Top 10 Most Innovative Cybersecurity Companies After RSA 2020

The RSA Conference, the
world’s leading information security conference and exposition,
held its 29th annual event in San Francisco last week.According to the organizers, over 36,000 attendees, 704
speakers, and 658 exhibitors gathered at the Moscone Center to
discuss privacy, Machine Learning, and AI, policy and government,
applied crypto and blockchain, and, new for the RSA Conference
2020, open source tools, product security and anti-fraud.

Despite several large vendors including Verizon and IBM
canceling their presence in light of the spiraling panic around
coronavirus, the event was one of the brightest and innovative,
according to numerous stakeholders expressing their excitement in
the media and on social networks.

We decided to gather some feedback from the attendees,
journalists, and security experts involved in RSA 2020 to
understand the most recent cybersecurity trends after this
milestone event.

Below is our selection of 10 most innovative cybersecurity
companies that in our opinion, deserve your attention by their
distinctive technical or scientific approach, value-proposition or
long-term vision:

Qualys

Qualys, a pioneer and leading provider of cloud-based security and
compliance solutions, unveiled its new flagship product VMDR
(Vulnerability Management, Detection, and Response) at RSA 2020. As
per the vendor’s product specifications, Qualys VMDR® provides an all-in-one
cloud-based app that seamlessly automates the entire vulnerability
management cycle across endpoints, cloud, mobile, containers, and
IoT environments.

Most importantly, VMDR automatically detects the latest patches
for vulnerable IT assets and automatically remediates the problem,
saving a great deal of time and effort. Ultimately, VMDR will
significantly accelerate the ability to respond to emerging threats
and prevent data breaches in a simple and straightforward
manner.

Deployment of the novel cloud-based app is virtually effortless,
while asset-based pricing ensures a competitive price/quality ratio
within the vulnerability management market.

Fortinet

Fortinet, a global network and cloud security company, announced at
RSA an unsupervised Deep Learning AI solution FortiAI: Virtual
Security Analyst™ with unprecedented scalability.

According to Fortinet, the groundbreaking solution is aimed at
alleviating the tedious human work of studying malware
characteristics and properties to identify and classify them into
meaningful threat categories.

Furthermore, the solution pinpoints patient zero and
subsequently infected systems in a matter of seconds. FortiAI
functions just like a trained security analyst but multiplied by 10
in terms of efficiency, speed, and stress-resistance.

It is an on-premises appliance providing accurate assessments
for incoming threats in real-time, while studying and learning new
threats, so it can evolve and rapidly adapt to new attacks. The
result is tailored threat intelligence that is specific to the
organization that doesn’t rely on daily AI updates from the
cloud.

Securiti.AI

Securiti.AI, among other things, is the winner of the RSA
Conference Innovation Sandbox Contest 2020, provides AI-powered
PrivacyOps solutions for today’s privacy regulations, including
GDPR, CCPA, and LGDP.

It enables enterprises to assign rights to people on their data,
comply with global privacy regulations, and build sustainable trust
with customers. Security.AI claims that its PRIVACI.ai^[4] platform automates all
major functions requisite when complying with a myriad of intricate
global privacy regulations and laws in one place, using the power
of AI.

The patent-pending People Data Graph™ technology scans on-prem
and cloud data systems to identify PII and map that data to the
owners. By harnessing this real-time view of personal data,
PRIVACI.ai automates the processing of data subject requests,
consent revocation across multiple systems, breach notifications,
and vendor assessments, saving organizations a significant amount
of time and money.

ImmuniWeb

ImmuniWeb, an AI pioneer and award-winning application security
company, stands out among emerging cybersecurity visionaries with
its consolidated approach aimed to sharply reduce complexity and
costs.

In a few clicks, its ImmuniWeb® AI
Platform^[5] illuminates your
external attack surface and Dark Web exposure for well-informed,
risk-based, and DevSecOps-enabled application penetration testing
and continuous security monitoring. Each solution can also be
purchased separately, customized, and started online in a matter of
minutes.

Its award-winning Deep Learning ML/AI technology effectively
accelerates monitoring, augments security scoring, and intensifies
testing, leaving only the most sophisticated tasks, which truly
deserve human ingenuity and intelligence, for its security
experts.

ImmuniWeb provides one of the most inclusive and in-depth Attack
Surface Management solutions, spanning from public code
repositories to Deep Web. Its price/quality ratio is decidedly
attractive, unsurprisingly making the company a favorite amid its
technology partners and happy customers coming from FT 500
companies.

Darktrace

Darktrace, a UK-based cybersecurity unicorn active in defensive
Machine Learning and AI, actively commercializes its Enterprise Immune System, a self-learning
AI technology that detects novel threats, APT attacks, and insider
activities at their very early stage.

