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GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today the launch of its new Incident Response Maturity Assessment (IRMA), designed to help organizations evaluate, strengthen and mature their cybersecurity incident response capabilities.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the opening of its new global headquarters at 1900 Reston Metro Plaza in Reston, VA. The new location marks a pivotal milestone in the company’s evolution and continued expansion—representing its third office opening this year—and underscores GuidePoint’s rapid growth, expanding service portfolio and deepening cybersecurity market leadership.

A new report released today by GuidePoint Security, in partnership with the Ponemon Institute, found that most organizations are falling short in their Identity and Access Management (IAM) strategy—leaving them vulnerable to identity-based threats.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today its new Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) Enablement Service.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today new Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance solutions, enabling customers to adopt AI securely, responsibly and in compliance with evolving global standards.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today that it was named the 2025 CrowdStrike Americas Falcon Flex Partner of the Year at CrowdStrike’s Americas Partner Symposium. GuidePoint Security was selected for its demonstrated excellence in Falcon Flex performance, helping customers prevent breaches and empower secure innovation with the CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today the release of the quarterly GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team (GRIT) Ransomware and Cyber Threat Report.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today the release of the GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team’s (GRIT) annual Ransomware & Cyber Threat Report.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today the release of GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team’s (GRIT) new Ransomware and Cyber Threats Insight Report.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today a new month-long series of educational resources, events and expert insights in support of Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today the launch of its new Phishing as a Service (PhaaS) offering.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today that Bugcrowd, a leading provider of crowdsourced cybersecurity has joined its Emerging Cyber Vendor Program.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today the release of GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team’s (GRIT) Q2 2024 Ransomware Report.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today that it has been accredited for its Penetration Testing services by CREST, an international not-for-profit, membership body representing the global cyber security industry. This prestigious accreditation recognizes GuidePoint’s expertise in conducting penetration tests to the highest legal, ethical and technical standards, reinforcing its industry-leading excellence in cybersecurity.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today that Quokka has joined its Emerging Cyber Vendor Program.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today that it has been named to Inc.’s annual Best Workplaces list for the fourth time.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today it has received the 2024 Splunk AMER Regional Partner of the Year award for exceptional performance and commitment to the company’s Splunk partnership.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced that it was named the 2024 CrowdStrike Horizon Partner of the Year at CrowdStrike’s inaugural Americas Partner Symposium. GuidePoint Security was selected for driving accelerated adoption with customers across the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform, specifically Horizon technologies Falcon Cloud Security, Falcon Next-Gen SIEM and Falcon Identity Protection. Over the past year, 45% of GuidePoint’s CrowdStrike sales were Horizon technologies, growing triple-digits year-over-year.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today that Orca Security has joined its Emerging Cyber Vendor Program.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named five of the company’s channel leaders to the Women of the Channel list for 2024.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today the appointment of Rachel Haag as the company’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Haag will oversee GuidePoint’s marketing organization, leveraging her extensive experience in partner management, innovative go-to-market strategies and a customer-led approach to further accelerate the company’s growth.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today the release of GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team’s (GRIT) Q1 2024 Ransomware Report.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the availability of its IoT Security Assessment. GuidePoint Security’s team of IoT security and embedded systems experts have extensive experience identifying potential weaknesses in IoT devices and applications across a wide range of industries. Organizations that leverage GuidePoint’s targeted IoT Security Assessment can ultimately identify and fix vulnerabilities, fortify their defenses, inspire confidence in their customers, and prevent unwanted access to their IoT ecosystem.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the availability of its Data Privacy services, which are designed to help customers take control of their privacy operations. This new service offering will help ensure customers are set up for long-term strategic success as they must navigate an increasing patchwork of legal requirements and obligations.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the availability of its Data Security Governance services, which are designed to help customers address the challenges of unstructured data and data sprawl through a proven process and program to meet their unique needs.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the release of GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team’s (GRIT) 2023 Annual Ransomware Report. This report is based on data obtained from publicly available resources, including threat groups themselves, and insight into the ransomware threat landscape. GRIT observed a victim volume nearly doubling year-over-year, driven in part by multiple mass exploitation campaigns impacting hundreds of organizations. In total, GRIT observed 63 distinct ransomware groups leverage encryption, data exfiltration, data extortion, and other novel tactics to compromise and publicly post 4,519 victims across all 30 of GRIT's tracked industries, and in 120 countries.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the launch of its Identity as a Service, which will help organizations address the complex challenges of identity management by optimizing resources, enhancing user experience, and ensuring security.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the launch of its Compliance Management as a Service, which will help organizations stay on top of required activities and maintain the necessary data to support future compliance assessments.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the launch of its FedRAMP advisory service, which will help organizations design and build their FedRAMP or StateRAMP program for modern architecture.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the release of GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team’s (GRIT) Q3 2023 Ransomware Report. This report is based on data obtained from publicly available resources, including threat groups themselves, and insight into the ransomware threat landscape. GRIT observed a nearly 15% increase in ransomware activity since Q2 due to an increased number of ransomware groups, including 10 new Emerging groups tracked during this quarter. In the third quarter, GRIT tracked 1,353 publicly posted ransomware victims claimed by 46 different threat groups. Through the first three quarters of 2023, GRIT has tracked a total of 3,385 publicly posted ransomware victims claimed by 57 different threat groups, representing an 83% YoY increase.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the closing of a funding round led by Audax Private Equity, a leading alternative investment manager and capital partner to middle market companies. GuidePoint will leverage the investment to further accelerate growth across the United States and expand internationally. Terms of the new investment are not disclosed.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced in celebration of Cybersecurity Awareness Month a series of curated and engaging resources and events that will occur throughout the month of October. GuidePoint will take users on a “Voyage Beyond the Horizon”, showcasing a comprehensive schedule of expert insights, educational papers, blogs, virtual events, and weekly live streams. This informative content will delve into a captivating mix of speculative and practical insights, and examine how external factors and trends are reshaping cybersecurity disciplines both now and for years to come.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced that Jason Braun will be leading the company’s growth in the Southwest US, supporting customers locally in Arizona, Southern California, Nevada, Utah, and Hawaii.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the availability of its Threat Actor Communications Retainer. Regardless of the threat actor communications strategy, the retainer is designed to help organizations that have fallen victim to ransomware implement a dynamic, risk-based strategy that allows them to gain investigative knowledge and time for their business and technology teams to recover. In scenarios where a customer is considering a payment to the threat actor, the retainer also provides negotiation services that focus on risk mitigation, payment reduction, and mutually agreed upon terms.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced that it has been named to Inc. magazine’s annual ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. Coming in at number 3350, this marks the eighth consecutive year that GuidePoint Security has been ranked on the Inc. 5000 list, which represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the release of GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team’s (GRIT) Q2 2023 Ransomware Report. This report is based on data obtained from publicly available resources, including threat groups themselves, and insight into the ransomware threat landscape. In the second quarter, GRIT tracked 1,177 total publicly posted ransomware victims claimed by 41 different threat groups.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today that DTEX Systems, has joined its Emerging Cyber Vendor Program. Through this partnership, DTEX will leverage GuidePoint’s federal expertise across sales and marketing, operations, engineering, and procurement to expand its federal footprint. As part of this program, the DTEX InTERCEPT™ Insider Risk platform will soon be available under GuidePoint’s GSA Multiple Award Schedule Contract #GS-35F-508CA.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the availability of its Breach & Attack Simulation (BAS) as a Service offering. The new service is designed to help organizations maximize the value from their BAS tools and ultimately improve their security posture and the ROI from their existing non-BAS security stack.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, has been named to Inc. magazine’s annual Best Workplaces list. Featured in the May/June 2023 issue, which hits newsstands on May 16, 2023, and prominently featured on Inc.com, the list is the result of a comprehensive measurement of American companies that have excelled in creating exceptional workplaces and company culture, whether operating in a physical or a virtual facility.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today that Cequence Security, the leading provider of Unified API Protection (UAP), has joined its Emerging Cyber Vendor Program. Through this partnership, Cequence Security will leverage GuidePoint’s federal expertise across sales and marketing, operations, engineering and procurement to expand their federal footprint. As part of this program, the Cequence Unified API Protection solution will soon be available under GuidePoint’s GSA Multiple Award Schedule Contract #GS-35F-508CA.