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The Top 100 Innovative Cybersecurity Companies Of 2022
Expert Insights’ Top 100 Most Innovative Cybersecurity Companies list recognizes the most innovative cybersecurity companies across 12 categories.
Last updated on Dec 14, 2022
Written by Joel Witts
Written by Joel Witts
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The most innovative cybersecurity companies providing powerful solutions to protect families, organizations and institutions have been recognized by Expert Insights in their annual top 100 innovative cybersecurity companies list for 2022.
Expert Insights have selected the top 100 winners across 12 categories, including cloud security, data security, email, and messaging security and more. Vendors were selected based on innovative technologies, ground-breaking features, and feedback from customers themselves.
From enterprise-grade solutions designed to protect government institutions in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to simple-to-use, cost-effective solutions designed to protect people and their families against account compromise and identity fraud, this list is designed to reflect the multi-faceted security challenges of the last 12 months and recognize the providers helping to keep us all secure.
The full list of award winners in each category is below:
Cloud Security
Aqua Security
Website: https://www.aquasec.com/
Founded: 2015
Headquartered: Burlington, Massachusetts
Aqua Security is a cloud-native security provider that enables organizations to secure their cloud and container environments with threat prevention, proactive detection, and remediation. Their flagship solution, the Aqua Platform, provides application protection to secure an organization’s entire cloud infrastructure, workloads, and supply chain.
Bitglass
Website: https://www.bitglass.com/
Founded: 2013
Headquartered: Campbell, California
Acquired by Forcepoint in 2021, Bitglass is a data protection provider that seeks to enable business continuity while preventing and remediating cyberthreats. Bitglass’ leading solutions include a cloud access security broker, a security service edge, web security and zero trust network access.
Illumio
Website: https://www.illumio.com/
Founded: 2013
Headquartered: Sunnyvale, California
Illumio is a cybersecurity vendor that delivers zero trust endpoint, cloud and workload security via its segmentation product suite. Illumio’s zero trust segmentation isolates applications and databases, making it easier for organizations to identify vulnerable pathways and communication flows, and contain threats such as ransomware that may otherwise spread laterally through a business’ systems.
Lacework
Website: https://www.lacework.com/
Founded: 2014
Headquartered: San Jose, California
Lacework is a cloud security provider that manages vulnerabilities and remediates threats across multi-cloud environments. Using patented analytics technologies, their flagship Polygraph platform delivers complete visibility and identifies abnormal behaviors, helping organizations protect their cloud environments against cyberthreats and helping developers build security into their existing workflows.
Microsoft
Website: https://www.microsoft.com/
Founded: 1975
Headquartered: Redmond, Washington
Microsoft is a global leader in the IT space, delivering consumer- and enterprise-focused devices, software suites, collaboration tools and security solutions. Their Security Suite offers a wide range of products designed to protect businesses at all levels, including identity and access management, email security, threat detection and response, cloud security, and data governance.
Netskope
Website: https://www.netskope.com/
Founded: 2012
Headquartered: Santa Clara, California
Netskope is a cybersecurity provider that specializes in cloud-native data protection and threat prevention for cloud services, private apps and the web. Their eponymous cloud security platform combines secure web gateway, cloud access security broker, and zero trust network access technologies to give business complete visibility into their cloud infrastructures.
Data Security
ClearSwift
Website: https://www.clearswift.com/
Founded: 1982
Headquartered: Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Acquired by HelpSystems in 2019, ClearSwift is an IT security company that offers “adaptive” data loss prevention solutions that help businesses apply optimal, situational protection against today’s sophisticated cyber threats. ClearSwift’s leading solutions include email security, web security, data governance and endpoint protection.
Code42
Website: https://www.code42.com/
Founded: 2001
Headquartered: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Code42 is a cybersecurity provider that specializes in insider risk management. Incydr—their DLP-as-a-Service solution—gives organizations greater visibility into the use of data across their environments, enables them to detect and mitigate suspicious behaviors, and allows them to proactively protect data from high-risk employees who are most likely to leak it.
Digital Guardian
Website: https://digitalguardian.com/
Founded: 2003
Headquartered: Waltham, Massachusetts
Digital Guardian, acquired by HelpSystems in 2021, delivers enterprise-grade SaaS DLP solutions that businesses visibility into their data across operating systems and applications, and help prevent malicious activity by users and malware. Digital Guardian also enables security teams to extend their resources by offering threat detection as a managed service.
McAfee
Website: https://www.mcafee.com/
Founded: 1987
Headquartered: San Jose, California
McAfee is a global security software provider renowned for its award-winning consumer and small business cybersecurity solutions. McAfee’s leading solutions include antivirus, identity monitoring and a secure VPN, all of which offer SMBs with comprehensive protection against web and endpoint-based cyberthreats.
OpenText
Website: https://www.opentext.com/
Founded: 1991
Headquartered: Waterloo, Canada
OpenText is a Canadian IT management and cybersecurity software provider. OpenText’s cloud-native solutions are designed to help organizations monitor, govern and secure their data as it moves within the business and outside of it. The company’s security solutions include endpoint investigation and protection, managed detection and response, and forensic data analysis.
Thales
Website: https://www.thalesgroup.com/
Founded: 2000
Headquartered: Paris, France
Thales is a multinational organization that builds electrical systems and software for the aerospace, defence, transportation and security industries. Thales’ cybersecurity offering comprises enterprise-grade identity and access management and data protection technologies, designed to help organizations secure workforce and consumer access to digital assets.
Read our interview with Thales’ VP of Identity an Access Management, François Lasnier.
Trend Micro
Website: https://www.trendmicro.com/
Founded: 1989
Headquartered: Shibuya City, Tokyo
Trend Micro is a global leader in enterprise cybersecurity, protecting organizations around the world from cyberthreats with their suite of powerful, innovative solutions and services. Trend Micro’s leading solutions include cloud security, network security, extended detection and response, and endpoint protection.
Read our interview with Trend Micro’s VP of Threat Intelligence, Jon Clay.
Virtru
Website: https://www.virtru.com/
Founded: 2012
Headquartered: Washington, DC
Virtru is a digital privacy provider that specializes in end-to-end encryption for mid-size businesses and large enterprises. Their powerful encryption protects business data across cloud environments, including when it’s shared via email platforms and file-sharing solutions. Virtu’s cloud-based solution helps businesses protect against data loss via intentional and accidental misdirection.
Email And Messaging Security
Abnormal Security
Website: https://abnormalsecurity.com/
Founded: 2018
Headquartered: San Fransisco, California
Abnormal Security delivers a cloud-native email security solution designed to protect organizations against sophisticated email threats such as social engineering, account compromise, and malware. Their innovative solution uses behavioral AI to learn users’ regular communication patterns, enabling the platform to identify malicious activity within inbound, outbound and internal emails.
Agari
Website: https://www.agari.com/
Founded: 2009
Headquartered: Foster City, California
Acquired by HelpSystems in 2021, Agari is an innovative email security provider that protects businesses against account compromise and targeted spear phishing attempts. Agari’s phishing protection and remediation solutions are powered by advanced AI algorithms that, alongside the vendor’s data-driven approach to security, enables them to accurately predict and prevent social engineering attacks.
Avanan
Website: https://www.avanan.com/
Founded: 2016
Headquartered: New York
Avanan is a leading provider of cloud email security solutions that protect organizations against sophisticated email threats such as business email compromise and social engineering. Avanan’s email security solution provides deep visibility into threats within each user’s inbox, using machine learning algorithms to detect advanced malicious activity often missed by legacy email gateway solutions.
Read our interview with Avanan’s CEO and Co-Founder, Gil Friedrich.
Egress
Website: https://www.egress.com/
Founded: 2007
Headquartered: London
Egress is an innovative email security provider that helps organizations prevent data loss via misdirected emails. Their powerful machine learning technology and intelligent encryption reduce the risks of human error and insider threat without compromising usability, while their anti-phishing software mitigates sophisticated social engineering attacks.
Read our interview with Egress’ CEO and Co-Founder, Tony Pepper.
IRONSCALES
Website: https://ironscales.com/
Founded: 2013
Headquartered: Atlanta, Georgia
IRONSCALES is an innovative email and messaging security provider that protects organizations against sophisticated social engineering threats and account takeover across their email clients and communication apps. The IRONSCALES platform combines AI-powered threat detection and crowd-sourced threat intelligence to effectively detect, analyze and remediate zero-day phishing attacks.
Read our interviews with IRONSCALES’ CEO and Co-Founder, Eyal Benishti, and with IRONSCALES’ Senior Vice President of Product Management, David Habusha.
Mimecast
Website: https://www.mimecast.com/
Founded: 2003
Headquartered: London
Mimecast is a cybersecurity provider that offers a range of innovative solutions to detect and block threats at every business level. Mimecast’s leading solution include email security, security awareness training, web security and a cloud archive, all of which utilize the vendor’s innovative AI-powered response and remediation to proactively protect businesses against cyberthreats.
Read our interview with Mimecast’s Principal Security Strategist, Matthew Gardiner.
Proofpoint
Website: www.proofpoint.com
Founded: 2002
Headquartered: Sunnyvale, California
Proofpoint is a global leading email security provider that protects people and brands from advanced email security threats. Proofpoint’s leading security solutions include email security, security awareness training, cloud application security, archiving and compliance, and digital risk protection.
Read our interview with Proofpoint’s EVP, Ryan Kalember.
Tessian
Website: www.tessian.com
Founded: 2013
Headquartered: San Francisco, California
Tessian is an innovative email security platform designed to protect email users in the cloud. Tessian offers machine learning-powered email security, which protects against inbound email threats like phishing and account takeover, and stops one of the biggest threats organizations are facing today: human error.
Read our interview with Tessian’s CEO, Tim Sadler.
