The Software Report is pleased to announce The Top 25 Cybersecurity Companies of 2025. As the digital landscape becomes more complex, organizations are increasingly confronted with emerging challenges, such as securing multi-cloud environments, managing the risks of expanding IoT networks, and defending against the rise of AI-driven cyberattacks. With the estimated cost of cybercrime forecasted to reach over $15 trillion by 2029, robust cybersecurity solutions are imperative.
The organizations in this list are leading the charge in addressing these challenges. Whether through advanced threat detection, fraud prevention, or enhanced data protection, their solutions help businesses safeguard against current risks and anticipate and prepare for future threats. As they set new standards in cybersecurity, they are helping businesses maintain resilience in an increasingly perilous digital environment.
Some key contributors driving this transformation include Optiv, whose expertise in cybersecurity advisory and managed services has helped countless organizations build comprehensive, adaptable security frameworks. Pondurance plays a vital role in this landscape by focusing on mid-market organizations, offering managed detection and response (MDR) services that provide real-time threat detection and rapid remediation. Meanwhile, Bitdefender has established itself as a leader in endpoint security, leveraging AI-driven technologies to safeguard millions of devices globally and help businesses stay ahead of emerging threats. Together, these companies are working to fortify organizations against the multifaceted risks of today’s cybersecurity landscape.
The recipients of this year’s award were selected based on a methodical evaluation of each company’s cybersecurity innovations and their tangible impact on addressing the most pressing digital threats. Please join us in celebrating The Top 25 Cybersecurity Companies of 2025.
1. Island
Island is a leader in enterprise security, having developed an enterprise browser that integrates advanced security features, IT and network controls, data protection, and application access into a user-friendly browsing experience. Organizations across industries, including defense, financial services, government, higher education, hospitality, manufacturing, and retail, use Island to modernize security and improve productivity. The company is backed by notable investors like Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, and Stripes and is based in Dallas, Texas, with research and development led from Tel Aviv.
Island aims to provide organizations with better control over browser activity and improved security. Its enterprise browser is used to securely access SaaS and web apps, enable zero-trust network access, and support Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives, among other use cases. The browser helps streamline processes such as contractor onboarding and mergers and acquisitions, and reduces reliance on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). With its innovative approach to browser-based security, Island is enabling organizations to manage their digital workspace while ensuring a seamless user experience and strong protection against emerging threats.
2. Signifyd
Signifyd is a provider of fraud and abuse protection for e-commerce, empowering merchants to grow revenue, increase order conversion, and build lasting customer trust. Using advanced AI and a global Commerce Network, Signifyd eliminates the risk of chargebacks and streamlines the shopper experience by automating decisions in real time.
Founded by former PayPal veterans, Signifyd began with a vision to outsmart fraudsters and has been a pioneer in the field of guaranteed fraud protection for online merchants. As e-commerce threats have grown more complex, Signifyd expanded its platform to address policy abuse, return fraud, unauthorized reselling, promotion abuse, and regulatory compliance challenges like Europe’s Strong Customer Authentication (SCA).
Today, Signifyd protects thousands of brands worldwide, providing end-to-end solutions for fraud prevention, abuse management, and payment optimization. On average, merchants using Signifyd see a 5%–8% increase in ecommerce order approvals. Headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices in Denver, New York, Mexico City, São Paulo, Belfast, and London, Signifyd is backed by notable investors including Bain Capital Ventures, American Express Ventures, and others. With a team of over 500 employees, Signifyd enables retailers to scale confidently in an increasingly complex digital landscape.
3. Optiv
Optiv is the cyber advisory and solutions leader, delivering strategic and technical expertise to nearly 6,000 companies across every major industry. Optiv partners with organizations to advise, deploy, and operate complete cybersecurity programs from strategy and managed security services to risk, integration, and technology solutions. With clients at the center of its unmatched ecosystem of people, products, partners, and programs, the company accelerates business progress like no other company can. Optiv manages cyber risk so customers can secure their full potential.
