Microsoft Partner of the Year Award 2024

White Hat IT Security recognized as the winner of 2024 Microsoft Hungary Partner of the Year

Budapest, Hungary — June 26, 2024

White Hat IT Security today announced it has won the Hungary 2024 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.

We won the award thanks to the hard work of our super-dedicated and fantastic White Hat IT Security team. IT Security is a team sport, and I’m happy to say that we have a really good security team. We believe in Microsoft security; we use it to protect both our own network and our customers’ networks. I’m proud to say that none of our clients have been hacked or breached in the last five years. I think that’s the best reference we can give. – stated Sándor Fehér, CEO of White Hat IT Security.

The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft Cloud applications, services, devices, and AI innovation during the past year. Awards were classified in various categories, with honorees chosen from more than 4,700 nominations from more than 100 countries. White Hat IT Security was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services in Hungary.

White Hat IT Security is an EU-based MSSP company. Their managed solution offers medium and large enterprises a wide range of services including managed detection and response (MDR), 24/7 SOC-as-a-Service, and ITS monitoring based on Microsoft services. The managed solution includes on-demand services such as penetration and phishing tests, awareness training, ISMS and regulation monitoring, threat hunting, and CISO support. They have a strong dedication to Microsoft and deep cooperation as evidenced by numerous partnership achievements.

White Hat’s flagship service is their 7/24 managed SOC capable of onboarding, configuring and continuously finetuning the entire Microsoft security portfolio. They offer a response time of under 30 minutes for critical and high alerts – and with their own development using Graph API alerting to enhance Microsoft features their MTTA for the previous 12 months was under 6 minutes for all alert types and severity – day and night, during weekends and holidays.

Congratulations to the winners and finalists of the 2024 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards! – said Nicole Dezen, Chief Partner Officer and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft. The momentum generated by numerous AI & Copilot announcements this year fueled innovation from our partners, enabling groundbreaking services and solutions to customers. I am inspired by the capability and creativity in our partner ecosystem and this year’s winners beautifully demonstrate the best of what’s possible with AI and the Microsoft Cloud.

The 2024 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards are announced ahead of MCAPS Start for Partners, our digital event on July 10th and 11th. Partners will receive recognition at MCAPS Start for Partners ahead of in person celebrations during the week of Microsoft Ignite in November.

Additional details on the 2024 awards are available on the Microsoft Partner blog.

The complete list of categories, winners and finalists can be found here.

Watch the official clip with Sándor Fehér’s statement: