CISO Global

CISO Global (Nasdaq: CISO), based in Scottsdale, Arizona, is a publicly traded cybersecurity company formed through the roll-up and rebranding of Cerberus Cyber Sentinel Corporation, which changed its name in 2023 to reflect a “every cyber discipline working as one” positioning. The company blends three lines of business: a 24/7 managed security operations center (MDR/SOC monitoring), consulting and assessment services (penetration testing, digital forensics/incident response, vCISO, and compliance consulting spanning CMMC and FedRAMP), and a small portfolio of purpose-built software including Argo (threat intelligence), CHECKLIGHT (monitoring for small businesses), SurfaceWatch (exposure monitoring), and TiGRIS (a compliance management platform).

CISO Global grew substantially through acquisition of smaller regional MSSPs and consultancies, which is common in this segment but makes organic growth and integration quality harder to assess from the outside. The company reported record estimated revenue of .1 million for fiscal 2023, though subsequent public filings show 2025 revenue closer to .6 million, and the stock has faced repeated Nasdaq minimum-bid-price compliance issues (including a January 2024 delisting notice it later resolved), which raises real questions about the company’s financial stability that a buyer should weigh.

As a hybrid MSSP-plus-consultancy-plus-software company rather than a pure product vendor, CISO Global’s differentiation is breadth and a single-vendor relationship across compliance, testing, forensics, and monitoring — useful for organizations that want to consolidate multiple cybersecurity vendors, but it competes against both larger MSSPs and more focused point-solution vendors in each individual discipline.