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Avertro specializes in transforming Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) into a proactive threat defense capability. Its CyberHQ® platform integrates real-time security telemetry, enabling organizations to simulate threat scenarios, quantify risk, automate compliance reporting, and maintain audit readiness.

Hook Security is a cybersecurity training company that helps organizations build awareness and resilience against manipulation by technology. The company provides phishing simulations, social engineering testing, and security awareness training with micro-learning, reporting, and integrations into existing cybersecurity stacks, including email client plugins and APIs. It trains employees to recognize counterfeit emails and manipulation at the point of use, using psychology and neuroscience to improve retention. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, Hook Security offers policy guidance for email and on-demand simulated attacks to reinforce secure behavior across the workforce.

ZoraSafe develops an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that provides real-time protection and educational tools. The platform offers security measures against online threats and interactive learning experiences to enhance digital literacy, enabling educational institutions to navigate the digital world with enhanced security and knowledge.

Kriptos is a technology company that specializes in enhancing cybersecurity strategies for organizations. It offers an AI-driven platform designed to classify and manage unstructured data, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDFs, and other formats, which typically comprise 80% of a company's information. The platform provides real-time insights into data discovery and classification across historical, new, and modified documents, analyzing over 1,000 variables per document. It assigns visual labels to data based on its sensitivity level, ensuring alignment with cybersecurity policies and strengthening compliance with regulations like ISO 27001, PCI, GDPR, NIST, HIPAA, SOC2, among others. Kriptos seamlessly integrates with existing cybersecurity tools for enhanced data protection and risk management.

Breacher.ai develops deepfake cybersecurity solutions to protect organizations from AI-driven threats such as deepfake audio, video, and SMS phishing. The company offers a fully managed service that combines micro-curriculum training, simulations, testing, and awareness programs with deepfake detection, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessment. Its platform integrates with existing security measures to protect employees, assets, and reputation, while providing ongoing reports and a channel for reporting suspicious messages, including phishing attempts on mobile devices.

LockDown Labs is an AI platform connecting security and development teams to fix application vulnerabilities in open-source and third-party libraries.

Mendara creates custom AI solutions to set a new standard for secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence.

ZoraSafe develops an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that provides real-time protection and educational tools. The platform offers security measures against online threats and interactive learning experiences to enhance digital literacy, enabling educational institutions to navigate the digital world with enhanced security and knowledge.

Kriptos is a technology company that specializes in enhancing cybersecurity strategies for organizations. It offers an AI-driven platform designed to classify and manage unstructured data, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDFs, and other formats, which typically comprise 80% of a company's information. The platform provides real-time insights into data discovery and classification across historical, new, and modified documents, analyzing over 1,000 variables per document. It assigns visual labels to data based on its sensitivity level, ensuring alignment with cybersecurity policies and strengthening compliance with regulations like ISO 27001, PCI, GDPR, NIST, HIPAA, SOC2, among others. Kriptos seamlessly integrates with existing cybersecurity tools for enhanced data protection and risk management.

Guardare is an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that automates complex security tasks, provides actionable insights, and streamlines compliance across an organization’s people, devices, and applications. It delivers a unified, single-pane-of-glass view that combines AI-driven analytics with expert human insights to improve visibility into critical assets, proactively identify and prioritize threats, mitigate risks, and ensure regulatory compliance while optimizing the existing security stack for higher ROI.

Opsbeacon, established by ex-Cisco FedRAMP security engineers, specializes in AI-driven cybersecurity solutions. Their platform employs autonomous AI agents to simplify complex security operations, enabling seamless coordination across various security tools. By transforming intricate security tasks into straightforward AI conversations, Opsbeacon amplifies human capabilities, enhancing security teams' effectiveness and efficiency, and reducing cyberattack risks.

Smart Eye Technology specializes in biometric security solutions for protecting confidential information. Its platform employs facial recognition and voice verification for multi-factor authentication, preventing unauthorized access to sensitive data on screens.

Undaunted Development develops interactive visual tools to make coding faster and more intuitive for cybersecurity professionals and developers.

LockDown Labs is an AI platform connecting security and development teams to fix application vulnerabilities in open-source and third-party libraries.

Gaming Zero Trust is an AI-powered platform centralizing cybersecurity policies, assessing risks, and automating policy implementation.

Opsbeacon, established by ex-Cisco FedRAMP security engineers, specializes in AI-driven cybersecurity solutions. Their platform employs autonomous AI agents to simplify complex security operations, enabling seamless coordination across various security tools. By transforming intricate security tasks into straightforward AI conversations, Opsbeacon amplifies human capabilities, enhancing security teams' effectiveness and efficiency, and reducing cyberattack risks.

Mendara creates custom AI solutions to set a new standard for secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence.

Undaunted Development develops interactive visual tools to make coding faster and more intuitive for cybersecurity professionals and developers.

Gaming Zero Trust is an AI-powered platform centralizing cybersecurity policies, assessing risks, and automating policy implementation.

Guardare is an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that automates complex security tasks, provides actionable insights, and streamlines compliance across an organization’s people, devices, and applications. It delivers a unified, single-pane-of-glass view that combines AI-driven analytics with expert human insights to improve visibility into critical assets, proactively identify and prioritize threats, mitigate risks, and ensure regulatory compliance while optimizing the existing security stack for higher ROI.

HACKERverse® is the world’s first AI-Powered POC Platform for Cybersecurity SaaS Vendors.

HACKERverse® is the world’s first AI-Powered POC Platform for Cybersecurity SaaS Vendors.

Smart Eye Technology specializes in biometric security solutions for protecting confidential information. Its platform employs facial recognition and voice verification for multi-factor authentication, preventing unauthorized access to sensitive data on screens.

Breacher.ai develops deepfake cybersecurity solutions to protect organizations from AI-driven threats such as deepfake audio, video, and SMS phishing. The company offers a fully managed service that combines micro-curriculum training, simulations, testing, and awareness programs with deepfake detection, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessment. Its platform integrates with existing security measures to protect employees, assets, and reputation, while providing ongoing reports and a channel for reporting suspicious messages, including phishing attempts on mobile devices.