TitanHQ
Website: www.titanhq.com
Founded: 1999
Headquartered: Galway, Ireland
TitanHQ is a popular cybersecurity services provider for small and midsized organizations and managed service providers. Their cost-effective but powerful solutions cover email security, web security, email encryption, and—with their recent acquisition of Cyber Risk Aware—security awareness training.
Trustifi
Website: www.trustifi.com
Founded: 2005
Headquartered: Las Vegas, Nevada
Trustifi is a cybersecurity provider focused on messaging security. Trustifi offers three key email security solutions: Outbound Shield, a comprehensive email encryption solution with an innovative one-click compliance feature, Inbound Shield, an email phishing and malware protection solution, and Account Compromise Detection.
Read our interview with Trustifi’s CEO, Rom Hendler.
Endpoint Security
Avast
Website: www.avast.com
Founded: 1988
Headquartered: Prague, Czech Republic
Avast is a globally recognized anti-virus and VPN provider, with a suite of both consumer and business-focused cybersecurity technologies. Avast offers an award-winning free antivirus solution for consumers, and a comprehensive endpoint security suite for small and midsized organizations.
Read our interview with Avast’s Vice President, Erik Presser.
BeyondTrust
Website: http://www.beyondtrust.com
Founded: 1985
Headquartered: Johns Creek, Georgia
BeyondTrust is a global leading identity and endpoint security provider, allowing organizations to protect endpoint devices and manage privileged access. BeyondTrust’s solutions include privileged password management, endpoint management, secure remote access, and cloud security management.
Blackberry
Website: www.blackberry.com
Founded: 1984
Headquartered: Waterloo, Ontario
Blackberry is a market-leading provider of cybersecurity software to enterprises and governments around the world. Blackberry offers Cylance, an intelligent endpoint security suite, unified endpoint management, event management and alerting, secure communications, automation services, and more.
Read our interview with Blackberry’s VP of Product Marketing, Nigel Thompson.
CrowdStrike
Website: www.crowdstrike.com
Founded: 2011
Headquartered: Remote Company; Formerly based in Austin, Texas
CrowdStrike is a global leader in cloud-native cybersecurity solutions for the enterprise. CrowdStrike offers a powerful endpoint protection suite with Crowdstrike Falcon, and comprehensive solutions for cloud security, identity protection, threat intelligence, data and network security, and security operations.
ESET
Website: www.eset.com
Founded: 1992
Headquartered: Bratislava, Slovak Republic
For over 30 years, ESET has been a leading IT security solution provider. ESET offers a suite of IT security and antivirus solutions for consumers, businesses, and the enterprise. ESET’s business cybersecurity offerings include advanced endpoint protection, disk encryption, multi-factor authentication, security awareness training, and email security.
Hysolate
Website: www.hysolate.com
Founded: 2016
Headquartered: Tel Aviv, Israel
Hysolate is an endpoint and web security platform that provides protection against malware threats using an innovative isolated virtual environment, which is remotely deployed on users’ devices and managed in the cloud. In March 2022, Hysolate was acquired by cloud email security provider Perception Point.
NortonLifeLock
Website: www.nortonlifelock.com
Founded: 1982
Headquartered: Tempe, Arizona
NortonLifeLock, formerly Symantec, is a global leader in consumer and business security solutions. For consumers, NortonLifeLcok offers a comprehensive protection suite for families, including LifeLock—a service designed to prevent identity theft and account compromise. For small businesses, Norton offers a powerful antivirus and VPN solution.
SentintelOne
Website: www.sentinelone.com
Founded: 2013
Headquartered: Mountain View, California
SenitinelOne is a leading enterprise security provider, protecting endpoints, data centers, and cloud environments with a range of endpoint protection, XDR, and remediation solutions. In May 2022, SentintelOne acquired Attivo Networks, bringing identity security into its endpoint protection offering.
Trellix
Website: www.trellix.com
Founded: 2022
Headquartered: Milpitas, California
Trellix is a new cybersecurity vendor formed after the merger of two industry giants: McAfee Enterprise and FireEye. Trellix offers a powerful extended detection and response (XDR) solution, which helps to secure and product company endpoints and operations for over 40,000 business and government customers.
VMWare
Website: www.vmware.com
Founded: 1998
Headquartered: Palo Alto, California
VMWare is a US-based cloud computing and security company, with multiple cloud and edge infrastructure security solutions. VMware offers comprehensive enterprise cloud security, including network firewalls, application management and DevSecOps solutions, and a market-leading cloud endpoint security platform and MDR solution: Carbon Black Endpoint.
WithSecure
Website: www.withsecure.com
Founded: 1988
Headquartered: Helsinki, Finland
WithSecure, formerly F-Secure Business, is a market-leading antivirus provider for organizations, with over 30 years’ experience offering IT security solutions. WithSecure’s product offering includes comprehensive cloud security, leading endpoint protection, detection and response, vulnerability management, and security consulting and risk management.
