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Cyrenity vs Guardare

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. Guardare sells a platform that connects data from existing security tools to uncover exposures, prioritize what matters, and give teams clear next steps across people, devices, software, and cloud. CISO Tribune files both under Vulnerability management. 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 Guardare: 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.comGuardareGuardare sells a platform that connects data from existing security tools to uncover exposures, prioritize what matters, and give teams clear next steps across people, devices, software, and cloud.guardare.com
What it sells
  • 24/7 Incident Response[1][3]Contains the threat and restores operations in parallel, with counsel and insurer coordination.
  • GuardScan[7][10]An agent that collects Active Directory over LDAP data for on-premises domains.
Categories
Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesClearwater, United States[2]
Founded
Not stated on its pages2023[3]
Ownership and funding
Not stated on its pagesPrivately held[2][3][14]
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
Not stated on its pages
  • October 19, 2026Guardare announced the closing of an oversubscribed $5.6M follow-on funding round, bringing its total funding to $10.7M.[13]
  • July 15, 2026Guardare was highlighted by MES Computing on its 2026 MES Midmarket 100 list.[2]
  • February 9, 2026Guardare announced a strategic channel partnership with Amicis Group Ltd., its second official channel partner in the United Kingdom and Ireland.[12]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[14]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
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, Guardare sells mainly to organizations of all sizes, with wording aimed at lean IT teams, enterprise security teams, and teams that build repeatable client security reviews. Guardare says it provides organizations with tools for SMB risk management and risk prioritization. Guardare shows separate SLED and nonprofit rates, so SLED and nonprofit organizations are among the buyers it addresses. Guardare connects to customers' existing tools through read-only connections, and customers can purchase directly from Guardare or through a partner.
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November 13, 2026October 19, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Cyrenity and Guardare are both filed under Vulnerability management.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Cyrenity's primary category is MDR and managed SOC; Guardare's is Exposure prioritisation and CTEM.
  • Cyrenity is also filed under Incident response and forensics and Threat intelligence. Guardare is also filed under Cyber asset inventory (CAASM).
  • Cyrenity lists 24/7 Incident Response. Guardare lists GuardScan.
  • Guardare is headquartered in Clearwater, United States.
  • Guardare was founded in 2023.
  • Guardare is privately held.

What it sells: Guardare

What GuardScan does[7][10]
GuardScan collects Active Directory over LDAP data for on-premises domains. GuardScan is a component of Guardare's unified cybersecurity platform.

Questions about Cyrenity and Guardare

What do Cyrenity and Guardare sell?
Cyrenity sells 24/7 Incident Response. Guardare sells GuardScan.
Are Cyrenity and Guardare in the same category?
They share Vulnerability management. Cyrenity's primary category is MDR and managed SOC and Guardare's is Exposure prioritisation and CTEM.
Where are Cyrenity and Guardare headquartered?
Guardare is headquartered in Clearwater, United States.
When were Cyrenity and Guardare founded?
Guardare was founded in 2023.
Who owns Cyrenity and Guardare?
Guardare is privately held.
Who are Cyrenity and Guardare 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, Guardare sells mainly to organizations of all sizes, with wording aimed at lean IT teams, enterprise security teams, and teams that build repeatable client security reviews.
What have Cyrenity and Guardare announced recently?
October 19, 2026: Guardare announced the closing of an oversubscribed $5.6M follow-on funding round, bringing its total funding to $10.7M.

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

Sources

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

Guardare full record

  1. [1]guardare.comGuardare · guardare.com · undated page, accessed October 19, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Guardare Recognized on the Prestigious 2026 MES Midmarket 100 ListGuardare · published July 15, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Seed fundingGuardare · guardare.com · published June 9, 2025 · Tier A
  4. [4]Unified Exposure Management Platform | GuardareGuardare · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Unified Exposure Management for Security Leaders | GuardareGuardare · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Unified Exposure Visibility & Risk Prioritization | GuardareGuardare · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]200+ IT and Security Integrations | GuardareGuardare · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Insurance CISO Case Study Download | GuardareGuardare · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Unified Exposure Management Pricing | GuardareGuardare · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Service Level Agreement | GuardareGuardare · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]About Guardare | Unified Exposure ManagementGuardare · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Guardare Expands in UKI with Amicis Group PartnershipGuardare · published February 9, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Guardare Raises $5.6 MillionGuardare · published October 19, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Guardare Core Platform Reviews & Product DetailsG2 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier C

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