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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.

38 /100

BeyGoo

A Madrid-based digital risk protection platform that monitors external digital assets for brand impersonation, fraud, and early-stage incident…

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
38 /100

Abile Group

A national-security network and cyber engineering firm acquired by Bluestone-backed Valiant Solutions in February 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
38 /100

Woven Solutions

A Falfurrias-backed national-security engineering roll-up that closed its fourth acquisition, Insignis, in May 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
38 /100

nGuard

Privately held managed security services provider offering penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and managed security monitoring for mid-market organizations.

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
38 /100

Security Centric

A Sydney cybersecurity consultancy with defence heritage, acquired by Virtual IT Group.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
38 /100

Keypasco

Device-based multi-factor authentication and Zero Trust access platform, originally developed in Gothenburg, Sweden and now marketed globally under…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
38 /100

Stripe OLT

A Bristol CREST-accredited managed security provider acquired by Littlefish Group in February 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Managed Security Services (MSSP/MDR)
38 /100

Layer27

A Microsoft-focused regional MSSP serving healthcare, acquired by Katalyst in July 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
38 /100

ContextFort

Y Combinator-backed startup whose Chrome extension gives security teams visibility and rule-based controls over AI browser agents.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
38 /100

Riptides

Issues short-lived, auto-rotating cryptographic identities at the kernel level to replace static API keys for services, workloads, and…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
38 /100

Zygon

A Paris shadow-IT and identity-usage analytics startup absorbed into Memority's Identity Factory platform in March 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
38 /100

Secure Decisions

Secure Decisions is the government-funded cybersecurity research division of Applied Visions that originally developed Code Dx and builds…

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management
38 /100

cyberconIQ

Behavioral-science-based human risk management platform that scores individual employee cyber risk and drives targeted coaching rather than generic…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
38 /100

Datalogix (Cork)

A 20-year-old Cork operational-technology security specialist acquired by Ekco in February 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
38 /100

Viatel

A Macquarie-backed Irish connectivity and infrastructure provider expanding its cyber pillar by acquiring cyber-resilience consultancy FullProxy in July…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
38 /100

Silent Circle

End-to-end encrypted enterprise voice, video, and messaging platform from PGP creator Phil Zimmermann's company.

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
38 /100

IOvations

A 20-year-old Zero Trust-focused Northeast MSSP acquired by Avance-backed Alchemy Technology Group.

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
37 /100

Wontok

A small, self-funded Sydney vendor whose SafeCentral product locks down the OS to create a malware-resistant secure browsing…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
37 /100

Advizex

A Cleveland-area hybrid infrastructure and security provider acquired by Myriad360 in a combination with a $900M annual run-rate.

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
37 /100

CRACI

Helsinki pre-seed startup automating EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance and software-supply-chain documentation inside CI/CD pipelines.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
37 /100

Cyberus Labs

Passwordless multi-factor authentication using dynamically generated audio tokens for human-to-machine and machine-to-machine sessions, aimed at IoT and connected-device…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
37 /100

Sterling Investment Partners

A veteran private equity firm that acquired 1,800-customer MSSP Cyber Advisors in March 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
37 /100

Katalyst

A regional managed IT and cybersecurity platform that expanded its 24/7 SOC and Microsoft delivery by acquiring Layer27…

Emerging / Unranked Managed Security Services (MSSP/MDR)
37 /100

Intensity Analytics

Small Virginia-based vendor of TickStream, a behavioral-biometric authentication layer that verifies users by typing cadence and physical effort…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management