SR 20 Fastest Growing Security Companies

SR 20 Fastest Growing Security Companies 2015

The Silicon Review

According to the Institute for Security and Open Methodologies (ISECOM) in the OSSTMM 3, security is “a form of protection where a separation is created between the assets and the threat.” These separations are generically called “controls,” and sometimes include changes to the asset or the threat. And for decades, it is known as the resistance put up to the trouble-maker, by a vulnerable individual or group of people.

In this issue of The Silcion Review’s 20 most promising Security companies, we have departure from the notional and stereotypical understandings of the concept and have tried to establish the fact that Security is a need for all and that it does not matter whether the vulnerability is apparent or prima facie in nature. What matters is how one decides to put up against the day to day challenges and mal threats that arise from Credit card Shopping to Corporate Security.

With rising steps being taken by entrepreneurs and companies in securing Communications, Computers, Information, Surveillance Security, etc, we felt that the time is right and that there is a definite need to applaud and recognise the leaders of today as well as organizations and their founders, who have the potential to become tomorrow’s leaders.

Company	Management	Description
RiskSense	Dr. Srinivas Mukkamala CEO	The industry’s leading Cyber Risk & vulnerability Management Platform, RiskSense ingests vulnerability data from endpoints, networks and applications and then correlates with multiple sources of threat intelligence, leveraging the industry’s leading scanners and security tools.
Lynx Technology Partners	Rich Hlavka CEO	The NY based company provides IT security and risk management advisory services to help customers in highly regulated industries–financial services, energy, government, health care, and higher education–improve security, facilitate compliance, reduce risk and enhances efficiency.
Forescout	Michael DeCesare CEO & President	ForeScout is a leading cybersecurity provider of continuous monitoring and mitigation. Because ForeScout’s solutions are easy to deploy, unobtrusive, extensible and scalable, they have been chosen by more than 1,800* of the world’s most secure enterprises and government agencies in over 62 countries. Headquartered in Campbell, California, ForeScout offers its solutions through its global network of authorized partners.
Securonix	Sachin Nayyar CEO	Securonix is a privately owned Behavioral Security Analytics company with offices spread across US, UK and India. They serve the needs of clients across various verticals ranging from Financials, Healthcare and Pharma to Energy, Government, Retail and High Tech.
Syntegrity Networks	Daniel Coffing CEO	The Seattle based company provides a number of Web, data, and identity security products and services for online protection, risk management, and compliance. They are driving the evolution of a new model based on the intelligent integration between user and data security.
Veris Group	David Svec Managing Principal & Co-Founder	Founded in 2005, the Vienna based company excels in providing cyber security services to the federal government and commercial clients.
Avatier	Nelson Cicchitto Chairman & CEO	Avatier develops software and delivers services that automate IT operations. Avatier Corporation offers identity access management software, cyber security audit controls, and enterprise risk management services that transform how enterprises operate. Avatier is the only company providing solutions that adapt to the needs of the business user delivering a unified framework for business processes across operations.
802 Secure	Garry Drummond Founder & CEO	802 Secure is developing the most advanced technology for securing the Internet of Things, combining Software Defined Radios with Big Data analytics to detect, assess, and prevent risk from new and advanced wireless threats. Through its proprietary SWARM architecture (Secure Wireless Audit and Risk Management), 802Secure safely and non-intrusively monitors an enterprise’s air space, giving security personnel comprehensive visibility into every RF-emitting device on premise. As a result, companies can accurately quantify risk and mitigate advanced wireless threats by diverting suspicious traffic to virtual deceptive networks for further threat intelligence gathering.
SnoopWall	Gary Miliefsky CEO	SnoopWall, Inc. delivers cloaking technology through the form of the Privacy Shield SDK for wallets, banks and mobile commerce retail apps on Apple iOS, Google Android and Microsoft Windows to protect these apps against current and future threats, automatically, while not impacting the consumer experience. The patents-pending solution provided by SnoopWall is integrated in less than one week of development time with a tiny footprint, providing a next generation mobile app firewall experience for our eCommerce and mCommerce retail customers.
Fraud.net	Whitney Anderson Co-Founder	NY based Fraud.net assists online retailers prevent e-commerce fraud via an online fraud analysis solution and a crowd sourced repository of fraud data. Fraud.net enables online retailers to (i) check suspicious orders before they are shipped and (ii) report fraudsters who have generated losses.
SyncDog	Jonas Gyllensvaan CEO & Founder	SyncDog is an independent software vendor that manages pro-active mobile device monitoring, mobile device security, mobile application containerization and compliance reporting. They fully support application security and compliance policies and have been associated with several value-added resellers and distribution partners.
tmg-emedia	Chris Moschovitis Chairman & CEO	tmg-emedia was founded in 1989 with three core lines of business: Consulting, Development, and Technology Management. Through their consulting practice (www.tmg-emedia.com) they analyze existing systems, workflows, and business models and then recommend winning innovative strategies and the right best practices. Typical engagements include Strategic Consulting, Business Transformation, Change Management, Cyber Security, Crisis Management, IT Due Diligence, and Program and Project Management engagements.
Futurex	Brett Smith President & CEO	Futurex is a globally recognized provider of enterprise-class data encryption solutions. More than 15,000 customers worldwide have trusted their innovative technology to provide market-leading solutions for the secure encryption, storage, and transmission of sensitive data. They maintain an unyielding commitment to offering advanced, standards-compliant data encryption solutions.
Alta Assocaites	Joyce Brocaglia Founder & CEO	Alta Associates is the most prominent, experienced and successful boutique executive search firm specializing in Information Security, IT Risk Management, GRC and Privacy. Alta is known for placing “C-Level” executives and building the teams that support them. Whether you are searching for an executive, or building a team, leverage Alta’s unparalleled access to the industry’s best professionals. Since 1986 clients have relied on Alta Associates to complete specialized and hard to fill searches.
NuData Security	Michel Giasson CEO	NuData Security offers fraud detection and prevention software that utilizes behavioral analysis and statistical analytics to detect automated and human attacks, identifying the good and bad users.
ThreatStream	Hugh Njemanze CEO	ThreatStream® provides the leading enterprise class Threat Intelligence Platform, combining comprehensive threat data collection, prioritization, and analytics with secure collaboration in a vetted community. Offering the most comprehensive enterprise security infrastructure integration available, ThreatStream enables organizations to proactively identify and combat cyber threats targeting their operations.
Touchless Biometric Systems	Alex Zarrabi CEO	Touchless Biometric Systems (TBS) is a Swiss company offering complete biometric solutions for your security: for government, multinationals, small enterprises, institutional applications or residential buildings.
eConnect	Henry Valentino President & CEO	Las Vegas headquartered eConnect has acquired hard-earned fame, as a software company in the security industry which combines financial transactional analysis with visual verification to deter fraud since its inception in 2009.
Cavirin	JD Sherry CEO	Cavirin is the only solution that protects both the client’s cloud workload and associated accounts and gives them visibility across their entire IT ecosystem. They support the broadest range of devices and vendors on the market, so nothing escapes notice. They search out outdated and unpatched servers—the number-one culprit implicated in major IT security breaches. They check the client’s firewall and OS configurations against best practices and regulatory policies. But it doesn’t stop there. Cavirin also monitors their accounts—ensuring tight access control, strict password and lockout policies, and unused accounts.
Fornetix	Bob Guimarin CEO	Fornetix is a Northern Virginia-based advanced encryption management software company that recognizes the expanding necessity of effective and usable encryption technology for all security conscious enterprise or solutions providers.