Identity and Access Management
Dashlane
Website: www.dashlane.com
Founded: 2009
Headquartered: New York, New York
Dashlane is a global leader in consumer and enterprise password management services. Dashlane helps both people and businesses to manage passwords securely in an encrypted vault, helping to prevent credential theft and password scams. Dashlane has over 15 million global users, including 20,000 businesses.
Read our interview with Dashlane’s Head Of User Experience, Caroline Morchio.
Duo Security
Website: www.duo.com
Founded: 2010
Headquartered: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Duo Security is a global leader in identity security solutions for businesses. Duo helps businesses to implement zero trust security with a comprehensive identity management product suite, which includes adaptive multi-factor authentication, remote access management, devices trust, and single sign-on. Duo was acquired by Cisco in 2018.
Read our interview with Duo Security’s CISO, Wolfgang Goerlich.
HID Global
Website: www.hidglobal.com
Founded: 1991
Headquartered: Austin, Texas
HID Global is a globally leading identity provider for the enterprise, with over 2,200 employees worldwide supporting more than 100 countries. HID offers a broad range of identity solutions, including physical access cards, readers, embedded modules, software and cloud authentication solutions for banks, transport networks, hospitals, governments and more.
JumpCloud
Website: www.jumpcloud.com
Founded: 2012
Headquartered: Louisville, CO
JumpCloud is a cloud-based identity management provider with a market leading privileged access management, authentication, and single sign-on solution. JumpCloud enables seamless and secure authentication and user management across your cloud and on-premises applications, with a consolidated, modern admin console for ensuring all accounts are secure and compliant.
Keeper Security
Website: www.keepersecurity.com
Founded: 2011
Headquartered: Chicago, Illinois
Keeper Security is a globally recognized password and secrets manager solution, designed for both consumers and businesses. Keeper provides zero knowledge and zero trust password and secret management to help users better secure their passwords and credentials, and developers to manage and protect cloud infrastructure secrets.
Read our interview with Keeper Security’s CEO and Co-Founder, Darren Guccione.
Nok Nok Labs
Website: www.noknok.com
Founded: 2011
Headquartered: Silicon Valley, California
Nok Nok Labs are a leading figure in the identity and authentication arena. They offer a range of comprehensive authentication suites that enable tools such as passwordless authentication, web authentication, FIDO2, and more. Nok Nok Labs are closely aligned with the FIDO alliance, which aims to reduce our overreliance on passwords.
Okta
Website: www.okta.com
Founded: 2009
Headquartered: San Francisco, California
Okta is a cloud-based identity and access management provider that offers highly integratable and compatible solutions that don’t compromise on security. Their IAM solution combines cloud single sign-on capabilities, consolidated directories, multi-factor authentication, and more into one streamlined platform.
One Identity
Website: www.oneidentity.com
Founded: 2016
Headquartered: Aliso Viejo, California
One Identity is a firm favorite amongst consumers in the identity and access management space. They aim to help organizations fortify their security with a range of robust solutions including identity and governance administration, AD account lifecycle management, and privileged access management.
Ping Identity
Website: www.pingidentity.com
Founded: 2002
Headquartered: Denver, Colorado
Ping Identity is a strong identity and access management provider that incorporates a range of extensive security tools. They offer dynamic authorization, fraud detection, API intelligence, risk management, and identity management in a range of flexible, powerful solutions with a range of deployment options.
Read our interview with Ping Identity’s Executive Advisor, Aubrey Turner.
Prove
Website: www.prove.com
Founded: 2008
Headquartered: New York, New York
Prove is a modern, FinTech-forward-thinking company leading the way in identity and access management, with their identity verification methods all hinging around the one thing everyone has–a mobile phone. Prove’s fuss-free solutions are favored by a wide range of industries from banks and e-commerce to healthcare and retail.
Read our interview with Prove’s VP and UK Country Manager, Keiron Dalton.
IoT Security
Bastille
Website: www.bastille.net
Founded: 2014
Headquartered: Atlanta, Georgia
Bastille is “one to watch” in the world of IoT. With robust, smart-driven solutions favored by both enterprise and governmental organizations alike, Bastille offers advanced protection against the rising Cellular, RF, and Wireless threats.
CyberMDX
Website: https://www.cybermdx.com
Founded: 2016
Headquartered: Atlanta, Georgia
Founded in 2016, but later acquired by Forescout, CyberMDX is a leading IoT specialist. They offer a wide range of solutions, including zero trust solutions, software platforms, and security training. Noted for their healthcare organization-friendly security programs, CyberMDX has received a MedTech award for Best Healthcare Security Solution two years in a row.
Karamba
Website: www.karambasecurity.com
Founded: 2005
Headquartered: Hod Hasharon, Israel
Karamba is a leading software company serving industries around the globe with a strong focus on product security, making sure all IoT–regardless of what they are–stay protected from opportunistic attackers. Karamba’s product suite includes vulnerability management, research and consulting, enhanced device visibility, security validation, and more.