4. JumpCloud
JumpCloud is a cloud-based identity and access management platform that helps organizations securely manage users, devices, and systems across macOS, Windows, and Linux environments. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Louisville, CO, JumpCloud serves over 250,000 organizations in approximately 160 countries. The company has raised more than $400 million in funding and holds 12 issued patents, positioning itself as a leader in modern security solutions.
The platform centralizes key functions such as Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), passwordless login, directory services, device and asset management, conditional access policies, remote assistance, and password management, all from a single admin console. It also offers zero-touch onboarding and Unified Endpoint Management (UEM), helping IT teams streamline provisioning, compliance, and support across the employee lifecycle.
Built to address modern security demands, JumpCloud reduces friction while mitigating risks like weak passwords and Shadow IT. With deep integration into common SaaS tools for collaboration and HR, JumpCloud gives organizations a comprehensive and scalable foundation for managing secure access.
5. Bitdefender
Bitdefender is a global cybersecurity company known for delivering threat prevention, detection, and response solutions that protect millions of consumers, businesses, and government agencies across more than 170 countries. With a reputation built on trust and innovation, Bitdefender safeguards digital identities, privacy, data, and infrastructure.
Its R&D team, Bitdefender Labs, identifies new threats and processes a high volume of threat queries daily. The company has contributed to advancements in antimalware, IoT security, behavioral analytics, and AI-driven threat detection, with its technologies licensed by numerous leading technology companies.
This year, Bitdefender launched GravityZone PHASR, a solution aimed at improving endpoint protection through dynamic, user-tailored security, offering enhanced attack surface reduction. With nearly 2,000 employees and offices worldwide, Bitdefender provides cybersecurity solutions trusted by various organizations to address evolving and persistent security challenges.
6. Dream Security
Dream is an AI-driven cybersecurity company founded in 2023 to safeguard governments and critical infrastructure against modern cyber threats. Born from a conversation between Dream’s CEO and a former European Prime Minister who had personally endured a major cyber crisis, the company was created to deliver security solutions that meet the urgency and complexity of today’s threat landscape.
With offices in Tel Aviv, Vienna, and Abu Dhabi, Dream brings together cyber researchers, AI innovators, and national security experts to develop cyber resilience technologies. The Dream platform delivers instant threat visibility, real-time vulnerability detection, proactive risk mitigation, and full-spectrum defense, providing a comprehensive and contextualized view of evolving threats.
Focused on securing national interests and vital infrastructure, Dream enables organizations to stay ahead of advanced adversaries by combining deep cyber intelligence with powerful AI capabilities. Following a recent $100 million funding round in February 2025, Dream’s valuation reached $1.1 billion. This funding is supporting the company’s efforts as it expands its global presence and product capabilities to meet growing demand for real-time, high-impact cybersecurity.
7. Pentera
Pentera is a leader in automated security validation, enabling organizations to continuously and safely test the effectiveness of their cybersecurity controls against real-world cyberattacks. By simulating the latest attack techniques across the entire attack surface, Pentera reveals true security exposures and prioritizes remediation based on actual risk, empowering security teams to proactively reduce their vulnerability before threat actors can exploit it.
Trusted by over 1,000 enterprises in 45 countries, Pentera is essential to modern continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) strategies. Its platform operates at scale, delivering accurate, real-time insights into security gaps across all layers of defense without disrupting operations.
Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, with a team of around 400 employees, Pentera is relied on by thousands of security professionals and service providers worldwide. Having recently raised $60 million in a Series D funding round at an over $1 billion valuation, Pentera continues to expand its platform and its position as a leader in security validation.
8. Pondurance
Pondurance is a managed detection and response (MDR) provider purpose-built to reduce data breach risks for mid-market organizations. Its comprehensive MDR service delivers risk-based threat detection, real-time adversary disruption, and a 24/7 U.S.-based security operations center (SOC), all tailored to each client’s specific environment.
