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Ergon
Ergon is a Swiss-based company established in 1984 with customers primarily in the DACH region and is also growing across EMEA and the APAC regions. Its partner ecosystem is concentrated in DACH but remains small in other areas.
Why worth watching
The platform supports hybrid policy management by separating shared and local policies to ease the collaboration between developers and security administrators.
Absolute Software
Founded in 1993, the company is known primarily for its products spanning service management, endpoint security, secure network access, application resilience, and ransomware recovery. In 2021, the company acquired NetMotion Software, a privately held company specializing in network security, VPN, and ZTNA. Furthermore, in May 2023, Absolute Software announced that it had been acquired by Crosspoint Capital Partners.
Why worth watching
Absolute Software has a customer base primarily situated in North America and Latin America, with an expanding footprint in Europe, Japan, and Asia Pacific including Australia and New Zealand, catering to small to enterprise organizations.
Akamai
Akamai Technologies is a cloud and security provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1998, the company is one of the veteran players in the market, providing a broad range of security, compute, and delivery solutions through its Akamai Connected Cloud, one of the world’s largest distributed edge and cloud platforms.
Why worth watching
Akamai now offers a native connector that integrates API security directly with the Akamai Cloud with a press of a button, providing full visibility and automated response integrations with the rest of Akamai’s security platform.
Barracuda
Founded in 2003, Barracuda Networks is a company dedicated to creating a more secure digital environment for businesses worldwide. Barracuda Networks is headquartered in Campbell, California, USA.
Why worth watching
In April 2022, the company announced that it had been acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Broadcom
Broadcom has introduced light-weight desktop agent that allows users to connect to target systems using privileged account without having to log into the PAM user interface directly. Users can use their own tools for connecting and PAM will manage the credentials behind the scenes.
Why worth watching
Broadcom has now rationalized all its identity products into the Identity Management Security Division of Broadcom Software, including its PAM platform marketed as Symantec PAM.
Cato Networks
Cato Networks is a network security company founded in 2015 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Cato operates a global private backbone infrastructure, which combines SD-WAN, secure access, and managed security services in a single global security cloud.
Why worth watching
One of the pioneers of secure edge technology, the company’s vision extends beyond ZTNA or SASE, striving to consolidate all network and security functions in its platform.
Check Point
Check Point is a global leader in cybersecurity, founded in Tel Aviv in 1993. The company also offers next-generation firewalls, edge security solutions, IoT security gateways, VPNs, cloud security solutions, and complete SOC management solutions.
Why worth watching
In 2023, the company announced the acquisition of Perimeter 81, a cloud and network security company specializing in secure remote access and internet security solutions based on a Zero Trust architecture.
Cisco
Cisco was founded in 1984 and its headquarters are located in San Jose, California. With presence in more than 100 countries, the company has customers in manufacturing, transportation, mining, power utilities, oil & gas, and water utilities sectors.
Why worth watching
For organizations that utilize Cisco solutions, the Duo platform is a compelling case for workforce access, remote work, and hybrid scenarios.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a leading Content Delivery Network (CDN) and provider of network security services. Founded in 2009, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Cloudflare is primarily known for its global security edge infrastructure that is present in over 300 cities worldwide to provide low-latency access for over 95% of the internet population. It has been estimated that nearly a quarter of websites worldwide rely on Cloudflare for network and web security services with over 140 billion threats blocked daily.
Why worth watching
Cloudflare’s platform allows for effortless shadow API discovery, automated schema learning and validation based on traffic, and volumetric and sequential abuse detection.
Fortinet
Fortinet is a public, US-based cybersecurity company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with a single, global SOC staffed by analysts in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, India, Philippines, and Japan. Most customers are US-based, followed by EMEA, predominantly in the medium enterprise segment, followed by mid-market enterprises.
Why worth watching
Fortinet MDR is a cloud-based service that includes some on-premises elements such as a virtual appliance and agents or collectors installed on endpoints.
Forum Systems
Forum Systems is a privately held independent engineering company based in Needham, MA. Founded in 2001, the company provides gateway-based solutions for API and cloud security.
