security-operations-center
(7)
ForceNow Is Selling Small Teams a Cybersecurity Department - Without the Cybersecurity Department
Born during the pandemic to defend small businesses, the eight-person Colorado firm now sells human-watched security, secure AI builds and smart-contract audits. The interesting idea is not another dashboard - it is access to a security bench that most buyers could never hire.
Legato Security’s Bet: Your Cyber Stack Isn’t Broken - It’s Badly Conducted
For security teams buried under alerts and half-integrated tools, the Salt Lake City MSSP sells a practical reset: keep the stack, expose the blind spots, and put accountable humans on watch around the clock.
Lumifi Sold Its Cybersecurity Engine - Then Bought It Back for $30 Million to Build a Bigger One
The Scottsdale company spent years proving that security tools are only as useful as the people watching them. Its second act is a buy-and-build wager that one automation layer can make a fragmented cyber stack behave like a single defense team.
Intellicene
Intellicene is a Melville, New York-based security software company that builds Symphia, a unified, video-centric platform for physical security operations. Spun out of Verint and Cognyte's Situational Intelligence Solutions business and acquired by Canada's Volaris Group in December 2022, the company connects and correlates data from cameras, access control, intrusion detection and other networked devices so security teams can detect threats and respond to mission-critical events in real time. With roughly 25 years of heritage, it serves retail, airports, transportation, healthcare, safe cities, higher education and industrial customers worldwide.
CyFlare
CyFlare is a U.S.-based Managed Security Service Provider that runs cybersecurity operations on behalf of MSPs, resellers and technology vendors. Through its CyFlare ONE platform and a 24/7 Open-XDR-enabled Security Operations Center, the company delivers managed detection and response, managed EDR, XDR, vulnerability management, managed email security and compliance support, letting channel partners offer enterprise-grade security to their clients without building an in-house SOC.
Hitachi Cyber
Hitachi Cyber is the global cybersecurity and performance analytics arm of the Hitachi Group, operating under Hitachi Systems Trusted Cyber Management Inc. With roots going back to 1999, it delivers 24/7 managed security services, threat intelligence, governance-risk-compliance advisory, and performance analytics to more than 350 private and government organizations across 50-plus countries. A network of Security Operations Centers spanning Canada, Switzerland, Japan, India and Poland - integrated with Google Security Operations, Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk - anchors its detection and response work across IT, OT and AI environments.
Dropzone AI
Dropzone AI builds an autonomous AI SOC analyst that investigates 100% of security alerts around the clock, mimicking the reasoning of an expert human analyst across phishing, endpoint, network, cloud, identity, and insider-threat domains. Founded in 2022 by former ExtraHop AI lead Edward Wu, the Seattle company replaces playbook-driven busywork with end-to-end investigations and high-fidelity reports, letting overwhelmed security teams focus on real threats. It has raised $57.35M to date, including a $37M Series B in July 2025.