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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

Rilian

A seed-stage McLean, VA agentic command layer for sovereign, on-premises, and air-gapped defense environments.

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
43 /100

Minimus

Minimus built hardened, minimal container images from scratch directly from upstream open-source sources, aiming to eliminate more than…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
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

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

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

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

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 Managed Security Services (MSSP/MDR)
43 /100

Spectrum Security

A seed-stage San Francisco detection-engineering automation startup backed by Shlomo Kramer and Yishay Yovel.

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
43 /100

Shieldworkz

India-based OT and industrial-control cybersecurity vendor providing asset visibility, threat detection, and compliance mapping for critical infrastructure.

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

TAC Security

A Jaipur small-cap vulnerability-management vendor broadening its ESOF platform through Web3 and mobile-security acquisitions.

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management
43 /100

ZySec AI

An Abu Dhabi sovereign, self-hosted AI platform absorbed into Infinia Technologies.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
43 /100

idwall

A leading Brazilian identity-verification and onboarding startup acquired by Serasa Experian after CADE clearance.

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
43 /100

Rain

A stablecoin payments platform that internalized Guardrail's runtime on-chain monitoring technology, which protected $30B+ in assets.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
43 /100

Candor Security

A San Francisco YC startup (formerly branded Haleum) building agentic AI that monitors internal communications to catch insider…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
43 /100

Ubisecure

A Finland-based customer identity and access management (CIAM) vendor that also runs RapidLEI, a major global legal-entity-identifier issuer.

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
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

Quantum Corporation

Publicly traded data storage and protection company providing deduplication-based backup appliances, tape archival systems, and unstructured-data management for…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
43 /100

Basware

A PE-owned Finnish AP-automation leader extending into payment-fraud prevention via Trustpair and Glantus.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
43 /100

NetWolves

NetWolves is a Tampa, Florida-based enterprise IT solutions provider founded in 1998, specializing in managed network services, enterprise…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security