The 2024 MES Midmarket 100: Top Companies Serving The Midmarket

Proofpoint

Proofpoint, Inc. is a leading cybersecurity and compliance company that protects organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: their people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyberattacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than 85 percent of the Fortune 100, rely on Proofpoint for human-centric security and compliance solutions that mitigate their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web. The company’s product portfolio includes Proofpoint Threat Protection, Proofpoint Information Protection, and Proofpoint Intelligent Compliance.

“Proofpoint’s mission is to protect people and defend data. Our strategy is to provide the most comprehensive, AI-powered human-centric security solution to protect organizations across the four dimensions of human risk: threat risk, impersonation risk, identity risk, and data loss risk. We empower security teams with the visibility, efficiency, and tools they need to manage and address human risk factors more effectively. We continuously evolve our solutions based on customer feedback, industry trends, and emerging threats identified by our Threat Research team. Our platform is available to all midmarket customers through our numerous channel partnerships and managed service providers.”

Protera

Protera is a leading authority in enterprise digital transformation. For 25 years, its mission has been to empower enterprises to achieve their modernization objectives with improved value, increased quality, and reduced risk. As the next-generation cloud modernization company, Protera’s full suite of services range from IT strategy and design to implementation and management. Protera is a global SAP partner certified in BTP (Business Technology Platform) operations for RISE with SAP, hosting, cloud, application management, global outsourcing, SAP S/4HANA and SAP HANA operations services. The company provides enterprise workload migration to AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud; comprehensive enterprise cloud managed services on any hyperscaler leveraging Protera CloudVantage (Security, FinOps, Modern Work); and SAP specific cloud and application services (migration, technical application management, complete SAP Basis support, RISE with SAP).

“We serve midmarket companies in North America across manufacturing, CPG (consumer packaged goods), oil, gas, energy, finance and health care industries. Growing midmarket enterprises consistently expect visibility, trust, security and cost efficiency from their mission critical business systems and strategies. We bring over 25 years of managing, securing and optimizing SAP and surrounding enterprise workloads for midmarket customers. Combined with our deep hyperscale partner engineering relationships, Protera’s comprehensive and centralized cloud modernization and management solutions, processes and insights enable cost-effective, differentiated outcomes for all stakeholders.”

QS2 Point

QS2 Point is a go-to partner for software and application development across North America. Headquartered in Traverse City, Mich., its extensive network of over 300 talented developers and experts in diverse tech platforms is strategically distributed across various centers in the Americas. QS2 Point offers software development, Salesforce support, administration and development, and data analytics.

“We specialize in offering team augmentation tailored specifically for the IT departments of midmarket enterprises. Within the midmarket segment, companies often face a critical decision: Should their technology teams prioritize innovation or maintenance? Our approach is designed to alleviate this dilemma. By taking charge of the maintenance aspect of their technology operations, we enable their teams to dedicate their efforts to innovation and core business strategies. We aim to provide an unparalleled, consistently excellent customer experience, ensuring our midmarket clients receive predictable, high-quality service. This strategic approach fosters long-term partnerships, supporting sustainable growth and a competitive edge.”

Red Hat

Red Hat is a leading provider of enterprise open-source solutions, including Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes, delivering hardened solutions that make it easier for organizations to work across platforms and environments, from the core datacenter to the network edge. Red Hat believes that collaborative communities of experts create the best open source, IT and customer experiences. With this open-source spirit, Red Hat has established a robust partner ecosystem of industry leaders that can solve customer challenges, build integrated solutions and deliver transformative services. Its portfolio includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

“Customer first, partner always. Red Hat focuses on a sales culture that is customer-centric and partner sales-led, and we extend our go-to-market model with and through partners in order to be the scale engine for the company. In the midmarket, we execute on this partner-led vision by embedding services partners into each customer account in order to drive customer life cycle value, delivery and consumption.”

Safetica

Safetica is a global software company that provides data loss prevention and insider risk management solutions to organizations of all sizes worldwide. Whether deployed on-premises or in the cloud, its solution is designed to protect business-critical data against accidental leaks and intentional theft in today’s hybrid landscape. 

“We envision a world in which all companies, large and small, can focus on their business without worrying about data loss and insider threats. We believe data protection should make running your business easier, not harder.  Thanks to our expertise, our solution is simple and effective.”

