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Secureworks® Taegis™ XDR Named “XDR Platform of the Year” in 7th Annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards Program

Prestigious International Awards Program Recognizes Outstanding Information Security Products and Companies

Atlanta, GA - October 5, 2023 – Secureworks® (NASDAQ: SCWX), a global leader in cybersecurity, today announced that its Taegis™ XDR platform has won the “XDR Platform of the Year” award in the 7th annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program. Conducted by CyberSecurity Breakthrough, a leading independent market intelligence organization, the awards recognize the top companies, technologies and products in the global information security market today.

Secureworks Taegis XDR, a SaaS-based, open XDR platform, enables organizations to deliver better cybersecurity outcomes through a combination of superior detection and unmatched response. The solution helps organizations across multiple industries, as well as Managed Security Solution Providers (MSSPs), maximize their SecOps efficiency and effectiveness in preventing, detecting, triaging, investigating, understanding, responding to, and reporting on threats. Whether using Taegis' included security controls, or its robust support for third-party controls across customers IT and OT environments, the platform helps customers identify threats and reduce their time to respond.

"Cybersecurity is a business priority. Organizations are moving away from sprawling cyber estates toward platforms that empower them to manage their increasingly complex requirements and workloads with ease,” said Kyle Falkenhagen, Chief Product Officer, Secureworks. “Thank you to CyberSecurity Breakthrough for recognizing us as ‘XDR Platform of the Year!' We'll continue to take cybersecurity defense to a new level, fundamentally changing the economic dynamics of cybercrime and enabling organizations to empower their security analysts to cut through the noise of alerts, prioritize the most serious events, and reduce risk.”

The mission of the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards is to honor excellence and recognize the innovation, hard work and success in a range of information security categories, including Cloud Security, Threat Detection, Risk Management, Fraud Prevention, Mobile Security, Email Security and many more. This year's program attracted thousands of nominations from over 20 different countries throughout the world.

“Taegis XDR is a transparent ‘zero black box' approach to cybersecurity, putting operational transparency and integrity at the core of providing a fully visible, efficient and effective SecOps platform,” said Steve Johansson, managing director, CyberSecurity Breakthrough. “Given today's levels of attacks aimed at critical infrastructure and back-end OT systems, Taegis serves as a holistic extended security operations platform providing a constantly optimized, evolving, and open XDR platform.”


About CyberSecurity Breakthrough

Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in information security and cybersecurity technology companies, products and people. The CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards provide a platform for public recognition around the achievements of breakthrough information security companies and products in categories including Cloud Security, Threat Detection, Risk Management, Fraud Prevention, Mobile Security, Web and Email Security, UTM, Firewall and more. For more information visit CyberSecurityBreakthrough.com.

Tech Breakthrough LLC does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in our recognition programs, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with award designations. Tech Breakthrough LLC recognition consists of the opinions of the Tech Breakthrough LLC organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Tech Breakthrough LLC disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this recognition program, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.


About Secureworks

Secureworks (NASDAQ: SCWX) is a global cybersecurity leader that secures human progress with Secureworks® Taegis™, a SaaS-based, open XDR platform built on 20+ years of real-world detection data, security operations expertise, and threat intelligence and research. Taegis is embedded in the security operations of thousands of organizations around the world who use its advanced, AI-driven capabilities to detect advanced threats, streamline and collaborate on investigations, and automate the right actions.

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