The Black Hat USA conference, an annual gathering of the global cybersecurity community, completes this year’s event with the announcement of the winners of the annual Black Unicorn Awards now held for the third consecutive year. The Awards recognize cybersecurity companies in a range of competing categories that includes The Top Ten Cybersecurity Startups for 2021.
This year’s conference was hybrid, holding four days of virtual trainings in real time and two days of a live activities held in Las Vegas on August 4th and 5th. Now in its 24th year, the conference joined with Cyber Defense Magazine to host the Black Unicorn Awards on the Magazine’s Cyber Defense Awards platform.
The top cybersecurity startups selected where judged for their potential to achieve a $1 billion valuation that is the prestigious unicorn status. Both private and public investment sources were used to make the award determination.
The top ten cybersecurity startups for 2021 are:
- security: Setting the standard for modern policy management and enforcement via a new, data-driven approach to authorization from basic role and permission models to sophisticated attribute-based access controls,
- Cervello: Supporting safe, reliable and best performing railway operation through expertise and best practices to safeguard the world’s most heavy and busiest transportation industry,
- Confluera: The leading provider of next-generation cloud detection and response as a SaaS,
- CrowdSec: An open-source and collaborative EDR that analyzes behaviors, respond to attacks & share signals across the community,
- Defendify: Pioneering cybersecurity for organizations without security teams,
- Don’t Be Breached: Offering its Database Cyber Security Guard product that detects and prevents confidential database data theft by Hackers, Supply Chain Attacks and others,
- Hyperproof: Serves as a system of record for an organization’s compliance data and gives teams involved in compliance the tools they need to collaborate with stakeholders in and outside of their organization,
- Keyavi Data Corp.: Infuses security into the data itself – preventing hackers and unauthorized users from being able to access your content even if they possess your files,
- Stellar Cyber, Inc.: Offers the only security operations platform providing high-speed, high-fidelity threat detection and automated response across the entire attack surface, and
- Strata Identity: Offers its Strata’s Maverics Identity Orchestration Platform™ that is the first distributed, standards-based orchestration solution that automates multi-cloud and hybrid cloud identity management.
“Being named a Black Unicorn Top Cybersecurity Startup at Black Hat USA validates our vision and approach for solving the multi-cloud identity management problem using identity orchestration,” said Eric Olden, CEO of Strata Identity. “With more than 93% of enterprises using multiple clouds and several different identity systems both in the cloud and on-premises, we are addressing an urgent pain point by helping customers seamlessly bridge the old and new world of identity.”
The Top 10 Cybersecurity Startups for 2021 as part of the third annual Black Unicorn awards were judged by Robert R. Ackerman Jr. of Allegiscyber, David DeWalt of NightDragon, Dr. Peter Stephenson of Cyber Defense Labs and Gary Miliefsky of CyberDefenseMediaGroup.
The complete list of winners for all of the categories of the Black Unicorn Awards for 2021 that was part of the Black Hat USA Conference in now available.
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