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Cyrenity vs Dispel

Cyrenity sells managed cybersecurity services covering managed detection and response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, advisory, AI security, and 24/7 incident response, run as one operation. Dispel sells OT secure remote access, connecting vendors, OEMs, and operators to critical systems and data. CISO Tribune files both under MDR and managed SOC. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Cyrenity vs Dispel: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
CyrenityCyrenity sells managed cybersecurity services covering managed detection and response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, advisory, AI security, and 24/7 incident response, run as one operation.cyrenitycyber.comDispelDispel sells OT secure remote access, connecting vendors, OEMs, and operators to critical systems and data.dispel.com
What it sells
  • 24/7 Incident Response[1][3]Contains the threat and restores operations in parallel, with counsel and insurer coordination.
  • Dispel Zero Trust Engine[3][6][7][11]Dispel Zero Trust Engine replaces jump servers, VPNs, and IT PAM tools.
  • Dispel Intelligence[8][15]Dispel Intelligence pulls existing Nozomi or Dragos device risk data directly into the access decision.
  • Dispel Identity[9]Dispel Identity adds IAL2 through government ID validation and a biometric match.
  • Dispel Compliance[10]Dispel Compliance scores live configuration against NERC CIP, NIST, IEC 62443, and NIS2 simultaneously.
  • Industrial Data Streaming[11]Secure, real-time transfer and industrial data integration.
  • Dispel OTFusion[12]A patented OT consolidation solution.
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Named customers
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Recent news
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  • October 19, 2026Dispel launched a solution for OEMs and machine builders who deliver remote service directly to their industrial customers' equipment.[16]
  • September 14, 2026Dispel opened its Community Power & Water Program at the American Public Power Association's Cybersecurity & Technology Summit in San Antonio.[14]
  • June 17, 2026Dispel announced general availability of Site Console.[13]
  • May 14, 2026Dispel announced general availability of Session Forensics with Dynamic Risk Scoring, the first capability within Dispel Intelligence.[15]
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  • G2: listed, seen November 4, 2026[17]
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Who it fits
From its own pages, Cyrenity sells mainly to organizations across every industry, and it names professional sports organizations as a group it serves. For sports organizations, Cyrenity maps programs to league and federation security requirements. Cyrenity offers threat intelligence monitoring to insurers, managed service providers, and advisors who want a whole client list watched. Its advisory service is aimed at organizations that want executive security leadership without a full-time hire.From its own pages, Dispel sells mainly to industrial organizations in manufacturing, utilities, and energy. Dispel says it connects operators, contractors, and vendors to ICS and OT systems. Dispel describes cloud, on-prem, and hybrid deployment, and deployments for regulated utilities. Dispel describes multi-site industrial organizations as a setting for its OTFusion solution.
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Where they overlap

  • Cyrenity and Dispel are both filed under MDR and managed SOC.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Cyrenity's primary category is MDR and managed SOC; Dispel's is Zero trust network access.
  • Cyrenity is also filed under Incident response and forensics, Vulnerability management and Threat intelligence. Dispel is also filed under OT and ICS security and Unidirectional gateways and secure transfer.
  • Cyrenity lists 24/7 Incident Response. Dispel lists Dispel Zero Trust Engine, Dispel Intelligence, Dispel Identity, Dispel Compliance, Industrial Data Streaming and 1 more.

What it sells: Dispel

What Dispel Zero Trust Engine does[3][6][7][11]
Dispel Zero Trust Engine replaces jump servers, VPNs, and IT PAM tools. Dispel delivers a tiered connection suite with Browser Connect, Virtual Desktop, and Local Application options tailored to every user. Dispel Zero Trust Engine can be deployed in cloud, on-prem, and hybrid models.
What Dispel Intelligence does[8][15]
Session Forensics and Dynamic Risk Scoring are built into the same remote access session. Dispel tracks AAL at every login, with 11-signal risk scoring that surfaces anomalies in real time.
What Dispel Identity does[9]
Government ID validation, liveness check, and biometric match confirm a real, verified person, meeting NIST IAL2. Dispel Identity works with Microsoft Entra, Okta, PingIdentity, SAML, OIDC, and hybrid environments.
What Dispel Compliance does[10]
Dispel exports timestamped evidence as an OSCAL Component Definition, plus CSV and PDF summaries. Dispel lists supported frameworks as NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, NERC CIP, IEC 62443-3-3, NIS2 (EU 2024/2690), NIST CSF 2.0, and SANS ICS 5 Critical Controls.
What Industrial Data Streaming does[11]
Dispel says Industrial Data Streaming enables secure, real-time transfer and industrial data integration across operational, diagnostic, and system-level sources. The Dispel Zero Trust Engine provides an Industrial Data Streaming solution.
What Dispel OTFusion does[12]
Dispel OTFusion is a patented OT consolidation solution that unifies applications, operating systems, and services into a single secure environment. Dispel says customers can start with a single application or data stream and scale as results come in.

