Emerging Vendors 2018: Cybersecurity Companies You Need To Know
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Security breaches, ransomware attacks and other cybersecurity incidents continue to make headlines. So it's no surprise that security is one of the most active segments of the IT industry in terms of startup activity.
Venture capital and private equity firms poured $7.6 billion in 548 deals into cybersecurity technology startups in 2017, according to PitchBook Data. That's twice the $3.8 billion given to cybersecurity companies in 467 deals in 2016.
As part of CRN's 2018 Emerging Vendors list, here are 54 hot cybersecurity companies, all founded in 2012 or later, that solution providers should be aware of:
Anomali
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: CEO Hugh Njemanze
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=56
ThreatStream, Anomali's flagship product, automates the collection and optimization of cyberthreat intelligence from myriad sources. The platform analyzes and optimizes threat intelligence data, delivering valuable information and integrating the intelligence into an organization's internal infrastructure.
Aqua Security
Founded: 2015
Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Dror Davidoff
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=57
Aqua Security provides an end-to-end offering for securing container environments, bridging the gap between DevOps and IT security. Aqua's Container Security Platform encompasses image scanning and assurance, secrets management and runtime protection, detecting and blocking suspicious activity in real time.
Armis
Founded: 2015
Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Yevgeny Dibrov
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=58
Armis' agentless IoT security platform lets organizations discover and sanction all managed and unmanaged devices – from traditional devices like laptops to smart devices such as TVs, printers, HVAC systems and medical devices.
Baffle
Founded: 2015
Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Ameesh Divatia
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=59
Baffle's Data Protection Service goes beyond simple encryption to close gaps in the data access model. The service secures data access for applications and databases, encrypting data that's at rest, in use, in memory and in the search index, and protect it against data breaches and attacks.
Balbix
Founded: 2015
Top Executive: Founder, CEO Gaurav Banga
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=60
Balbix BreachControl is designed for CISOs and IT security teams to proactively predict and control cyberbreach risk. The system leverages artificial intelligence and deep learning technology, providing visualized results via searchable risk heat maps and prioritizing and recommending fixes based on business risk.
Bitglass
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: CEO Nat Kausik
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=61
Bitglass' cloud access security broker is built on a hybrid architecture, leveraging proxies and APIs to offer real-time data protection on any device, without deploying agents. Persistent digital watermarking technology, part of the Bitglass Cloud DLP engine, tracks corporate data anywhere it goes.
BluVector
Founded: 2015
Top Executive: CEO Kris Lovejoy
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=62
BluVector develops artificial-intelligence-driven network security technology that senses and responds to sophisticated threats in real time. The system, deployed to high-density network aggregation points, carries out real-time analysis of fileless and file-based threats.
Bugcrowd
Founded: 2012
Top Executive: CEO Ashish Gupta
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=63
Bugcrowd's crowdsourced security platform, Crowdcontrol, helps customers harness the power of the security researcher community to surface critical software vulnerabilities and identify, prioritize and efficiently address cybersecurity challenges.
Cavirin Systems
Founded: 2012
Top Executive: CEO Rap Papolu
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=64
Cavirin targets hybrid cloud computing with its CyberPosture Intelligence security assessment and remediation system, providing real-time visibility, predictive analytics and intelligent remediation through DevSecOps integrations for organizations of all sizes. The company recently unveiled plans to shift to a channel-only sales model.
Claroty
Founded: 2014
Top Executive Co-Founder, CEO Amir Zilberstein
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=65
Claroty supplies a set of integrated cybersecurity products that secure operational technology and industrial control networks against cyberattacks. System capabilities include network visibility, continuous cyberthreat detection, secure remote access and risk assessment.
Contextual Security Solutions
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: Co-Founder, President Rick Merwin
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=66
Contextual Security's Illumino security and compliance management portal provides a snapshot of a business' compliance process, helping to drive down the cost of effective security.
Contrast Security
Founded: 2014
Top Executive: CEO Alan Naumann
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=67
Contrast Security offers Contrast Assess, an interactive application security testing product, and Contrast Protect, a runtime application self-protection solution, that together make software self-protecting in the data center, the cloud and containers throughout the entire application life cycle.
