Top Washington Cybersecurity Startups (27)

We believe that everyone deserves to be secure. This is the foundation of everything we do for our customers, our consultants, and our communities. Our consulting services span cybersecurity, cyber risk, engineering, project leadership and learning services. Our team of industry veterans helps our partners with complex security and technology problems in a human way. Our values of integrity, ownership and...

XBOW brings AI to offensive security, augmenting the work of bug hunters and security researchers. It autonomously finds, exploits and reports vulnerabilities in web applications. It is the first product that passes 75% of web security benchmarks with zero human intervention.

In today’s connected world, sharing private information is the lifeblood of any organization. However, the challenge of keeping sensitive data secure has only grown, leading to regular leaks—even within top-tier organizations. This breakdown of trust disrupts communication and causes significant harm to people and businesses. EchoMark offers a game-changing solution: we embed invisible, forensic markings in documents, personalized for each recipient....

SecureOps is a global managed security services provider (MSSP) with 25 years of experience strengthening the security maturity and resilience of enterprises and mid-size companies. Based in Montreal, Canada, with follow-the-sun offices in Prague and Manila, we provide Custom SOC and Co-owned MDR, security infrastructure, and vulnerability management services-by-design for telecommunications, financial services, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, agriculture, mining, and...

In today's world, most successful cyberattacks start by a human failure. We're making the platform that makes it easy to prepare your employees for cyberattacks, in a way they love.

The Linx Identity Security platform enables identity, security, and IT ops teams to finally control the whole identity lifecycle. A radical departure from legacy identity security solutions, Linx untangles the complex, ever-evolving web of identity security. Integrating smoothly with your IAM stack, Linx pulls together all your organization’s identity data—organizing it neatly to reveal the hidden links between your employees,...

The world is exploding with data. As cyber threats grow daily, companies are trying to manage and secure all of their sensitive data while struggling to comply with increasing regulations. Employees waste precious time by trying to manage compliance with tools like Excel and email, which don’t scale in this complex space, leading to enormous risks, regulatory fines, lowered stock...

DefenseStorm provides an integrated platform of cyber risk assessment, governance, security, and fraud solutions that ensure financial institutions achieve and maintain cyber risk readiness. The only system specifically built for banking, it accounts for all the daunting challenges, regulations, and technology requirements financial institutions face. Their intelligent data engine, GRID ACTIVE, ensures real-time access, analysis, and action on all critical...

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.

SecureW2 provides next-generation passwordless network security for enterprises, education, healthcare, service providers and small businesses around the globe. We offer Certificate & Managed PKI services, top-rated device onboarding software plus world-class RADIUS authentication services. SecureW2 provides everything an organization needs to secure its networks' perimeter by eliminating credential theft risk and improving user experience.

Guidacent understands the margins between success and failure can be tied to the next decision. As a full-service business and technology consulting firm, we help businesses determine the best path of operation in helping them continue their path to achieving greatness. While many of our clients include recognized names you come into contact with on a daily basis, they also...

CENTRI provides advanced data security for the Internet of Things. Our flexible, software-only product provides IoT professionals, developers and device makers with the means to quickly get to market with purpose-built IoT security, protecting data from creation to consumption. CENTRI enables you to mitigate today’s data communication risks in a standards-based network infrastructure with heavyweight industry-standard encryption and compression, packed...

StepSecurity provides a comprehensive security platform for GitHub Actions. If you are using GitHub Actions for CI/CD and are worried about the security of CI/CD pipelines, StepSecurity platform is for you. Over 3000 open-source projects, including those from Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Google, Microsoft, Datadog, Kubernetes, Node, and Ruby, use StepSecurity to harden their CI/CD pipelines. Our enterprise tier...

Our expertise spans IT strategy, data center and cloud administration, server and network management, cybersecurity, project management, and software. From designing and optimizing enterprise applications and cloud environments to implementing robust security measures and compliance frameworks, we help businesses streamline operations, improve performance, and enhance security.

ZAST.AI is an AI-powered vulnerability research platform that autonomously discovers and verifies security vulnerabilities with proof-of-concept generation. We don't just find bugs—we prove them. Our AI agents analyze source code at scale, identify exploitable vulnerabilities, and generate working PoCs, enabling security teams and open-source maintainers to fix real threats faster. Our track record speaks for itself: - 120+ CVEs assigned - Hundreds of zero-day...

Founded in 2015, we help companies big and small alike manage and audit access to their databases, servers, clusters, and web applications.

Oleria is the only adaptive and autonomous security solution that helps organizations accelerate at the pace of change, trusting that data is protected. Redefining the next generation of access, Oleria allows organizations to pursue their best ideas, removing the traditional security barriers that have kept team members from collaborating and setting businesses free.

Founded in 2014, Cyemptive is a provider of preemptive cybersecurity products and technology. With a leadership team comprised of executives from several of the world’s most powerful technology and security organizations, including the former CIO of Microsoft and the former Chief Computer Architect for the National Security Agency, the company’s focus is on delivering an alternative approach to security. Cyemptive...

Airwall is the zero-trust software-defined perimeter for all your things multi-factor authenticated, micro-segmented, encrypted end-to-end, & impervious to lateral movement. www.tempered.io

Polyverse is a leading provider of zero-trust software cybersecurity solutions. Its Polymorphing technology protects against the most sophisticated attacks, even on unpatched and legacy systems. Used by governments and security-conscious organizations worldwide, Polyverse protects against memory exploits, script injections, supply-chain attacks and the like anywhere Linux runs, from devices to the cloud. Founded in 2015 by bringing together top...