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Stellar Cyber Named to Top 50 Software Companies of 2025

The Software Report Ranks Stellar Cyber at Number 8 on the list, the only cybersecurity company to crack the Top Ten

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stellar Cyber, the cybersecurity illumination company, landed at number eight in The Software Report’s Top 50 Software Companies of 2025. The recognition underscores Stellar Cyber’s relentless innovation and commitment to its global customer base of midmarket enterprises and managed security service providers (MSSPs). Stellar Cyber is the only cybersecurity company to land in the top ten of the list.

The Software Report's list of Top Software Companies, compiled annually, is the result of a rigorous evaluation of thousands of nominees. The selection criteria emphasize product innovation, customer feedback, platform reliability, workplace culture, and long-term market impact. Rankings are determined through in-depth research by a panel of judges, drawing insights from industry platforms like Glassdoor, G2, and Capterra, and incorporating direct nominations from industry executives and the customers who depend on these critical systems daily.

“We’re proud to be the only cybersecurity provider to reach the top ten of the Top 50 Software Companies of 2025. This acknowledgement reinforces our approach to revolutionizing security operations for the midmarket and our MSSP customers,” said Changming Liu, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Stellar Cyber. “Stellar Cyber is the only AI-native SecOps platform built for lean security teams to help them make better-informed decisions that thwart attacks. We’ll keep on innovating and solving problems for our customers in 2026.”

Stellar Cyber empowers mid-sized organizations and MSSPs to see incoming attacks across the entire attack surface, including network, cloud, endpoint, and identity-based applications and behaviors. The platform offers hundreds of turnkey software integrations, eliminating security data silos and replacing them with automated workflows, pre-configured AI-driven threat detections, and built-in response capabilities—all within a single unified platform. Its Multi-Layer AI™ collects data from virtually any security product, both OT and IT, and turns this raw data into actionable advice, so security teams know how to fight threats quickly, protecting what matters most.

About Stellar Cyber

Stellar Cyber is the only AI-native SecOps platform purpose-built for MSSPs and lean enterprise security teams. Since 2015, we’ve been illuminating the darkest corners of cybersecurity to help organizations see every threat, know what matters most, and act with speed and confidence — always with the human in the loop.

By applying the right tool to the right problem, Stellar Cyber combines machine learning to uncover hidden anomalies, agentic AI to guide responses in real time, and human-augmented decision-making where expertise is essential. The result is real-world impact: analyst productivity improved by more than 80%, false positives reduced by over 90%, and security teams free to focus on what matters.

Our award-winning, open SecOps platform unifies SIEM, NDR / OT, ITDR / UEBA, detection, investigation, triage, response, and Multi-Layer AI™ under one platform. Stellar Cyber is trusted by one-third of the world’s top 250 MSSPs and over 14,000 organizations worldwide.

Learn more at stellarcyber.ai

Contacts

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Chameleon Collective
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