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Innovation Tier

Incremental Innovator

Improves on existing approaches (50-69).

62 /100

Barracuda

KKR-owned, Campbell, California-based security vendor covering email security, CloudGen/SecureEdge network security and SASE, application firewalling and data protection…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
62 /100

Optiv

A large, pure-play cybersecurity solutions integrator and managed security services provider offering strategy consulting, MSSP/SOC services, identity, and…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
62 /100

ZITADEL

Swiss open-source identity infrastructure platform offering multi-tenant authentication and authorization with SaaS and self-hosted options.

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
62 /100

Red Sentry

Red Sentry combines human-led penetration testing with a Penetration-Testing-as-a-Service platform to uncover business-logic flaws and chained vulnerabilities that…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
62 /100

Ethoca

A Toronto-founded, now Mastercard-owned network that lets merchants and card issuers share real-time data to resolve card fraud…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
62 /100

Andesite AI

AI-native security operations startup building a "bionic SOC" that pairs AI copilots with human analysts to speed up…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
62 /100

Assured Information Security

A Rome, New York-based cyber R&D firm doing vulnerability research, hypervisor/cross-domain security, and applied cyber capability development under…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
62 /100

YesWeHack

Paris-based crowdsourced security platform coordinating bug bounty, vulnerability disclosure, and pentest management programs for enterprises and public-sector agencies,…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
62 /100

RAD Security

eBPF-driven, agentic-AI cloud and Kubernetes runtime detection and posture platform, rebranded from KSOC in 2024.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
62 /100

CryptoNext Security

A Paris-based software vendor that discovers, remediates, and manages cryptographic assets so enterprises can migrate to post-quantum algorithms.

Incremental Innovator Quantum Resilience
62 /100

Cigent

Embedded storage-level ransomware and data-theft prevention using hidden drives, hardware encryption, and zero-trust file access.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
62 /100

FusionAuth

FusionAuth is a developer-first customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform, offering full OAuth2/OIDC/SAML support and flexible self-hosted…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
62 /100

TestifySec

Open-source-rooted software supply chain security platform providing cryptographic build attestation, SBOM generation, and CI/CD policy enforcement.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
62 /100

CyberVadis

CyberVadis provides standardized, evidence-based third-party cybersecurity and data-privacy risk ratings, letting enterprises assess suppliers once and share the…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
62 /100

Superna

An Ottawa-based unstructured data security company that defends NAS storage systems against ransomware at the storage layer; its…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
62 /100

Arthur AI

Arthur provides enterprise AI agent security and governance — discovering agents across an organization, tracing their reasoning and…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
62 /100

detections.ai

A Palo Alto startup (formerly System Two Security) building AI tools that help detection engineers write, translate and…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
62 /100

Help AG

e&'s cybersecurity arm, running SOCs in Dubai and Riyadh and delivering managed security services across the Gulf.

Incremental Innovator Managed Security Services (MSSP/MDR)
62 /100

Karamba Security

Karamba Security provides embedded runtime protection and vulnerability management for automotive, industrial IoT, and enterprise-edge devices, backed by…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
62 /100

TypingDNA

Romania-founded, Brooklyn-headquartered vendor of keystroke-dynamics behavioral biometrics used for passive account-takeover and exam-fraud detection layered on existing authentication.

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
62 /100

Entersekt

A South African-founded, Atlanta-co-headquartered vendor of transaction-bound push authentication and 3-D Secure payment authentication for banks and financial…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
62 /100

Optery

Optery automatically finds and removes personal information from data broker and people-search sites, reducing exposure to identity theft,…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
62 /100

Accertify

Fraud and account-protection platform, spun out of American Express in 2024, processing billions of transaction events annually for…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
62 /100

Daxa

AI governance and security platform, formerly the CNAPP vendor CloudDefense.io, that controls how AI agents access and act…

Incremental Innovator AI Security