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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

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

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

Ridgewall

London-based managed IT and security provider offering SOC-as-a-service and vulnerability scanning to UK small and mid-sized businesses as…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
43 /100

SIKUR

São Paulo-based vendor of encrypted communications, a hardened Android device, and a passwordless-authentication SDK aimed at Latin American…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
43 /100

BonjourCyber

A Paris-based penetration testing and cyber audit firm offering web, mobile, and network security assessments for SMBs.

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management
43 /100

Bastion Security Group

A Quadrant-backed New Zealand and Australian MSSP built by rolling up four security boutiques.

Emerging / Unranked Managed Security Services (MSSP/MDR)
43 /100

Link22

A Swedish cross-domain secure-communications specialist for defense, 60% acquired by MW Group.

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
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
43 /100

Axon Technologies

Dubai-based managed security services and SOC platform provider delivering threat intelligence, incident response, and security testing for financial…

Emerging / Unranked Managed Security Services (MSSP/MDR)
43 /100

Littlefish

A two-time CRN MSP of the Year that built out CREST-accredited security operations by acquiring Stripe OLT.

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
43 /100

GigaNetworks

GigaNetworks is a Miami-based value-added reseller and integrator providing enterprise network and security solutions — firewalls, intrusion detection…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
43 /100

Ironchip

Spanish identity and access management vendor using location-based signals for passwordless authentication and fraud detection across VPN, AD,…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
43 /100

DQS

A 40-year-old global certification body (200+ standards, 20,000+ clients) now backed by private equity firm Montagu.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
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

Halo Privacy

A small Seattle privacy and digital-investigation specialist being absorbed into Cycurion.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

Simetry

A 2020-founded Houston managed IoT connectivity provider acquired by Wireless Logic in July 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
42 /100

Vulert

A London software composition analysis service that scans manifest files to flag vulnerable open-source dependencies without needing source…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security