August 19, 2025 3 Minute Read

Today marks an exciting day for LevelBlue and for the broader cybersecurity industry. I’m pleased to announce that LevelBlue has completed its acquisition of Trustwave, a global leader in cybersecurity and managed detection and response (MDR).

This is more than a business transaction; it’s a strategic leap forward in our mission to redefine what it means to be a trusted cybersecurity partner in an increasingly complex, high-stakes world.

Why This Matters Now

Cyber threats are evolving at an unprecedented pace, and organizations everywhere are struggling to defend assets spread across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. The complexity of this challenge demands more than incremental improvements; it calls for truly integrated security and a robust defense-in-depth strategy that layers protection across every endpoint, network, and user.

That’s why the timing of this acquisition matters. By uniting our strengths, LevelBlue and Trustwave have created the world’s largest independent, pure-play Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP), with the broadest and most comprehensive portfolio of managed security, offensive security, strategic advisory, incident response, and security software in the market.

We’re not just the largest—we’re redefining what it means to be a managed security partner. We’re combining world-class human expertise with AI-powered, platform-led services to give our clients faster detection, smarter response, and lasting resilience against evolving threats.

The Most Complete Cybersecurity Partner

With the combination of LevelBlue, Trustwave, Stroz Friedberg, and Elysium Digital, we are the industry’s most complete cybersecurity partner to help clients of all sizes – from SMB to Large Enterprise and Public Sector – stay ahead of the rapidly changing threat landscape.

For our clients and partners, this acquisition provides immediate and significant benefits:

• Comprehensive, Integrated Portfolio: This acquisition makes us the most complete cybersecurity partner in the industry. We now offer the broadest and most comprehensive portfolio of managed security, offensive security, strategic advisory, incident response, and security software. Our expanded consulting, risk, and compliance services round out our mission to help organizations anticipate threats, strengthen their cyber programs, and realize the value of their technology investments—all with a single trusted provider.
• Largest, Deepest Expertise: We have combined decades of leadership and innovation. As the largest MSSP, our teams deliver reliable, global coverage that is unmatched in the industry. Our threat intelligence ecosystem combines the power of OTX, the world’s largest open threat-sharing platform; the elite research capabilities of Trustwave SpiderLabs; and the proprietary detection logic developed by both LevelBlue Labs and SpiderLabs. This unique blend of AI-driven detection, global community-sourced data, expert analysis, and real-time insights delivers exceptional situational awareness across the threat landscape—resulting in faster detection, reduced alert fatigue, enhanced response and more proactive mitigation throughout the security lifecycle.
• Seamless Client Experience: Our clients and partners will benefit from a unified platform that integrates existing best-in-class tools with pragmatic, human-centered AI, ensuring flexibility, continuity, rapid value, and most importantly, effective threat defense. Whether you’re a medium business, global enterprise, or government agency, you now have access to a complete, layered defense portfolio—one where technology and human expertise work together to anticipate and mitigate threats to keep you one step ahead of the threat landscape.

Our People Are Our Strength

Technology powers our solutions, but our people bring them to life. This acquisition unites some of the brightest minds in cybersecurity: a team of elite practitioners who deliver unrivaled vigilance, speed, and expertise. It’s their talent, passion, and mission-driven mindset that ensure we set the bar for performance, innovation, and client focus.

Looking Forward Together

This acquisition is part of a broader strategy to merge the best capabilities and organizations in the industry to deliver superior outcomes for our clients and partners. Alongside our recent acquisition of Stroz Friedberg and Elysium Digital, this portfolio consolidation positions LevelBlue as the largest independent, pure-play MSSP with the most complete set of capabilities available today.

As we embark on this journey as one team, our promise to the market and to our clients remains clear: we will continue to invest in pragmatic AI solutions that deliver real value throughout our offerings, to expand our industry leadership with a continually evolving portfolio, and to set the pace in cybersecurity innovation. Above all, we remain dedicated to delivering the certainty, trust, and resilience organizations need in a changing world.

Thank you for your continued trust in LevelBlue as we work to define the gold standard for managed security. 

Bob McCullen 
Chairman and CEO, LevelBlue