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eSentire Wins Three 2026 AVANT Summit Awards, Including Top Overall Vendor NPS

Nadine Abdulkarim

November 4, 2026

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eSentire won three 2026 AVANT Summit Awards at AVANT’s tenth annual Special Forces Summit in Dallas: Top Vendor: Security, Top Vendor NPS: Security, and Top Overall Vendor NPS. AVANT is a technology services distributor whose Trusted Advisors recommend IT and security services to enterprises. The two NPS awards recognize the vendors advisors are most willing to recommend to their customers. eSentire’s Atlas Platform and 24/7 SOC, operated under its Controlled Autonomy SecOps model, protect thousands of organizations across 35+ industries.
eSentire wins three 2026 AVANT Summit Awards
eSentire wins three 2026 AVANT Summit Awards

eSentire took home three awards at the 2026 AVANT Summit Awards, presented at AVANT's tenth annual Special Forces Summit in Dallas: Top Vendor: Security, Top Vendor NPS: Security, and Top Overall Vendor NPS.

Special Forces Summit brings Trusted Advisors and technology partners together for thought leadership, hands-on training, and a celebration of the TA movement, and the Summit Awards honor the vendors who go the extra mile to support those advisors. Being recognized by that community, the people who recommend security services to enterprises every day, is a different kind of validation than a category ranking.

Why a Recommendation Is the Hardest Thing to Earn From a Trusted Advisor

Trusted Advisors sit between a business and some of its highest-stakes technology decisions. When an advisor recommends a security provider, their own credibility rides on how that provider performs long after the contract is signed. They hear about it first when something goes well, and first when it does not.

That is why Top Vendor NPS: Security and Top Overall Vendor NPS carry weight for us. The overall award extends beyond the security category, which puts eSentire in comparison with every vendor in the AVANT ecosystem rather than only the ones we compete with directly.

"Trusted Advisors put their own name next to ours every time they recommend eSentire, and we never take that for granted. Earning Top Vendor NPS in Security and Top Overall Vendor NPS tells us the partnership is working the way it should: advisors can bring us into a customer conversation with confidence, knowing the Atlas platform, backed by our SOC and Threat Response Unit, and our partner team will show up. We are grateful to AVANT and to every advisor who has trusted us with their customers, and we will keep earning it."

Grady Johnston, Global Business Development Director, eSentire

What Advisors Bring to Their Customers When They Bring eSentire

Buyers have grown wary of automation that detects but does not respond, and of AI that no one can be held accountable for. Controlled Autonomy SecOps is eSentire's answer to both. Agentic AI operatives inside the Atlas Platform handle speed and scale, and a 24/7 SOC stays accountable for every action, with each autonomous step explainable, reversible, and policy-bounded.

The results show up in numbers advisors can take to a customer meeting. Atlas delivers a mean time to engage under 30 seconds, and in independent validation its AI verdicts align with senior analyst judgment 95% of the time. It connects to any signal across any vendor stack, so an advisor never has to ask a customer to replace tools they already chose.

The platform has also grown considerably over the last year, which gives advisors more to put on the table:

For an advisor, that adds up to one provider across the full lifecycle: find exposures before attackers do, detect and respond when they try, and see what AI is doing along the way.

What We Are Taking Back from Dallas

Awards describe what has already happened. The NPS awards in particular are a reminder that a recommendation has to be renewed with every customer an advisor trusts us with, and with every incident, every quarter, and every new threat that tests the work.

Thank you to AVANT and to the Trusted Advisor community for the recognition, and congratulations to every vendor honored at Special Forces Summit this year. If you are an advisor who wants to see what eSentire can do for your customers, our partner team is ready to talk.

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References

  1. AVANT. AVANT homepage. https://www.goavant.net
  2. eSentire. Atlas Platform. https://www.esentire.com/what-we-do/security-operations-platform
  3. eSentire. 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC). https://www.esentire.com/what-we-do/security-operations-center
  4. eSentire. "eSentire Wins 2026 Global AI Award for AI in Cybersecurity." Blog, 2026. https://www.esentire.com/blog/esentire-wins-2026-global-ai-award-for-ai-in-cybersecurity
  5. eSentire. "eSentire Launches Atlas Preempt and Continuous AI Pen Testing to Outpace Attackers." Press release, June 2026. https://www.esentire.com/news-releases/esentire-launches-atlas-preempt-and-continuous-ai-pen-testing
  6. eSentire. Managed Detection and Response (MDR). https://www.esentire.com/what-we-do/esentire-managed-detection-and-response
  7. eSentire. "eSentire Unifies Detection, Response, and Remediation with New Atlas Response, Email, and Patch Management." Business Wire, July 2026. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260729945220/en/
  8. eSentire. Atlas AIDR. https://www.esentire.com/how-we-do-it/signals/atlas-aidr

To learn how eSentire can help you find exposures and defend your organization, connect with an eSentire Security Specialist now.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nadine Abdulkarim
Nadine Abdulkarim Senior Content Marketing Manager

As Senior Content Marketing Manager, Nadine Abdulkarim leads content and social media strategy at eSentire, contributing to the development of security-focused content across marketing channels. She has over a decade of experience in marketing, communications, content, and technical translation, with several years specializing in cybersecurity. Nadine holds a Master of Arts in French Studies and an Honors Bachelor of Arts in French Language and Literature, both from Western University in London, Ontario.

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