2023 SC Awards Finalists: Best Security Company

AttackIQ, the independent provider of breach and attack simulation solutions, is the choice of leading cybersecurity teams including those of JetBlue, ISS World, Bupa, and the U.S. Army to find security gaps and prioritize program strategies. The company delivers performance data to security teams across Fortune 10 to Global 2000 companies so that they can make better decisions. AttackIQ is the only vendor that enables teams to test AI and ML cyber-defense technologies at scale and in production against multiple threats concurrently. It’s lightweight, easy-to-use and safe Security Optimization Platform is built on innovative architecture that supports multiple models, including SaaS and self-managed infrastructure, in the cloud or a physical data center. The company’s proactive, consultative-based model provides a practitioner-led customer service approach, ensuring customers get a tailored experience.

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company trusted by over 23,000 customers, including 70 of the Fortune 100, due to its strong product innovation and customer service. Its flagship product, the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, consolidates vendors and modules while providing better security outcomes, automation, and lower total cost of ownership. Customers can leverage CrowdStrike’s AI-driven platform, which collects data once and reuses it many times, and gain context-driven risk analytics for attack discovery and prevention. CrowdStrike Support offers three levels that best fit customers’ needs and business requirements, ranging from standard support bundled free with the Falcon platform to the Elite level providing a dedicated technical account manager. CrowdStrike invests 20% of its non-GAAP financial measures to research and development, and its technology learns how to defend better, hunt smarter, and respond faster with trillions of daily events and unprecedented amounts of data.

Kroll, a risk management firm with a long heritage in investigations and responding to cyber incidents, is experiencing significant growth and expanding its market share. Kroll works with 68% of Fortune 100 companies and 69% of the 100 largest Euro STOXX companies, delivering end-to-end cyber risk solutions worldwide. Kroll Responder, its managed detection and response solution, can deploy in less than three days and almost instantly increase cyber maturity, reducing the risk of security breaches. Kroll’s acquisitions have accelerated its market share, including Redscan, Security Compass Advisory, Crisp, and Resolver, which provide customers with extended potential solutions, including risk intelligence services. Kroll consistently scores above 4.5/5 on net promoter and customer satisfaction surveys, and its product and service portfolio is continually growing, including a $1 million MDR warranty for its managed detection and response solution. Its KAPE technology enables forensic teams to collect and process useful artifacts within minutes.

Data analytics company Splunk recently reported its fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2023 financial results, showing business momentum. The company’s total revenues reached $3.654 billion, a year-over-year increase of 37%, while its total annual recurring revenue (ARR) was $3.674 billion, a YoY increase of 18%. Splunk also saw cloud revenue of $1.457 billion, a YoY increase of 54%. Splunk’s security solutions, which include Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk SOAR and Splunk UBA, are recognized as some of the best on the market by customers and analysts. Splunk’s unified security operations solution helps customers to improve their security posture, reduce time to detect and respond to threats, automate security operations processes, enable cloud transformation, never miss a threat with end-to-end security monitoring, and improve security team productivity. Splunk’s customer base includes 96 of the Fortune 100 companies.

Tenable provides cybersecurity risk management solutions that help organizations understand and reduce their cyber risk across their entire attack surface. Its customers include large government agencies, 60% of the Fortune 500, and 40% of the Global 2000. Tenable One is the industry’s first exposure management platform, providing clear and concise context-driven risk analytics and vulnerability data across IT infrastructure, web apps, public cloud, and identity systems. The platform aggregates vulnerability data and understands relationships between assets, exposures, privileges, and threats across attack paths. Tenable has a dedicated zero-day research team that has identified over 240 previously undisclosed flaws in consumer and enterprise software. In 2022, Tenable launched four new products, including Tenable Cloud Security and Tenable Attack Surface Management. Tenable partners with over 100 ecosystem partners and 200 integrations with security leaders, helping organizations manage, measure, and reduce their cyber risk.