Emerging / Unranked
Not enough independent evidence for a confident score yet — or a scaled public incumbent (Splunk, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and similar category giants) whose innovation pace has gone stale relative to the market it once defined, however large its install base or revenue.
Plixer
NetFlow and IPFIX-based network detection and response (NDR) platform from Maine, adding AI-powered analytics and DNS-based threat detection…
Pi
A credibly backed early-stage AppSec automation vendor with strong security-industry angel validation, addressing the real challenge of scaling…
Panda Security
A pioneering Spanish antivirus vendor founded in 1990, now operated as WatchGuard Technologies' endpoint protection product line following…
Littlefish
An award-winning, established UK MSP with roughly 500-900 employees that has deliberately built out dedicated security operations capability…
ITC Secure
A managed-security/advisory firm uniting with IronNet (a well-known but financially distressed collective-defence pioneer) to form a new Luxembourg-headquartered…
Blueshift Cybersecurity
Managed detection and response (MDR) and SOC-as-a-service provider focused on small and mid-sized businesses, integrating endpoint, cloud, network,…
Advans Group
A French engineering and IT-services group using a consistent bolt-on acquisition strategy to add specialist cybersecurity consulting capacity;…
SEPPmail
A private-equity-backed (LEA Partners) Swiss email-security platform building a broader European security platform; CyberPilot acquisition (completed August 13,…
Abira Security
A Chicago-based boutique cybersecurity consultancy focused on continuous penetration testing and cloud security assessment.
Allegro Software
Embedded software vendor licensing the RomPager web server and TLS/certificate-management toolkits that device manufacturers build into routers and…
Protexxa
Toronto-based platform using AI to score and manage human-driven cyber risk for businesses and employees, paired with cyber…
NCP engineering
Privately held, BSI-certified German VPN and secure remote-access software vendor founded in 1986, marketed as VPN Software Made…
ThreatNG Security
Agentless external attack surface management platform combining EASM, digital risk protection and security ratings in a single unauthenticated-discovery…
Link22
A niche Swedish secure-communications specialist now backed by MW Group's acquisition capital, competing on deep domain-separation expertise for…
Astralas
A meaningful Australian market consolidation: Bastion Security Group's February 2026 acquisition of Astralas is its fourth Australian deal…
OnSystem Logic
Small application-hardening vendor building a non-bypassable, in-memory reference monitor for Windows endpoints to block trusted-tool abuse and memory-safety…
Ingalls Information Security
Louisiana-based managed extended detection and response provider with a dedicated government/DoD contractor practice, offering a patented data-visualization tool…
macmon secure
macmon secure, a German Network Access Control and Software-Defined Perimeter vendor, was acquired by industrial networking company Belden…
SonicWall
A firewall and security vendor focused on small and mid-sized businesses, offering subscription-based appliances and a growing cloud-native…
ZK Passport
A young British zero-knowledge identity protocol acquired by blockchain privacy company Aztec Labs, timed to growing regulatory pressure…
Beyond Secure
A long-tenured (founded 1993), regionally respected compliance-focused security provider that became the founding acquisition of NuView, a new…
TAC Security
A small-cap Indian vulnerability-management vendor rapidly broadening its platform through multiple acquisitions (CyberScope, CyberSandia, SafeHouse), giving it unusually…
Driftnet
A UK internet-scanning pioneer founded by a former government researcher, acquired by SecurityScorecard to power real-time, threat-informed third-party…
Malware Patrol
A Florida-based threat intelligence provider that has fed real-time malware, ransomware, phishing, and DNS-firewall block lists to security…