The Pondurance platform offers a consumer-grade user interface designed to help security teams and clients quickly identify and neutralize high-risk threats. It integrates with leading endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools from CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Microsoft, as well as hundreds of network, identity, cloud, and application sources. A proprietary risk algorithm eliminates alert fatigue by surfacing only the most serious threats.
Pondurance, founded with the belief that AI and automation alone are not enough to combat cyber threats, combines its advanced platform with decades of human expertise to speed detection, response, and containment. With the mission to help organizations of all sizes and industries detect and respond to cyber threats effectively, Pondurance ensures that mid-market organizations with regulated data can detect, disrupt, and eliminate risks before they escalate.
9. Abnormal AI
Abnormal AI is an AI-native human behavior security platform, purpose-built to stop sophisticated, socially engineered attacks across email and cloud applications. By leveraging advanced machine learning and behavioral analytics, Abnormal detects anomalies in human interaction to prevent phishing, social engineering, and account takeovers.
At the core of the Abnormal Behavior Platform is a powerful anomaly detection engine that understands identity, context, and communication patterns, analyzing the risk of every cloud email event and stopping threats that traditional tools miss. The platform protects email systems like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace and also extends to collaboration and enterprise apps, including Slack, Zoom, ServiceNow, and Workday.
With instant API-based deployment and immediate value, Abnormal provides protection without disrupting the user experience. Founded in 2018, Abnormal is now trusted by more than 3,200 organizations, including over 20% of the Fortune 500.
10. Nord Security
Nord Security is a global cybersecurity company founded in 2012 by a group of childhood friends who shared a concern about growing internet censorship, intrusive surveillance, and the lack of accessible online protection. The company is best known for NordVPN, the world’s most advanced virtual private network service, which provides secure, private, and unrestricted internet access to millions of users worldwide.
Over time, Nord Security has expanded its product suite to include NordPass, a password manager; NordLocker, a file encryption and secure storage tool; NordStellar, a threat exposure management platform; NordLayer, a network security solution for businesses; NordProtect, an identity theft protection service; and Saily, an eSIM solution for global mobile connectivity. Together, these tools reflect the company’s mission to make robust digital security accessible to everyone.
Headquartered in Lithuania and operating with a team of over 1,000 employees, Nord Security maintains a global presence in its goal to make the web safer and more peaceful for people everywhere.
11. Fortinet
Founded in 2000 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Fortinet is a global cybersecurity provider known for integrating networking and security. The company offers a broad portfolio of over 50 enterprise-grade cybersecurity solutions designed to secure people, devices, and data across various environments. Fortinet serves over 860,000 customers worldwide, with its technologies widely deployed, patented, and validated across the industry.
At the core of its innovation is the Fortinet Security Fabric, a unified, AI-driven platform that delivers automated protection, detection, and response with consolidated visibility across both Fortinet products and a vast ecosystem of over 500 third-party integrations. Fortinet’s flagship operating system, FortiOS, powers this platform, enabling the convergence of networking and security on a common framework.
Backed by FortiGuard Labs, the company leverages AI and machine learning to analyze more than 100 billion events daily, providing real-time threat intelligence that defends against emerging and zero-day threats. Fortinet has over 1,000 U.S. patents and a global network of R&D and support centers as a testament to the company’s dedication to continuous innovation.
12. Illumio
Illumio is a leader in Zero Trust Segmentation, focusing on ransomware and breach containment by preventing the lateral spread of cyberattacks and enhancing operational resilience. Its breach containment platform, powered by an AI security graph, provides real-time visibility and control across hybrid, multi-cloud environments, stopping threats before they cause widespread damage. Illumio’s platform enables microsegmentation across the attack surface, allowing organizations to proactively and reactively contain ransomware, identify high-risk pathways, and protect critical applications.
