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Cequence Security | 2014 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +6 Generative AI Defense December 2, 2025 · Jonathan Care |
Cequence Security is a cybersecurity vendor focused on protecting APIs and web applications from attacks such as bot abuse, fraud, and application-level threats. Its Unified API Protection (UAP)… |
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Cloudflare | 2009 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +18 Generative AI Defense December 2, 2025 · Jonathan Care |
Cloudflare is a global internet infrastructure and security provider, best known for its CDN and web security services. Its API Shield solution leverages a global edge network to deliver scalable,… |
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PlainID | 2014 | 🇮🇱 IL | Active | Leadership Compass +20 Generative AI Defense December 2, 2025 · Jonathan Care |
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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Enkrypt AI | 2022 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass Generative AI Defense December 2, 2025 · Jonathan Care |
Enkrypt AI is a Boston-based startup specializing in security and compliance for multimodal generative AI. Its unified platform delivers text, image, and audio protection, red teaming with zero-day… |
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Arkose Labs | 2016 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +6 Generative AI Defense December 2, 2025 · Jonathan Care |
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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Orca Security | 2019 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +14 Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) August 3, 2026 · Mike Small |
Orca Security is a cloud security vendor providing an agentless, context-aware cloud security platform that combines CSPM and workload protection capabilities; in this report it is reviewed for the… |
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Tenable | 2002 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +8 Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) August 3, 2026 · Mike Small |
Tenable, Inc., established in 2002 in Columbia, Maryland, USA, specializes in vulnerability management and cyber exposure solutions. Its platform, Tenable.io, includes Tenable.io Container Security,… |
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Fidelis Cybersecurity | 2002 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +11 Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) August 3, 2026 · Mike Small |
Fidelis Cybersecurity is a company specializing in extended detection and response (XDR), deception, and network security solutions. The firm addresses both enterprise and critical infrastructure… |
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CloudEagle.ai | 2021 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +4 SaaS Security and AI Governance September 2, 2026 · Matthew Gardiner |
CloudEagle is a SaaS management and optimization vendor offering a platform for automated procurement, contract negotiation support, vendor management, and visibility into SaaS usage and costs, aimed… |
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DoControl | 2020 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass SaaS Security and AI Governance September 2, 2026 · Matthew Gardiner |
DoControl is a SaaS Security Platform that gives organizations visibility, threat detection, and automated remediation for data exposure and insider risk across SaaS applications such as Google… |
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Zluri | 2020 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +3 SaaS Security and AI Governance September 2, 2026 · Matthew Gardiner |
Zluri is a SaaS management and identity security platform that specializes in providing organizations with comprehensive visibility, control, and automation of access across all SaaS applications.… |
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GitGuardian | 2017 | 🇫🇷 FR | Active | Leadership Compass +4 Software Supply Chain Security July 30, 2026 · Jonathan Care |
GitGuardian is a cybersecurity company specializing in secrets detection and remediation, focusing particularly on protecting code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps environments from the… |
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Lineaje | 2022 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +1 Software Supply Chain Security July 30, 2026 · Jonathan Care |
Lineaje, headquartered in Saratoga, California, provides software supply chain security with a focus on SBOM management and deep code decomposition. Its SBOM 360 product offers multi-format SBOM… |
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Ergon Informatik | 1984 | 🇨🇭 CH | Active | Buyer's Compass +31 API Security - Airlock March 2, 2026 · Alexei Balaganski |
Ergon Informatik AG is a Swiss software engineering company with a long history in cybersecurity. Its Airlock Secure Access Hub integrates IAM and application/API protection, offering unified policy… |
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Nudge Security | 2021 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass SaaS Security and AI Governance September 2, 2026 · Matthew Gardiner |
Nudge Security is a SaaS and AI security governance system built around what the company calls the "Workforce Edge" the point where employees make everyday technology decisions. The… |
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Reco | 2020 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass SaaS Security and AI Governance September 2, 2026 · Matthew Gardiner |
Reco provides an AI agent and SaaS security system that secures the ecosystem in which agents and applications operate. It maps identities, permissions, connections, and events into a knowledge… |
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NSFOCUS | 2000 | 🇨🇳 CN | Active | Leadership Compass +2 Software Supply Chain Security July 30, 2026 · Jonathan Care |
NSFOCUS is a public cybersecurity company founded in 2000 and based in Beijing, China, providing network security, threat detection, vulnerability management, and managed security services to… |
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NeuralTrust | 2022 | 🇪🇸 ES | Active | Leadership Compass Generative AI Defense December 2, 2025 · Jonathan Care |
NeuralTrust is a VC-backed Spanish cybersecurity startup focused on generative AI security. The company's NeuralTrust platform delivers sub-10ms prompt injection detection, multi-language coverage,… |
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Check Point | 1993 | 🇮🇱 IL | Active | Leadership Compass +22 Web Application and API Protection August 25, 2025 · Osman Celik |
Check Point Software Technologies is a global cybersecurity provider, best known for its enterprise firewall and security solutions. Its CloudGuard WAF offers API discovery, schema validation, and… |
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Wallarm | 2013 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +8 Web Application and API Protection August 25, 2025 · Osman Celik |
Wallarm is a cybersecurity vendor focused on real-time protection of APIs and web applications in cloud-native, hybrid, and distributed environments. Its unified WAAP and API security platform… |
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