Medigate
Website: www.medigate.io
Founded: 2017
Headquartered: New York, New York
Medigate knows that IoT devices open up the potential for attacks better than anyone–even some surprising ones. With a focus on the healthcare industry, Medigate strives to provide their target markets with a single consolidated platform for extensive oversight and comprehensive security that protects every IoT device under your company’s network.
SecuriThings
Website: www.securithings.com
Founded: 2016
Headquartered: Tel Aviv, Israel
SecurtiThings’ answer to IoT security solutions is their Horizon platform, which offers real-time security, enriched visibility and control, and robust operational management. Their solution is a favorite of Fortune 100 companies and other large-scale enterprises.
Network Security
Check Point
Website: www.checkpoint.com
Founded: 1993
Headquartered: Tel Aviv, Israel
Check Point is a market leader in the IT security industry that services a range of organizations of varying sizes and industries across the globe. Well established and well known, Check Point offers a range of robust solutions, the most notable of which include consolidated cloud security architecture systems, serverless security, hybrid data centers and more.
Cisco
Website: www.cisco.com
Founded: 1984
Headquartered: San Jose, California
A global leader in network and IT security, multinational Cisco is a firm favorite of a wide range of organizations around the world. Alongside their revered cybersecurity products, such as their networking products, firewalls, data centers, and more, they also deliver highly streamlined security services covering hardware and software support, solution support, and advisory services.
Cloudflare
Website: www.cloudflare.com
Founded: 2010
Headquartered: San Francisco, California
Innovative and forward thinking, Cloudflare is a networking cybersecurity specialist that focuses exclusively on cloud-based solutions. Eschewing traditional hardware and software, they believe the cloud is the future and provide a range of flexible yet powerful cybersecurity solutions that are easy to deploy, accelerate networks, improve performance, and reduce network latency.
Cyren
Website: www.cyren.com
Founded: 1991
Headquartered: Mclean, Virginia
For pervasive and strong email security, look no further than Cyren–a 100% cloud-based IT security company that offers an email security engine that is highly adept in blocking all known and emerging email threats. Alongside this platform, they also provide threat detection solutions, threat intelligence, and a URL categorization engine.
Nord Security
Website: www.nordsecurity.com
Founded: 2012
Headquartered: Berlin, Germany
Nord Security established themselves global leaders in the cybersecurity industry not long after their inception, with their products NordVPN, NordLocker, and NordPass quickly becoming adopted by many companies the world over, with NordVPN alone boasting over 15 million users. Firm believers in privacy and keeping data secure, their products contain features such as zero-trust, zero-knowledge, and AES-256 encryption.
Fortinet
Website: www.fortinet.com
Founded: 2000
Headquartered: Sunnyvale, California
Fortinet is a leading cybersecurity vendor that services a wide range of organizations with their specifically tailored solutions for enterprises, MSPs, and small businesses. They deliver innovative and powerful security products including firewalls, antivirus solutions, IPS, and more that don’t affect network performance.
Palo Alto Networks
Website: www.paloaltonetworks.com
Founded: 2005
Headquartered: Santa Clara, California
With an emphasis on cloud security and technology, Palo Alto Networks is a smart option for any company wanting intuitive, innovative security solutions. They offer extensive and robust SASE solutions (CASB, SD-WAN, ZTNA, and secure web gateways), threat intelligence and incident response solutions, network security solutions, and more.
Perimeter81
Website: www.perimeter81.com
Founded: 2018
Headquartered: Tel Aviv, Israel
Perimeter81 is an innovative cybersecurity vendor that specializes in securing remote networks. With a focus on SASE architecture, they’ve streamlined the solution by unifying it under one consolidated platform. Alongside SASE, the company also deals in VPNs and network security.
Sophos
Website: www.sophos.com
Founded: 1985
Headquartered: Abingdon, United Kingdom
Drawing on threat intelligence, AI and machine learning, Sophos’ products deliver intuitive and intelligent security products that cover a wide range of issues and solutions. One of their products of note is Sophos Central–a cloud-native management console that delivers a flexible, adaptive cybersecurity platform.
ZeroFox
Website: www.zerofox.com
Founded: 2013
Headquartered: Baltimore, Maryland
With a distinct focus on enterprises, ZeroFox is an AI-driven, network security-focused organization that focuses on detecting, analyzing, and remediating complex threats. They provide dark and deep web monitoring, threat intelligence and analytics, and risk assessments. They are highly adept in preventing threats such as phishing, fraud, account takeover and more.
Read our interview with Zero Fox’s Director of Threat Intelligence Services, Adam Darrah.
Risk Assessment
AttackIQ
Website: https://attackiq.com
Founded: 2013
Headquartered: Los Altos, California
AttackIQ is risk assessment vendor that specializes in breach and attack simulation solutions and security optimization. Its expansive portfolio includes security control validation, MITRE ATT&CK framework alignment, cloud security optimization, and compliance optimization.
