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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

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
42 /100

Arkenstone Defense

A well-funded, purpose-built seed-stage platform addressing the real operational and compliance burden facing commercial companies entering the federal…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

Zero Point Security

A well-regarded niche training brand being folded into Fortra's broader offensive-security portfolio; the April 2026 acquisition should expand…

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
42 /100

Zecurion

Zecurion is an on-premises data loss prevention platform, originally founded in Russia, that targets banking and regulated-sector buyers…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

Array Networks

Array Networks is a networking hardware and software company providing application delivery controllers, SSL VPN gateways, and web…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
42 /100

iCOUNTER

A recently-launched (exited stealth 2025) cyber risk intelligence company building out its collection footprint; ParseIntel acquisition (April 9,…

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management
42 /100

AnubisNetworks

Portugal-based threat intelligence and cloud email security provider, now a BitSight subsidiary, originally built for telecom operators to…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
42 /100

Assac Networks

Tel Aviv-based maker of ShieldiT, a mobile anti-tapping and encrypted-communications app for government and defense users, now majority-owned…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
42 /100

Border0

Tailscale's first-ever acquisition (March 2026): the entire seven-person Border0 team is joining Tailscale, with founder Andree Toonk becoming…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
42 /100

Kaspersky Lab

Moscow-founded endpoint protection and threat-research vendor banned from sale in the United States since 2024 under a Commerce…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
42 /100

OneVisage

Swiss biometric authentication vendor using standard smartphone cameras to build 3D facial models for passwordless, anti-spoofing device and…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
42 /100

NetLib Security

Stamford, Connecticut-based maker of Encryptionizer, a FIPS 140-2 validated, transparent database and file encryption platform requiring no application…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

Meeco

Melbourne, Australia-based personal data platform giving individuals a consent-driven identity wallet and verifiable-credential infrastructure that enterprises integrate to…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
42 /100

Acora

A growing (approaching GBP 100M annualised run-rate) UK IT/cyber group; HANDD acquisition (May 2026) is a substantial global-footprint…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
42 /100

Beetles Cyber Security

Beetles Cyber Security is a Bangladesh-based offensive security firm delivering CREST-accredited penetration testing and PenTest-as-a-Service through its proprietary…

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management
42 /100

McNally Capital

A Chicago-based private equity firm with a clear, repeated thesis around national-security and intelligence-sector investments, making TENICA its…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
42 /100

Halo Privacy

A small, revenue-generating privacy and digital-defense specialist being absorbed into Cycurion's broader AI-first security platform strategy.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

Digital Arts Inc.

Publicly traded Japanese security vendor behind the i-FILTER web filtering, m-FILTER email security, and Z-FILTER file encryption product…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security