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the release of GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team’s (GRIT) Q1 2023 Ransomware Report. This report is based on data obtained from publicly available resources, including threat groups themselves, and insight into the ransomware threat landscape. In the first quarter, GRIT tracked 849 total publicly posted ransomware victims claimed by 29 different threat groups.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today that Fortress joined its Emerging Cyber Vendor Program. Through this partnership, Fortress will leverage GuidePoint’s federal expertise across sales and marketing, operations, engineering and procurement to expand their federal footprint. As part of this program, Fortress’ platform of third-party risk management, cyber supply chain security and vulnerability management solutions is now available under GuidePoint’s GSA Multiple Award Schedule Contract #GS-35F-508CA.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the release of GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team’s (GRIT) 2022 Ransomware Report. This report is based on data obtained from publicly available resources, including threat groups themselves, and insight into the ransomware threat landscape. GRIT outlined a new taxonomy that allows for more insights into how ransomware groups progress in their operational maturity and the ability to classify and identify potential rebranding activity. Over the course of 2022, GRIT tracked 2,507 publicly posted victims across 54 threat groups and 40 industry verticals.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today that Keeper Security joined its Emerging Cyber Vendor Program. Through this partnership, Keeper will leverage GuidePoint’s federal expertise across sales and marketing, operations, engineering and procurement to expand their federal footprint. As part of this program, the Keeper Security Government Cloud (KSGC) password management and security solution is now available under GuidePoint’s GSA Multiple Award Schedule Contract #GS-35F-508CA.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today that Secure Code Warrior joined the Emerging Cyber Vendor Program. This GuidePoint Security Program is specifically designed to help emerging cybersecurity vendors expand their federal footprint. As part of this program, Secure Code Warrior’s Learning Platform is now available under GuidePoint’s GSA Multiple Award Schedule Contract #GS-35F-508CA.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the release of GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team’s (GRIT) Q3 2022 ransomware report. This report is based on data obtained from publicly available resources, including threat groups themselves, and provides an accurate representation of the ransomware threat landscape. In the third quarter, GRIT tracked 27 ransomware groups and 568 publicly posted victims.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced its comprehensive schedule of content and events to celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month. In partnership with The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and The National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) to support of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, GuidePoint has created an educational resource hub that will showcase video tips, white papers, blogs, virtual events, live streams and will culminate with a Capture the Flag security challenge.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the availability of its ICS Security Services. These service offerings include a Security Program Review, Security Architecture Review and ICS Penetration Testing that collectively are designed to provide an organization with a holistic view of their entire ICS security posture.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today that Deepwatch, the leader in advanced managed detection and response (MDR) security, has joined the Emerging Cyber Vendor Program. This GuidePoint Security Program is specifically designed to help emerging cybersecurity vendors expand their federal footprint. As part of this program, the Deepwatch MDR solution is now available under GuidePoint’s GSA Multiple Award Schedule Contract #GS-35F-508CA.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today that it has earned a prestigious spot on the 2022 Fast Growth 150 list, published annually by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company®, landing in 51st place. The CRN Fast Growth 150 list recognizes the fastest-growing North American IT solution providers and technology integrators for significant sales growth—driven by forward-thinking business strategy, strong technology know-how and services prowess—demonstrated over the previous two years.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today that it has achieved the Compliance and Privacy distinction in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency. This designation recognizes that GuidePoint Security has demonstrated and successfully met AWS’s technical and quality requirements for providing customers with a deep level of consulting services expertise in Compliance and Privacy to help them achieve their cloud security goals.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the release of GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team’s (GRIT) quarterly ransomware report. This report is based on data obtained from publicly available resources, including threat groups themselves, and provides an accurate representation of the ransomware threat landscape. In the second quarter, GRIT tracked 30 ransomware groups and 581 publicly posted victims.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the next slate of its GPSEC conference locations and dates. GPSEC is a premier cybersecurity conference that brings together C-level executives, security engineers, consultants and industry-leading vendors into a one day, intimate and interactive format. GuidePoint Security and its sponsoring vendors ensure that attendees can attend a local GPSEC conference for free.

