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Qualys | 1999 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +10 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Qualys is a global leader in cloud-based vulnerability management and cybersecurity technologies. Its TotalAppSec solution extends unified vulnerability management and analytics to cover web… |
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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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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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Bitdefender | 2001 | 🇷🇴 RO | Active | Leadership Compass +3 Endpoint Protection Detection & Response (EPDR) October 9, 2024 · John Tolbert |
Bitdefender is a cybersecurity vendor known for endpoint security and malware research, offering the GravityZone suite that extends beyond EPDR into XDR and other security areas such as cloud… |
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Acronis | 2003 | 🇨🇭 CH | Active | Leadership Compass +3 Endpoint Protection Detection & Response (EPDR) October 9, 2024 · John Tolbert |
Acronis is a global data protection and cyber resilience vendor with headquarters in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and Singapore. Founded in 2003, Acronis combines backup, disaster recovery, and cyber… |
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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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archTIS | 2006 | 🇦🇺 AU | Active | Leadership Compass Zero Trust Platforms July 13, 2026 · Alexei Balaganski |
archTIS is a software vendor focused on secure collaboration and information sharing solutions, primarily serving highly regulated industries and government organizations. The company specializes in… |
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GoodAccess | 2020 | 🇨🇿 CZ | Active | Leadership Compass Zero Trust Platforms July 13, 2026 · Alexei Balaganski |
GoodAccess is a SaaS-based secure access platform aimed primarily at small and midsize organizations that need practical, quickly deployable remote access and zero-trust controls without the… |
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Specops Software | 2001 | 🇸🇪 SE | Active | Leadership Compass +2 Zero Trust Platforms July 13, 2026 · Alexei Balaganski |
Specops Software is a global provider of password security and authentication solutions aimed at enterprise environments, with a particular focus on organizations utilizing Microsoft Active Directory… |
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Unosecur | 2021 | 🇩🇪 DE | Active | Leadership Compass +2 Zero Trust Platforms July 13, 2026 · Alexei Balaganski |
Unosecur is the identity control plane for the agentic enterprise. It stitches people, service accounts, machines, and AI agents into one connected view of their effective permissions. That view… |
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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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Sangfor Technologies | 2000 | 🇨🇳 CN | Active | Leadership Compass Zero Trust Platforms July 13, 2026 · Alexei Balaganski |
Sangfor Technologies is a cybersecurity and IT infrastructure vendor headquartered in China with a strong footprint across Asia-Pacific and other regions. Its Athena SASE portfolio includes the Zero… |
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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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Apiiro | 2019 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +2 Software Supply Chain Security July 30, 2026 · Jonathan Care |
Apiiro provides an application security platform focused on risk visibility and remediation across applications and software delivery pipelines, combining posture management and inventory with… |
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