24/09/2026
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ISG Provider Lens® 2026: From Rising Star to Leader, Almond confirms the maturity of its cybersecurity model
In 2025, Almond was recognised by ISG as a Rising Star in the French cybersecurity market, an acknowledgement of the potential of its cybersecurity services and solutions portfolio, as well as the momentum the firm had built across the French and European markets.
One year later, the 2026 edition of the ISG Provider Lens® Cybersecurity – Services and Solutions study, focusing on the French cybersecurity market, marks a new milestone: Almond is recognised across all three areas assessed by ISG and is positioned as a Leader in Strategic Security Services.
This progress confirms Almond’s continued development in a market that is becoming increasingly demanding as new risks associated with artificial intelligence emerge. In this environment, organisations are no longer looking solely for specialised, one-off expertise, but for partners capable of combining cybersecurity strategy, technical integration, and managed security services.
A benchmark study of cybersecurity services in France
The ISG Provider Lens® Cybersecurity – Services and Solutions 2026 study assesses the capabilities of 50 providers operating in the French cybersecurity market. It analyses their positioning across three key areas:
- Strategic Security Services, covering cybersecurity consulting, strategy, governance, risk management, cybersecurity transformation, and regulatory compliance services;
- Technical Security Services, assessing capabilities in the integration, deployment, and modernisation of security technologies;
- Next-Gen SOC/MDR Services, covering operational monitoring, detection, and managed incident response services.
In the 2026 edition, Almond is recognised across all three areas: Leader in Strategic Security Services, Rising Star in Next-Gen SOC/MDR Services, and Product Challenger in Technical Security Services.
This threefold recognition highlights the maturity of an integrated model combining consulting, technical expertise, and managed services.
Leader in Strategic Security Services: recognition of strategic expertise
Almond’s progression to Leader status in Strategic Security Services is one of the key highlights of the 2026 edition.
This quadrant assesses providers’ ability to support organisations with cybersecurity strategy, governance, risk management, organisational transformation, and regulatory compliance. It covers areas including audits, maturity assessments, cybersecurity roadmap development, security policies, business continuity planning, crisis exercises, and support in selecting technology solutions.
This recognition highlights Almond’s ability to translate cybersecurity requirements into actionable plans aligned with its clients’ business, regulatory, and organisational priorities.
In an increasingly demanding regulatory environment shaped by NIS2, DORA, the AI Act and the CRA, executive teams need a clear view of their risk exposure, as well as realistic roadmaps for strengthening their resilience.
This is precisely where Almond is recognised: helping organisations move beyond a purely technical view of cybersecurity towards an approach focused on governance, risk management, and transformation.
Managed Services: Continued Momentum in Detection and Response
Almond is also recognised as a Rising Star in Next-Gen SOC/MDR Services, a category covering continuous monitoring, detection, investigation, incident response, and coordinated remediation services.
This recognition confirms Almond’s strong momentum in managed security services, particularly through the development of its SOC and ROC (Resilience Operation Center) offerings.
In an environment where attacks are becoming faster, more sophisticated, and increasingly automated, organisations can no longer rely on reactive monitoring alone. They need capabilities that can detect threats earlier, assess them faster, coordinate the response, and limit the operational impact of incidents.
Next-generation SOC/MDR services address these needs by combining continuous monitoring, threat intelligence, investigation, orchestration, and automated response. They also enable co-managed models tailored to organisations’ maturity levels, business constraints, and internal resources.
For Almond, this Rising Star recognition confirms its strong growth potential in a segment that has become central to organisations’ cyber resilience.
Product Challenger in Technical Security Services: Recognition of Hands-On Technical Expertise
Almond’s Product Challenger positioning in Technical Security Services highlights the strength of its capabilities in integrating, deploying, and modernising security technologies.
This area covers a wide range of practical topics, including identity and access management, cloud security, hybrid environments, endpoint security, networks, SASE/SSE, industrial and OT environments, hardening, configuration, tuning, patching, and ongoing security maintenance.
Almond’s recognition in this quadrant confirms the depth of its technical expertise and its ability to operate effectively in complex, multi-vendor, and highly constrained environments.
It usefully complements Almond’s Leader positioning in strategic security services: a cybersecurity strategy only delivers value if it can be implemented, supported by the right tools, integrated effectively, and sustained over time.
Continued Progress Confirming the Strength of Almond’s Portfolio
Beyond the individual rankings themselves, the ISG study highlights a broader progression in Almond’s market positioning.
ISG’s methodology assesses providers across two complementary dimensions: the attractiveness of their service portfolio and their competitive strength. Portfolio attractiveness encompasses the breadth and depth of the offering, the quality of expertise, technological relevance, vision, strategy, roadmap, and capacity for innovation. Competitive strength includes factors such as market position, growth, client references, brand reputation, core competencies, partnerships, and go-to-market capabilities.
Almond’s 2026 results therefore confirm two complementary trends: first, the relevance and maturity of its service portfolio; and second, the strengthening of its market momentum, driven in particular by the development of its SOC and ROC offerings, the structuring of its go-to-market approach, and the continued growth of its client references.
This assessment builds on the recognition achieved in 2025. Almond is no longer identified solely as a high-potential player: the firm is confirming the strength of its model, its ability to execute, and its continued progress within the French cybersecurity landscape.
An integrated model for an increasingly demanding cybersecurity market
The French cybersecurity market is entering a more demanding phase. The intensification of cyber threats, the adoption of artificial intelligence, the growing complexity of cloud and hybrid environments, increasing regulatory pressure, and cybersecurity skills shortages are prompting organisations to rethink their strategies.
Fragmented approaches are reaching their limits. Organisations are now looking for more integrated cybersecurity programmes that can strengthen resilience, simplify operations, and make security investments more measurable.
It is against this backdrop that Almond’s recognition by ISG takes on its full significance. By being recognised across the study’s three key dimensions — strategy, security operations, and technical integration — Almond demonstrates the relevance of a model designed to support organisations from defining their cybersecurity roadmap through to its practical implementation and ongoing monitoring.
This progress also reflects a strong conviction: cybersecurity can no longer be approached in silos. It must bring together governance, technical expertise, managed services, innovation, and a deep understanding of business challenges.
For Almond, the 2026 edition of the ISG Provider Lens® study provides further recognition of its expertise while also marking a new stage in the company’s development. Almond confirms its leadership in strategic security services, strengthens its momentum in SOC/MDR managed services, and further reinforces its credibility in the technical integration of security solutions.