Bugcrowd
Website: https://www.bugcrowd.com
Founded: 2012
Headquartered: San Francisco, California
Bugcrowd is a leading cybersecurity solutions provider that specializes in protecting organizations and their customers by exposing blind spots in security. Bugcrowd offers solutions for penetration testing, bug bounty, vulnerability disclosure, attack surface management, and bug bash.
JupiterOne
Website: https://jupiterone.com
Founded: 2018
Headquartered: Morrisville, North Carolina
JupiterOne is a cybersecurity vendor that offers a powerful cloud-native security platform to help organizations monitor their assets. The JupiterOne platform features cloud asset management, an insight dashboard, data visualization, search capabilities across assets, vulnerability and compliance alerting, and its policy builder.
Netwrix
Website: https://www.netwrix.com
Founded: 2006
Headquartered: Irvine, California
Netwrix is a cybersecurity vendor that simplifies compliance auditing, risk mitigation, and change management for organizations globally. Within its comprehensive solutions portfolio, Netwrix offers powerful solutions for data security, identity security, and compliance.
Noetic
Website: https://noeticgroup.com
Founded: 2001
Headquartered: Canberra, ACT
Noetic is an Australia-based management consulting company that specializes in national security and serves many public-sector organizations. Noetic offers a range of solutions for strategy and planning, implementation, review and evaluation, and more.
Security Scorecard
Website: https://securityscorecard.com
Founded: 2013
Headquartered: New York, New York
Security Scorecard is a cybersecurity risk scoring vendor that specializes in enabling organizations to manage risk both internally and externally. Its vast portfolio of services includes security risk ratings and reporting, data insights, security questionnaires, vendor detection, risk qualification, and more.
SimSpace
Website: http://www.simspace.com
Founded: 2015
Headquartered: Boston, Massachusetts
SimSpace is a cybersecurity vendor that offers a robust cyber risk management platform to help organizations assess their assets and environments, reduce risk, and continuously improve security posture. Alongside its risk management platform, SimSpace also offers its product and stack evaluation tool, a training and assessment service, and more.
Tenable
Website: https://www.tenable.com
Founded: 2002
Headquartered: Columbia, Maryland
Tenable is a cybersecurity vendor that specializes in cyber exposure and is particularly popular in the vulnerability management space. Tenable has an extensive portfolio of solutions that are suitable for a range of use cases, including application and cloud security, vulnerability assessment and management, compliance, and more.
Security Training and Awareness Companies
Cofense
Website: https://cofense.com
Founded: 2008
Headquartered: Leesburg, Virginia
Cofense is an industry-leading phishing protection, detection, and response vendor that combines AI and human intelligence to protect against social engineering. Its suite of products includes phishing detection tools, threat triage and quarantine, phishing threat intelligence, user security awareness training, and more.
Read our interviews with Cofense’s Security Solutions Advisor, Tonia Dudley, and Director of Threat Intelligence, Mollie MacDougall.
Cyber Vista
Website: https://www.cybervista.net
Founded: 2016
Headquartered: Arlington County, Virginia
Cyber Vista is a workforce development company that specializes in providing data-driven security awareness training to help strengthen organizations’ security postures. Its solutions include role-based training (including for executive leadership, security operations center analysts, incident responders, and more) and certification preparation.
Haekka
Website: https://www.haekka.com
Founded: 2020
Headquartered: Oak Creek, Colorado
Haekka is an innovative security awareness training provider that fully integrates with Slack to manage and deliver training. Using the Haekka platform, admins can fully manage programs within the Slack application—including assigning training to users and viewing their progress—and users can easily undertake the training without having to leave Slack.
Read our interview with Haekka’s Co-Founder and CEO, Travis Good.
Hook Security
Website: https://hooksecurity.co
Founded: 2018
Headquartered: Greenville, South Carolina
Hook Security is a security awareness training provider that takes an innovative approach to training users, leveraging psychological security, or, “PsySec”, to train the right parts of users’ brains. Its powerful platform includes engaging and humorous training content, phishing simulations, in-depth reporting, and more.
Read our interview with Hook Security’s Co-Founder and CEO, Zachary Eikenberry.
HoxHunt
Website: https://www.hoxhunt.com
Founded: 2016
Headquartered: Helsinki, Finland
HoxHunt specializes in providing engaging, user-first security awareness training for organizations globally. Its platform includes not only automated security training and gamified phishing simulations, but also powerful incident response and orchestration abilities to recognize threats and take action.
KnowBe4
Website: https://www.knowbe4.com
Founded: 2010
Headquartered: Clearwater, Florida
KnowBe4 is an industry giant in the security awareness training space and features an expansive, feature-rich platform to help organizations train their users. Its portfolio includes its leading security awareness training programs and phishing simulations, as well as its phishing reporting tool and training for specific industries and compliance.
Read our interview with KnowBe4’s Technical Evangelist, Erik Kron.