Coronet
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: Founder, CEO Guy Moskowitz
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=68
Coronet's SecureCloud protects corporate cloud applications from unauthorized access, prevents data leakage and mitigates cloud threats. It provides continuous, real-time visibility, control and remediation, ensuring corporate data is used only by trusted users, using trusted devices, connecting through trusted networks to trusted cloud services.
Coveware
Founded: 2018
Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Bill Siegel
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=69
Coveware's case management software helps businesses remediate ransomware and restore client files. The company's analytics and alerting tools help MSPs keep their clients safe from targeted ransomware campaigns.
Critical Start
Founded: 2012
Top Executive: CEO Rob Davis
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=70
Critical Start's CyberSOC and alert classification engine is a complete offering for solution providers to offer managed security services to their customers in a completely transparent way using a mobile-first, zero-trust platform that reduces alert overload by 99.9 percent.
CSPi Myricom and Security Products
Founded: 2014
Top Executive: GM Gary Southwell
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=71
CSPi's Aria software-defined security platform fully protects and/or encrypts enterprisewide data wherever it's stored, accessed or used. Aria provides simple application security via connectors and automatically applies security policies to data, applications, containers or virtual machines, on-premises or in the public cloud.
Cyber Progress Index
Founded: 2016
Top Executive: Founder Mike Gentile
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=72
Cyber Progress Index is a security consulting firm with a web application that scores an organization's cybersecurity program based on answers to a baseline questionnaire. Users can access a suite of tools, guides, and document validation services to improve their program.
Cyberbit
Founded: 2015
Top Executive: CEO Adi Dar
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=73
Cyberbit provides advanced endpoint detection, security operations center automation, industrial control network protection and cybersecurity training and simulation. A June release of Cyberbit's SCADAShield OT platform provides enhanced asset discovery and visibility for operational technology networks.
Cybereason
Founded: 2012
Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Lior Div
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=74
Cybereason markets a cybersecurity data analytics platform for endpoint detection and response, next-generation anti-virus and active monitoring services. The company reported growing its global revenue by 140 percent in 2017 and increasing its customer base by more than 200 percent.
Cybric
Founded: 2015
Top Executive: CEO Ernesto DiGiambattista
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=75
The Cybric Continuous Application Security Platform rapidly creates exact replicas of application environments and scans for security vulnerabilities by containerizing and automating security solutions. Predictive analytics applied to the scan results help enterprises prioritize a proactive remediation plan.
Cylance
Founded: 2012
Top Executive: Founder, CEO Stuart McClure
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=76
CylanceProtect, the company's flagship cybersecurity product, applies artificial intelligence, algorithmic science and machine learning to cybersecurity, using a predictive analytical process to address critical attack vectors. The company raised $120 million in additional financing in June.
Demisto
Founded: 2015
Top Executive: Co-Founder Rishi Bhargava
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=77
Demisto provides a security orchestration, automation and response platform that combines orchestration, incident management and interactive investigation. Security teams can build future-proof security operations to reduce mean-time-to-response, create consistent incident management processes, and increase analyst productivity.
DNSFilter
Founded: 2015
Top Executive: CEO Ken Carnesi Jr.
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=78
DNSFilter's flagship product provides DNS-based threat protection and content filtering capabilities. In addition to being backed by the company's artificial intelligence categorization product, Web Shrinker, DNSFilter also operates a global anycast network with over two dozen points of presence.
Edgewise Networks
Founded: 2016
Top Executive: Founder, CEO Peter Smith
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=79
Edgewise's "zero trust" security platform protects workloads from attackers inside a cloud or data center. The system, easy to manage in hybrid cloud environments, automatically visualizes application topology, monitors intended state of environment, and creates protection policies.
enSilo
Founded: 2014
Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Roy Katmor
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=80
EnSilo's endpoint security platform combines next-generation anti-virus and endpoint detection and response to deliver pre- and-post-infection protection in real time, defending endpoint devices from data tampering and breaches caused by advanced malware.
Exabeam
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Nir Polak
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=81
Exabeam's Security Intelligence Platform is a next-generation SIEM system that's composed of six integrated products that organizations use to protect their valuable information. In April Exabeam said channel-generated bookings increased 150 percent in the first quarter compared with one year earlier.
Farsight Security
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Paul Vixie
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=82
Farsight developed the DNSDB historical passive DNS database dating back to 2010 with over 100 billion DNS records, updated in real- ime. Farsight DNSDB enables corporations, law enforcement and government agencies to investigate and gain intelligence about suspicious IP addresses or domain names.
