NOMINATION HIGHLIGHTS

Assured Data Protection has spent a decade proving that specialization beats breadth in cyber resilience. Rather than becoming a generalist MSP, Assured has stayed singularly focused on backup, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience, building a global team of nearly 300 experts and now protecting over 1,000 customers across 70+ countries.

Innovation
Assured’s proprietary Cyber Resiliency Framework closes the gaps that traditional backup and disaster recovery leave open during a ransomware attack:
• Immutable, air-gapped backups that eliminate the backup itself as an attack vector
• IOC scanning and threat intelligence that compresses forensic search time during an active incident
• Identity Recovery for Active Directory and Entra ID, restoring the identity layer attackers now target first, with average Active Directory recoveries in around two hours
• An Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE), where workloads are restored, scanned, and verified before ever touching production
• CleanRoom IRE for Backup Validation, which automatically boot-tests backups every week and not once a year, giving clients continuous, evidence-backed proof of recoverability
• A Disaster Recovery Environment enabling customers to operate their business from Assured’s infrastructure during an incident, bounding revenue interruption

These layers are designed as a dependency chain, not standalone features: identity recovery without clean backups, or clean backups without a safe place to verify them, each leave exploitable gaps. Assured built the full chain.

Impact
Assured was named MSP Partner of the Year in Rubrik’s Global Partner Awards, and its impact is documented across dozens of customer case studies — from replacing risky legacy tape backup processes to resolving outages that would otherwise have cost organizations days of business disruption. It’s true 24/7/365 support model and flexible consumption-based pricing make enterprise-grade resilience accessible to mid-market organizations that could never build this infrastructure in-house.

Why this category
As a Managed Security Service Provider, Assured doesn’t sell a product and walk away, it operates the full cyber resilience stack as a managed service, combining Rubrik, Nutanix, Zerto, and BackBox technology partnerships with proprietary orchestration and specialist judgment at the moments that matter most: when a client’s recovery decision has to be right the first time. Assured is also CMMC Level 1 certified, with Level 2 currently underway, reflecting the same operational rigor applied to the