Questions about Cyrenity and Dispel

What do Cyrenity and Dispel sell?
Cyrenity sells 24/7 Incident Response. Dispel sells Dispel Zero Trust Engine, Dispel Intelligence, Dispel Identity, Dispel Compliance, Industrial Data Streaming and 1 more.
Are Cyrenity and Dispel in the same category?
They share MDR and managed SOC. Cyrenity's primary category is MDR and managed SOC and Dispel's is Zero trust network access.
Who are Cyrenity and Dispel sold to?
From its own pages, Cyrenity sells mainly to organizations across every industry, and it names professional sports organizations as a group it serves. From its own pages, Dispel sells mainly to industrial organizations in manufacturing, utilities, and energy.
What have Cyrenity and Dispel announced recently?
October 19, 2026: Dispel launched a solution for OEMs and machine builders who deliver remote service directly to their industrial customers' equipment.

About Cyrenity

Cyrenity sells managed cybersecurity services covering managed detection and response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, advisory, AI security, and 24/7 incident response, run as one operation. Cyrenity protects organizations across every industry and serves professional sports organizations. Cyrenity's sports security work covers three MLS clubs: Austin FC, LAFC, and San Diego FC.[1][2][3][5]

Cyrenity's AI, security, and incident response experts find the AI that people and agents use, set the rules, enforce them while it runs, and prove it to a board and auditors. Cyrenity's AI governance work defends AI from prompt injection and data exposure. Cyrenity's AI Security service hardens the AI features a business builds and buys against prompt injection, jailbreaks, and data exfiltration through model outputs. Cyrenity's AI Security service protects proprietary models against theft, extraction, and unauthorized access across their lifecycle. Cyrenity's AI Security service guards training and fine-tuning pipelines against manipulated inputs. Cyrenity's AI Security service secures the full path from data ingestion to inference. Cyrenity helps organizations set guardrails, acceptable use, access controls, and oversight for AI.[1][3][6]

Cyrenity's managed detection and response team watches a customer's environment around the clock, investigates what matters, and contains active threats before they spread. Cyrenity's monitoring covers endpoints, identity, cloud, and email, and an analyst triages every alert. When a threat is real, Cyrenity isolates the host, cuts the session, and stops lateral movement. Cyrenity's hunters search a customer's environment for the quiet indicators that automated detection misses. Cyrenity deploys, tunes, and runs the detection stack for customers, correlating signals across tools.[7]

Cyrenity's incident response brings senior responders, AI-accelerated investigation, and hands-on recovery into one coordinated response. Cyrenity's emergency incident response covers around-the-clock triage, incident command, forensic investigation, containment, eradication, and executive status reporting. Cyrenity's ransomware and extortion response covers scoping, evidence preservation, backup and restoration planning, data-exposure analysis, and coordination with counsel, insurers, and specialist partners. Cyrenity's business resumption work covers clean recovery planning, identity restoration, backup validation, rebuild support, application sequencing, and return-to-service validation. Cyrenity investigates credential theft, session and token abuse, malicious OAuth grants, cloud persistence, business email compromise, and payment fraud. Cyrenity investigates AI system incidents involving prompt injection, unauthorized agent actions, MCP and tool misuse, RAG and memory poisoning, and model or pipeline compromise. Cyrenity runs investigation and recovery at once, coordinated by one incident command. Cyrenity's compromise assessment gives evidence-based answers when something looks wrong but a breach is not confirmed.[6][8]

Cyrenity runs realistic breach scenarios with a customer's leadership and technical teams. Cyrenity writes role-based incident response playbooks for the scenarios that threaten a customer. Cyrenity builds security policies, escalation paths, and communication protocols.

