Velstadt Earns Four Clutch 2025 Awards, Led by #2 Dark Web Monitoring Rank in New York

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Velstadt has been named to four Clutch 2025 leadership lists, including a #2 ranking out of 154 firms for Dark Web Monitoring in New York and a #7 ranking out of 563 firms for Managed SIEM Services in New York — both top-tier positions, within roughly the top 1–2% of evaluated providers in two of the most competitive cybersecurity markets in the United States. Every one of the firm’s 12 published Clutch client reviews rates Velstadt 5 of 5, a perfect-rating record across every engagement reviewed on the platform.

“A #2 ranking in Dark Web Monitoring among 154 New York firms reflects what we hear from CISOs every week: enterprise threat exposure no longer ends at the perimeter. Continuous visibility into criminal marketplaces — credential leaks, initial-access broker activity, sector-specific threat-actor chatter — has become a board-level expectation, not a niche capability. We are honored to be ranked among the top providers in one of the most demanding markets in the world.” — Founder & CEO, Velstadt

The four 2025 Clutch recognitions

#	Recognition	Rank	Cohort size	Percentile
1	Top Dark Web Monitoring Company — New York	#2	154 firms	Top 1.3%
2	Top Managed SIEM Services Company — New York	#7	563 firms	Top 1.2%
3	Top Dark Web Monitoring Company — United States	#17	154 firms	Top 11%
4	Top Software Testing Company — New York City	#17	175 firms	Top 10%

Two of the four recognitions place Velstadt within roughly the top 1-2% of evaluated providers in their respective categories.

Why Clutch’s recognition is meaningful for buyers

Clutch is one of the most widely used B2B research and review platforms in technology services, with rankings driven by a combination of verified client reviews, service-quality scoring, market presence, and engagement-specific case studies. Unlike vendor-curated awards, Clutch rankings respond directly to client feedback — every review is independently verified through a structured interview process before publication.

For procurement teams evaluating cybersecurity providers, Clutch leadership status combined with a perfect average rating signals two things rarely found together: independently verified outcomes and consistency across engagements.

What earned the recognition

The four 2025 recognitions map to three of Velstadt’s core practice areas, and reflect engagements with clients across financial services, energy, logistics, and information technology.

Threat Intelligence & Dark Web Monitoring (recognized #2 NY, #17 US)

Velstadt’s threat intelligence practice combines automated dark-web and underground-marketplace monitoring with analyst-driven attribution work. Engagements typically include continuous credential-leak monitoring, brand and executive-impersonation tracking, initial-access broker activity surveillance, and sector-specific threat-actor reporting calibrated to a client’s industry and geography. The practice draws on threat data observed during active engagements in EU and Ukrainian environments, where attribution-rich intelligence is operationally essential.

Managed SIEM & SOC-as-a-Service (recognized #7 NY)

Velstadt operates 24/7 Managed SIEM and SOC services for mid-market and regulated clients across the EU and the US, integrating directly with platforms including Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and Elastic. Engagements are scoped around measurable detection, response, and reporting outcomes — including MTTD and MTTR commitments, monthly executive reporting, and quarterly threat-landscape reviews tailored to the client’s industry.

Penetration Testing (recognized #17 NYC, “Software Testing” category)

Velstadt’s penetration testing practice covers web applications, APIs, mobile, cloud-native architectures, and infrastructure, with engagements aligned to OWASP, NIST SP 800-115, and sector-specific compliance frameworks (PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA). Each engagement combines vulnerability discovery with architectural review and remediation guidance owned through to fix verification — a model that produces fewer findings but more closed gaps.

A growing presence in the New York region

Three of the four 2025 Clutch recognitions are New York–specific, including the firm’s two highest-ranked categories. The geographic concentration reflects Velstadt’s increasing engagement with US Northeast clients — a market characterized by dense regulatory exposure (SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Rule, NYDFS Part 500, financial-services third-party requirements) and high concentrations of mid-market financial, legal, and professional-services firms whose security obligations have intensified through 2025.

2025 in context: ten industry recognitions in Velstadt’s second year

The four Clutch awards bring Velstadt’s verified 2025 industry recognitions to ten, making the firm’s second year its strongest to date. Earlier 2025 recognitions include:

• TechBehemoths Best Cybersecurity Provider 2025
• Techreviewer.co — Top Cloud Consulting Companies 2025
• Techreviewer.co — Top 100+ Cybersecurity Companies 2025
• Techreviewer.co — Top IT Services Companies in the USA 2025
• Techreviewer.co — Top Managed IT Service Providers 2025
• Techreviewer.co — Top QA and Software Testing Companies 2025

Across both Clutch and Techreviewer rankings, the recognitions span cybersecurity, threat intelligence, managed detection, cloud consulting, application security, and IT services — a multi-category profile uncommon for a firm in its second year of operations

About Velstadt

Velstadt is a cybersecurity firm founded in 2018 and operating across Ukraine, the European Union, and the United States. The firm provides Threat Intelligence (including Dark Web Monitoring), SOC-as-a-Service (including Managed SIEM), Penetration Testing, Compliance Services, Security Consulting, and Infrastructure Hardening to mid-market and regulated enterprises in financial services, energy, logistics, IT, and adjacent sectors.

Velstadt has been recognized in 2025 by Clutch (four leadership categories), Techreviewer.co (five leadership categories), and TechBehemoths (Best Cybersecurity Provider).

Team: 30 cybersecurity professionals across Ukraine and the EU.

Learn more: velstadt.com · Clutch profile

About Clutch

Clutch is a leading B2B research and reviews platform that helps organizations identify and connect with service providers across software development, IT services, cybersecurity, and digital marketing. Clutch’s rankings combine verified client reviews collected through independent interviews with service-quality scoring, market presence, and engagement-specific case studies.

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