Fluency
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: CEO Chris Jordan
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=83
Fluency provides network behavioral analytics through artificial intelligence and machine learning, providing the insight needed to discover and resolve issues in networks, host data and device alerts. Fluency also provides data retention and organization not offered by SIEM.
Fortanix
Founded: 2016
Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Ambuj Kumar
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=84
Fortanix Runtime Encryption Platform protects applications even if IT infrastructure is compromised, keeping applications encrypted when running in completely protected states. The company's Self-Defending Key Management Service securely generates, stores and uses cryptographic keys and certificates.
Huntress Labs
Founded: 2014
Top Executive: CEO Kyle Hanslovan
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=85
Huntress proactively hunts down hacker footholds and investigates suspicious methods hackers use to maintain long-term, persistent access. This two-pronged approach combines machine-learning endpoint agents and a threat operations team of advanced forensic security engineers, providing MSPs and VARs with remediation instructions.
ID Agent
Founded: 2015
Top Executive: CEO Kevin Lancaster
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=86
ID Agent's Dark Web ID scours millions of sources on the Dark Web, including botnets, chat rooms, P2P networks, malicious websites and illegal market sites, alerting MSPs and MSSPs to compromised credentials associated with customer domains and helping partners build their security practices.
Illusive Networks
Founded: 2014
Top Executive: Founder, CEO Ofer Israeli
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=87
Illusive Networks protects the entire network – physical or virtual – across all endpoints and servers. The platform operates with the network, application and data layers, creating a completely realistic deception infrastructure. All decoys and supporting "honey" elements are generated automatically.
Infocyte
Founded: 2014
Top Executive: CEO Curtis Hutcheson
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=88
Infocyte's Hunt threat hunting software automates a specialized knowledge and services-heavy host forensics process, making it simple for security teams and assessors to discover and respond to malware and persistent threats that have evaded existing defenses.
InterGrid
Founded: 2016
Top Executive: Founder, Managing Partner David McGillivray
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=89
Intergrid's JetStream private-labeled managed service offerings address solution providers’ customers' day-to-day IT management needs, including cybersecurity, network and data center. The cybersecurity portfolio includes SIEM, network security, security operations center, vulnerability assessment and penetration testing services.
Ironscales
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Eyal Benishti
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=90
Ironscales is a leader in developing anti-phishing technology, offering its IronTraps automated phishing email incident response system that empowers employees to report suspicious messages and known attacks in real time, triggering an immediate enterprisewide remediation response.
Mantix4
Founded: 2016
Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO John Stubbs
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=91
Mantix4's platform conducts proactive threat hunting-as-a-service to address the 44 percent of cyberthreats that go undetected by traditional security tools. M4 provides network visibility, forensic end-point examination, threat-feed analysis, dark web intelligence and automated behavioral anomaly playbooks to stop advanced cyberthreats.
MinerEye
Founded: 2015
Top Executive: CEO Yaniv Avidan
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=92
MinerEye's Data Tracker automatically discovers and monitors company and customer data, whether it's located within or outside the organization. Data Tracker is built around a three-step automated process that uses identification, classification and tracking of sensitive information assets across data sources.
Minerva Labs
Founded: 2014
Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Eddy Bobritsky
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=93
Minerva Labs provides advanced malware protection with its Anti-Evasion Platform, which attacks threats when they attempt to evade anti-malware tools by deceiving malware about the environment, causing them to crash.
Nozomi Networks
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: CEO Edgard Capdevielle
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=94
Nozomi Networks provides real-time cybersecurity, operational reliability and visibility for industrial control networks with its SCADAguardian platform. The system delivers real time ICS monitoring, industrial network visualization, hybrid ICS threat detection, asset inventory and vulnerability assessment.
Nyotron
Founded: 2012
Top Executive: Founder, CTO Nir Gaist
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=95
Nyotron's Paranoid focuses on the damage stage of an attack by mapping all the "right" ways to do things on an endpoint. When an attack attempts to delete, exfiltrate or encrypt files, the system knows these actions aren't legitimate and blocks execution.