Cyrenity's threat intelligence analysts watch the hidden online spaces where cybercriminals plan attacks, sell stolen logins, and trade access to company networks. Cyrenity sends alerts to tools such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. Cyrenity's threat intelligence confirms whether company data, employee details, or a brand have shown up on the dark web. Cyrenity's penetration testing attacks an environment the way attackers would. Cyrenity's cloud assessments cover AWS, Azure, and Microsoft 365. Cyrenity ranks every vulnerability finding by exploitability and business impact. Cyrenity re-tests each fix and documents it for auditors.[10][11]

Cyrenity's security advisors are former CISOs who build the roadmap and sit at the table with a customer's leadership. Cyrenity maps a customer's program to SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST, and the standards customers and regulators expect, then builds the evidence.[2]

Cyrenity's engagement maps a customer's attack surface and identifies critical vulnerabilities within 48 hours. Cyrenity follows with continuous monitoring and remediation. Cyrenity's sports offering covers ticketing, fan data, broadcast, venues, and the AI behind performance, with 24/7 response. Cyrenity maps sports organizations' programs to league and federation security requirements.[2][3][5][10][11]

Cyrenity on the record

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Cyrenity full record

  1. [1]cyrenitycyber.comCyrenity · cyrenitycyber.com · undated page, accessed November 13, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Security Advisory | Cyrenity CyberCyrenity · undated page, accessed November 13, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Managed Cybersecurity Services | Cyrenity CyberCyrenity Cyber · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]About Cyrenity | Managed Cybersecurity Services | Cyrenity CyberCyrenity Cyber · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Cybersecurity for Professional Sports Organizations | Cyrenity CyberCyrenity Cyber · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]AI Security | Cyrenity CyberCyrenity Cyber · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Managed Detection & Response | Cyrenity CyberCyrenity Cyber · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Incident Response & Business Resumption | Cyrenity CyberCyrenity Cyber · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Incident Readiness & Planning | Cyrenity CyberCyrenity Cyber · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Threat Intelligence | Cyrenity CyberCyrenity Cyber · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Vulnerability Management | Cyrenity CyberCyrenity Cyber · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier A

Dispel full record

  1. [1]dispel.comDispel · dispel.com · undated page, accessed October 7, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Dispel celebrates 2025 fastest growing cybersecurity company as ot secure remote access demand growsDispel · dispel.com · published March 26, 2025 · Tier A
  3. [3]Press dispel fedramp 20x zero trust governmentDispel · dispel.com · published July 22, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]OT Secure Remote Access for Industrial Operations | DispelDispel · undated page, accessed October 31, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Secure Remote Access for ICS & OT | Dispel SolutionsDispel · undated page, accessed October 31, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Dispel Zero Trust Engine | OT Secure Remote Access PlatformDispel · undated page, accessed October 31, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Wicket Industrial Gateway | DispelDispel · undated page, accessed October 31, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Continuous Risk Scoring for OT Secure Remote Access | DispelDispel · undated page, accessed October 31, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Identity Verification for OT Remote Access | Dispel IdentityDispel · undated page, accessed October 31, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Continuous Compliance for OT Secure Remote Access | DispelDispel · undated page, accessed October 31, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Industrial Data Streaming for OT & ICS | Real-Time Secure Data Transfer | Dispel SolutionsDispel · undated page, accessed October 31, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]OTFusion — OT Digital Transformation & Multi-Site Consolidation | DispelDispel · undated page, accessed October 31, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Dispel Launches Site Console, Delivering On-Premises OT Remote Access for NERC CIP and Air-Gapped EnvironmentsDispel · published June 17, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Dispel Launches Community Power & Water Program at APPA Cybersecurity & Technology SummitDispel · published September 14, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Dispel Launches Session Forensics, Bringing Real-Time Dynamic Risk Scoring to OT Remote Access as AI Threats EscalateDispel · published May 14, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]Dispel Introduces Dispel Zero Trust Engine for OEMs to Standardize Secure Remote Service at ScaleDispel · published October 19, 2026 · Tier A
  17. [17]Dispel Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 31, 2026 · Tier C
  18. [18]Features | DispelDispel · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  19. [19]Wicket Hardware Form Factor | DispelDispel · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  20. [20]Wicket Software Form Factor | DispelDispel · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A

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