Top Enterprise Security Startups in 2026

Today, there's more data and users outside the enterprise than inside, causing the network perimeter as we know it to dissolve. We realized a new perimeter was needed, one that is built in the cloud and follows and protects data wherever it goes, so we started Netskope to redefine Cloud, Network and Data Security. Since 2012, we have built the market-leading cloud security company and an award-winning culture powered by hundreds of employees spread across offices in Santa Clara, St. Louis, Bangalore, London, Melbourne, and Tokyo. Our core values are openness, honesty, and transparency, and we purposely developed our open desk layouts and large meeting spaces to support and promote partnerships, collaboration, and teamwork. From catered lunches and office celebrations to employee recognition events (pre and hopefully post-Covid) and social professional groups such as the Awesome Women of Netskope (AWON), we strive to keep work fun, supportive and interactive. Visit us at Netskope Careers. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @Netskope for more updates.

Security is hard. Breaches are happening daily. We watch over the networks of small and medium size businesses. We don't bother them with noise, we give them clear actions to take to make their network safe and clean.  A small appliance is dropped into the customer network. It gathers network information that we analyze with a combination of automated tools and a team of security experts. The customer gets human created instructions on addressing the issues or changing the network. 

For many organizations, the most valuable asset is their data. Whether source code, product designs, customer records, financial results, or pricing models, every organization has information they don’t want to get in the hands of competitors, sold on darknet marketplaces, or exposed publicly. Keeping that data safe has been a challenge, until now. Cyberhaven gives organizations the tools to safeguard their data from theft or misuse. In the process, we’ve become the standard for Data Detection and Response (DDR), the category we helped create.

At Verkada, we’re on a mission to modernize the world of physical security. Today, we build enterprise security cameras that combine cutting-edge camera technology with intelligent, web-based software—all in a secure, user-friendly solution. In the future, we’ll deepen our use of machine learning to enable entirely new ways of enhancing physical security — many of which have yet to be imagined. Unlike existing video security systems, Verkada’s technology eliminates outdated equipment such as network video recorders (NVRs) and offers the protection of full encryption with no special configuration required. Our systems are easy to install, update and expand. Verkada was founded in 2016 by computer scientists and information security experts from Stanford University and MIT. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Incode Technologies is an omnichannel biometric identity company that builds secure, top-rated solutions for frictionless banking, hospitality, and retail experiences. Incode sets a new standard in convenience and security in order to enhance customer experiences and build a global database of identities using the world’s fastest edge-facial recognition technology as recognized by the United States Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Incode’s anti-spoofing technology, LiveBeam, doesn’t require any user interaction and is the first passive facial liveness system in the world to achieve Level-1 certification for NIST iBeta Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) testing. The company’s web and mobile solutions are adopted globally for a variety of applications, including onboarding, identity & ID verification, and transactions by some of the world’s largest financial institutions, governments, and retailers. Founded in 2015 by a passionate serial-entrepreneur and a group of hard-working individuals, we seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage them to take risks and approach new challenges unconventionally. We believe brilliant minds have the power to do great things! We’re a fun-loving, goal-crushing team who are immensely proud to be part of a common goal: to map the identity of humankind. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company operates globally with additional offices in Latin America and Europe.

BitSight is transforming how companies manage information security risk with objective, evidence-based security ratings. Our founders had a simple but profound insight: rather than going deeper into security policies and procedures, instead follow the outside-in model employed by consumer credit rating agencies. This model involves continually collecting and analyzing vast amounts of external data on security behaviors and security policy implementations. No questionnaires are presented, and we perform no intrusive tests on the organization being rated. With this data, our Security Rating Platform derives BitSight Security Ratings that measure a company’s security performance using an empirical, data-driven method.

We make the world's networks safer by providing a rich, unique data source for network traffic analysis.

Recorded Future arms security teams with threat intelligence powered by patented machine learning to lower risk. Our technology automatically collects and analyzes information from an unrivaled breadth of sources and provides invaluable context that’s delivered in real time and packaged for human analysis or instant integration with existing security technology.

NexGenT is building the largest online IT school to help millions of people transition into tech jobs. Our mission is to inspire, create, and empower the next generation IT workforce by providing the highest quality tech education that is affordable to anyone.

Yubico changes the game for strong authentication, providing superior security with unmatched ease-of-use. Our core invention, the YubiKey, is a small USB and NFC device supporting multiple authentication and cryptographic protocols. With a simple touch, it protects access to computers, networks, and online services for the world’s largest organizations. Yubico is the leading contributor to the FIDO Universal 2nd Factor open authentication standard, and our technology is loved by millions of users in more than 150 countries.