The "modern MSSP" trying to make cybersecurity boring - one vendor, one contract, one bill.
Most cybersecurity companies sell you another tool. SolCyber's entire pitch is that the mid-market already has too many. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the company calls itself a "modern MSSP" - a managed security services provider that bundles the technology, the round-the-clock monitoring, and the human response an organization needs into a single subscription, delivered under one vendor and one contract.
The problem SolCyber set out to solve is familiar to anyone who has run IT at a company too big to ignore security and too small to build its own security operations center. The tools exist - endpoint detection, email filtering, identity monitoring, a SIEM to tie it together - but buying them is the easy part. Running them, tuning them, and actually responding when an alert fires is where mid-market teams drown. Twelve dashboards, twelve renewal dates, and one overstretched administrator is a recipe for the quiet breach.
SolCyber's answer is consolidation. Rather than reselling a stack of point products and handing customers the logins, it curates the technology, operates it from its own SOC, and takes on the response. The company frames it plainly: it is trying to put the "Managed" and the "Response" back into managed detection and response, rather than claiming to have reinvented the wheel.
That framing matters because the managed-security market is crowded with vendors that promise a novel detection engine and deliver, in practice, another alert factory. SolCyber's differentiator is less about a single algorithm and more about operating discipline - packaging enterprise-grade practice into something a lean team can actually deliver at scale.
The company reports customer-satisfaction numbers that are unusual for the sector, citing a Net Promoter Score above 90 and roughly three times the proactive SOC engagement of a typical provider. Those figures are the company's own; taken at face value, they point at a thesis that the real product is not fear or features, but not making the customer do the work.
SolCyber's origin story is a little unusual. It was not pitched to investors in the standard way - it was incubated internally at ForgePoint Capital, a cybersecurity-focused venture firm, and built from the inside before emerging from stealth in July 2021 with a $20 million Series A that ForgePoint led. The firm developed the company, then funded its public launch.
Its leadership came in with the scars of having done this at scale. CEO and co-founder Scott McCrady is an engineer by training who spent roughly a decade at Symantec, eventually running the company's global MSSP business - at the time one of the largest in the world, with several hundred employees and six security operations centers around the globe. He also helped build out FireEye's global MSSP and systems-integrator channel. Co-founder and CTO David Emerson arrived from security leadership roles, having served as CISO at Appgate and Cyxtera along with technical roles at asset-management funds and universities.
The board reinforces the operational bent: it includes General (Ret.) Keith Alexander, the former director of the National Security Agency. For a company still numbering under 30 employees, that is a notable roster to have assembled around a mid-market thesis.
Two decades in networking, telecom and cybersecurity. Ran Symantec's global MSSP business and built FireEye's MSSP and SI channel before starting SolCyber.
Former CISO at Appgate and Cyxtera, with earlier technical leadership at asset-management funds and universities. Leads SolCyber's technology.
The clearest way to see SolCyber's positioning is to line up the do-it-yourself approach - or the traditional MSSP that hands you a portal - against the integrated program the company is selling.
The identity-first angle is where SolCyber leans into a broader industry shift. Its SIEM builds a behavioral profile of each user across the technologies it monitors, so it can flag anomalous activity and credential abuse - the kind of attack that increasingly looks like a normal login and slips past perimeter defenses. That is the reasoning behind MDR++, which extends traditional managed detection and response to harden directory services and catch identity-based attacks.
A fully managed security program pairing a curated technology stack with continuous, proactive SOC support - the company's flagship bundle.
Per-user subscription combining EDR, advanced email protection, user behavioral analysis, SOC/SIEM, and security awareness training, backed by an identity-first SIEM.
Human-led managed detection and response focused on endpoint and identity, with a fast-start path to greater cyber resilience.
Filters security telemetry more intelligently to cut SIEM costs and optimize the security data pipeline.
Managed mobile security so phones don't become the weak link, with privacy-focused BYOD protection via the iVerify partnership.
Affordable, guaranteed cyber insurance bundled with Foundational Coverage for qualifying customers.
A B2B, security-as-a-service subscription - often priced per user - covering tools, 24/7 SOC monitoring, and human-led response under one contract. Add-ons like mobile protection and cyber insurance extend the base, and an MSP/MSSP partner program broadens distribution.
Mid-market and enterprise organizations that need enterprise-grade security but lack the staff or budget to build and run their own SOC - served both directly and through channel partners.
SolCyber competes with managed-detection and MSSP providers such as Arctic Wolf, Expel, Huntress, ReliaQuest, Red Canary and eSentire - and, just as often, with the do-it-yourself alternative of buying and running point tools in-house.
The mid-market gap - companies too big to ignore security and too small to build a SOC - is where many breaches quietly happen and where few vendors want to sell. That is precisely where SolCyber aimed.
Emerges in July with $20M Series A led by ForgePoint Capital, positioning as the first modern MSSP for the mid-market.
Named a CRN Stellar Start-Up, wins Globee Startup of the Year in Security Services, and lands on CRN's MSP 500 "Security 100" list.
Unveils XDR++, combining EDR, email protection, UEBA, SOC/SIEM and security awareness training with an identity-first SIEM.
Launches MDR++, joins iVerify's mobile-security partner program, and is named to MSSP Alert's Top 250 Global MSSPs.
The contrarian bet that consolidation and simplicity, not more features, are what the mid-market needs.
How ForgePoint built the company internally before its $20M launch.
How the CEO's path through Symantec and FireEye shaped SolCyber's operating model.
A breakdown of the endpoint, email, identity, SOC/SIEM and training layers.
How profiling behavior across 500+ technologies changes what a SOC can detect.
The logic of bundling coverage with managed risk reduction.
SolCyber against Arctic Wolf, Huntress, Expel and the rest of the field.
Comparing identity-first MDR++ with traditional managed detection and response.
The customer-experience choices behind an unusual satisfaction score.
Extending managed protection to phones and BYOD without compromising privacy.
It provides managed cybersecurity as a service, bundling the tools, 24/7 SOC monitoring and human-led response a company needs into a single subscription program under one vendor and one contract.
SolCyber was founded in 2021 by CEO Scott McCrady and CTO David Emerson, and was incubated by ForgePoint Capital.
SolCyber launched from stealth in 2021 with a $20 million Series A round led by ForgePoint Capital.
SolCyber's term for consolidating detection, response, identity, endpoint, email, mobile and even cyber insurance into one integrated managed program - rather than selling siloed point products the customer must run themselves.
Mainly mid-market and enterprise organizations that need enterprise-grade security but lack the staff or budget to build and operate their own security operations center.
This profile is compiled from public sources including SolCyber's website, press releases, and industry coverage. Figures such as employee count, revenue, and satisfaction scores are approximate or company-reported and may have changed. Funding reflects the publicly announced 2021 Series A.