, according to the company.
Expel
Dave Merkel
Co-Founder, CEO
Key updates from MDR vendor Expel have included the debut of new threat intelligence capabilities that provide enhanced analysis leveraging real-world attacks as well as improved recommendations for action. Other recent moves have included a new integration with Google’s security operations platform, Google SecOps, focused around boosting threat detection, investigation and response.
Huntress
Kyle Hanslovan
Co-Founder, CEO
Huntress unveiled a major new partnership with Microsoft that provides the Huntress managed security platform with enhanced visibility into telemetry from Microsoft’s widely used productivity and security tools. The collaboration includes integrations between the Huntress platform and Microsoft 365 Business Premium as well as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint—ultimately extending Huntress’ coverage on MDR deeper into the Microsoft ecosystem.
Kaseya
Rania Succar
CEO
Key security capabilities in the Kaseya 365 Endpoint platform include EDR (endpoint detection and response), antivirus and ransomware detection, as well as optional MDR (managed detection and response). Recent security moves from Kaseya included the acquisition of email security vendor Inky, focused on expanding the company’s AI-powered capabilities and proactive cyber defense.
N-able
John Pagliuca
President, CEO
N-able announced that it now offers Microsoft 365 management capabilities through the addition of Adlumin breach prevention to the N-able Ecoverse platform. The breach prevention feature is part of N-able’s broader strategy to deliver end-to-end security for Microsoft 365 environments and provides protection against account takeovers, credential theft and unauthorized access, according to the company.
NinjaOne
Sal Sferlazza
Co-Founder, CEO
NinjaOne launched new security-focused remote access capabilities for its automated endpoint management platform with the debut of NinjaOne Remote. The new offering provides secure control for MSP management of endpoints, with features including “advanced” encryption and strong access controls as well as session logging, according to the company.
OpenText
Ayman Antoun
CEO
OpenText has expanded its managed detection and response offering, OpenText MDR, to leverage hundreds of integrations with third-party tools. Meanwhile, the company announced the launch of the OpenText AI Data Platform, which aims to offer a comprehensive foundation for AI by unifying data governance and contextual intelligence with cross-application orchestration.
SentinelOne
Tomer Weingarten
Co-Founder, CEO
SentinelOne introduced capabilities to its Singularity platform enabling enhanced visibility into GenAI usage by workers as well as prevention of data exposure. Meanwhile, the integration of Observo AI can optimize data pipelines for autonomous threat detection and response, through bringing together streaming data control and AI-driven analytics and orchestration, according to SentinelOne.
Sophos
Joe Levy
CEO
Sophos’ acquisition of Secureworks brought new capabilities to the company’s MDR platform in areas such as vulnerability detection and response and identity threat detection and response. The Secureworks Taegis technology has also brought a major extension of reach for the Sophos MDR platform with the addition of about 350 new integrations, the company said.
Tanium
Dan Streetman
CEO
Tanium released a major expansion of its platform capabilities with the introduction of Tanium Endpoint Management for Operational Technology, providing visibility into OT environments in real time. The vendor also debuted Tanium Endpoint Management for Mobile, with an initial focus on Apple macOS and other Apple devices, as well as a new Tanium Connector for Microsoft Intune to integrate telemetry from Intune-managed endpoints.
ThreatDown
Kendra Krause
General Manager
ThreatDown, the business security division of Malwarebytes, offers capabilities in endpoint security and MDR (managed and detection and response) that are tailored to midmarket and SMB customers. Major updates have included the launch of a 15-day trial option for MSPs covering the ThreatDown portfolio of MDR and EDR (endpoint detection and response) offerings.
ThreatLocker
Danny Jenkins
Co-Founder, CEO
ThreatLocker expanded its product portfolio by unveiling its patch management offering, which focuses on showing where an organization may be missing software updates. The company also introduced ThreatLocker Insights, which provides security teams with real-time threat intelligence, as well as web filtering with the debut of ThreatLocker Web Control.
Trellix
Vishal Rao
CEO
Recently added capabilities from Trellix included the introduction of Trellix DLP Endpoint Complete, which provides data loss prevention focused on stopping insider threats. Key features include OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for endpoint devices, which aims to block intentional or accidental data loss within images, PDFs and other unstructured content.
Trend Micro
Eva Chen
Co-Founder, CEO
Major updates from Trend Micro included the integration of the Trend Vision One Endpoint Security platform with Nvidia’s BlueField data processing unit (DPU) to boost real-time threat detection. The integration with Nvidia DPUs also enables Trend Micro to deliver hardware-enforced isolation for multitenant AI environments, according to the company.
