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Zip Security wants to make the security department optional
Buying security software is easy. Keeping it configured, connected, and awake is the expensive part. Zip Security is building a business around that inconvenient distinction.
BlinkOps and the art of giving security teams their time back
A failed workflow could cost Coterie Insurance another two hours. BlinkOps bets that security teams need smaller AI agents, clearer controls, and fewer chores between an alert and an answer.
Defakto Security wants your machines to forget their passwords
A copied API key can outlive the job it was meant to do. Defakto replaces that lingering permission with short-lived workload identity, bringing an old security problem into the age of AI agents.
Exostar: The rivals who built a shared front door
Aircraft makers compete fiercely. Their suppliers still need a safe way to work with all of them. Exostar turned that awkward arrangement into a business spanning defense contracts, clinical trials and electronic prescriptions.
Mitsogo and the art of making devices behave
A restaurant iPad is a small computer with an unusually public job. Mitsogo built Hexnode around the problem it represents: keeping work devices useful, secure and under control wherever they end up.
ClassLink and the Case of the Missing School Day
A school can buy every learning app it wants and still leave a child waiting at the login screen. ClassLink built a business around that small, expensive absurdity - and now wants to know which apps deserve to stay.
The Five-Day Exit From the VPN
When a business-process giant sent its staff home, InstaSafe says it expanded secure access from 500 to 33,000 people in five days. The useful idea was smaller than a network: give each worker only the application they came for.
The Five-Minute Window: Why P0 Security Wants Privilege to Expire
The old security bargain gave engineers broad access because emergencies could not wait. P0 Security is betting that the better bargain is privilege measured in minutes - for people, machines, and now AI agents.
Bill Oberman Markets the Invisible Machinery of Trust
After two decades selling everything from hospital systems to hospitality, Fischer Identity's chief marketing officer has found his sharpest subject: the quiet decisions that determine who gets through the digital door.
Silverfort’s Bet: Protect the Logins Your Security Stack Forgot
Most identity tools guard the front door. Silverfort built a checkpoint for the side doors - legacy apps, service accounts, command lines and now AI agents - without asking companies to rebuild the house.
Fischer Identity Turned Cybersecurity's Messiest Chore Into a No-Code Workflow
The Naples software company has spent two decades automating the work nobody notices until an ex-employee still has a login. Its wager: complex identity governance can be configured, audited and changed without years of custom code.
JumpCloud Put the Company Directory in the Cloud. Now It Wants the Whole IT Stack.
JumpCloud began by automating access to servers. The bigger business appeared when its founders realized the directory - the dull, indispensable list behind every login - could become the control plane for modern work.
RSA Wants to Kill the Password - Without Killing the Systems That Still Depend on It
The company that put six-digit codes on key fobs is rebuilding itself for passkeys, AI agents and help-desk deepfakes. Its bet is that the future of identity will still have to work with the stubborn machinery of the past.
Brendan Hannigan Keeps Finding the Door Everyone Left Open
From a compulsory FORTRAN class in Dublin to Q1 Labs, IBM Security and Sonrai, Brendan Hannigan has spent a career making invisible access visible. His latest wager is simple: the cloud gets safer when unused permission is removed before an attacker can borrow it.
Arun Singh Built a Career Around the Question: Who Gets In?
From cryptography research to the CEO's chair, Arun K. Singh has spent more than 25 years turning identity from an IT chore into a business question: who gets access, why, and for how long?
David Goldschlag Is Giving Machines Their Own ID Check
He helped invent onion routing, built and sold two security companies, and now wants applications and AI agents to stop borrowing human credentials. The through-line is a career spent replacing assumed trust with evidence.
Runlayer Wants Your AI Agents Working - Just Not Running Wild
Employees were connecting AI to company systems faster than security teams could count the connections. Runlayer turned that mess into a control plane - and persuaded Gusto, Jane, Homebase and other large companies to let the agents in.
Aembit Wants to Give Every AI Agent a Badge - Without Giving It the Keys
Companies taught employees to prove who they are. Aembit is betting the next security market belongs to doing the same for software - issuing short-lived access to workloads and AI agents only when policy says yes.
Florian Forster Is Making the Login Box Carry Its Weight
A vehicle-electronics apprentice became an identity-infrastructure founder by refusing to treat authentication as a finished problem. Now Florian Forster is taking a Swiss-born open-source company to San Francisco - notifications, trade-offs and all.
Inside Inspira Enterprise's Five-Center Bet on Security Without Friction
The Mumbai company has spent years turning a sprawling partner ecosystem into one operating layer for cyber defense. Now it is adding AI agents, identity controls and enterprise workflows to the watch floor.
Biometric Signature ID
Biometric Signature ID (BSI) is a Texas-based cybersecurity company that turns a short, hand-drawn password into a behavioral biometric. Its flagship BioSig-ID software verifies people by how they draw four characters with a finger or mouse - measuring speed, direction, angle, length and pressure - so no fingerprint reader, phone or extra hardware is needed. Used across higher education, financial services, healthcare, e-commerce and government, the technology fights account fraud, credential sharing and online-exam cheating while staying compliant with biometric-privacy laws.
Jeff Maynard
Jeff Maynard is the founder, president, and CEO of Biometric Signature ID, the Texas company behind BioSig-ID, a software-only biometric password that people draw with a finger or mouse instead of typing. He conceived the idea while running a publicly traded biometrics firm and funded its development for two years before launching the company with his wife Cindy in 2007. His gesture biometrics technology has been used tens of millions of times across 95 countries, holds multiple U.S. patents, and was selected by the White House to pilot the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace.
Elevance Systems, Inc.
Elevance Systems, Inc. is a Cupertino, California-based, AI-enabled healthcare IT managed services and consulting firm. It provides US healthcare providers with IT infrastructure support, enterprise and clinical application implementation and maintenance, cybersecurity and risk mitigation, identity and access management, data and automation, and digital and cloud transformation - delivered through staff augmentation and AI-enabled automation across a global footprint spanning the Americas, UAE, and India.
VigourSoft Global Solutions
VigourSoft Global Solutions is a digital transformation and software product engineering services firm founded in 2016, with roots in Pune, India and a presence in the United States. It helps enterprises build and sustain cloud-based products by combining big data analytics, AI/ML, cloud engineering, DevOps, identity & access management, and language/localization technologies. The team positions itself as an engineering partner for companies that want to turn unstructured data into business decisions and modernize aging software.
Raji Dani
Raji Dani is VP & Deputy CISO for Microsoft Business, overseeing cybersecurity across Microsoft's Customer & Partner, Finance, and Marketing divisions. With over 25 years in technology and product engineering, she joined Microsoft in 2006 and built her career through Office 365 security, identity and access management, and cloud security leadership. She is a recognized voice on securing customer support ecosystems and preventing lateral movement attacks, with published guidance and RSA Conference appearances to her name.
Jasvir Gill
Jasvir Gill is the Founder and CEO of AlertEnterprise, a Fremont-based enterprise SaaS platform that converges physical security, cybersecurity, and identity governance through AI. A serial entrepreneur who immigrated from Punjab in 1985, Gill previously founded Virsa Systems — a pioneer in governance, risk, and compliance software — which was acquired by SAP in 2006. He then built the SAP GRC business unit before leaving to found AlertEnterprise in 2007. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, the company has become an industry leader in cyber-physical security convergence, deploying AI-powered access control and identity management for critical infrastructure, utilities, and enterprise clients worldwide.