Scale Computing

Scale Computing is a leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions and delivers a complete platform for running applications at the branch office, distributed enterprise, and edge computing. Using patented HyperCore technology, Scale Computing Platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and corrects infrastructure problems in real-time, enabling applications to achieve maximum uptime, even when local IT resources and staff are scarce. When ease-of-use, high availability, and TCO matter, Scale Computing Platform is the ideal infrastructure platform for organizations of any size, across all verticals and industries. In addition to the Scale Computing Platform and Scale Computing HyperCore, it offers Scale Computing Fleet Manager. 

“Scale Computing understands the unique concerns many midsize organizations face in today’s challenging IT and economic landscape, including limited budget and resources. Whether a company has one IT administrator or hundreds, Scale Computing infrastructure eliminates complexity, lowers costs, and frees up management time. Using an appliance-based approach to virtualization, the Scale Computing infrastructure solution is faster to deploy, easier to manage, and allows organizations to scale seamlessly as they grow. Even in an emergency with the failure of hardware components or entire appliances, Scale Computing keeps critical apps up and running, providing midsized organizations the reliability and flexibility they need.”

SECNAP Network Security 

SECNAP Network Security is a managed security service provider (MSSP) and a cybersecurity research and development company. Since 2001, it has been combining human intelligence with innovative technology to protect SMBs to midmarket enterprises organizations and government agencies against cyberattacks. It offers CloudJacketXi — a managed security-as-a-service platform (includes 24/7 SOC with standard and premium tiers), internal vulnerability assessments, and web application assessments.

“We are continuously researching, developing, and deploying the most advanced cybersecurity technologies, solutions, and services to combat current, new, and emerging threats. Our proprietary solution, CloudJacketXi, was designed for the unique needs of SMBs to midmarket enterprises. Our managed security-as-a-service platform provides an all-encompassing cybersecurity solution that matches the robust defenses used by Fortune 500 companies today.”

SecureW2

SecureW2 offers a cloud-native solution for customers looking to power network security via Azure AD, Okta, and Google. While certificate-driven network security & WPA2-Enterprise security were initially reserved for large enterprises, with advancements in technology and the growing risk of credential theft, SecureW2 has made passwordless network security available for midmarket enterprises. SecureW2 delivers enterprise-level network security without enterprise-level cost or complexity. The SecureW2 platform offers comprehensive and cost-effective passwordless securing, including EAP-TLS, certificate-based 802.1X for wi-fi security, managed device auto-enrollment gateways, and a dynamic Cloud RADIUS solution focused on ease of deployment and user experience.  

“SecureW2 offers midmarket-friendly cost and licensing models to help midmarket enterprises maximize ROI on their security spend. Its self-service pricing tool let MESes customize a solution based on their unique needs. A big focus in SecureW2’s product development has been to make implementation, adoption, and ongoing maintenance as easy as possible for midmarket customers who have a very lean IT team. SecureW2 covers: PKI/Certificate services, RADIUS authentication, managed/unmanaged BYOD device, onboarding SSL inspection, Yubico Smart Card enablement, guest and IoT services, role-based access control, pre-shared key elimination, solving wi-fi credential theft, multi-tenant RADIUS for MSPs, and certificate-based VPN enablement.”

Secureworks

Secureworks provides cybersecurity analytics, detection and response services. Its flagship offering, Secureworks Taegis, is a cloud-based cybersecurity analytics platform providing real-world threat intelligence and research. 

SEI

SEI, a technology and investment solutions provider, has spent two decades developing cybersecurity capabilities to protect its own highly regulated business. By combining industry-leading enterprise technology and threat intelligence with proprietary systems, SEI has built a robust program designed to monitor, detect, analyze, and remediate existing and emerging cyber threats. SEI’s job is to manage the cybersecurity program it constructs for clients and communicate what and how SEI is mitigating and remediating potential threats. SEI Sphere’s cybersecurity solution combines industry-leading enterprise technology with proprietary tools, creating an intelligence-driven platform designed to monitor, detect, analyze, and remediate existing and emerging threats.

“Many SMBs don’t have the resources to maintain a robust, in-house cyber program. As an MSSP to small-to-mid-sized businesses, SEI Sphere delivers enterprise-grade cybersecurity services that are right-sized and cost-effective for financial advisers, remote workforces, and other smaller organizations. The company’s goal is to meet these clients where they are. The solution includes: comprehensive protection — from laptop to email to web, a centralized security database, constantly refined cyber threat intelligence (CTI), and tenured security analysts defending digital environments with 24/7/365 monitoring and response. SEI Sphere also assists with cloud migration, providing SMBs with greater IT flexibility and business continuity.”