Praetorian is an Austin, Texas-based cybersecurity company that helps organizations prevent breaches by combining an adversarial, offensive-security mindset with automation and AI. Founded in 2010 by CEO Nathan Sportsman, the firm pairs elite red-team engineers with its flagship Chariot platform for Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) and attack surface management, plus services spanning penetration testing, cloud and product security, and adversarial emulation. Its clients include large technology, finance, healthcare, and automotive organizations, and it maintains open-source tools such as the Nosey Parker secrets scanner.
Picus Security is the cybersecurity company behind the Picus Security Validation Platform - an Adversarial Exposure Validation system that continuously simulates real-world attacks against an organization's defenses to expose which ones actually work. Founded in 2013 by three Turkish mathematicians and now headquartered in San Francisco, Picus serves 500+ enterprise customers including Mastercard and is the official Exposure Validation Partner of Juventus.