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Anuj Goel and the Last Mile of Cyber Defense
At Citi, he watched valuable threat intelligence stall between teams and tools. Cyware is his attempt to close that stubborn gap between knowing and doing.
Utkarsh Garg and the Quiet Grammar of Collective Defense
A decade inside cybersecurity has taken Garg from building software in Bengaluru to shaping the shared language of threat intelligence - the unglamorous, essential work that lets defenders act together.
DNSFilter has to block the bad stuff. And let the work through.
An early customer walked away because the filtering was not ready. His return explains the appeal of DNSFilter - and the balancing act behind its expansion into a broader security platform.
Restrata Wants the Headcount Before the Headlines
A crisis is a bad time to discover that HR, travel and security have three different versions of where everyone is. Restrata is building a business around getting them to agree before the alarm sounds.
Tim O’Rourke Is Turning Cybersecurity’s Complexity Into a Clearer Story
After a career that runs from the Marine Corps to Harvard and through some of cybersecurity’s best-known companies, eSentire’s new CMO has a deceptively plain assignment: make a complicated defense business understandable.
Ruoting Sun Learned to Price Risk. Now He Helps Security Companies Explain It.
From quantitative finance to Zero Trust, compliance software and internet-scale threat intelligence, Sun has built a career translating complicated systems into decisions people can act on.
Fortra Bought a Cybersecurity Arsenal. Now It Has to Make the Pieces Talk.
The company once helped operators run overnight jobs on IBM machines. Four decades and a long acquisition spree later, it is trying to turn a cabinet of famous security tools into one coherent defense - while learning what happens when one trusted product becomes the way in.
The Internet Can Invent a Crisis Before Lunch. Blackbird.AI Wants to Spot It Before Breakfast
The New York startup treats online perception like a security surface. Its bet: the dangerous part is not one false post, but the network that gives it reach, speed and consequences.
Cyabra Learned the Hard Way: Finding the Bots Is Only Half the Job
The disinformation company spent four years perfecting detection before customers taught it the more valuable trick: turning a suspicious spike into a decision. Now the newly public firm must prove that narrative intelligence can become durable infrastructure, not just crisis software.
Securonix Is Teaching the SOC to Stop Chasing Alerts and Start Doing the Work
The security industry sold companies more alerts than their analysts could handle. Securonix built its next act around a different unit of value: completed investigations, governed automation, and less time spent feeding the machine.
Rapid7 Built a Security Empire on Hacker Tools. Now It Has to Make the Whole Stack Feel Like One Product.
Rapid7 spent 25 years learning how attackers think, then assembled scanners, SIEM, cloud security and managed response around that knowledge. The hard part now is subtraction: turning a crowded toolbox into one coherent operating system for security teams.
The $48 Million Bet That Your Security Stack Already Missed Something
Lumu built a cybersecurity company around an unfashionable question: what if the intruder is already inside? Its answer is to read the trail in network metadata, confirm the compromise, and make the security stack respond.
GreyNoise Built a Business by Telling Security Teams What to Ignore
Most cyber vendors sell more alarms. GreyNoise built thousands of patient decoys, learned the rhythm of indiscriminate attacks, and made a business out of the far more useful answer: not this one.
Infoblox Turned the Internet’s Boring Plumbing Into a Security Alarm
The company made a business out of the chores nobody notices until the network breaks. Now it is betting that DNS can tell security teams what is about to go wrong - before another tool raises the alarm.
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.
Halcyon Bet Your Security Stack Will Fail. Its Payoff Is a $1 Billion Ransomware Safety Net
Most security vendors promise to keep attackers out. Halcyon starts with the impolite assumption that every layer - including its own - can fail, then sells enterprises a second chance before ransomware turns downtime into leverage.
Babel Street Built an AI Analyst for People Who Can't Afford a Bad Guess
The Washington intelligence-software company spent years helping analysts search a noisy world. Now it is asking AI agents to do the legwork - while humans keep the last word.
RANE Bought a 20-Year Forecasting Machine - Then Built the Risk Desk Most Companies Cannot Afford
The New York risk-intelligence company turned Stratfor's forecasting discipline into a subscription platform for executives facing too many alerts and too little time. Its bet: the valuable product is not more information, but a defensible decision.
UpGuard Turned a Month-Long Vendor Security Review Into One Week
Its pitch to lean security teams is refreshingly practical: stop chasing questionnaires and disconnected alerts, then turn outside-in evidence into a decision someone can defend.
SpyCloud Built a Trillion-Record Warning System for the Identity Attacks Your Login Screen Never Sees
Passwords were only the opening act. SpyCloud built an enterprise security business around the messier evidence criminals leave behind - and the narrow window defenders have to use it.
Christopher Ahlberg Put the Internet on a Slider - Then Asked It What Happens Next
A teenage classified-ad experiment became a career spent making enormous datasets usable. After Spotfire and Recorded Future, Ahlberg's enduring trick is simple to describe and hard to copy: turn noise into a decision before the moment passes.
Lukas Quanstrom Is Turning Security's Messy Signals Into a Business Language
The Ontic co-founder has spent his career making scattered information useful. His larger bet is that corporate security earns influence when it can turn signals into decisions, quickly and clearly.
Dragos Turned a Three-Person Side Project Into Security for the Machines Nobody Can Reboot
Dragos began with three practitioners, a packet-capture tool, and a founder who did not want to become a software vendor. A decade later, its field notes defend grids, factories and water systems - and explain why industrial security cannot be treated like office IT.
Coveware Built a Ransomware Business Around One Awkward Goal: Pay Nothing
The company built its edge by studying thousands of extortion cases, then turning the evidence into a blunt recommendation many victims do not expect: the best ransom payment is often no payment at all.
Recorded Future Spent Three Years Lost - Then Turned Internet Noise Into a $2.65 Billion Signal
The founders tried to organize the future, wandered for years, then found a sharper business: tell defenders which threats matter before the damage begins. The result is a useful lesson in focus, patient category-building and making expensive software earn its keep.
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.
The Company That Assumes Every File Is Trying to Kill You
Benny Czarny bootstrapped OPSWAT for 19 years on a simple, paranoid idea: assume every file is malicious. Today that assumption guards 98% of US nuclear plants.
The Company That Turned Corporate Security Into a Single Screen
Corporate security teams drown in tabs, feeds and spreadsheets. Ontic bet that connecting all of it in one place - now with AI - is worth $287 million to investors and the attention of the Fortune 50.
Alice (Formerly ActiveFence)
Alice, formerly ActiveFence, is an Israeli-American AI safety and security company that acts as a protective layer for online platforms and AI systems. Founded in 2018, it uses a decade of real-world abuse intelligence to detect and stop harms such as fraud, deepfakes, child exploitation, disinformation, prompt-injection attacks, and jailbreaks. Its technology helps protect roughly 3 billion people and secures 7 of the 10 largest AI foundation models, serving customers including Amazon, TikTok, Nvidia, and Cohere.
Onapsis
Onapsis is a Boston-based cybersecurity company that secures business-critical applications - the SAP, Oracle and SaaS ERP systems that run the world's largest enterprises. Founded in 2009 by a team of ethical hackers, Onapsis combines a platform for assessing, defending and controlling ERP application-layer security with the threat research of Onapsis Research Labs, which regularly discovers SAP zero-day vulnerabilities and works directly with SAP and CISA. It is the only SAP security and compliance platform certified as a Premium Certified SAP Endorsed App.