Palo Alto Networks is a global cybersecurity leader, founded in 2005 by Nir Zuk (former Check Point and NetScreen architect) in Santa Clara, California. Inventor and market leader of next-generation firewalls (NGFW). IPO on NYSE in 2012 (PANW), $100B+ market cap. Products include NGFW, Prisma Access (SASE), Prisma Cloud, Cortex XDR/XSIAM, WildFire advanced threat protection, and Unit 42 threat intelligence.
HashiCorp Vault, created in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, CA, is the industry-leading secrets management and access control tool. With 30+ secrets engines and dynamic credential rotation, it is the standard choice for cloud-native secrets management.
Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Qualys is a leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions. Its SaaS platform delivers vulnerability management, web application scanning, and PCI DSS compliance for 10,000+ enterprise customers.
Nmap (Network Mapper) is the world's most widely used open source network scanning and security auditing tool, created and maintained by Gordon Lyon (Fyodor), with 600+ NSE scripts and 40+ probe techniques as the de facto standard for network discovery.
Nessus, launched by Tenable in 2002 and headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, is one of the most widely deployed vulnerability scanners, covering 50,000+ detection rules and 400+ system and application checks — the essential tool for enterprise vulnerability management.
Metasploit, maintained by Rapid7 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, is the world's most widely used penetration testing framework, with 2,000+ exploit modules and 500+ auxiliary modules as the standard tool for red team assessments and security testing.
Malwarebytes (founded 2008, Santa Clara, CA) is a leading anti-malware and endpoint security company. Malwarebytes Security provides personal to enterprise endpoint protection specializing in malware that traditional antivirus often misses.
Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, F5 (formerly F5 Networks) is the global leader in application delivery (ADC) and web application security. The BIG-IP series is the most widely deployed ADC and WAF platform in the industry.
Cloudflare Security leverages a 330+ city global edge network to deliver DDoS mitigation, WAF, Bot Management, API Shield, and Zero Trust as an all-in-one web security platform.
Burp Suite by PortSwigger is the industry-standard web security testing toolkit, offering intercepting proxy, automated vulnerability scanning, and a rich BApp extension ecosystem covering the complete security testing workflow from manual testing to CI/CD integration.
Founded in 2005 in Santa Clara, CA, Palo Alto Networks is the industry benchmark for next-generation firewalls (NGFW), with Prisma Cloud for multi-cloud security and Cortex XDR/XSIAM for extended detection and response.
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, Fortinet is globally known for the FortiGate next-generation firewall, offering SD-WAN, endpoint security, email security, and cloud security as an integrated network security architecture.
Founded in 2011 in Austin, Texas, CrowdStrike delivers EDR, XDR, threat intelligence, and managed security services through its cloud-native Falcon platform, and is the recognized leader in the endpoint detection and response (EDR) market.
Malwarebytes (founded 2008, Santa Clara, CA) is a leading anti-malware and endpoint security company, specializing in detecting malware, adware, and ransomware that traditional antivirus often misses. Offers personal to enterprise endpoint security solutions.
Kaspersky, founded in 1997 and headquartered in Moscow, Russia, is a world-leading cybersecurity and endpoint protection vendor. Its endpoint security products consistently rank among the top 3 in AV-TEST detection rates, while KasperskyOS delivers a proprietary microkernel-based secure OS for IoT scenarios.
Bitdefender is a leading Security provider serving global customers.
CrowdSec is an open-source collaborative intrusion prevention system (IPS) founded in 2019 in France, using a globally community-shared malicious IP reputation database to identify and block network attacks in real time.
Founded in 1982 in Mountain View, CA, Symantec is now Broadcom's enterprise security brand, offering endpoint protection, DLP, web security gateway, and SSL certificates.
Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Chicago, IL, Trustwave is a globally recognized cybersecurity firm. Trustwave CA provides SSL certificate issuance deeply bundled with Managed Security Services (MSS), penetration testing, and PCI DSS compliance — issuing 500K+ SSL certificates annually.
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Rapid7 is a leader in cybersecurity data analytics and security operations. Known for the Insight platform (vulnerability management, SIEM/EDR) and the Metasploit penetration testing framework, serving 11,000+ customers globally.
OpenVAS (Greenbone) is the world's largest open source vulnerability scanner, initiated by Greenbone Networks in 2008, with over 100,000 NVT test cases providing automated vulnerability detection, compliance assessment, and penetration testing integration.
Dashlane is a leading password manager and digital identity protection platform offering secure password storage, autofill, dark web monitoring, and integrated VPN starting at $4.99/month.
Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Campbell, California, Barracuda Networks is a leading provider of email security, WAF, data backup, and network firewall solutions serving over 200,000 businesses worldwide.
Avast (founded 1988, Prague, Czech Republic) is one of the world's largest free antivirus brands with over 435 million users. Avast Security offers a complete product matrix from free antivirus to Avast One all-in-one security solutions.