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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

Plum Identity

A privacy-preserving identity-fraud detector for government programs, built by Pondera's founder and acquired by TrackLight.

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
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 Managed Security Services (MSSP/MDR)
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

McNally Capital

A Chicago private equity firm building a national-security portfolio, most recently TENICA Global Solutions in August 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
42 /100

HDN (HanDreamnet)

A South Korean network access-layer security hardware vendor (SubGate Security Switch) involved in a 2026 Daekyo CNS transaction.

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
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

SafeStack

An Auckland developer secure-coding training specialist acquired by NINJIO in July 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
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

BlueAlly

A PE-backed national IT solutions provider that acquired Miami security integrator GigaNetworks in August 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
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

FortifyWP

A bootstrapped boutique offering flat-fee manual WordPress security audits and hacked-site recovery.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
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

Secure Annex

A Kansas City browser and IDE extension-risk specialist acquired by Socket.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
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

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
42 /100

Rotate

An MSP-native security platform acquired by Check Point in February 2026 to anchor its Workspace Security division.

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management