These Are The Stellar Startup Security Vendors To Know In 2024
Cyberattacks are unrelenting and rapidly evolving and businesses are demanding the latest defensive weapons to fight back. As part of CRN’s Stellar Startups for 2024, here are 41 security startups, founded in 2018 or later, that are developing leading-edge cybersecurity technology that solution providers should be aware of.
On Guard!
Business IT systems continue to face relentless – and ever evolving – cybersecurity attacks including malware and ransomware, phishing scams, denial of service attacks and data theft. At the same time the vulnerable “attack surface” for cyberattacks has increased with the expansion of hybrid/multi-cloud computing, the growth of ecommerce platforms, the proliferation of IoT and mobile devices, and the move to remote work.
With so many high-profile security incidents making headlines, cybersecurity is top-of-mind for many IT managers. And that’s driving demand for cybersecurity systems from solution providers and strategic service providers.
Market research firm Gartner forecasts that global spending on information security will increase 15.1 percent from $183.9 billion this year to $212 billion in 2025. In its 2024 Security Operations Trends Report, security service provider Red Canary says that IT security spending this year will account for 13.2 percent of IT budgets, up from 8.6 percent in 2020.
And in an example of how quickly the bad guys make use of new technology, Gartner says that by 2027, 17 percent of cyberattacks will make use of generative AI technology.
While many businesses and organizations rely on systems and software from established cybersecurity vendors for protection, some of the most innovative offerings for battling increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks comes from startups who are pushing the boundaries of what cybersecurity technology can do.
Leading-edge cybersecurity technologies present a major opportunity for solution providers and strategic service providers. As part of CRN’s Stellar Startups for 2024, here are 41 security startups, founded in 2018 or later, that solution providers should be aware of.
Abnormal Security
Founded: 2018
Top Executive: Evan Reiser, CEO and Co-Founder
Abnormal Security develops an AI-native human behavior security platform, leveraging machine learning to stop sophisticated inbound attacks and detect compromised accounts across email and connected applications. It leverages identity and context to understand and baseline human behavior – detecting anomalies and stopping sophisticated, socially-engineered attacks that target the human vulnerability.
Website: www.abnormalsecurity.com
Apiiro
Founded: 2019
Top Executive: Idan Plotnik, CEO and Co-Founder
Apiiro provides a leading application security posture management (ASPM) platform. It empowers application security and development teams to unify their application risk visibility, prioritization, assessment, and remediation efforts to save time triaging security findings and fixing real risks so they can deliver secure applications to the cloud.
Website: https://apiiro.com/
AppOmni
Founded: 2018
Top Executive: Brendan O’Connor, CEO and Co-Founder
AppOmni continuously scans SaaS APIs, configurations, and ingested audit logs to deliver complete data access visibility, secure identities and SaaS-to-SaaS connections, and detect threats, prioritize insights, and simplify compliance reporting. AppOmni serves 25 percent of the Fortune 100 and global enterprises across finance, healthcare, legal, high tech, government, and more.
Website: https://appomni.com
Blumira
Founded: 2018
Top Executive: Jim Simpson, CEO
Blumira's cloud SIEM + XDR platform is backed by a 24/7 security operations team. Blumira enables SMBs to protect their cloud, network and endpoint layers with managed detections and guided response to prevent attacks like ransomware. Blumira's platform makes it easier to meet log monitoring and one-year retention requirements for cyber insurance purposes.
Website: https://www.blumira.com/
Cado Security
Founded: 2020
Top Executive: James Campbell, CEO and Co-Founder
Cado Security offers what it calls the first platform for forensics and incident response in the cloud. The digital forensics platform is cloud-native—which makes it uniquely designed for cloud environments, according to the startup—and is focused on automating investigation and response efforts.
Website: https://www.cadosecurity.com/
Cloud Range
Founded: 2018
Top Executive: Debbie Gordon, CEO
Cloud Range, a leading cyber range-as-a-service, measurably decreases cyber risk exposure and overcomes the skills gap by preparing cybersecurity teams to defend against complex attacks through a customized, full-service, simulation-based cyberattack training program, including live-fire team simulations, IT/OT/IoT/cloud environments, skill development labs, assessments, reporting, and more.
Website: https://www.cloudrangecyber.com/
ContraForce
Founded: 2021
Top Executive: Stan Golubchik, CEO and Co-Founder
ContraForce transforms how service providers deliver managed security services. The ContraForce Security Service Delivery Platform decouples security services from the underlying software used to provide them and employs proprietary AI and hyper-automation to improve service delivery efficiency.
