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Innovation Tier

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.

43 /100

Plixer

NetFlow and IPFIX-based network detection and response (NDR) platform from Maine, adding AI-powered analytics and DNS-based threat detection…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
43 /100

Pi

A credibly backed early-stage AppSec automation vendor with strong security-industry angel validation, addressing the real challenge of scaling…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
43 /100

Panda Security

A pioneering Spanish antivirus vendor founded in 1990, now operated as WatchGuard Technologies' endpoint protection product line following…

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management
43 /100

Littlefish

An award-winning, established UK MSP with roughly 500-900 employees that has deliberately built out dedicated security operations capability…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
43 /100

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…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
43 /100

Blueshift Cybersecurity

Managed detection and response (MDR) and SOC-as-a-service provider focused on small and mid-sized businesses, integrating endpoint, cloud, network,…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
43 /100

Advans Group

A French engineering and IT-services group using a consistent bolt-on acquisition strategy to add specialist cybersecurity consulting capacity;…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
43 /100

SEPPmail

A private-equity-backed (LEA Partners) Swiss email-security platform building a broader European security platform; CyberPilot acquisition (completed August 13,…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
43 /100

Abira Security

A Chicago-based boutique cybersecurity consultancy focused on continuous penetration testing and cloud security assessment.

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management
43 /100

Allegro Software

Embedded software vendor licensing the RomPager web server and TLS/certificate-management toolkits that device manufacturers build into routers and…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
43 /100

Protexxa

Toronto-based platform using AI to score and manage human-driven cyber risk for businesses and employees, paired with cyber…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
43 /100

NCP engineering

Privately held, BSI-certified German VPN and secure remote-access software vendor founded in 1986, marketed as VPN Software Made…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
43 /100

ThreatNG Security

Agentless external attack surface management platform combining EASM, digital risk protection and security ratings in a single unauthenticated-discovery…

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
43 /100

Link22

A niche Swedish secure-communications specialist now backed by MW Group's acquisition capital, competing on deep domain-separation expertise for…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
43 /100

Astralas

A meaningful Australian market consolidation: Bastion Security Group's February 2026 acquisition of Astralas is its fourth Australian deal…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
43 /100

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…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
43 /100

Ingalls Information Security

Louisiana-based managed extended detection and response provider with a dedicated government/DoD contractor practice, offering a patented data-visualization tool…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
43 /100

macmon secure

macmon secure, a German Network Access Control and Software-Defined Perimeter vendor, was acquired by industrial networking company Belden…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
43 /100

SonicWall

A firewall and security vendor focused on small and mid-sized businesses, offering subscription-based appliances and a growing cloud-native…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
43 /100

ZK Passport

A young British zero-knowledge identity protocol acquired by blockchain privacy company Aztec Labs, timed to growing regulatory pressure…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
43 /100

Beyond Secure

A long-tenured (founded 1993), regionally respected compliance-focused security provider that became the founding acquisition of NuView, a new…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
43 /100

TAC Security

A small-cap Indian vulnerability-management vendor rapidly broadening its platform through multiple acquisitions (CyberScope, CyberSandia, SafeHouse), giving it unusually…

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management
43 /100

Driftnet

A UK internet-scanning pioneer founded by a former government researcher, acquired by SecurityScorecard to power real-time, threat-informed third-party…

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
43 /100

Malware Patrol

A Florida-based threat intelligence provider that has fed real-time malware, ransomware, phishing, and DNS-firewall block lists to security…

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management