Johannesburg 29 July 2026 – Cynet has been named a Leader and Outperformer in the 2026 GigaOm Radar for Extended Detection and Response, giving South African resellers and managed service providers a fresh analyst reference point as they assess XDR platforms for increasingly complex customer environments.
Available locally through Duxbury Networking, Cynet was positioned in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant. GigaOm recognised the company’s platform completeness, rapid innovation, attack-path visibility, AI-driven automation, ecosystem integration, and 24×7 CyOps managed detection and response service.
The recognition comes as resellers are being asked to help customers contain attacks that move rapidly across endpoints, identities, networks, email, SaaS, cloud, and mobile environments. The operational challenge lies in contextualising and understanding activity across those layers quickly to understand how an incident is developing and what action is needed.
“For local partners, the significance of this recognition is practical,” says André Kannemeyer, CTO at Duxbury Networking. “Customers need security operations that can connect activity across the full attack path, reduce the time spent building context, and support faster containment. The report gives resellers a credible external view of how Cynet approaches that challenge.”
The 2026 GigaOm Radar awarded Cynet a 5 out of 5 score for Agentic AI. The report highlighted Cynet’s use of AI to identify and automate investigation and containment as well as Cynet’s Attack Story capability, which maps the root cause and lateral movement of an incident to give analysts clear context.
Cynet also received a 5-out-of-5 ecosystem score. This reflects its ability to work with wider security environments while retaining the benefits of a unified platform.
The technology is backed by CyOps, Cynet’s 24×7 managed detection and response team. CyOps monitors, investigates, and responds across protected environments, giving customers access to security expertise without requiring them to build and staff a full internal security operations centre.
Cynet’s platform extends protection across identities, endpoints, users, networks, email, SaaS, cloud, and mobile devices. Correlating signals across these areas provides a context-rich view of the attack path, while automation enables faster investigation, containment, and remediation.
For South African resellers and MSPs, this supports service models that address each customer’s internal capability. Some organisations may retain greater control over investigation and response, while others need continuous monitoring and expert intervention. Partners can position the platform according to the customer’s risk, resources, and existing technology environment instead of forcing every organisation into the same service model.
Duxbury supports partners with onboarding, technical enablement, solution design, and customer opportunity development. This helps resellers translate the platform’s capabilities into a security service that can be implemented, managed, and supported locally.
“Analyst recognition is powerful and helps partners translate into a service customers can adopt and operate. Our role is to help resellers scope the environment, select the appropriate service model, and build an opportunity around the customer’s actual risk and resources,” says Kannemeyer.
The GigaOm recognition follows Cynet’s continued investment in unified XDR, AI-driven automation, and managed response. The full 2026 GigaOm Radar for XDR is available through Cynet.
For more information, contact Duxbury Networking at +27 (0)11 351 9800 or visit www.duxbury.co.za.