NINJIO
Website: https://ninjio.com
Founded: 2016
Headquartered: Los Angeles, California
NINJIO is an award-winning security awareness training provider that’s best known for its fun and engaging anime-style training videos. Its solutions include engaging cybersecurity training content that’s suitable for a range of audiences, its phishing-as-a-service platform that automates phishing simulations, and compliance training.
Read our interview with NINJIO’s Founder and CEO, Zack Schuler.
Phished
Website: https://phished.io
Founded: 2018
Headquartered: Leuven, Belgium
Phished is a security awareness training vendor that focuses on teaching users to spot advanced phishing and spearphishing attacks. Its powerful platform combines automated phishing simulation campaigns, engaging training modules, and advanced threat intelligence to help better prepare users to deal with phishing attacks.
Read our interview with Phished’s Founder and CEO, Arnout Van de Meulebroucke.
Think Cyber
Website: https://thinkcyber.co.uk
Founded: 2016
Headquartered: London, UK
Think Cyber is a unique security awareness training provider that trains users using just-in-time “nudge” technology, which intervenes at the point of a risky interaction in real-time. Its Redflags™ platform works by tracking risky behavior and delivering “nudges”, offering short snippets of training, and measuring engagement.
Read our interview with Think Cyber’s Co-Founder and CEO, Tim Ward.
Security Operations Solutions
Exabeam
Website: https://www.exabeam.com
Founded: 2013
Headquartered: San Mateo, California
Exabeam is a cybersecurity vendor that specializes in providing actionable intelligence to help organizations enhance their security stacks. Offering products for SIEM and XDR, the vendor’s key capabilities include alert triage, threat hunting and intelligence, case and log management, and response automation.
IBM
Website: https://www.ibm.com
Founded: 1911
Headquartered: New York, New York
IBM is a well-established and globally trusted vendor that offers a range of powerful software solutions, as well as hardware and middleware. IBM’s vast portfolio includes solutions for automation, security operations, cybersecurity, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and more.
Rapid7
Website: https://www.rapid7.com
Founded: 2000
Headquartered: Boston, Massachusetts
Rapid7 is a cybersecurity vendor that specializes in securing client environments via visibility, analytics, and automation. Its wide-spanning product portfolio includes solutions for XDR, SIEM, SOAR, vulnerability management, penetration testing, and more.
ReliaQuest
Website: https://www.ReliaQuest.com
Founded: 2007
Headquartered: Tampa, FL
ReliaQuest combines engineering with a cloud-native Open XDR platform, specializing in security automation, cloud security, threat and risk management, and more. The information security services they offer work to minimize data loss and business disruption, while increasing visibility, effectively measuring, and managing risk continually, and automating across the security lifecycle.
Siemplify
Website: http://www.siemplify.co
Founded: 2015
Headquartered: New York, New York
Siemplify (now part of Google Cloud) is a security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) provider whose cloud-native solution supports security teams worldwide in responding quickly to cyberthreats. Built by security operations experts with years of experience, Siemplify solutions include automated risk profiling, advanced alert correlations, and proprietary behavioral analysis algorithms.
Splunk
Website: http://www.splunk.com
Founded: 2003
Headquartered: San Francisco, California
Splunk is a leading software platform for searching, analyzing, and visualizing the machine-generated data gathered from the applications, websites, sensors, devices etc. that make up an organization’s IT infrastructure. As a data platform leader for security and observability, Splunk delivers real-time analysis from diverse data sets, giving organizations insights into their data to improve performance and cyber security.
Sumo Logic
Website: http://www.sumologic.com
Founded: 2010
Headquartered: Redwood City, CA
Sumo Logic is a cloud-based machine data analytics company that supports modern digital businesses through real-time analytics delivered as a service. Their continuous intelligent platform unifies all data types, enables universal access, and leverages cloud economics to help practitioners and developers deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications.
Swimlane
Website: https://swimlane.com
Founded: 2014
Headquartered: Boulder, Colorado
Swimlane is a leader in cloud-based, low-code security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR). Swimlane streamlines the incident response capabilities of understaffed and overburdened security operations teams by automating time-intensive, manual processes and operational workflows, while delivering powerful consolidated analytics, real-time dashboards, and reporting from across the security infrastructure.
ThreatConnect
Website: https://threatconnect.com
Founded: 2011
Headquartered: Arlington, VA
ThreatConnect is a decision and operational support platform for cyber security, designed to make threat intelligence accessible and user-friendly for security teams of all sizes and levels of experience. ThreatConnect offers a suite of risk quantification, threat intelligence, orchestration and automation capabilities designed to support the complete security lifecycle.
ThreatQuotient
Website: https://www.threatq.com/
Founded: 2013
Headquartered: Reston, Virginia
ThreatQuotient provides a data driven security operations platform designed to help teams to prioritize, automate, and collaborate on security incidents, thereby improving on their efficiency and effectiveness. ThreatQuotient take a threat-centric approach with solutions designed to reduce noise, highlight top priority threats, and automate security process for greater focus and decision support while maximizing resources.