Trusted by more than 15 Fortune 100 companies, 6 of the 10 largest global banks, and 3 of the top 5 SaaS enterprise providers, Illumio simplifies microsegmentation and enables Zero Trust strategies at scale. Its solution strengthens security, improves compliance, and enables rapid response to incidents, allowing businesses to isolate compromised systems faster than traditional firewalls. With a growing ecosystem of partners, Illumio helps organizations maintain resilience in the face of evolving cyber threats.
13. Vectra AI
Vectra AI is a cybersecurity AI company protecting modern networks from modern attacks. Founded in 2011, Vectra AI uses advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning to find and stop cyberattacks before they become breaches. The Vectra AI Platform monitors data center, campus, remote work, identity, cloud, and IoT/OT environments, detecting attacker behaviors in real time and connecting the dots across complex, hybrid infrastructures.
Vectra AI holds 35 AI security patents and 12 MITRE D3FEND references, reflecting its focus on innovation. The company recently completed its Agent Portfolio with the addition of the AI Analyst, which enhances threat detection and accelerates incident response by automating escalation workflows. This completes a four-part AI agent strategy designed to reduce alert noise and improve the efficiency of security teams. Vectra AI monitors over 7 million hosts, collaborates with 468 partners, and has raised over $350 million in funding, reaching a $1.2 billion valuation. With more than 580 employees, the company continues to develop security solutions and improve customer experiences.
14. Theom
Theom is an AI-driven data access governance and security platform designed to help organizations secure sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, PaaS, generative AI, and on-prem environments. Unlike traditional security tools that focus on infrastructure, Theom takes a data-centric approach, offering real-time visibility, granular access control, and breach detection throughout the data lifecycle. The platform’s AI capabilities enable organizations to govern and secure data at the point of use, while ensuring compliance and preventing data leaks across complex, federated environments.
Founded by experts in data systems from companies like Google and Cisco, Theom's platform integrates seamlessly with leading data environments such as Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, and Azure, helping enterprises protect their data. Trusted by leading organizations across industries, Theom aims to redefine how businesses secure, govern, and activate their data, especially in the age of AI, enabling proactive security and compliance without compromising performance.
15. Batuta (Metabase Q)
Batuta is a cybersecurity company specializing in endpoint intelligence, aiming to enhance security by transforming each endpoint into a reliable source of real-time data. This approach simplifies security operations and provides actionable insights, addressing the complexities and fragmentation often found in traditional security infrastructures.
The Batuta platform, through its lightweight agent, offers visibility into endpoint activity, enabling organizations to strengthen their security posture with reliable intelligence. This data-first approach helps security teams make informed decisions and reduce operational complexity.
The company is headquartered in San Francisco and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators Community and the Centre for Cybersecurity, recognized for its contributions to modern cybersecurity. The company’s platform has helped organizations secure over 1,300 assets in under three hours during cybersecurity incidents and allows clients to orchestrate third-party vulnerability scans to ensure complete coverage with real-time insights. By enabling quick vulnerability scans and technology replacements, Batuta provides clients with 4x cost savings, optimizing security and efficiency across their infrastructure.
16. Vanta
Vanta is a trust management platform that simplifies, centralizes, and automates security and compliance for organizations of all sizes. Founded in 2018, Vanta was born out of the need to help fast-growing companies build a solid security foundation and prove their trust in real time. Inspired by the mission to restore trust in internet businesses, Vanta offers continuous automation for compliance frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR, reducing risk and simplifying audit processes.
Vanta's platform provides automated evidence collection, continuous monitoring, and real-time reporting, allowing companies to demonstrate their security posture with transparency and ease. It also includes solutions for vendor risk management, security questionnaire automation, and ongoing governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) monitoring.
Trusted by over 10,000 companies worldwide, including Atlassian, Quora, and ZoomInfo, Vanta streamlines security and compliance processes, saving companies time and resources while ensuring they stay continuously compliant. With customers in 58 countries and offices in Dublin, London, New York, San Francisco, and Sydney, Vanta is committed to building a safer internet and protecting consumer data.
