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Sequretek wants security to make sense.
Every security tool promises protection. Sequretek is betting that the work between the tools is where businesses need help - and that fewer moving parts can make a better defence.
Flare wants to close the door before a stolen login opens it
The Montreal company watches the places where stolen identities are traded. Its wager: threat intelligence earns its keep when it helps defenders take away the keys.
Norman Menz and the Art of Seeing Trouble Early
For two decades, the cybersecurity executive has followed risk beyond the company wall. At Flare, that long pursuit has become a global business built around a simple advantage: seeing what an attacker can see, soon enough to act.
HackerOne Made a Business Out of Inviting Strangers to Break In
The bet sounded reckless: give hackers permission, set a bounty, and listen. One Pentagon pilot and hundreds of thousands of validated vulnerabilities later, HackerOne is trying to turn that human network into a continuous, AI-assisted security system.
Hive Pro Wants Security Teams to Fix the 1% That Matters - Not Admire the Other 99%
Most security teams do not suffer from too little vulnerability data. They suffer from a queue that never ends. Hive Pro is selling a way to turn that backlog into a short, defensible list of fixes.
PlexTrac Turned the 300-Page Pentest Report Into a Living Workflow - Then Sold the Loop to Brinqa
Dan DeCloss hated polishing security reports that went stale on delivery. A decade later, the software born from that irritation became Brinqa’s missing link between finding a vulnerability and proving the fix held.
RiskOpsAI
RiskOpsAI (formerly OptimEyes AI) is an AI/ML-driven integrated risk modeling and decisioning platform that helps Fortune 2000 and Global 500 organizations discover, measure, prioritize, predict and optimize cyber risk, data privacy, third-party threat exposure and regulatory compliance. Its patented, AI-native risk quantification aggregates data from multiple risk sources into a single source of truth, giving CXOs a near real-time, transparent view of enterprise-wide risk and the actions to remediate it.
Alper Memis
H. Alper Memis is the Co-Founder and CEO of Picus Security, the company that pioneered Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) technology. A mathematician-turned-financial-analyst-turned-cybersecurity-CEO, Memis co-founded Picus in 2013 in Ankara, Turkey alongside two university friends — combining a rare background in sovereign debt management, financial risk, and a CFA designation with the mission to replace assumption-based security with continuous, evidence-based defense validation. Under his leadership, Picus has raised $80M in total funding (including a $45M Series C in 2024), serves 500+ enterprise customers including Mastercard, Visa, and Vodafone, and has simulated over one billion cyberattacks.