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Palo Alto Networks is a platform-based cybersecurity vendor with product offerings covering network security, cloud security, and security operations. The California-based firm has more than 80,000 enterprise customers across the world, including more than three fourths of the Global 2000.

CrowdStrike is a cloud-native cybersecurity company specializing in security verticals such as endpoint, cloud workload, identity, and security operations. CrowdStrike's primary offering is its Falcon platform, which provides enterprises with a unified view to detect and respond to security threats across their IT infrastructure. The Austin, Texas-based firm was founded in 2011 and went public in 2019.

Incorporated in 1911, International Business Machines, or IBM, is one of the oldest technology companies in the world. It provides software, IT consulting services, and hardware to help business customers modernize their technology workflows. IBM operates in 175 countries and employs approximately 300,000 people. The company has a robust roster of business partners to service its clients, which includes 95% of all Fortune 500 companies. IBM’s products, including Red Hat, watsonx, and mainframes, handle some of the world’s most important data workloads in areas like finance and retail.

Fortinet is a platform-based cybersecurity vendor with product offerings covering network security, cloud security, zero-trust access, and security operations. The firm derives a majority of its revenue through sales of its subscriptions and support-based business. The California-based firm has more than 800,000 customers across the world.

Cloudflare is a software company based in San Francisco, California, that offers security and web performance offerings by utilizing a distributed, serverless content delivery network, or CDN. The firm’s edge computing platform, Workers, leverages this network by providing clients the ability to deploy and execute code without maintaining servers.

Okta is a cloud-native security company that focuses on identity and access management. The San Francisco-based firm went public in 2017 and focuses on two key client stakeholder groups: workforces and customers. Okta’s workforce offerings enable a company’s employees to securely access its cloud-based and on-premises resources. The firm’s customer offerings allow its clients’ customers to securely access the client’s applications.

Zscaler is a software-as-a-service, or SaaS, firm focusing on providing cloud-native cybersecurity solutions to primarily enterprise customers. Zscaler’s offerings can be broadly partitioned into Zscaler Internet Access, which provides secure access to external applications, and Zscaler Private Access, which provides secure access to internal applications. The firm is headquartered in San Jose, California, and went public in 2018.

Safe Superintelligence is a Palo Alto-based AI firm building systems with embedded safety protocols. Launched in 2024, the company develops risk assessment frameworks and mitigation tools to ensure secure deployment of advanced models in enterprise settings.

F5 is a market leader in the application delivery controller market. The company sells products for security, application performance, and automation. Its three customer verticals are enterprises, service providers, and government entities. Revenue is evenly split between its services business and products business with revenue trending toward products due to software adoption. The Seattle-based firm was incorporated in 1996, and went public in 1999.

Rubrik Inc is a company that offers data security solutions to organizations ranging from the largest companies world-wide to mid-sized smaller customers. Its platform is architected to help organizations achieve cyber resilience, which encompasses cyber posture and cyber recovery. It enables organizations to confidently accelerate digital transformation and leverage the cloud to realize business agility. Geographically, the company operates in the Americas, EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) and APAC (Asia Pacific). It generates maximum revenue from Americas.

Gen is a cybersecurity pure-play that offers security, identity protection, and privacy solutions to individual consumers. The firm's cyber safety offerings, via brands such as Norton, Avast, and LifeLock, have long maintained their positions as some of the most recognizable consumer-focused security and identity-protection products.

CACI International Inc is an information solutions and services provider, offering information solutions and services to its customers. The company's primary customers are agencies and departments of the U.S. government, which account for the vast majority of the firm's revenue. It provides information solutions and services supporting national security missions and government modernization for intelligence, defense, and federal civilian customers. Some of the services provided by the company are functional software development, data, and business analysis, IT operations support, naval architecture, and life cycle support intelligence among others. The company's operating segments are; Domestic operations and International operations. It derives key revenue from the Domestic segment.

Check Point Software Technologies is a pure-play cybersecurity vendor. The company offers solutions for network, endpoint, cloud, and mobile security in addition to security management. Check Point, a software specialist, sells to enterprises, businesses, and consumers. Around 50% of revenue is generated in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, 40% from the Americas, and 10% from the Asia-Pacific region. The firm, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, was founded in 1993 and has about 5,000 employees.

Cyera is a San Francisco-headquartered data security posture management provider scanning multicloud environments including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The platform discovers sensitive data across SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS layers, classifying assets and enforcing policies for compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA. Serving enterprises like Fortune 100 companies, Cyera correlates data flows with access risks to prevent leaks and enable automated remediation. Founded in 2021, it operates from offices in Tel Aviv and supports hybrid deployments worldwide.

SailPoint Inc delivers solutions to enable comprehensive identity security for the enterprise. The company does this by unifying identity data across systems and identity types, including employee identities, non-employee identities, and machine identities. The SaaS and customer-hosted offerings of the company leverage intelligent analytics to give organizations critical visibility into which identities currently have access to which resources, which identities should have access to those resources, and how that access is being used. Its solutions enable organizations to establish, control, and automate policies that help them define and maintain a robust security posture and achieve regulatory compliance.

360 Security Technology Inc is engaged in the research and development of Internet security technology, design, development, and promotion of Internet security products, as well as commercial services such as Internet advertising and services based on Internet security products, Internet value-added services, and smart hardware services. The company operates through two segments. The Internet and Smart Hardware Business segment covers Internet commercialization, such as advertising and services, value-added Internet businesses like AI products and game distribution, and smart hardware, including cameras, video doorbells, driving recorders, and children’s smartwatches. The Security Business segment focuses on digital security operations.

Chainalysis is a New York-headquartered provider of blockchain analytics and anti-money laundering software for cryptocurrency businesses. Its REACTOR tool supports investigations by visualizing data and attributing activities. The KYT API delivers transaction risk scoring based on fund sources and destinations. Additional offerings include activity reports, due diligence tools, and deep web cyber threat intelligence for financial institutions and law enforcement.

Fireblocks is a New York-headquartered digital asset security platform safeguarding cryptocurrency transfers between exchanges, wallets, and custodians. Its MPC-CMP technology eliminates single points of failure in private key management, supporting over 1,800 tokens across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and layer-2 networks. The Fireblocks Network connects more than 1,800 institutional clients including BNY Mellon, Galaxy Digital, and Kraken for seamless, insured transfers. Founded in 2018, the platform processes over $10 trillion in transactions annually and integrates with custody providers worldwide.