LevelBlue, an MSSP offering cloud-based, AI-driven managed security services, announced a strategic partnership with global cybersecurity solutions provider Fortra. The collaboration integrates Fortra’s solutions with LevelBlue’s managed services to deliver a comprehensive security offering designed to combat the evolving threat landscape.
As part of the partnership agreement, LevelBlue will acquire the managed services of Fortra’s Alert Logic managed detection and response (MDR), extended detection and response (XDR), and web application firewall (WAF) solutions. LevelBlue’s expanded MDR platform, which has been strengthened through recent acquisitions, will provide Alert Logic’s client base with access to a larger global footprint, broader threat telemetry, and accelerated detection and response across complex environments, the company said.
Fortra will become a LevelBlue cybersecurity partner, making its software and platforms available to LevelBlue’s global client base. Fortra’s technologies are expected to complement and extend LevelBlue’s existing capabilities across data security, brand protection, email security and offensive security, while adding additional depth, optionality and specialization, officials said.
“LevelBlue is combining world-class human expertise with AI-powered, platform-led services to give clients faster detection, smarter response and long-lasting resilience against threats,” said Bob McCullen, chairman and CEO of LevelBlue. “We couldn’t be more excited about the broader partnership with Fortra, whose leading offensive and defensive security solutions will be instrumental in our mission to deliver true defense in depth for enterprises, governments and partners globally.”
For Fortra, which launched its new partner program, Fortra Protect, last year, partnership with LevelBlue represents a “significant step forward” in Fortra’s evolution as a channel-first company focused on empowering resellers, service providers and distributors to deliver its solutions, officials said.
“We are thrilled to partner closely with LevelBlue. They are rapidly emerging as one of the leading managed security services providers in the market, and I am confident that our Alert Logic customers are in good hands,” said Matt Reck, CEO of Fortra. “We are also very excited to be partnering more broadly with LevelBlue. In the incredibly fast-paced cybersecurity market, this combined offering puts the full power of Fortra’s products and LevelBlue’s expertise and global SOC into our shared customers’ hands, providing them cybersecurity risk mitigation, scale and simplicity.”
