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The Company Betting That Scanning Was Never the Hard Part
Every enterprise already owns a dozen scanners that find problems. Nucleus Security built a business on the boring, unglamorous job nobody else wanted: figuring out which of the millions of findings actually matter.
Zakir Durumeric
Zakir Durumeric is a computer security researcher, Stanford assistant professor, and co-founder and CEO of Censys. As a University of Michigan PhD student he built ZMap, a scanner that can survey the entire public IPv4 internet in minutes rather than weeks, then turned that research into Censys, an internet intelligence platform used for threat hunting and exposure management. His work mapping the internet at scale helped expose the reach of vulnerabilities like Heartbleed and earned him a spot on MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35.
watchTowr
watchTowr is a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that builds a real-time attacker's view of an organization's external attack surface, then continuously discovers and validates exploitable vulnerabilities before adversaries can use them. Founded in 2021 by offensive-security specialist Benjamin Harris, its platform blends external attack surface management, continuous automated red teaming, AI-driven rapid reaction to emerging threats, and autonomous edge mitigation. watchTowr is also known for watchTowr Labs, a research team whose public disclosures on Citrix, Fortinet, Ivanti, SonicWall and other enterprise software regularly make headlines. The company serves Fortune 500 firms and critical-infrastructure operators and has raised roughly $29-30 million, including a $19M Series A led by Peak XV.
Forescout Technologies Inc.
Forescout Technologies is a San Jose-based cybersecurity company that gives organizations agentless visibility and control over every connected device on their networks - from laptops and phones to industrial controllers, medical equipment and IoT sensors that cannot run traditional security agents. Its platform, now branded Forescout Vistaro, spans IT, OT, IoT and IoMT environments and combines asset discovery, network access control, segmentation, threat detection and exposure management, backed by the Vedere Labs threat-research team. Serving roughly 3,200 customers including one in five Fortune 500 companies and numerous government agencies, Forescout competes in the fast-growing market for securing the sprawling, mixed device estates of modern enterprises and critical infrastructure.
Censys
Censys is a cybersecurity company that runs one of the most comprehensive real-time maps of the public internet. Born from the ZMap internet-scanning project at the University of Michigan, its Internet Intelligence Platform scans billions of IP addresses and certificates to power attack surface management, threat hunting, and exposure management. Trusted by more than half of the Fortune 500 and by U.S. intelligence agencies, Censys helps defenders see what attackers can see - unknown assets, exposed services, and adversary infrastructure - so they can find and fix risk before it is exploited.