2025 Dallas DEFEND Event Awards

Sponsor Awards
- Best in Show
  - Helpt
    
    Helpt provides 100% US-based, white-labeled outsourced technical support with skilled professionals who deliver exceptional customer experiences, reduce escalations, and streamline operations 24/7. From call handling to full Tier 1 integration, Helpt ensures timely, effective solutions that enhance efficiency and customer satisfaction, all while reducing operational burdens. For more information: gethelpt.com.
- Best New Solution
  - Channel Hunters
    
    Channel Hunters is more than just an appointment setting and lead generation company; we are catalysts for growth in the IT channel. Specializing in precise targeting, our team of expert Appointment Hunters delivers high-quality leads (Real Qualified Appointments) for MSPs, MSSPs, VARs, and Vendors. We set ourselves apart with our commitment to affordable, results-driven services without the burden of long-term contracts. Our approach is built on transparency, sustainability, and a dedication to helping our clients achieve sustained growth and success. You can sum us up with a few words.....Guaranteed Monthly Results, No Contracts, Affordable and Qualified Appointments. For more information, visit: channelhunters.com.
- Best Distributor
  - Pax8
    
    Pax8 is a cloud commerce marketplace focused on the delivery of cloud-based solutions to a global network of channel partners and their customers.
- Best On-Stage Presentation
  - SonicWall
    
    SonicWall provides network, content, Web, and email security, as well as secure remote access and BC solutions.
- Best Break- Out Presentation
  - SonicWall
    
    SonicWall provides network, content, Web, and email security, as well as secure remote access and BC solutions.
- Best Expo Hall Presentation- Premier Sponsor
  - Kaseya
    
    Kaseya exists to empower the unsung heroes of the global economy - IT and security professionals who provide the vital technology small to midsized businesses rely on to function and compete in the modern economy. At the core of our mission is Kaseya 365, an AI-driven platform that unifies endpoint, user, and other IT services into simple, affordable, and incredibly efficient subscriptions. By reducing cost, complexity, and risk, Kaseya 365 helps multi-function (do-it-all) IT professionals improve profitability and efficiency with streamlined applications and automated workflows, enabling them to focus on delivering essential IT services that keep the world running. To learn more, visit kaseya.com.
- Best Cloud-Based Solution
  - SaaSAssure
    
    SaaSAssure is a differentiated platform for SaaS data protection ensuring the recovery, security and compliance of business-critical data. A game-changing solution for safeguarding cloud workloads, SaaSAssure is powered by Asigra, a trusted leader in backup and recovery software for 30+ years.
- Best Expo Hall Presentation- Silver Sponsor
  - NUSO
    
    NUSO is a multi-national communication focused Software as a Service (SaaS) provider. We deliver full stack solutions through authorized channel partners and regulated carriers.
    
    Our team is headquartered in University City, Missouri, USA with selling channels throughout the US, Canada and Western Europe. Our real-time service provisioning enables expedited and reliable customer experiences. Voice, Messaging (SMS), and complex communication and collaboration integrations are made possible using our "as a service" infrastructure: Communication Platform (CPaaS), Unified Communications (UCaaS), Contact Center (CCaaS).
    
    For more information, visit us at nuso.cloud.
- ROI Lightning Round Winner
  - Helpt
    
    Helpt provides 100% US-based, white-labeled outsourced technical support with skilled professionals who deliver exceptional customer experiences, reduce escalations, and streamline operations 24/7. From call handling to full Tier 1 integration, Helpt ensures timely, effective solutions that enhance efficiency and customer satisfaction, all while reducing operational burdens. For more information: gethelpt.com.
- Best Product or Platform
  - Helpt
    
    Helpt provides 100% US-based, white-labeled outsourced technical support with skilled professionals who deliver exceptional customer experiences, reduce escalations, and streamline operations 24/7. From call handling to full Tier 1 integration, Helpt ensures timely, effective solutions that enhance efficiency and customer satisfaction, all while reducing operational burdens. For more information: gethelpt.com.
- Most Exciting Solution
  - Evo Security
    
    Evo Security is the only Identity and Access Management (IAM) platform built exclusively for MSPs, consolidating six critical authentication and privileged access tools into one multi-tenant solution. Our unified platform integrates MFA, SSO, RADIUS, Help Desk Verification, and Privileged Access Management (PAM), delivering seamless, secure access for technicians and end-users alike. Backed by top minds in the MSP space and world-class investors, Evo is committed to empowering IT Service Providers—the unsung heroes of modern business—with a purpose-built solution that streamlines security and operations. One agent. One dashboard. Total identity management. Built for MSPs. For more information, visit: evosecurity.com.
- Best Security Solution
  - ThreatLocker
    
    To stop ransomware and other malicious behaviors, you need to do more than look for threats. Reduce your surface areas of attack with policy-driven endpoint security and change the paradigm from blocking known threats, to blocking everything that is not trusted. Combined with Ringfencing and storage policies, you enhance your zero-trust protection and block attacks that live off the land. Learn more at threatlocker.com.
- Best Hardware Solution
  - SonicWall
    
    SonicWall provides network, content, Web, and email security, as well as secure remote access and BC solutions.
- Best Software Solution
  - Huntress
    
    Huntress Labs is a leading provider of advanced threat detection and actionable cybersecurity intelligence for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs), and enterprises. Huntress has pioneered an effective and affordable method to address threats at a layer that is often overlooked—footholds that are indicative of malicious activity on customer endpoints. By providing expert analysis and actionable insights based on investigation into those activities, Huntress enables corporate IT teams to quickly resolve incidents. With Huntress, MSPs can reduce cybersecurity response labor, retain and grow their client base, and differentiate themselves from the competition. For more information, visit: huntress.com.
- Best Add-On Product
  - AP2T Labs
- Best Revenue Booster
  - Kaseya
    
    Kaseya exists to empower the unsung heroes of the global economy - IT and security professionals who provide the vital technology small to midsized businesses rely on to function and compete in the modern economy. At the core of our mission is Kaseya 365, an AI-driven platform that unifies endpoint, user, and other IT services into simple, affordable, and incredibly efficient subscriptions. By reducing cost, complexity, and risk, Kaseya 365 helps multi-function (do-it-all) IT professionals improve profitability and efficiency with streamlined applications and automated workflows, enabling them to focus on delivering essential IT services that keep the world running. To learn more, visit kaseya.com.
- Editor’s Choice
  - Calyptix Security
    
    Calyptix Security Corp. provides all-in-one hardware and software security solutions.