Ontinue Named Trailblazing Managed XDR Winner in the 2026 InfoSec Innovator Awards

Recognition Highlights Ontinue's Agentic SOC Approach to Scaling Investigation and Decision-Making in the Autonomous Threat Era

ZÜRICH, Switzerland, Oct. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Ontinue, a leading MXDR partner providing nonstop managed security operations through its Agentic SOC, today announced that it has been named a winner in Cyber Defense Magazine's 2026 Top InfoSec Innovator Awards, receiving the Trailblazing Managed XDR Security (MXDR) award.

The recognition comes as cybersecurity enters what Ontinue calls the Autonomous Threat Era, where attackers increasingly use AI to accelerate reconnaissance, compromise identities and move across environments at machine speed. Yet many security operations models continue to rely heavily on manual investigation, fragmented tools and human-paced decision-making.

Ontinue is addressing this disconnect through its Agentic SOC, an operating model that brings together multi-agent AI, deterministic automation and expert cyber defenders as one governed system. Built on the ION SecOps Platform, the approach applies AI not simply to automate individual security tasks, but to scale investigation and decision-making while maintaining transparency, human accountability and customer-defined guardrails.

"Being named Trailblazing Managed XDR Security is meaningful because trailblazing, to us, isn't about adding more AI to an existing model. It's about redefining how security operations need to work when threats themselves are moving at machine speed and agency," said Moritz Mann, Chief Executive Officer of Ontinue. "Our focus with the Agentic SOC is to give AI meaningful decision capacity within clear guardrails, while keeping people accountable for the decisions that matter most. That combination of autonomy, governance and human expertise is how we believe security teams can operate at the speed this new threat environment demands."

Ontinue ION is an AI powered MXDR service, built for Microsoft-centric, multi-cloud and multi-device environments and centered on Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR. It is delivered through Microsoft Teams for real time collaboration and combines proprietary automation and AI with human expertise from the 24/7, follow the sun Cyber Defense Center and a dedicated Cyber Advisor, to help customers maximize their Microsoft investments while increasing efficiency and reducing risk

"Ontinue embodies three major features we judges look for with the potential to become winners: understanding tomorrow's threats, today, providing a cost-effective solution and innovating in unexpected ways that can help mitigate cyber risk and get one step ahead of the next breach," said Gary S. Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine.

Resources

• Webinar: From Concept to Containment: What an Agentic SOC Looks Like in Practice
• Agentic SOC Buyer's Guide
• Blog: Why the Old Cyber Defense Model Breaks in the Autonomous Threat Era

About Ontinue

As a leading provider of AI-powered managed security operations, Ontinue is on a mission to give every organization the freedom to focus on what they do best; by making nonstop security excellence accessible, not just aspirational. By combining advanced AI with deep human expertise, Ontinue delivers managed security operations that are tailored to each organization's unique environment, operational needs, and risk profile.

Ontinue's ION SecOps Platform integrates AI-driven insights, automation, and real-time collaboration to continuously prevent, detect, and respond to threats. With deep expertise in Microsoft security technologies, Ontinue helps customers maximize the value of their existing investments while achieving stronger, more scalable security outcomes.

Continuous protection. AI-powered Nonstop SecOps. That's Ontinue.

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