17. Deepwatch
Deepwatch focuses on AI- and human-driven cyber resilience, helping organizations reduce risk through early threat detection and rapid remediation. The Deepwatch Platform integrates AI, security data, threat intelligence, and human expertise to deliver continuous, precise security outcomes.
Operating as an extension of enterprise cybersecurity teams, Deepwatch provides 24/7 monitoring, comprehensive security management, and targeted threat response. Its AI-powered platform enhances existing security tools, improves visibility across the attack surface, and reduces noise by minimizing alert volume and false positives. In February, Deepwatch strengthened its platform by acquiring Dassana, a security intelligence startup, to enhance its AI-powered risk and threat exposure management capabilities.
With a 98% reduction in low and medium severity alerts, a 10x improvement in threat detection, and a 432% return on cybersecurity operations investment, Deepwatch is trusted by enterprises to strengthen their security posture and drive cyber resilience. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Deepwatch achieves its mission to reduce risk through early and precise threat detection and remediation through its unique blend of automation and human insight.
18. ThreatConnect
ThreatConnect is a leading cybersecurity platform that unifies threat intelligence, security operations, and cyber risk management to enable more effective, efficient, and collaborative defense. By integrating machine learning, AI-powered threat intelligence, and cyber risk quantification, ThreatConnect empowers organizations to contextualize threats, prioritize critical risks, and respond with speed and confidence.
Trusted by over 250 enterprises and thousands of security experts worldwide, ThreatConnect simplifies the complexities of cyber defense. It provides a unified solution that integrates open-source, commercial, and internal intelligence into a single platform, enabling organizations to quickly detect, prevent, and respond to threats. With its ability to quantify cyber risk and enhance collaboration across security teams, ThreatConnect ensures organizations can prioritize their security investments and take decisive action to safeguard their most critical assets.
19. Britive
Britive is a cloud-native privileged access management (CPAM) platform purpose-built for multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Designed in close collaboration with some of the world’s most security-conscious enterprises, Britive delivers an agent-less, proxy-less, and frictionless approach to managing privileged access at cloud speed.
The platform is API-first and aligns with the workflows of security, cloud operations, and development teams. Britive embeds Zero Trust identity security into daily operations through its patented just-in-time authorization technology—eliminating standing privileges and enforcing dynamic access policies for all identities, both human and non-human.
With a single unified platform and centralized visibility, Britive enables organizations to enforce zero standing privileges (ZSP) across cloud and on-prem infrastructures. Founded by security veterans Art Poghosyan, Alex Gudanis, and Sameer Hiremath, Britive addresses the growing gap between modern enterprise needs and the limitations of legacy access solutions—empowering cloud-forward organizations to secure identities and sensitive assets at scale.
20. Cyware
Cyware is a cybersecurity platform that helps organizations operationalize threat intelligence and automate security operations. Through its Cyber Fusion solutions, Cyware empowers organizations to transform their security operations by breaking down silos, enabling real-time incident response, and automating workflows. Its platform allows security teams to proactively stop threats, connect the dots across security incidents, and significantly reduce response times.
Cyware integrates intelligence management with security operations, enabling teams to take real-time action based on contextualized threat intelligence. Trusted by leading Global 2000 companies, government agencies, MSSPs, and CERTs, Cyware’s platform enhances collaboration and threat intelligence sharing, driving improved security outcomes. With a focus on delivering customer-driven results, Cyware ensures organizations are equipped to not only keep up with threats but also stay ahead of them.
21. Outseer
Outseer is an authentication and fraud prevention company, delivering defense-in-depth through a comprehensive, AI-powered platform. Built on a legacy of innovation from RSA, Outseer protects digital banking sessions and 3DS transactions by leveraging a wide array of fraud signals—including device IDs, geo-IP, behavioral biometrics, event data, and proprietary consortium intelligence.
Trusted by thousands of clients in over 50 countries, including hundreds of financial institutions, Outseer safeguards more than 450 million accounts, 120 billion transactions, and $5 trillion in annual protected payments. Its risk-based, machine learning platform delivers fraud detection with minimal customer friction, achieving high accuracy, low false positives, and reduced intervention.
