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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.

48 /100

IDfy

A mature, well-established identity verification and trust infrastructure leader with over $120M raised and broad multi-country enterprise deployment.

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
48 /100

Embrace

A decade-old, YCombinator-backed observability company acquired by Palo Alto Networks in July 2026, its fourth acquisition of the…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
48 /100

Tevora

Tevora is a cybersecurity and compliance consultancy providing penetration testing, GRC program development, and PCI/HIPAA compliance advisory services…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

Aceiss

Aceiss is an access-observability platform that correlates entitlement data with real authorization behavior to reveal who actually has…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
48 /100

AssurancePoint

AssurancePoint is an Atlanta-based CPA firm specializing in independent security and compliance assessments, issuing attest and compliance reports…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

Cycurion

Publicly traded (NASDAQ: CYCU) McLean, Virginia cybersecurity firm whose ARx platform bundles WAF, DDoS, bot mitigation, and API…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
48 /100

Continuity Software

Storage and backup security posture management platform that continuously audits backup and storage infrastructure for misconfigurations and ransomware-related…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
48 /100

Symbiotic Security

An early-stage but rapidly scaling (seed grew from $3M to $10M within about a year) developer-security startup backed…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
48 /100

Swiss Post Cybersecurity

Swiss managed detection and response, SOC and incident response provider formed by Swiss Post's 2024 merger of Hacknowledge…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
48 /100

PreEmptive Solutions

A Cleveland-based application protection vendor, now operating within Idera's DevOps business unit, whose Dotfuscator and DashO products obfuscate…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
48 /100

Faraday Security

Offensive security platform that orchestrates over 80 third-party security tools into a single vulnerability management and external attack…

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
48 /100

K2 Integrity

A risk and compliance advisory firm executing a clear technology and AI-enabled strategy under new leadership by acquiring…

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
48 /100

OTIFYD

OTIFYD is a UK-based operational technology (OT) cybersecurity firm that combines ICS-specific consulting, incident response, and technology solutions…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
48 /100

Pillar Security

Early-stage platform securing AI applications and infrastructure across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
48 /100

Sedara

Buffalo-based managed security provider built on Elasticsearch, delivering attack surface visibility and threat detection/response as a hands-on 'cybersecurity…

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
48 /100

ADF Solutions

Digital forensic triage and media exploitation software used by military, law enforcement and border-security agencies to scan and…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
48 /100

Arqit

London-based public company (Nasdaq: ARQQ) building quantum-safe encryption key distribution and, more recently, cryptographic discovery tools for post-quantum…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
48 /100

Flagright

A fast-growing Series A financial-crime compliance vendor with real multi-country customer traction and a clear differentiation around explainable,…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

Cynamics

Cynamics is an AI-driven, agentless network detection and response platform that claims to infer full network visibility from…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
48 /100

Eos

A timely, well-targeted acquisition: AppViewX (March 2026) combined its automated certificate/PKI lifecycle management with Eos's agentic governance to…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
48 /100

OpenText Fortify

Long-established static, dynamic, and interactive application security testing suite, now an OpenText product line after passing through HP…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
48 /100

Quantivate

Governance, risk, and compliance software for banks and credit unions, now operating as a distinct product brand within…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

Cord3

Ottawa-based data-centric encryption company that binds protection directly to files and emails to defend against privileged-credential theft and…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
48 /100

A3Sec

A3Sec is a Madrid-headquartered security operations provider running 24/7 SOCs across Spain and Latin America, offering exposure management,…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations