Top Illinois Cybersecurity Startups (26)

Recognized by Crain’s as one of 2025’s Most Innovative Companies, UncommonX helps customers move from reactive defense to proactive resilience, with the context, prioritization, and insights needed to reduce risk and respond with precision. We believe cybersecurity should deliver more than alerts — it should deliver clarity, confidence, and control. That’s why we built an AI-powered Exposure Management platform that gives...

Fingerprint empowers developers to stop online fraud at the source. We work on turning radical new ideas in the fraud detection space into reality. Our products are developer-focused and our clients range from solo developers to publicly traded companies. Some of our customers include Coinbase, Booking.com, Yahoo, and eBay just to name a few. We are a globally dispersed, 100% remote company...

Empirical builds mathematical models for security data. We maintain the world’s most advanced global models for cybersecurity, and we build local models that respond to your enterprise’s specific context and threat landscape.

Rhodian Group helps businesses build and manage their network environments with predictably priced managed IT services so they can focus on their core strengths and growth initiatives. They also help businesses identify and reduce cybersecurity and non-compliance risks. Their combination of IT, cybersecurity, and compliance services helps businesses operate safely, while complying with industry mandates and regulatory requirements.

TradingBlock was recently named the 2025 Best Brokerage for Options Trading by Benzinga based on our commitment to providing investors, active traders, and investment professionals intuitive, fully customizable brokerage and trading solutions.

You rely on technology every day, but is it really working for you? Maybe it feels like IT is just one more thing holding your business back. You’ve dealt with recurring issues, sluggish support, missed opportunities, and rising security risks. You’ve invested time and money, but it’s not translating into real progress—or a competitive advantage. You want more than a vendor. You want a...

MHT’s SmarTest® AI integrates with your EMR, eliminating administrative burden. The screening process is customizable based upon your specialty, clinical and financial goals. By strategically enabling add-on CPT codes and enhancing ancillary service offerings, MHT can unlock new revenue streams and boost overall clinic profitability. We offer Risk-Free Proof of Concept Trials to qualified healthcare providers. Contact us to learn...

Anansi Cyber is a cybersecurity firm that specializes in penetration testing and helping our clients find vulnerabilities. We apply scenarios that are leveraged by threat actors and APTs to uncover vulnerabilities that may affect client networks and provide the most robust information in how to best secure their environments to help improve their security posture.

We are Verity IT, your trusted partner in managed IT services, cybersecurity, and cloud solutions. Our mission is to empower businesses with seamless, secure technology solutions that drive productivity and resilience. 🚀 Mission: To deliver reliable, secure IT services that enable businesses to thrive and adapt in an ever-evolving digital landscape. 🌟 Vision: To be the preferred IT partner for businesses, providing...

Corterra Solutions designs, develops, and manages enterprise solutions and transformative business applications so you can focus on meaningful work that drives success. In other words, we give you the freedom and clarity of knowing that your technology works the way it should.

Cog Systems, a cyber security company. Cog built and enabled the world's most secure connected devices, provided advanced operating system and platform development products and services for smart, connected and IoT devices. Our founding staff developed the OKL4 Microvisor at Open Kernel Labs (acquired by General Dynamics C4 Systems) and have each more than decade of specialist experience in the field, including...

Scalesology is a data analytics, software development, and cybersecurity consulting company. Our services scale your processes, systems, data, and analytics to transform your business and improve your bottom line. We are technology agnostic and security conscious, focused on finding the right solution for your business needs, not trying to conform your business to a prescribed technology solution.

Waratek is the Security-as-Code platform that enables security teams to automate the management of security behavior to reduce human error, remove false positives, and maintain lockstep with the rapid rate of code changes and deployments. Never before have security teams solved security at scale by protecting every application in their enterprise or patching vulnerabilities at scale with modern application development...

Network Perception protects mission-critical assets by empowering cybersecurity and compliance teams to achieve high levels of cyber resiliency through verification, visibility, and velocity. Built by a government-funded research team of cybersecurity and industry experts in network security and critical infrastructure protection, the NP-View platform is the industry standard to verify network segmentation and visualize industrial control network environments. As a small,...

Paragon is focused on your productivity and success. We work with government agencies like the U.S. Transportation Command, U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command, Department of Education, and the Internal Revenue Service. What distinguishes us is our dedication to delivering value, to new ideas, to our employees, and to you and your mission. The test for any organization or business is...

NowSecure’s mission is to save the world from unsafe mobile apps. Founded in 2009, we are exclusively a mobile first, mobile only app security testing automation company that maintains deep roots within the security community, sponsoring open-source tools like Frida, Radare and r2frida.

Chicago Computer Network is a complete technology solution provider for businesses in Chicago and surrounding areas. We have a team of talented IT professionals who can solve your IT nightmares once and for all. Whether you need network security, managed IT services, email spam protection, or any other IT service, we have you covered. We are 100% committed to your satisfaction...

Reclaim your time and focus on your business by leaving the IT solutions to us. PCS International is a comprehensive solution provider satisfying the Information Technology hardware, software, and professional service requirements for small & medium businesses. We are committed to offering cutting-edge technologies with outstanding customer support at a great value.

We cybersecure your organization. LeadingIT provides fast+friendly cybersecurity and technology (unlimited) support for nonprofits, manufacturers, schools, accounting firms, religious organizations, government, and law offices with 10-200 employees across the Chicagoland area.

We are at the forefront of Gen AI cybersecurity using Microsoft Defender XDR + Microsoft Sentinel, powered by Microsoft Copilot for Security and our expert insights. We offer 24x7 comprehensive managed Extended Detection and Response (XDR), Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR), Data Security and Security Exposure Management services. Numerous leading mid-sized organizations operating in 37+ countries across 4 continents depend...