Vendor spotlights

One vendor, in full

A long-form profile of one security vendor at a time: what it sells, who founded it, how it is funded, how the product works, where it sits among its neighbours on the record, and what a CISO should ask before buying. Every fact links to its source; the charts are drawn from those sources.

• Axonius · Cyber asset inventory (CAASM)Axonius: who they are, what they sell and what CISOs should askAxonius sells asset inventory software to security, IT and GRC teams. It was co-founded by Dean Sysman, Ofri Shur and Avidor Bartov.November 5, 2026 · 18 min read
• Cymulate · Breach simulation and automated pen-testingCymulate: who they are, what they sell and what CISOs should askCymulate, based in Holon, Israel, sells cloud-based security validation to mid-market and enterprise teams. Founded by Eyal Wachsman and Avihai Ben-Yossef.November 5, 2026 · 18 min read
• Cato Networks · SASE and SSE, Zero trust network accessCato Networks: who they are, what they sell and what CISOs should askCato Networks sells enterprises a cloud-delivered networking and security service. It is based in Tel Aviv and was founded by Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz.November 3, 2026 · 18 min read
• Sygnia · Incident response and forensics, MDR and managed SOCSygnia: who they are, what they sell and what CISOs should askSygnia sells incident response, MDR and readiness consulting to large organisations. Based in Tel Aviv, founded in 2015 by Unit 8200 veterans.November 3, 2026 · 18 min read
• Act Security · Cloud identity entitlements (CIEM), Non-human identity securityAct Security: who they are, what they sell and what CISOs should askAct Security, a Tel Aviv startup founded in 2025 by the Medigate team, sells security teams a platform that removes excess access from cloud infrastructure.October 29, 2026 · 19 min read
• Alice · AI firewalls and guardrails, AI model and agent securityAlice: who they are, what they sell and what CISOs should askAlice sells AI testing, guardrails and monitoring to AI labs and enterprises. From New York and Tel Aviv, founded by Noam Schwartz, Iftach Orr and Alon Porat.October 29, 2026 · 19 min read
• Legit Security · Application security posture management, Secrets detectionLegit Security: who they are, what they sell and what CISOs should askLegit Security sells an application security posture management platform to enterprise teams from Palo Alto. Co-founders: Roni Fuchs, Liav Caspi, Lior Barak.October 29, 2026 · 17 min read
• Mars Security · AI SOC analysts, Threat intelligenceMars Security: who they are, what they sell and what CISOs should askMars Security, based in Tel Aviv, sells a threat hunting and detection engineering platform to SOC teams. Founded by Shahaf Galili, Ran Lerer and Matan Caspi.October 29, 2026 · 17 min read
• Mate Security · AI SOC analysts, SOAR and security automationMate Security: who they are, what they sell and what CISOs should askMate Security sells software agents for enterprise SOC teams. Based in Tel Aviv, it was founded in 2025 by Asaf Wiener, Oren Saban and Guy Pergal.October 29, 2026 · 20 min read
• NewCore · Workforce IAM and SSO, Non-human identity securityNewCore: who they are, what they sell and what CISOs should askNewCore sells enterprises identity for staff and AI agents. Based in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, founded by Zohar Alon, Amihai Neiderman and Erez Yarkoni.October 29, 2026 · 18 min read
• Orca Security · Cloud-native application protection (CNAPP), Cloud security posture managementOrca Security: who they are, what they sell and what CISOs should askOrca Security sells a cloud security platform as SaaS to public cloud users. Co-founded in 2019 by Avi Shua and Gil Geron, it uses a Portland, Oregon dateline.October 29, 2026 · 20 min read
• Orchid Security · Identity governance and administration, Identity threat detection and responseOrchid Security: who they are, what they sell and what CISOs should askOrchid Security, based in New York with R&D in Israel, sells identity security to large enterprises. Founders: Roy Katmor, Robert Wiseman, Ido Kelson.October 29, 2026 · 20 min read

Published October 29, 2026 onward. Corrections: /corrections.