With the recent launch of platformized Behavioral Biometrics, Outseer has enhanced its fraud prevention capabilities by providing deeper insights into user interactions. This solution analyzes behavioral signals, such as how users navigate digital journeys, to identify and flag suspicious activity in real-time. By integrating these risk signals with traditional fraud detection methods, Outseer improves fraud detection accuracy, enhances identification of social engineering attacks, and reduces false positives, ensuring a seamless experience for legitimate users while strengthening security.
22. Cybernetica
Cybernetica develops secure, mission-critical digital solutions for governments and organizations around the world. Known for its foundational role in building Estonia’s world-renowned digital society, Cybernetica specializes in large-scale, technically complex systems that drive digital transformation across sectors, including e-governance, information security, and defense.
Operating in over 40 countries, Cybernetica provides advanced technologies such as secure digital identity, data exchange, i-voting, and border surveillance. Its engineers pioneered Estonia’s national data exchange layer, X-Road, now a model for secure interoperability across government systems. With 28 years of operation and over 500 patents and publications, Cybernetica continues to drive innovation in digital security and governance.
With a team of skilled experts, Cybernetica partners with governments and organizations to create integrated, future-proof digital infrastructures. The company’s work supports national resilience, public sector efficiency, and secure digital societies worldwide.
23. Apiiro
Apiiro focuses on application security for the AI era through its Agentic Application Security Platform. Designed for security, development, and risk management teams, the platform helps organizations build and ship secure software faster without compromising velocity or quality.
At the core of Apiiro’s platform is its patented Deep Code Analysis (DCA) technology, which continuously inventories and visualizes software architecture from code to runtime. This enables teams to detect, prioritize, and address risks across the software supply chain before code reaches production. In April, Apiiro launched Software Graph Visualization, an AI-powered tool that provides real-time insights into software components, vulnerabilities, and data flows, helping security teams identify and remediate risks quickly and efficiently.
Apiiro’s platform provides visibility and context across components, vulnerabilities, data exposures, and changes. Trusted by enterprises such as EA, Colgate-Palmolive, BlackRock, SoFi, and Shell, it offers real-time risk visualization and proactive remediation, supporting secure delivery in complex, cloud-native environments.
24. Secureframe
Secureframe provides a platform that automates security and compliance for organizations, helping them meet global standards like SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, CMMC, NIST CSF, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR. The platform is used by thousands of fast-growing companies, including Nasdaq, Lunar Outpost, AngelList, and Cognition, to streamline compliance processes. Recently, Secureframe partnered with Coalfire to accelerate CMMC 2.0 certification in response to upcoming Department of Defense deadlines.
Founded in 2020, Secureframe has raised $79 million to date, with backing from investors like Kleiner Perkins, Accomplice Ventures, and Gradient Ventures. The platform integrates with over 150 tools, assisting security and compliance teams with audits, reducing manual work, and maintaining continuous compliance. With a team of over 200 employees across six hubs in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., Secureframe continues to empower organizations to scale with confidence while navigating the complexities of modern compliance requirements.
25. KnowBe4
KnowBe4 is a leading cybersecurity company specializing in security awareness training and human risk management (HRM). Trusted by over 70,000 organizations globally, KnowBe4 helps businesses strengthen their security culture and manage human risk. Through its comprehensive, AI-driven HRM+ platform, the company creates an adaptive defense layer that enhances user behavior and protects organizations from evolving cybersecurity threats.
The HRM+ platform includes a variety of modules such as awareness and compliance training, cloud email security, real-time security coaching, crowdsourced anti-phishing, and AI Defense Agents. By focusing on human behavior, KnowBe4 enables organizations to address one of the largest attack surfaces—employees—by reducing the risk of phishing and other social engineering attacks. By transforming the workforce into a stronger defense against threats, KnowBe4 helps organizations reduce human error and improve their overall cybersecurity posture.
