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Curity | 2015 | 🇸🇪 SE | Active | Leadership Compass +18 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Curity is an identity and access management vendor specializing in secure, standards-based authentication and API access control. The Curity Identity Server provides modular, cloud-native identity… |
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Forum Systems | 2001 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +10 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Forum Systems is a privately held vendor specializing in secure API communication and protocol mediation for high-assurance environments. Its Forum Sentry API Security Gateway is a self-contained API… |
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Gravitee | 2015 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +2 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Gravitee is an API management vendor with open-source roots focused on unifying synchronous and asynchronous APIs in one platform. Its product set spans central management (Cockpit), API management… |
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Kong | 2017 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +3 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Kong Inc. is an API and service connectivity platform vendor focused on federated governance, API design, security, and developer enablement across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. Originating as… |
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Salt Security | 2016 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +4 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Salt Security is a pioneer in agentless, out-of-band API security, offering API discovery, policy governance, and threat detection driven by patented AI/ML. Its platform is designed for large… |
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Traefik Labs | 2016 | 🇫🇷 FR | Active | Leadership Compass API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Traefik Labs is an open-source driven technology company specializing in cloud-native traffic management and API runtime governance for Kubernetes, containers, and hybrid cloud. Its Traefik Hub… |
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WSO2 | 2005 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +45 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
WSO2 is a global provider of open-source and SaaS software for API management, integration, and IAM, serving enterprises across 93 countries. The company offers a unified, AI-enhanced platform… |
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Ping Identity | 2002 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +89 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Ping Identity is an enterprise IAM solutions provider delivering authentication, access management, and API security analytics. Its Ping API Intelligence offers automated, AI-driven API discovery,… |
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PlainID | 2014 | 🇮🇱 IL | Active | Leadership Compass +20 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
PlainID is a policy-based access management vendor specializing in dynamic, context-aware, externalized authorization for APIs and microservices, supporting centralized policy management and… |
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ARMO | 2019 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +2 Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) August 3, 2026 · Mike Small |
ARMO, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in Kubernetes and container runtime security. Its ARMO Platform focuses on agentless security for Kubernetes and multi-cloud… |
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AccuKnox | 2020 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +2 Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) August 3, 2026 · Mike Small |
AccuKnox is a cloud-native security vendor maintaining KubeArmor (an open-source Kubernetes security system), and offering a comprehensive Zero Trust CNAPP solution. Their solution offers agentless… |
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Cav | 2017 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +5 Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) August 3, 2026 · Mike Small |
Cav (formerly Caveonix) delivers unified cloud security posture management and workload protection for hybrid multi-cloud environments. Its AI-powered platform provides risk analytics, proactive… |
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Cyscale | 2021 | 🇬🇧 GB | Active | Leadership Compass +4 Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) August 3, 2026 · Mike Small |
Cyscale Ltd. specializes in cloud security automation, providing agentless contextual analysis of cloud misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, access issues, and data risks. Its Security Knowledge Graph… |
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Datadog | 2010 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +1 Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) August 3, 2026 · Mike Small |
Datadog is a public company offering a comprehensive analytics and observability platform for infrastructure, applications, logs, and security. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York City,… |
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Elastic | 2012 | 🇳🇱 NL | Active | Leadership Compass +8 Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) August 3, 2026 · Mike Small |
Elastic (formerly Elasticsearch) is a US-based company known for its search and log analytics platform, Elastic Stack, which powers a range of solutions including Elastic Security, enabling threat… |
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Trend Micro | 1988 | 🇯🇵 JP | Active | Leadership Compass +12 Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) August 3, 2026 · Mike Small |
Trend Micro, founded in 1988 in Tokyo, is a major global player in endpoint, email, web, and IoT security, as well as cloud protection, supporting both traditional and next-gen workloads. Regular… |
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Barracuda Networks | 2003 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +12 Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) December 4, 2024 · Mike Small |
Barracuda Networks, founded in 2003 in Campbell, California, provides cybersecurity and data protection solutions for email, networks, and data. Its backup and disaster recovery solutions offer… |
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Balbix | 2015 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +6 Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) December 4, 2024 · Mike Small |
Balbix is a cybersecurity company offering the Balbix Security Cloud, an automation platform that aggregates security and IT data to produce a unified, financial-risk-oriented view of cyber posture.… |
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Cymulate | 2016 | 🇮🇱 IL | Active | Leadership Compass +4 Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) December 4, 2024 · Mike Small |
Cymulate is a breach and attack simulation provider delivering a SaaS platform that enables companies to test and track their security posture. Its extended posture management capabilities cover… |
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HUMAN Security | 2012 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +5 Web Application and API Protection August 25, 2025 · Osman Celik |
HUMAN Security is a US-based cybersecurity vendor specializing in advanced bot and fraud detection. Formed through mergers with PerimeterX and Clean.io, HUMAN offers products such as Bot Defender,… |
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