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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.

40 /100

Epiq

Global legal and business services provider with a cyber incident response practice; acquirer of Canopy in September 2026.

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

Loom Security

Kansas-based startup building CINQUE, a persona-based platform correlating identity, device, network, app, and data risk signals.

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
40 /100

Nextron Systems

A well-regarded Frankfurt compromise-assessment vendor (THOR scanner) acquired by private equity firm Eurazeo.

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

ReeVo

An Italian MSSP expanding across Southern Europe by acquiring Security Lab Group and Hispasec in 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Managed Security Services (MSSP/MDR)
40 /100

Wireless Logic

A PE-backed IoT connectivity provider that acquired Houston-based SIMETRY in 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
40 /100

RealSecurity

REAL Security (trading as RealSecurity) is a specialist cybersecurity distributor and consultancy based in Maribor, Slovenia, serving the…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

VoidZero

The open-source company behind Vite and Vitest, acquired by Cloudflare in June 2026; tracked for software supply-chain relevance…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
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

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

LookingPoint

A California networking, security, and cloud integrator acquired by Presidio in July 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
40 /100

Traceforce

Traceforce is a YC S26 startup that installs on employee devices to inventory and control AI apps and…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
40 /100

CodeAnt AI

AI-powered code review platform that flags security vulnerabilities and quality issues directly in pull requests across 30+ languages.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
40 /100

Vanroey

A Belgian managed ICT provider that added Microsoft-centric MDR by acquiring The Collective.

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
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

3Point

A roughly 20-person Belgian defense-sector security consultancy with a proprietary threat-monitoring service, acquired by Cegeka.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

Axiom Cyber Solutions

A Las Vegas-based Cybersecurity-as-a-Service vendor bundling a next-generation firewall appliance with 24/7 SOC monitoring for small and midsize…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
40 /100

Defy Security

A vendor-neutral security integrator acquired by Booz Allen Hamilton in February 2026 to support its European commercial business.

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
40 /100

AlertFusion

A UK-based early-stage startup building an alert-triage and vulnerability-management workbench that unifies output from multiple security tools into…

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management
40 /100

Credemtel

A bank-backed Italian digital-identity and trust-services provider that raised its stake in Andxor from 40% to 75% in…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
40 /100

Revyz

A San Francisco Jira and Confluence backup and resiliency vendor absorbed into Spin.AI.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
40 /100

Kaduu

Swiss dark web and deep web monitoring provider that alerts organizations when their credentials, data or brand assets…

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
40 /100

Malloc Inc

Malloc provides AI-driven mobile cybersecurity that monitors and blocks unauthorized data recording or transmission from mobile devices, using…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security