The 10 Coolest IoT Security Companies: The 2020 Internet Of Things 50

In order to tackle these IoT security issues, vendors are creating a variety of offerings, from network visibility and segmentation to dynamic policy enforcement. What follows are the 10 coolest IoT security companies of 2020.

As more connected devices enter the workplace and as more industrial assets get connected, the need for hardened IoT security solutions becomes increasingly important. While connected devices and assets can open up new lines of business and improve operations, they can be attacked by hackers and taken over. And that creates two different kinds of risk: giving up control of the device itself and giving hackers a way to move laterally within networks. To tackle these issues, vendors are creating a variety of offerings, from network visibility and segmentation to dynamic policy enforcement.

What follows are the 10 coolest IoT security companies of 2020.

Armis

Co-Founder, CEO: Yevgeny Dibrov

After getting acquired by Insight Partners for $1.1 billion in January, Palo Alto, Calif.-based Armis is moving into a bold new chapter for its agentless IoT security platform, which lets enterprises gain visibility and control of the unmanaged connected devices entering the workplace.

Axonius

Co-Founder, CEO: Dean Sysman

New York-based Axonius is helping businesses get a handle on the IoT devices in their workplaces with the startup’s cybersecurity asset management platform, which can identify, manage and enforce security policies for a wide variety of IoT and traditional devices as well as cloud computing instances.

Check Point Software Technologies

Co-Founder, CEO: Gil Shwed

San Carlos, Calif.-based Check Point Software Technologies is making a major investment in IoT security capabilities with last year’s acquisition of early stage security vendor Cymplify, which gave the company new control, threat prevention and runtime workload capabilities for preventing attacks on IoT devices.

Claroty

CEO: Thorsten Freitag

New York-based Claroty is looking to close the security gap between IT and operational technology with its integrated suite of cybersecurity products, which includes capabilities for continuous vulnerability detection and threat monitoring as well as network segmentation and secure remote access.

Forescout Technologies

President, CEO: Michael Decesare

San Jose, Calif.-based Forescout Technologies is making significant additions to its IoT security capabilities, ranging from the new Asset Risk Framework for identifying high-risk assets within industrial control systems to the new eyeSegment solution for accelerating network segmentation projects.

Ockam

Founder, CEO: Matthew Gregory

San Francisco-based Ockam is using blockchain technology and cryptography to make IoT hardware and software more secure, giving its offerings the ability to assign “cryptographically probable, decentralized identifiers” to each device while using a blockchain-based registry for discovering public keys.

Palo Alto Networks

Chairman, CEO: Nikesh Arora

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Palo Alto Networks is strengthening its IoT security capabilities with last year’s acquisition of Zingbox, which is giving the company the ability to provide protection against IoT-related vulnerabilities as an integrated service throughout the firewall.

ReFirm Labs

CEO: Derick Naef

Fulton, Md.-based ReFirm Labs is arming companies with the ability to analyze firmware in IoT devices for out-of-device software components and vulnerabilities, thanks to its Centrifuge IoT security platform, which comes with features such as continuous monitoring and prioritized alerts.

Sectigo

President, CEO: Bill Holtz

Roseland, N.J.-based Sectigo is hardening IoT security through certificates and public keys with its IoT Identity Platform, which received a substantial update last year through the company’s acquisition of Icon Labs, giving the platform a way to update, manage, renew and revoke certificates for devices.

Sepio Systems

CEO: Yossi Appleboum

Whether it’s for IT, IoT or operational technology, Rockville, Md.-based Sepio Systems is giving businesses the ability to identify all devices on the network, set granular policies at the device or user level, receive detailed briefings on vulnerabilities and stop attacks before they happen.