Opaq
Founded: 2016
Top Executive: CEO Glenn C. Hazard
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=96
Opaq's cloud platform provides centrally managed, end-to-end network security that includes best-of-breed monitoring and analytics, next-generation firewall, web application firewall, and DDoS mitigation. It includes patented software-defined segmentation, quarantine, and other security capabilities that prevent threats from moving throughout internal networks.
Preempt
Founded: 2014
Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Ajit Sancheti
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=97
The Preempt platform continuously pre-empts threats based on identity, behavior and risk. It allows organizations to automatically respond in real time to anomalous or risky behavior, proactively add secure access control, and contain risk and weaknesses before they are exploited by attackers.
ProtectWise
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: CEO Scott Chasin
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=98
ProtectWise offers the ProtectWise Grid, an enterprise security platform that captures high-fidelity network traffic, creates a lasting memory for the network, and delivers real-time and retrospective alerting and analysis in a rich, innovative visualizer.
RedLock
Founded: 2015
Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Varun Badhwar
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=99
RedLock's Cloud 360 enables compliance, governance and security across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud environments. It provides visibility into an environment's resources, detecting threats such as misconfigurations, suspicious user activities, network intrusions and host vulnerabilities. It also enables incident investigation and remediation.
SafeBreach
Founded: 2014
Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Guy Bejerano
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=100
SafeBreach's software helps security leaders answer the question: "Are we secure?" by allowing enterprise security teams to validate security controls and readiness by simulating attacks safely and continuously. Issues can be quickly prioritized and remediated via integrations with security automation and orchestration systems.
Seceon
Founded: 2014
Top Executive: Founder, CEO Chandra Pandey
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=101
Seceon's open threat management platform delivers fully automated threat detection and remediation. Its subscription-based, environment-agnostic technology immediately detects all forms of threats without the need for human intervention.
Secudrive
Founded: 2012
Top Executive: CEO Simon Kang
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=102
Secudrive File Server protects confidential files stored in on-premises file servers from leakage with digital rights management. Secudrive USB Drive provides a secure way to store and transport confidential files while Secudrive USB Copy Protection offers secure content delivery with copyright integrity.
SentinelOne
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: CEO Tomer Weingarten
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=103
SentinelOne's endpoint protection platform predicts malicious behavior across multiple threat vectors and closes the vulnerability gap between detection and response. The system, which can be deployed for both on-premises and cloud environments, is a fully converged EPP and endpoint detection response agent.
ShieldX Networks
Founded: 2015
Top Executive: Founder, CEO Ratinder Ahuja
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=104
ShieldX's Apeiro security platform enables enterprises to deploy uniform security policy and enforcement with deep packet inspection, advanced micro-segmentation, automation and coordination across multi-cloud environments. Its "indicator-of-pivot" technology tracks and prevents lateral movement to catch attacks in real time.
SOCsoter
Founded: 2016
Top Executive: Director David Nathans
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=105
SOCsoter provides managed cybersecurity services including Cyberdefense 24/7 monitoring, advanced threat detection, compliance, vulnerability monitoring and response on a SIEM platform. The service sits behind the firewall and mirrors the network traffic, alerting customers to actionable events.
ThreatQuotient
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: President, CEO John Czupak
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=106
ThreatQuotient's ThreatQ Investigations provides a cybersecurity situation room designed for collaborative threat analysis, shared understanding and coordinated response. ThreatQ Investigations allows real-time visualization of an investigation within a shared environment, helping teams better understand and anticipate threats.
Veridium
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: CEO James Stickland
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=107
Veridium's mainstay products are 4 Fingers TouchlessID, VeridiumID, VeridiumAD and Veridium Authenticator. With the software, employees log on with their biometrics, eliminating passwords and tokens, increasing security, reducing fraud and cutting costs.
Wallarm
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: CEO Ivan Novikov
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=108
Wallarm's artificial-intelligence-powered platform automates real-time application protection and security testing for websites, microservices and APIs across public and private clouds. It generates application-specific dynamic rules, using AI to learn from application traffic, and actively evaluates the risk of attacks to specific applications.
ZeroFox
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: CEO James Foster
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=109
ZeroFox develops technology that detects and remedies threats to businesses and employees on social, mobile, web and collaboration platforms. The software protects against brand and physical threats, including targeted phishing attacks, credential compromise, data exfiltration, brand hijacking, and executive and location threats.