By Roark Pollock
Today marks a major milestone in the continued growth of Gradient Cyber! Today we start updating our branding to boldly show and tell Gradient Cyber’s story with new visuals and content.
When I joined Gradient Cyber several months ago, it was evident the company invested heavily in both its cybersecurity technology and cybersecurity expertise. This stood out clearly in the customer meetings I listened in on. In fact, it’s this leading combination of technology innovations and hands-on expertise that accounts for Gradient Cyber’s 85% year-over-year revenue growth since its first year, the high praise we get from our customers, and our 96% retention rate! Great tech plus great service equals happy customers.
Now marketing is playing catch-up to the technical side of Gradient Cyber and our goal is to highlight the fantastic work being done by our development and security teams. Today I’d like to tell you about:
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Our Corporate Mission and why we do what we do.
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Our updated brand elements like our new logo and tagline.
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Our technology, our cybersecurity team, and our products.
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And what you can expect to see next.
Our Corporate Mission
Let me start with a bit of history. Gradient Cyber was co-founded in 2017 by a highly experienced group of development and cyber professionals. The initial team consisted of former career military and IBM leaders who worked supporting U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), intelligence agencies, Army, and Marine Corps big data and cybersecurity projects.
Their premise in starting the company was to bring an affordable cloud-based cybersecurity platform and services together for ‘Main Street USA’ – meaning we are laser focused on serving small businesses and mid-market enterprises. The initial goal was to help these companies address the challenge of having too much cybersecurity and log data for IT personnel to keep up with – to eliminate the noise and provide cybersecurity clarity. That goal continues today.
The initial goal was to help these companies address
the challenge of having too much cybersecurity and log data for IT personnel to keep up with - to eliminate the noise and provide cybersecurity clarity. That goal continues today.
Our Why
In everything we do, we believe good people make a difference in the world and don’t stand idly by. We believe that takes toughness, grit, and a fighting spirit.
For Gradient Cyber, the way we make a difference in the world is stopping the impact of cyber-crime through our cyber expertise, on-going threat detection and response, and risk management programs.
Here are the things we’re doing to advance our cause.
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Hiring and developing great cybersecurity talent that shares our mission and values.
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Leveraging technology and expertise to advance “the fight” – continuous threat detection and response.
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Helping customers assess and mature their security programs and practices.
Our Updated Brand Elements
The core of what we do for small businesses and midsize enterprises is to serve as a trusted extension of their IT and security teams providing security operations capabilities as a service.
Our Tagline
Our new company tagline summarizes this value as:
Trusted Security Operations as a Service
Our Logo
Our new company logo is designed to illustrate our company name – a superimposed G and C. The teal blue color gives a sense of ‘trust’ and ‘security’. And the green upward arrow symbolizes the growth and success that a strong security foundation can unleash in small and midsize organizations.
We also hope you find it eye-catching, recognizable, and distinctive!
Our Technology, Cybersecurity Team, and Products
I mentioned at the beginning of this blog, it was evident the company invested heavily in both its cybersecurity technology and cybersecurity expertise and that these capabilities clearly stood out in customer meetings. Thus, these two elements are central to our brand messaging.
Our Quorum SecOps Delivery Platform
Our Quorum SecOps Delivery Platform is our proprietary, Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platform that enables 24/7 threat detection and response across the entire IT infrastructure of our customers. It collects, enriches with customized threat intelligence, and analyzes ‒ internet, network, endpoint, user, cloud, and SaaS application telemetry. And it delivers detailed scoring of customers’ IT risk profile in a Cybersecurity Health Scorecard tracking both maturity levels and compliance with known industry frameworks, (i.e., NIST, CMMC, CAT, IMO and others).
Our Vector Security Team
Our Vector Security Team is our highly skilled security team that works 24/7 for customers to assess IT risks, monitor for on-going threats, and provide guidance on responding to both. The team consists of cybersecurity specialists that possess an array of cybersecurity and penetration testing certifications including CompTIA Network+, Security+, PenTest+, CySA+, and CASP+ and many more. The team roles include account team leaders, cyber analysts, senior cyber analysts, and service delivery support personnel. Our Vector Security Team is on the job 24/7!
Our Product Offerings
With the combination of our Quorum SecOps Delivery Platform and Vector Security Team, we deliver a variety of Security Operations as a Service (SOCaaS) offerings including:
What to Expect Next?
Today’s announcement is just the start. We are laying the foundation of the Gradient Cyber brand and going forward we will strive to build a brand that is recognized for “trusted security operations as a service”. Throughout 2022 you can expect to see and hear much more from Gradient Cyber including:
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Digital Content – expect to see more digital content starting with a new website.
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Communications – expect to hear more from us about what we’re doing as a company and what’s happening in cybersecurity for small businesses and midsize enterprises.
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Success Stories – expect to hear much more about the customers we’re currently helping to address their cybersecurity challenges.
Yes, our small marketing team is playing catch-up to the great work our development and security teams are doing. But even our marketing team comes to work every day striving to make a difference in the world for our customers.
