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The 2022 Tech Innovator Awards
Rick Whiting
From among more than 260 applicants, CRN staff selected products spanning the IT industry – including in cloud, infrastructure, security, storage and devices – that offer ground-breaking functionality, differentiation and partner opportunity.

Security: Managed Detection And Response
Winner: eSentire MDR for Microsoft 365 Defender
Rounding out its support for Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft‘s security toolset, eSentire expanded its MDR for Microsoft Services offering with new coverage across Microsoft Defender for Identity and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. These additions provide visibility and response capabilities around Microsoft 365 Defender (endpoint, email, identity and cloud application security), helping customers unlock the full value of their Microsoft investment. The eSentire offering now delivers cyber investigation, response and remediation capabilities that cover endpoints, users and critical cloud applications and workloads, adding user identity-level response to eSentire’s comprehensive counterthreat arsenal.
Finalists:
Barracuda XDR
Cynet 360 AutoXDR
Fortinet FortiXDR
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response
SentinelOne XDR Agent