Veriato
Website: https://www.veriato.com
Founded: 1998
Headquartered: Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Veriato is an innovator in actionable user behavior analytics and a global leader in user activity monitoring, developing intelligent and powerful solutions which offer organizations visibility into the human activities and behaviors carried out within their network. Veriato helps organizations to protect their assets and reduce overall risk by providing visibility into all operations.
Threat Intelligence
Darktrace
Website: https://www.darktrace.com
Founded: 2013
Headquartered: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Darktrace is a global leader in cyber security AI, on a mission to empower organizations to protect against the disruption caused by cyber threats. Darktrace’s world-class technology protects over 6,800 customers from the ever-evolving threat landscape, building cyber resilience against advanced threats like ransomware and cloud and SaaS attacks with self-learning AI.
Huntress
Website: https://huntress.com
Founded: 2015
Headquartered: Ellicott City, Maryland
Huntress, a leading provider of advanced threat detection and actionable cyber security information, offers users an underlying layer of managed detection in response to defend against cyberthreats. Their human-powered threat hunting protects MSPs, SMBs, and enterprises from security incidents that slip past their preventive security stack, revealing breaches before they create downtime, cause reputation damage and lead to financial loss.
Recorded Future
Website: http://www.recordedfuture.com
Founded: 2009
Headquartered: Somerville, MA
Recorded Future is an enterprise security intelligence provider that specializes in the collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination of threat intelligence. They bring human analysis together with persistence and pervasive automated data collection and analytics, delivering intelligence that is accurate, actionable, timely, and supports organizations in protecting their people, systems, and assets.
Risk Based Security
Website: http://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/
Founded: 2011
Headquartered: Richmond, Virginia
Risk Based Security is a cyber threat intelligence company that provides organizations with leading vulnerability intelligence, data breach analysis, and risk management services. They offer a range of cost-effective security solutions which provide organizations with comprehensive threat intelligence knowledge, advanced search capabilities, access to raw data via API, and email alerting.
RSA
Website: http://www.rsa.com
Founded: 1982
Headquartered: Bedford, MA
RSA provides market-leading security solutions designed to support organizations in embracing digital transformation and managing digital risk. RSA technology is relied on by over 13,000 organizations globally—including 90 percent of the Fortune 500—and includes products for integrated threat management, threat detection and response, omnichannel fraud prevention, and identity and access management.
Vectra
Website: https://www.vectra.ai
Founded: 2011
Headquartered: San Jose, CA
Vectra is a leader in AI-driven threat detection and response for both hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises. They provide unified threat visibility for public cloud, SaaS, identity, and network, while applying patented security-led AI to prioritize threats and provide rapid response to security threats by integrating with the organization’s existing security stack.
Web Security
Akaimai
Website: https://www.akamai.com
Founded: 1998
Headquartered: Cambridge, MA
Akaimai is an innovative cloud-based service provider that focused on content acceleration and security. Akaimai’s suite of leading security, compute, and delivery solutions are designed to help organizations to develop and run applications, keeping cyber threats away from users while building, delivering, and securing their digital experience.
f5
Website: http://www.f5.com
Founded: 1996
Headquartered: Seattle, Washington
F5 is an American technology company that specializes in applications security, multi-cloud management, application delivery networking, online fraud prevention, network security, application availability and performance, and access and authorizations. Their products power applications throughout their life cycles to deliver a differentiated, high-performing, and secure digital experience for customers.
Forcepoint
Website: http://www.forcepoint.com
Founded: 1994
Headquartered: Austin, TX
Forcepoint is a leading user and data protection cybersecurity company. They take a human-centric approach to understanding behavior and adapt security responses according to tackle security risks. Forcepoint solutions adapt in real-time to how users interact with data, enabling users to be productive and create value while providing secure access.
iBoss
Website: http://www.iboss.com
Founded: 1994
Headquartered: Austin, TX
The iBoss cloud platform delivers all network security capabilities in the cloud via a SaaS offering, security connecting any user on any device, from any location, and to any application. iBoss is built on a proprietary containerized architecture specifically designed for the cloud and works to secure users’ internet access from anywhere.
Menlo Security
Website: https://www.menlosecurity.com
Founded: 2013
Headquartered: Mountain View, California
Menlo Security is a web security provider that takes a zero-trust approach to web security and offers secure, cloud-based internet isolation with the aim of eliminating web and email threats. Menlo Security helps organizations to keep ahead of threats while ensuring continued productivity by keeping security invisible to the end-users and removing the operational burden from security teams.
Zscaler
Website: https://www.zscaler.com
Founded: 2008
Headquartered: San Jose, California
The Zscaler platform is designed to replace your appliances at the inbound and outbound gateways. The solution is custom-built for the needs of today’s cloud and mobile-first world, with services designed to create quick, secure connections between users and applications. Zscaler services are entirely cloud-delivered and over a straightforward, secure service with improved user experience.
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