According to Darktrace, their technology is modeled on the human
immune system: the Enterprise Immune System continuously learns and
understands ‘self’ for everyone and everything in the business, and
can spot the subtle signals of an advanced attack, without relying
on outmoded rules, signatures, or prior assumptions that can be
unreliable or flatly outdated and ineffective.

This unique approach enables Darktrace to detect the most
sophisticated and stealthy cyber-threats that other tools miss.
Darktrace spots threats in your cloud and SaaS systems, received
via email or on IoT devices into your network, covering Salesforce,
Office 365, SharePoint, AWS and Azure.

Such a holistic approach makes Darktrace an invaluable component
of proactive threat hunting and timely breach detection.

Cofense

Cofense, a global leader in intelligent phishing defense
solutions, formerly known as PhishMe, actively advocates the
data breach reduction approach by eliminating human risk factors
implicating all possible variations of phishing, whaling, and BEC
attacks.

The company claims that AI and Machine Learning alone are no
silver bullets to protect against today’s sophisticated attacks.
Contrariwise, empowering humans to act as the last line of defense
is critical for a multi-layered and multidimensional cyber defense
posture.

Cofense provides one of the most comprehensive portfolios of
anti-phishing products, including awareness, detection, response,
and threat intelligence.

Trusted by over half of the Fortune 100 companies, Cofense
delivers what most CISOs are missing – peace of mind by virtually
eliminating human risks and preventing otherwise unstoppable data
breaches.

Cisco

Cisco, a venerated global leader in enterprise and network
security, presented a supercharged Cisco
SecureX, the broadest, most integrated cloud-native security
platform in the industry.

Aimed to bring simplification in the way its customers
experience Cisco Security’s portfolio and addressing growing
cybersecurity complexity, the platform is built on a decade of
significant investment in innovation, partnerships, acquisitions,
customer research and open-source standards. The flagship offering
unifies visibility, identifies unknown threats, and automates
workflows to strengthen customers’ security across network,
endpoints, cloud, and applications.

Cisco SecureX is scheduled for general availability in June
2020, but its customers that include 100% of the Fortune 100 are
already invited to join the beta program waitlist or request a
demonstration. Given Cisco’s unshakable reputation on the
enterprise cybersecurity market, SecureX will likely top the most
prominent innovations in 2020 in the global security arena.

Nuance

Nuance Communications, a pioneer in biometrics and conversational
AI innovations, seemed to impress the RSA audience with its
award-winning biometrics technology that enables agile
authentication and fraud prevention across voice and digital
channels. Something that in light of skyrocketing vishing attacks
could be a lifesaver.

The underlying technology leverages 4th generation of Deep
Learning AI algorithms that reliably identify individuals by voice,
behavior, and other human characteristics. The latest cloud-native
version available, Nuance
Gatekeeper^[9], allows organizations of
all sizes to validate customers’ identities in a secure and
frictionless way.

Gatekeeper thereby enables organizations to benefit from
increased security posture and customer convenience. It would be
difficult to disagree that Nuance’s Gatekeeper offers peace of mind
for security professionals in a largely unaddressed and novel field
of human fraud prevention.

F5

F5, a globally established application and cloud protection
provider, announced at RSA its recent acquisition of Shape Security purported to
bolster F5’s customer-focused approach to application protection
and defense.

Gathering real-time attack data from customer use cases,
prominent industry attack practices, and immense threat
intelligence data from F5 Labs, F5’s current portfolio safeguards
all organizational applications without impacting the end-user
experience or slowing time-to-market.

As a global leader in WAF and API security technology, F5 also
delivers application security with consistent policies and controls
across hybrid- and multi-cloud environments. Its award-winning
offering spans four solution areas that correlate directly to the
areas that organizations must protect to deliver applications and
services: Application Layer Security, Trusted Application Access,
Application Infrastructure Security, and Intelligent Threat
Services.

Consolidation of application and cloud defense in a turnkey
offering makes F5 a no-brainer selection for large organizations
seeking simplicity, effectiveness, and agility.

Kenna Security

Kenna Security is a global provider of risk-based Vulnerability
Management. Kenna Security delivers its vanguard vision of
vulnerability management via Kenna Security Platform
that automatically prioritizes vulnerability remediation, based on
empirically calculated risk metrics, and delivers continuous
reporting on organizational risk posture and security team
performance.

The platform precisely calculates which security flaws and
misconfigurations present the highest practical risk and
de-prioritizes the vast majority of less relevant alerts, letting
organizations effectively and effectively mobilize their teams to
consistently reduce the risks.

Moreover, Kenna Security notifies the right people of the right
vulnerabilities to achieve the greatest possible agility and time
efficiency, meticulously guiding each team through the steps
required to remediate a given risk. Amid steadily growing noise and
omnipresent false-positives, Kenna Security focuses on the right
priorities and enables CISOs to rest at nights.

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