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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.

42 /100

Koniag Cyber

A boutique but federally well-positioned cybersecurity subsidiary of a large Alaska Native Corporation, using targeted acquisition to build…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

PrivaSapien

A Bengaluru-based privacy engineering startup offering automated privacy-risk auditing and data anonymization tools for organizations handling sensitive personal…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

InnoSec

STORM platform quantifies cyber risk in business-impact terms for enterprises, insurers, and M&A due diligence, recognized as a…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

Arcane Security

Acquired by SafeHill (March 2026) specifically to secure the rise of AI-generated software development, integrating Arcane's continuous automated…

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
42 /100

Ditno

Sydney-based micro-segmentation and Zero Trust governance platform giving organizations a single portal to control server access across on-premises,…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
42 /100

Awareness Technologies

Maker of InterGuard, an insider threat and employee activity monitoring platform combining DLP controls with comprehensive user activity…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

HAWK.io

Dallas-based automated MDR provider using an AI-driven analytics engine (Octopus cAI) to compress SOC investigation and response time…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
42 /100

Melius Cyber

Newcastle, UK-based vendor of Cyber Safe, a continuous vulnerability scanning and automated penetration testing SaaS platform built for…

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management
42 /100

Memetica

A small (founded 2019), specialized digital-investigations consultancy acquired by global communications firm FGS Global in January 2026 to…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
42 /100

eGlobal Systems

Seoul-based database encryption specialist behind CubeOne, a Common Criteria-certified column-level DB encryption platform with encrypted-index search.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

StealthMail

StealthMail is a secure email and communications vendor built around a patented protocol that removes message content from…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

Actifile

Herzliya-based SaaS data protection platform that automates data risk discovery and dollar-value risk quantification for MSPs and their…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

1stProtect

Experienced founding team (CrowdStrike, Symantec, Cisco veterans) building a performance-focused runtime enforcement engine; early-stage with vendor-reported performance figures…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
42 /100

Trillbit

A Bangalore-based startup building data-over-sound proximity authentication that turns any microphone/speaker pair into a contactless, pairing-free second factor…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
42 /100

Tyto Athene

A PE-backed federal IT and cybersecurity integrator that has built meaningful FedRAMP/CMMC compliance depth through the MindPoint Group…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

Trefle Solution

Trefle Solution is a Toulouse-based French MSSP running a 24/7 SOC and NIS2 compliance readiness services for public…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
42 /100

OpenText AppRiver

MSP-channel secure email gateway, encryption, and Microsoft 365 backup suite, now operating as part of OpenText Cybersecurity following…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
42 /100

Digital Fingerprints

Continuous behavioral-biometric authentication vendor, now a subsidiary of Poland's national credit bureau group (BIK), used to detect account…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
42 /100

ThreatHunter.ai

Managed detection and response provider built around live, human-led threat hunting; a service-disabled veteran-owned small business formerly known…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
42 /100

Remote

A large, well-capitalized global employment platform extending into identity/device management; Bravas acquisition (announced April 9, 2026) is its…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
42 /100

Raz-Lee Security

Raz-Lee Security has spent four decades building the iSecurity suite, a dedicated firewall, audit, and compliance platform purpose-built…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

Cyber Engineering Services (CyberESI)

A Baltimore-based Managed Detection and Response provider built around a patented Command and Control node detection platform, focused…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
42 /100

Arexdata

Madrid-based data security posture management (DSPM) startup helping enterprises locate, classify, and monitor sensitive data across cloud and…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

G DATA CyberDefense

Bochum, Germany-based creator of the world's first commercial antivirus software, now a privately-held European endpoint security and EDR…

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management