Website: www.contraforce.com
Cork Protection
Founded: 2022
Top Executive: Dan Candee, CEO
Cork's purpose-built cyber warranty platform is designed to offer MSPs and their customers peace of mind and reduce cyber risk with near-instant financial coverage and settlements in the aftermath of security incidents.
Website: https://corkinc.com
CyberFox
Founded: 2019
Top Executive: David Bellini, CEO and Founder
CyberFox is a global cybersecurity software provider focused on privileged access management (PAM) and password management for managed service providers (MSPs) and IT pros. Its flagship products, Password Boss for password management and AutoElevate for PAM, are critical elements of a comprehensive security strategy.
Website: https://www.cyberfox.com/
CyberQP
Founded: 2018
Top Executive: Mateo Barraza, CEO and Co-Founder
CyberQP is a leading provider of Privileged Access Management and Help Desk Security Automation for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Its mission is to protect the privileged accounts, credentials, and data that matters to MSPs, enabling them to secure their business, reduce operational costs, and offer greater value to end users.
Website: www.cyberqp.com
Cyera
Founded: 2021
Top Executive: Yotam Segev, CEO and Co-Founder
Cyera is a cybersecurity company focused on AI-driven data security and Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for cloud environments. It offers solutions for data discovery, classification, and security management across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and on-premises systems. The company targets enterprises managing complex data in hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures.
Website: https://www.cyera.io
Cynomi
Founded: 2020
Top Executive: David Primor, CEO and Co-Founder
Cynomi's vCISO platform empowers MSSPs, MSPs and consultancies to offer structured cybersecurity services at scale providing them with proactive cyber resilience. Combining proprietary AI algorithms with CISO-level knowledge, Cynomi's platform streamlines the vCISO's work while automating manual time-consuming tasks. Established in 2020, Cynomi now serves more than 50 partners worldwide.
Website: https://cynomi.com/
Dazz
Founded: 2021
Top Executive: Merav, Bahat, CEO and Co-Founder
Dazz transforms security remediation with AI-powered root cause analysis and automation, closing risk gaps in hours versus weeks. With an average 93 percent improvement in remediation time, Dazz reduces alert noise, prioritizes fixes, and replaces manual processes, freeing up budgets, time, and resources for enterprises through advanced AI and data correlation.
Website: https://www.dazz.io/
Deepwatch
Founded: 2019
Top Executive: John Dilullo, CEO
Traditionally, defending against relentless attackers required specialized expertise, costly technology investments, and constant vigilance. Deepwatch Managed Detection Response (MDR) operates as an extension of the customer's cybersecurity team, providing 24/7/365 comprehensive security management capabilities in partnership with Deepwatch security experts.
Website: https://www.deepwatch.com
Dope.Security
Founded: 2021
Top Executive: Kunal Agarwal, CEO and Founder
Dope.security is redefining the secure web gateway space with its easy-to-deploy, patented Fly-Direct architecture, eliminating stopover datacenters and heightening performance, reliability, and privacy with a modern UI. In April 2024, Dope introduced CASB Neural, a leading CASB tool to leverage deep learning AI to crawl, extract, and understand public-facing data.
Website: https://dope.security/
Endor Labs
Founded: 2021
Top Executive: Varun Badhwar, CEO
Endor Labs creates secure software supply chains that make developers more productive. With the complexity of software development intensifying, developers maximize reuse of code, adopt microservices, and rely on third-party tools to automate the CI-CD process, but this has become untenable. The company removes these headaches for developers and security teams.
Website: https://www.endorlabs.com/
Entro Security
Founded: 2022
Top Executive: Itzik Alvas, CEO and Co-Founder
Entro provides a leading holistic, non-human identity lifecycle management platform for security teams and CISOs. Entro reveals all NHIs everywhere across code, messaging channels, wikis, Vaults, CI/CD, cloud assets, and more, and provides secrets inventory that answers the question of how many secrets you have and where they are.
Website: https://entro.security/
Grip Security
Founded: 2021
Top Executive: Lior Yaari, CEO and Co-Founder
Grip Security is a pioneer in SaaS identity risk management and addresses the risks of unmanaged SaaS adoption. The company's SaaS Security Control Plane platform helps companies discover, prioritize, and orchestrate the remediation of SaaS risks. The innovative approach leverages identity as the key control point, enabling secure SaaS adoption.
