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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

Reliance Global Group

A small-cap public company making a genuinely novel-for-its-sector bet on post-quantum cryptography through a staged, tranche-based majority-stake acquisition;…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

Secure Annex

A small, founder-led extension-security specialist acquired by Socket to extend supply-chain visibility from open-source dependencies into browser, IDE,…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
42 /100

AironWorks

AironWorks is a Japanese-Israeli startup that built its business on AI-driven phishing simulation and is now repositioning around…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
42 /100

DatChat

Publicly traded secure messaging platform giving users encrypted, self-destructing, screenshot-resistant control over messages even after they've been sent.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

Mirae Technology

Publicly listed South Korean identity and authentication vendor specializing in hardware and software OTP tokens, FIDO biometric authentication,…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
42 /100

env0

A venture-backed infrastructure-as-code management company that merged with CloudQuery to add cloud-asset discovery capability; relevant to cloud/attack-surface-visibility-focused CISOs…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
42 /100

HANDD Business Solutions

An established, internationally operating MFT/data-security specialist folded into Acora's roughly £100M-revenue managed-services group.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
40 /100

Austability Group

A global security/technology group whose Nine23 acquisition (announced May 2026) was formally reviewed and approved under the UK…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
40 /100

FICO (Cybersecurity Score)

Analytics giant best known for consumer credit scoring that also produces a third-party cyber risk rating, competing in…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

Agentic Fabriq

Agentic Fabriq provides identity, governance, and visibility infrastructure for AI agents, managing authentication, permission enforcement, and audit trails…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
40 /100

SiftD

A talent-and-technology acquisition (undisclosed terms) that is more about accelerating Databricks' entry into the SIEM market via Lakewatch…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
40 /100

DataExpert

A well-capitalized (Bridgepoint PE-backed), actively consolidating European MSSP; the ADO Security deal (July 2026) extends its Nordic footprint.

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
40 /100

SAS

The security analytics division of SAS Institute, applying the company's fraud and risk-modeling AI heritage to network and…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
40 /100

Extreme Networks

Extreme Networks is a publicly traded enterprise networking vendor whose ExtremeCloud IQ platform bundles network access policy, analytics,…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
40 /100

The Logic Group

A well-established (20+ year) Philadelphia-area MSP acquired by CompassMSP in July 2026 to strengthen its Mid-Atlantic presence, a…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
40 /100

HaystackID

An established legal-technology/eDiscovery services provider strengthening GenAI capability; eDiscovery AI acquisition (Feb 26, 2026) is a well-timed capability…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

ReeVo

A growing Italian MSSP using cross-border acquisitions (Security Lab Group, Hispasec) to build a pan-European managed-security footprint, a…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
40 /100

Magnitude

A very early-stage, Ballistic Ventures-backed TPRM automation vendor with a strong founding team pedigree, addressing a real but…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

Cybral

An early-stage, Miami-based AI-driven data security posture management and threat exposure management platform for classifying and protecting sensitive…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
40 /100

GuardRails

Singapore-based DevSecOps platform that integrates static analysis, secret scanning and dependency checks directly into developers' existing CI/CD workflows.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
40 /100

Wireless Logic

A PE-backed (Montagu/General Atlantic) IoT connectivity specialist adding managed device-security capability through the SIMETRY acquisition, relevant to CISOs…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
40 /100

VeryAI

Early-stage but technically distinctive biometric identity-verification play backed by a notable crypto-native investor base; independent accuracy validation of…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
40 /100

Leviathan Security Group

A well-established, 80-person offensive-security firm acquired by risk-management consultancy K2 Integrity (March 2026), roughly doubling K2's headcount to…

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
40 /100

Interactive

An established Australian IT services/cloud provider strengthening its sovereign cloud leadership position; the Thales managed cloud acquisition (May…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations