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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

Rankiteo

Free, open cybersecurity ratings and third-party risk platform scoring over a million companies using an external-attack-surface-based methodology.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
43 /100

WinMagic

Full-disk and endpoint encryption vendor whose SecureDoc product provides centralized encryption key management and authentication across Windows, macOS,…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
43 /100

Casco

A Y Combinator-backed San Francisco AI red-teaming platform that maps findings to SOC 2, NIST AI RMF, and…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
43 /100

CyberCyte

A Reading, UK-based exposure management platform combining CAASM-style asset visibility, GRC automation and forensic threat hunting for enterprise…

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
43 /100

Cyscale

Cyscale is a European cloud security posture management (CSPM) vendor built around a graph-based model of cloud assets,…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
43 /100

ControlUp

A digital-employee-experience vendor that acquired agentic SOAR startup Unipath in January 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
43 /100

RiskQ

Cyber risk quantification platform that translates security posture into financial and insurance-aligned risk terms for board and executive…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
43 /100

WhiteHawk

An ASX-listed Australian micro-cap pivoting into AI governance through its AUD 3.5M acquisition of Quixxi.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
43 /100

Indurex

An Amsterdam startup from the founder of Applied Risk, unifying safety, process, and cybersecurity data into one view…

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
43 /100

SCIT Labs

George Mason University spin-out commercializing patented Self-Cleansing Intrusion Tolerance (SCIT) moving-target-defense technology for servers.

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
43 /100

Astralas

A Sydney-area cloud-security architecture and IAM consultancy (60+ advisors) acquired by Bastion Security Group.

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
43 /100

RedMimicry

Berlin startup building a breach-and-attack-simulation platform that emulates real adversary malware and TTPs to validate detection and response.

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
43 /100

UM-Labs

UK-based niche vendor that adds a vendor-agnostic security overlay — encryption and authentication — to SIP/VoIP unified communications…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
43 /100

Pi

A 2025-founded agentic AppSec startup backed by CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz and Armis's founders.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
43 /100

iZOOlogic

iZOOlogic is a London-based threat intelligence provider specializing in phishing takedown, brand abuse monitoring, and digital risk protection…

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management
43 /100

ZK Passport

A London zero-knowledge passport-verification protocol acquired by Aztec Labs amid rising age-verification mandates.

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
43 /100

Beyond Secure

A 1993-founded Austin security and compliance provider for community banks and credit unions, the founding acquisition of PE-backed…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
43 /100

TrustLayer

A UK cloud security vendor (rebranded from CensorNet) bundling secure web gateway, email security, SaaS posture management, and…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
43 /100

SensibleVision

Small Florida biometrics vendor behind FastAccess and 3DVerify, patented continuous facial authentication technology licensed to OEM device and…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
43 /100

Iron Mountain

Publicly traded information-management company providing records management, secure information destruction, and data backup and recovery services, increasingly extended…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
43 /100

Mobile Mentor

A Microsoft-first managed services provider that added healthcare and legal compliance depth by acquiring 5th Gear in April…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
43 /100

Driftnet

A UK internet-scanning pioneer founded by a former government researcher, acquired by SecurityScorecard.

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
43 /100

Trustle

Trustle is a just-in-time cloud access platform that lets security teams enforce least privilege and zero standing privileges…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
43 /100

Hackrate

A Budapest-based ethical hacking platform whose HackGATE product gives clients a monitored, auditable gateway over bug bounty and…

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management