Recent numbers on the cybersecurity skills shortage shows more than 2.72 million open positions, with the global workforce needing to grow 65% to effectively defend organizations’ critical assets1. GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced that it has created GuidePoint Security University (GPSU) as a training and development pipeline for developing critical cybersecurity skills and applying them to real-world solutions.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, is proud to announce that the company’s Federal practice CTO, Jean-Paul Bergeaux, was named by WashingtonExec a Cyber Exec to Watch in 2022. WashingtonExec’s list highlights executives in both government and industry consistently staying one step ahead of adversaries, equipped with the technical know-how to safeguard systems and information.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the availability of its Threat Intelligence Services. These wide range of services, which are delivered by GuidePoint’s Research & Intelligence Team (GRIT), are designed to help customers understand their current intelligence capabilities and maturity level, provide stand-alone threat intelligence services, as well as full Threat Intelligence-as-a-Service offerings. All of these services are fully customizable to meet an organization’s current and future requirements.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the availability of its Zero Trust Workshops. These Workshops are designed to facilitate an organization’s journey through iterative, manageable steps to understand their current Zero Trust maturity level, drive the adoption of critical capabilities in interactive steps, and optimize existing controls to align with the organization’s goals for reducing risk.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced its expansion into the Northwest. Following last year’s expansion into TOLA and the Southwest, GuidePoint is now helping customers in Northern California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming to improve their security posture.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced that it was named the Cyber Company of the Year by the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC). This marks the second consecutive year that GuidePoint Security was awarded this honor at the NVTC Capital Cybersecurity Summit.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the availability of its Penetration Testing as a Service offering, which combines traditional testing with recurring, automated testing and continuous reporting.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced its continued expansion. Following this spring’s expansion into TOLA, GuidePoint is now helping customers locally in Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Hawaii to improve their security posture.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the inception of GuidePoint Security Financial (GPSF), which is an in-house financing arm of the company to provide flexible and simplified procurement options for cybersecurity solutions and services.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the availability of its Ransomware Readiness Assessment, which provides a broad, risk-based analysis of a customer’s ability to protect against ransomware, respond in the event of an incident and recover to resume normal business operations.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced that it has been named to Inc. magazine's annual ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. This marks the sixth consecutive year that GuidePoint Security has been ranked on the Inc. 5000 list, which represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the expansion of its Identity & Access Management (IAM) consulting practice. With a historically high number of remote workers and the continued movement of applications and data to the cloud, Identity and Access Management has become central to cybersecurity, with estimates putting the market size between $22-25 billion by 2025. GuidePoint’s IAM consulting practice expands upon the company’s existing capability of helping customers of all sizes evaluate, select, implement and maintain best-fit IAM solutions, to now also include program assessment and strategy and roadmap development.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the launch of its new Capture the Flag (CTF) Services. These new offerings ensure organizations’ users gain increased knowledge for improving their offensive and defensive security skills.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named GuidePoint Security to its 2021 Solution Provider 500 list, ranked 54 overall. Earlier this year, GuidePoint was named to CRN’s 2021 Managed Security Provider 500 list as part of the Security 100 category.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, has been named to Inc. magazine’s annual list of the Best Workplaces for 2021 for the second year in a row. Hitting newsstands May 18 in the May/June 2021 issue, and as part of a prominent Inc.com feature, the list is the result of a wide-ranging and comprehensive measurement of American companies that have created exceptional workplaces and company culture whether teams are operating in person or remotely.

GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, today announced the launch of GPVUE. This new offering combines cybersecurity professional services with industry-leading solutions to develop a customized program that addresses an organization’s cybersecurity challenges and continuously evolves security program maturity.