Website: https://www.grip.security
HacWare
Founded: 2020
Top Executive: Tiffany Ricks, CEO
HacWare offers AI-powered cybersecurity awareness training that personalizes learning to mitigate phishing and cyber threats. The HacWare platform uses real-time insights and adaptive learning to enhance user engagement and security. The company focuses on scalable solutions to help channel partners improve their clients’ overall cybersecurity posture.
Website: https://www.hacware.com/
Halcyon
Founded: 2021
Top Executive: Jon Miller, CEO and Co-Founder
Halcyon develops a leading anti-ransomware platform that global 2000 companies rely on to fill endpoint protection gaps to defeat ransomware and data extortion attacks with minimal business disruption. The platform provides built-in bypass and evasion protection, key material capture and automated decryption, and exfiltration and extortion prevention.
Website: https://www.halcyon.ai/
Horizon3.ai
Founded: 2019
Top Executive: Snehal Antani, CEO and Co-Founder
Horizon3.ai was founded by former industry and U.S. national security veterans. Its mission is to help organizations see their networks through the eyes of the attacker and proactively fix problems that truly matter, improve their security initiatives, and ensure that they are prepared to respond to real cyberattacks.
Website: https://www.horizon3.ai/
Island
Founded: 2020
Top Executive: Mike Fey, CEO and Co-Founder
Island develops an enterprise browser with embedded advanced security, IT and network controls, and application access management that provide businesses with greater visibility and control over the use of data within SaaS applications. The software secures applications from data leakage and provides safe access for contractors and BYOD workers and full governance over privileged user accounts.
Website: https://www.island.io/
Judy Security
Founded: 2019
Top Executive: Raffaele Mautone, CEO
Safeguarding your clients' business with simplicity and strength and streamline SMB's cybersecurity. Explore the company’s AI-driven, enterprise-grade platform – affordable, intuitive, and specially designed to align with MSP business models and the unique needs of the SMB market.
Website: https://www.judysecurity.ai/
Legato Security
Founded: 2020
Top Executive: Tom Boyden, CEO and Co-Founder
Legato Security is a leading Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) dedicated to protecting organizations from cyber threats. With a vendor-agnostic approach, a U.S.-based SOC, innovative solutions like MDR+, and the Ensemble proprietary security operations platform, Legato Security empowers businesses to stay ahead of cyber adversaries and safeguard critical assets.
Website: www.legatosecurity.com
Lumu Technologies
Founded: 2019
Top Executive: Ricardo Villadiego, CEO and Founder
Lumu Technologies has built a closed-loop, self-learning cybersecurity system, based on “continuous compromise assessment” principles, that the startup says helps security teams accelerate compromise detection, gain real-time visibility across IT infrastructure, and close the breach detection gap “from months to minutes.”
Website: https://lumu.io/
Mesh
Founded: 2020
Top Executive: Brian Byrne, CEO
Mesh provides an email security platform designed for MSPs, empowering them to protect SMBs from email-based threats with advanced tools, flexible deployment, and comprehensive protection against business email compromise, ransomware, and spear-phishing.
Website: meshsecurity.io
NetRise
Founded: 2021
Top Executive: Thomas Pace, CEO
The NetRise Platform provides software supply chain detection and response capabilities for software asset inventory and control and helps detect and respond to software risks. Designed for those that build, buy, use, and maintain software, NetRise provides a complete SBOM (software bill of materials) for software supply chain visibility for every software asset.
Website: netrise.io
Orca Security
Founded: 2019
Top Executive: Gil Geron, CEO and Co-Founder
Orca is the pioneer of agentless cloud security that is trusted by hundreds of enterprises globally. Its patented SideScanning technology provides 100-percent deep and wide visibility into risks and compliance issues across cloud workloads, configurations, and identities. Orca surfaces the most critical risk combinations so teams can address them first.
Website: https://orca.security/
Reco
Founded: 2020
Top Executive: Ofer Klein, CEO and Co-Founder
Reco is a comprehensive SaaS security solution that supports the full SaaS lifecycle, from prevention of data exposure to detection and response. API-based and powered by AI, Reco empowers midsize and enterprise organizations from all verticals with visibility into every app, identity, and action. Organizations can then lower their risk.
Website: https://www.reco.ai/
SaaS Alerts
Founded: 2020
Top Executive: Jim Lippie, CEO
SaaS Alerts is a cybersecurity platform for MSPs to detect and automate the remediation of SaaS security threats. The platform provides unified, continuous monitoring of core business SaaS applications to protect against data theft and malicious actors, including Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Slack, Dropbox, Okta, Duo and more. SaaS Alerts was just acquired by Kaseya in October.
