The United States of America is one of the leading players in the Cyber Security sector. However, in many ways, the cyber threat has leveled the playing field, presenting unique concerns to the country. With access to increasingly effective tactics and strategies, the bad actors perceive techniques to focus their attacks on broader and more complicated targets.
For an assured security from cyberattacks, many companies in the United States of America have come up with the finest and reliable solutions, which would keep the data safe, and ensure the privacy of the system. We take a look at the top 10 Cyber security companies in the USA:
KPMG
With the rapid growth of cloud-based and open source applications, cyber security has taken center stage in virtually every industry. Thus, New York based KPMG is offering the Cyber Security solutions, which extensively investigates cyber intrusions from hacktivists, insiders, organized crime groups, and advanced persistent threats. KPMG’s identity and access management solutions team assists clients, across all industries, protect their information and enable their digital strategies and growth plans.
Symantec
California based Symantec offers a wide range of enterprise and small business security products, as well as consumer products that it sells under its Norton and LifeLock brand names. Its core enterprise product is its Integrated Cyber Defense platform, which incorporates its many other products and is used by more than 350,000 businesses. It claims that it has the largest civilian threat intelligence network.
Cisco
Founded in 1984 in California, best known for its dominance in networking, Cisco also has a very impressive roster of cyber security products. Having acquired a number of smaller security vendors, it offers one of the most complete lineups of security products of any vendor. Those products include Firepower Series firewalls, Firepower NGIPS, Firepower Management Center, Meraki unified threat management, Cisco Umbrella, Cisco Advanced Malware protection, Cisco Cloudlock and many more.
Radware
Along with the establishment in different locations like Europe, Asia Pacific regions, Radware is also located at USA, in New Jersey, California, North Carolina and Canada. Radware is a cybersecurity provider, offering a smart range of cloud services, application and network security, management and monitoring, etc. Radware’s DDoS protection, web application firewall (WAF), application delivery and load balancing solutions optimizes business operations and minimizes service delivery degradation and prevents downtime.
Fortinet
Based in California, Fortinet secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security features without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments.
SecureWorks
The firm is based in Georgia, and started operations in 1999. Secureworks offers security services through its Counter Threat Appliance (CTA) and Counter Threat Platform (CTP). Services are accessed via the Secureworks Client Portal. Host and network-based advanced threat detection occur via Secureworks’ Advanced Endpoint Threat Detection (AETD) service. It includes Advanced Malware Protection and Detection (AMPD) in partnership with Lastline. The company also offers additional services, such as vulnerability scanning and advanced threat intelligence.
Imperva
Imperva, a California based Cybersecurity firm is engaged in Web Application security, Data Security, Threat Intelligence and Application delivery. The company’s Incapsula, SecureSphere, and CounterBreach product lines help organizations protect websites, applications, APIs, and databases from cyberattacks while ensuring compliance, providing with effective and enduring solutions to protect the customers from cybercriminals. Imperva, like other vendors, uses a multi-tier approach to blocking DDoS traffic. Imperva Incapsula filters traffic through a web application firewall, a DDoS rules engine, and a series of progressive challenges.
Carbon Black
Headquartered in Massachusetts, the cybersecurity innovator firm has pioneered multiple endpoint security categories, including application control, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and next-generation antivirus (NGAV) enabling customers to defend against the most advanced threats. Carbon Black was founded by former members of the US government’s team of offensive security hackers. Trained by the NSA and CIA, its founders developed tools and techniques for endpoint security to protect against cyberattacks.
DellEMC
Massachusetts’ based Dell EMC, a part of Dell Technologies, enables organizations to modernize, automate and transform their data center using industry-leading converged infrastructure, servers, storage and data protection technologies. It provides a trusted foundation for businesses to transform IT, through the creation of a hybrid cloud, and transform their business through the creation of cloud-native applications and big data solutions.
Rapid7
Rapid7 offers advanced security with visibility, analytics, and automation delivered through its Insight cloud. The Massachusetts based company’s solutions simplifying the complex, and allowing security teams to work more effectively with IT and development to reduce vulnerabilities, monitor for malicious behavior, investigate and shut down attacks, and automate routine tasks.
So, there you have it. In 2019, there will be continued consolidation of companies in the security sectorespecially for those that have developed technologies that relate to Digital Identities (DIs), including the on-boarding of individuals behind the DIs, the authentication of the individuals behind the DIs (MFA), and the continual management of privileges and access (IAM) ).
*This list of the top 10 Cyber Security Companies in the USA, is a result of the editorial decision of ELE Times.