Why worth watching
Since the very beginning, the company offers mission-critical large-scale solutions with a heavy emphasis on “security by design”.
ivanti
Founded in 1985, Ivanti is a large, privately held company with 36 offices in 23 countries with headquarters in the Western US. Along with Ivanti’s existing position as a global IT solutions provider, Ivanti has made a series of acquisitions starting in 2020, such as MobileIron, a mobile-centric UEM solution, Pulse Secure providing secure access and mobile security have strongly positioned Ivanti in the market UEM, as Ivanti Neurons for UEM solution. In 2021, Ivanti acquired Cherwell, a leading ITSM solution, and RiskSense, providing risk-based vulnerability management, further strengthening Ivanti’s UEM market position when combined with RiskSense and Cherwell’s offering. Ivanti's offering is a combination of Unified Endpoint Management, Cybersecurity, and Employee Experience Management (EXM).
Why worth watching
Founded in 1985, Ivanti is a large, privately held company with 36 offices in 23 countries with headquarters in the Western US. Along with Ivanti’s existing position as a global IT solutions provider, Ivanti has made a series of acquisitions starting in 2020, such as MobileIron, a mobile-centric UEM solution, Pulse Secure providing secure access and mobile security have strongly positioned Ivanti in the market UEM, as Ivanti Neurons for UEM solution. In 2021, Ivanti acquired Cherwell, a leading ITSM solution, and RiskSense, providing risk-based vulnerability management, further strengthening Ivanti’s UEM market position when combined with RiskSense and Cherwell’s offering. Ivanti's offering is a combination of Unified Endpoint Management, Cybersecurity, and Employee Experience Management (EXM).
Jamf
Jamf has been a publicly traded company since 2020 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN. Jamf provides a single platform with a suite of products, a white-label solution, and managed service providers. In 2022 Jamf acquired ZecOps, extending their mobile security capabilities by adding advanced detection and incident response for iOS. The Jamf product offerings evaluated in this Leadership Compass include its Fundamentals Plan, Business Plan, Enterprise Plan, Jamf Pro, Jamf Protect (inclusive of Jamf Threat Defense and Jamf Data Policy), Jamf Connect (inclusive of Jamf Private Access), and Jamf School (inclusive of Jamf Safe Internet).
Why worth watching
Jamf device onboarding allows for customization, automation, and integration with cloud identity providers.
Lookout
Lookout is a cybersecurity provider of endpoint and cloud security solutions based in San Francisco, California, USA.
Why worth watching
The acquisition of CipherCloud in 2021 made the company expand into the market for ZTNA solutions.
NetFoundry
NetFoundry is a network security vendor based in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The company was founded in 2016 to address a major shortcoming of existing Zero Trust solutions. At the core of NetFoundry’s solution is OpenZiti – an open-source programmable Zero Trust networking stack which can be applied to any use case.
Why worth watching
NetFoundry’s platform is accessed via APIs, SDKs, and DevOps tools integrations, enabling users to benefit from connectivity-as-code. Regional coverage includes North America, EMEA, and APAC.
Sophos
Sophos is owned by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. Sophos provides a single platform that supports multiple products for endpoint, network, and email security, with underlining threat intelligence. Tangential to Sophos endpoint security is its cloud workload protection offering for securing a customer's cloud environments and resources within them, such as the AWS, Azure, and GCP environments, and it can monitor misconfigurations to increase usage costs. Underneath the Sophos central platform ecosystem is a data lake of customer data ingested from each Sophos product, allowing the customer to monitor and apply analytics and AI against different events across their suite of products.
Why worth watching
Sophos includes many reports out-of-the-box, such as device monitoring, tracking, and provisioning, as well as endpoint discovery results and mobile threat response.
Systancia
Systancia is a software vendor specializing in secure remote access and workspace solutions based in France Systancia has several workplace and application virtualization tools. As part of this it offers the Cleanroom platform, which it developed as a PAM offering to the market. Systancia can now combine ZTNA and PAM within the same platform, as an extension to each other. It is available on-premises or as a service in four product lines: Systancia Cleanroom Session, Systancia Cleanroom Desk, Systancia Cleanroom Session Service and Systancia Cleanroom Desk Service.
Why worth watching
Since 2021, Systancia has made some solid capability and functional improvements to Cleanroom. Cleanroom Desktop Session with new support for FIDO 2 USB keys.
TrustBuilder
TrustBuilder is a Belgian company with Europe-wide support.
Why worth watching
SIEM tools can be integrated by log extraction or by direct SNMP calls from TrustBuilder to the customer’s SIEM monitor or integration with the SIEM APIs.