Website: https://saasalerts.com/
Sentra
Founded: 2021
Top Executive: Yoav Regev, CEO and Co-Founder
Sentra's multi-cloud data security platform discovers, classifies, and prioritizes the most business-critical data security risks, enabling faster remediation and compliance adherence. Specializing in DSPM (data security posture management), Sentra ensures the correct security posture moves with sensitive cloud data.
Website: sentra.io
Simbian
Founded: 2022
Top Executive: Ambuj Kumar, CEO and Co-Founder
Simbian recently introduced a GenAI-powered security co-pilot that integrates secure and intelligent AI solutions into diverse IT environments to maximize coverage and expedite resolutions for security teams' ever-changing needs. Simbian is committed to making security fully autonomous by delegating all tactical tasks to its trusted AI platform.
Website: https://simbian.ai/
Skyhawk Security
Founded: 2022
Top Executive: Chen Burshan, CEO
Skyhawk Security, a pioneer in Cloud Threat Detection and Response (CDR), leverages a multi-layer, AI-based approach to identify and stop cloud threats before they become breaches, in near real-time. The AI-powered Autonomous Purple Team enables security teams to take a proactive approach to cloud security for the first time.
Website: www.skyhawk.security
Timus Networks
Founded: 2022
Top Executive: Pinar Ormeci, CEO
Timus SASE is an easy-to-deploy, cloud-based network security platform developed to protect organizations' local and cloud resources with zero trust policies. Timus provides secure, always-on connectivity to company resources wherever the employees are working from. It also provides deep visibility into network activities and helps with compliance.
Website: www.timusnetworks.com
Tines
Founded: 2018
Top Executive: Eoin Hinchy, CEO and Co-Founder
Tines powers the world's most important workflows. With secure AI capabilities, the flexible and intuitive platform eliminates the need for programming skills, enabling security and IT teams to build, run and monitor their mission-critical processes at speed and scale. Tines' customers include Elastic, Mars, McKesson, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Website: tines.com
Torq
Founded: 2020
Top Executive: Ofer Smadari, CEO and Co-Founder
Torq pioneered the world's first enterprise-grade security hyperautomation platform, automating entire security infrastructures with no-code, low-code, and full-code workflows. Used by top security companies and Fortune 500 enterprises, Torq delivers protection and efficiency, seamlessly integrating all security applications for advanced, unified cybersecurity.
Website: https://torq.io/
Veza Technologies
Founded: 2020
Top Executive: Tarun Thakur, CEO and Co-Founder
Veza is the identity security company, helping organizations secure access across the enterprise. Veza's Access Platform goes beyond identity governance and administration (IGA) tools to visualize, monitor, and control entitlements so that organizations can stay compliant, achieve least privilege, and de-risk the breach.
Website: https://veza.com
WatchTowr
Founded: 2021
Top Executive: Ben Harris, CEO and Founder
WatchTowr is redefining external attack surface management with its continuous automated red teaming platform, built by offensive security experts and backed by real-world vulnerability research. Fortune 500 companies trust WatchTowr to continuously validate and strengthen their security postures. If there's a way to compromise an organization, WatchTowr will find it. In October WatchTowr raised $19 million in Series A funding.
Website: https://watchtowr.com/
WhiteDog
Founded: 2018
Top Executive: Shahin Pirooz, Founder
WhiteDog is a cybersecurity firm dedicated to empowering MSPs with a unified, evergreen security platform. Our technology integrates best-in-class tools, continuous incident response, and proactive threat hunting, enabling MSPs to reduce risk, optimize economics, streamline workflows, and eliminate technology debt – all while rapidly enhancing customers' security posture.
Website: https://www.whitedogcyber.com
Wiz
Founded: 2020
Top Executive: Assaf Rappaport, CEO and Co-Founder
Wiz is a cloud security company that helps organizations secure everything they build and run in the cloud. By protecting cloud and AI environments, Wiz enables businesses to stay secure and move fast, providing a comprehensive view of their environments and the best tools to detect and respond to threats.
Website: https://wiz.io/
Zero Networks
Founded: 2019
Top Executive: Benny Lakunishok, CEO and Co-Founder
Zero Networks offers a simple, zero trust platform for network and identity segmentation and secure remote access solutions. Zero Networks' segmentation offerings are automated, agentless and MFA-powered to stop lateral movement and block ransomware. Its secure remote access solution offers the speed of VPN with the security of ZTNA.
Website: zeronetworks.com