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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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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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Data Theorem | 2013 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +8 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Data Theorem is an application security vendor specializing in automated managed security for mobile apps and APIs. The platform offers agentless SaaS solutions for discovery, risk assessment, and… |
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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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Proofpoint | 2002 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +6 Email Security September 18, 2025 · Martin Kuppinger |
Proofpoint is a cybersecurity company specializing in solutions designed to protect organizations from advanced threats such as email-based attacks, phishing, and targeted attacks on users. Its… |
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Arkose Labs | 2016 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +6 Email Security September 18, 2025 · Martin Kuppinger |
Arkose Labs is a mid-stage security startup headquartered in San Francisco, CA, specializing in bot and fraud prevention with solutions such as Arkose Bot Manager, Arkose Device ID, Arkose Edge,… |
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Forcepoint | 1994 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +6 Email Security September 18, 2025 · Martin Kuppinger |
Forcepoint is an American cybersecurity company providing human-centric data protection, network, and cloud security solutions with a focus on cloud-native platforms. Its Forcepoint ONE platform… |
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BeyondTrust | 1985 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +48 Secure Remote Access for OT/ICS October 9, 2025 · Warwick Ashford |
BeyondTrust is a global cybersecurity company specializing in Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions. Founded in 2006, BeyondTrust offers a comprehensive portfolio aimed at securing and… |
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Armis | 2015 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +2 Secure Remote Access for OT/ICS October 9, 2025 · Warwick Ashford |
Armis is a San Francisco-based cybersecurity and exposure management company founded in 2016. It offers the Armis Centrix™ Cyber Exposure Management Platform, originally focused on CAASM and IoT/OT… |
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Xona Systems | 2017 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +1 Secure Remote Access for OT/ICS October 9, 2025 · Warwick Ashford |
Xona Systems is a private company providing a purpose-built secure remote access platform for OT, ICS, and critical infrastructure, with core strengths in browser-based protocol rendering, agentless… |
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Whiteswan Security | 2023 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +9 Zero Trust Platforms July 13, 2026 · Alexei Balaganski |
Founded in 2023, Whiteswan Identity Security is a cybersecurity startup focused on Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP), providing a PAM platform emphasizing microservices, JIT privilege grants, CIEM, and… |
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ThreatLocker | 2017 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +6 Zero Trust Platforms July 13, 2026 · Alexei Balaganski |
ThreatLocker is a US startup offering agent-based endpoint security with an emphasis on tightly controlling application interactions and containment, using their Ringfencing™ technology. |
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1Password | 2005 | 🇨🇦 CA | Active | Leadership Compass +3 Zero Trust Platforms July 13, 2026 · Alexei Balaganski |
1Password is a leading provider of digital identity and password management solutions for small and medium organizations globally, including a passwordless authentication capability (via Passage) for… |
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Aryaka | 2009 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +1 Zero Trust Platforms July 13, 2026 · Alexei Balaganski |
Aryaka Networks, founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Mateo, CA, is a network security specialist focused on delivering managed SD-WAN and SASE solutions. Aryaka's SASE suite includes SD-WAN,… |
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Tailscale | 2019 | 🇨🇦 CA | Active | Leadership Compass +1 Zero Trust Platforms July 13, 2026 · Alexei Balaganski |
Tailscale is a Canadian networking vendor offering a secure, mesh-based, software-defined networking solution using the WireGuard protocol. Its platform supports decentralized, hybrid, and stepwise… |
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Twingate | 2019 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +1 Zero Trust Platforms July 13, 2026 · Alexei Balaganski |
Twingate is an American software company, founded to make Zero Trust networking simple and performant. It provides a fully distributed, decentralized secure mesh access solution, designed for… |
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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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Akto | 2021 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Akto is an emerging vendor in the API security market, offering a unified, lifecycle-spanning API security platform. Akto's focus is on comprehensive API discovery, vulnerability assessment, posture… |
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McAfee | 1987 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +7 Enterprise Endpoint Security: Anti-Malware Solutions February 6, 2018 · John Tolbert |
McAfee is a prominent cybersecurity company offering security software and services for consumers and businesses. Its portfolio includes endpoint protection, antivirus solutions, and network security… |
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ManageEngine | 2002 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +42 Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) May 30, 2023 · Richard Hill |
ManageEngine (a division of Zoho) is a broad IT management and security software vendor, offering comprehensive modular suites for identity governance, privileged access, SIEM, UEBA, and ITDR.… |
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