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Peakhour | 2015 | 🇦🇺 AU | Active | Leadership Compass Web Application and API Protection August 25, 2025 · Osman Celik |
Peakhour, founded in Sydney, Australia, is a WAAP vendor specializing in DNS-based cloud-native web application and API protection. The service provides integrated WAF, bot and DDoS mitigation, API… |
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ThreatX | 2014 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +2 Web Application and API Protection August 25, 2025 · Osman Celik |
ThreatX, founded in 2014 and based in Louisville, Colorado, is focused on WAAP for cloud and on-premises deployments. The platform uses behavioral analytics, risk-based policies, and multiple threat… |
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United Security Providers | 1994 | 🇨🇭 CH | Active | Leadership Compass +12 Web Application and API Protection August 25, 2025 · Osman Celik |
United Security Providers (USP) is a Switzerland-based cybersecurity company providing advanced web access management solutions and managed security services. Focused on protecting web applications… |
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Nevatech | 2011 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +3 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Nevatech is a software vendor focused on API management and governance, particularly for Microsoft-centric and cross-platform environments. Its flagship product, Sentinet, provides full API lifecycle… |
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Pynt | 2022 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Pynt is a young cybersecurity vendor specializing in automated, AI-powered API security testing. The company focuses on shift-left security by integrating discovery, context-aware vulnerability… |
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Apache Software Foundation | 1999 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +3 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Apache APISIX is an open-source API gateway and microservices management project by the Apache Software Foundation. Renowned for high performance, extensibility, and cloud-native features, it is… |
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Apiiro | 2019 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +2 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
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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Boomi | 2007 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +1 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Boomi is a cloud integration platform provider specializing in application, data, and API integration. With recent acquisitions including Mashery and APIIDA, Boomi has relaunched its API management… |
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Cerbos | 2021 | 🇬🇧 GB | Active | Leadership Compass +3 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Cerbos is a dynamic authorization management platform with an open-source core. It applies fine-grained, contextual and continuous authorization across applications, APIs, gateways, workloads, and AI… |
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HAProxy Technologies | 2013 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
HAProxy Technologies is a provider of open-source and commercial proxy/load balancing solutions. HAProxy Enterprise extends the open-source project with modular API gateway, deep inspection, and… |
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Spherical Defence | 2017 | 🇬🇧 GB | Active | Leadership Compass +3 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Spherical Defence is a London-based security startup developing autonomous, unsupervised analysis for API and machine-to-machine communications, with a focus on anomaly, attack, and adversarial… |
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SmartBear Software | 2009 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
SmartBear is a software company specializing in quality assurance and development tools for APIs, including Swagger, SoapUI, and TestComplete. The platform provides full lifecycle design, testing,… |
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StackHawk | 2019 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
StackHawk is a cybersecurity company focused on developer-centric API security testing, integrating dynamic application and API scanning into DevOps pipelines with actionable feedback for secure code… |
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Tyk | 2015 | 🇬🇧 GB | Active | Leadership Compass +3 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Tyk Technologies is the company behind the Tyk Open Source API Gateway and Tyk Enterprise platform. It offers multi-cloud, performance-optimized API management with rich DevOps and developer-oriented… |
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e3 AG | 2015 | 🇨🇭 CH | Active | Leadership Compass Cloud Access Security Brokers November 29, 2018 · Mike Small |
Centraya is a CASB/gateway security solution produced by Swiss company e3 AG, focused on protecting sensitive organizational data in cloud applications through policy-based encryption and decryption.… |
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FireMon | 2004 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass Cloud Access Security Brokers November 29, 2018 · Mike Small |
FireMon is a network security policy management vendor that expanded into cloud infrastructure security brokering through the acquisition of FortyCloud. In the paper’s context, FireMon offers 40Cloud… |
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Dynatrace | 2005 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +1 Container Security April 5, 2022 · Alexei Balaganski |
Dynatrace, established in 2005 in Waltham, Massachusetts, offers a unified observability, automation, and security intelligence platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Dynatrace’s platform… |
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Avoco Secure | 2003 | 🇬🇧 GB | Active | Leadership Compass +12 Cloud-based MFA Solutions October 9, 2018 · John Tolbert |
Avoco Secure is a UK-based software provider specializing in identity services and federated identity solutions. It offers secure, standards-based IAM capabilities with a focus on interoperability,… |
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Wiz | 2020 | 🇺🇸 US | Acquired 2026 | Leadership Compass +8 Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) August 3, 2026 · Mike Small |
Wiz is a fast-growing cloud security company focused on modernizing cloud infrastructure protection. Renowned for its innovative, agentless security platform, Wiz helps organizations of all sizes… |
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VeriClouds | 2014 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Executive View VeriClouds Identity Threat Protection Platform December 4, 2018 · Mike Small |
VeriClouds is a cybersecurity company focused on identity threat protection through compromised-credential intelligence and verification. It builds and maintains a large proprietary repository of… |
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