Top 10: Cloud Security Companies

In a digital landscape continuously altered by AI, standing still is a vulnerability. In this light, modernising cloud security is paramount for companies determined to protect their applications and data as the environment changes around them.

However, as companies increasingly expand and modernise to stay competitive, they are also exposing themselves to sophisticated new risks. Cloud transformation and distributed remote work have permanently shifted the threat landscape, forcing organisations to move past traditional network perimeters. 

In this week’s Top 10, Cyber Magazine takes a look at the leading companies offering modern enterprise protection, from industry leaders like Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike to observability experts like Datadog and Qualys. 

10. Qualys

CEO: Sumedh Thakar
HQ: Foster City, California, US

Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security pioneers, Qualys helps organisations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility. 

The company has established deep strategic partnerships with leading cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, alongside global consulting giants like Accenture, IBM and Wipro.

As a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the Qualys Cloud Platform and its integrated Cloud Apps deliver critical, continuous security intelligence. 

The platform enables businesses to automate the full spectrum of auditing, compliance and protection for IT systems and web applications across on-premises, endpoint, cloud, container and mobile environments.

9. Proofpoint

CEO: Sumit Dhawan
HQ: Sunnyvale, California, US

Founded in 2002 and later taken private by Thoma Bravo in 2021 in a landmark US$12.3bn transaction, Proofpoint has evolved far beyond its roots as an email security specialist. 

Today, it stands as a powerhouse for human-centric cloud security, protecting people and data across email, web, cloud and social media.

Backed by relentless growth and strategic acquisitions, such as its expansion into broader data compliance, Proofpoint provides organisations with the visibility required to mitigate advanced phishing and cloud account takeover threats.

8. Datadog

CEO: Olivier Pomel
HQ: New York, New York, US

Used by organisations of all sizes across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation, Datadog is a premier monitoring and security platform for cloud applications.

These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.

Its robust SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM) and log management. 

By bridging the gap between developers and security teams, Datadog provides unified, real-time observability of an enterprise's entire technology stack, allowing teams to detect cloud vulnerabilities and live threats directly within their production environments.

7. VMware (by Broadcom)

CEO: Hock Tan (CEO of Broadcom)
HQ: Palo Alto, California, US

A veteran of enterprise tech, VMware software manages cloud complexity so customers can modernise infrastructure, accelerate app development and protect workloads, wherever these reside.  

Following its high-profile acquisition by Broadcom, the company has refocused its portfolio to provide deeper integration between core infrastructure and public cloud environments.

Through its integrated cloud governance and security compliance features, bolstered by its historic integration of CloudHealth, VMware helps major enterprises in banking, healthcare and telecommunications align their expansive virtualised workloads with rigorous regulatory security standards.

6. Netskope

CEO: Sanjay Beri
HQ: Santa Clara, California, US

Netskope is a recognised leader in Security Service Edge (SSE) and is actively redefining cloud, data and network security. By helping organisations seamlessly apply Zero Trust principles, Netskope ensures data is protected regardless of where it travels.

The Netskope Intelligent SSE platform helps customers reduce risk, accelerate network performance and gain granular visibility into cloud, web, and private application activity. 

Thousands of enterprise customers, including a massive contingent of the Fortune 100, trust Netskope to address evolving edge threats and strict new regulatory data-privacy requirements.

5. Check Point Software Technologies

CEO: Nadav Zafrir
HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel and Redwood City, California, US

Check Point Software Technologies has been providing robust cybersecurity solutions to governments and corporate enterprises globally for more than 30 years.

Protecting at least 100,000 organisations, Check Point’s CloudGuard portfolio delivers automated, cloud-native security across multi-cloud environments, securing workforce and network.

The company prides itself on an industry-leading catch rate for malware and ransomware, shielding enterprise cloud applications from sophisticated, multi-vector ‘5th generation’ cyber attacks.

4. Fortinet (incorporating Lacework)

CEO: Ken Xie
HQ: Sunnyvale, California, US

A global security heavyweight, Fortinet dramatically accelerated its cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) capabilities following its strategic acquisition of Lacework in 2024.

Lacework, which is a cloud security provider, now helps Fortinet deliver an AI-driven, full-stack Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP). By absorbing the security provider’s data-driven Polygraph platform into its fabric, Fortinet automates cloud security at massive scale. 

The integrated technology protects public cloud infrastructure by continuously analysing end-to-end cloud deployments, automatically mapping relationships and instantly uncovering anomalies to stop zero-day cloud attacks in their tracks.

3. Trend Micro

CEO: Eva Chen
HQ: Tokyo, Japan

A long-standing titan in hybrid cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, Trend Micro employs thousands of specialists across 65 countries. 

Its centralised cybersecurity platform, Trend Vision One, protects hundreds of thousands of organisations and hundreds of millions of endpoints globally.

For corporate environments, TrendAI serves as the enterprise security arm, leveraging unmatched platform expertise to lead the industry in AI-driven threat defence. 

Simultaneously, the company secures consumer ecosystems through TrendLife, a dedicated portfolio designed to protect data, privacy and connected devices across mobile and smart home environments from scams, identity theft and ransomware.

The platform delivers deep, centralised visibility for faster extended detection and response (XDR), offering advanced threat defense techniques optimised specifically for cloud builders working in AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

2. CrowdStrike

CEO: George Kurtz
HQ: Austin, Texas, US

Built completely cloud-native from day one, CrowdStrike is a global leader in cloud-delivered protection. 

The company is built to secure the most critical areas of modern enterprise risk: endpoints, cloud workloads, identity and data.

Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud, the flagship Falcon Platform leverages real-time indicators of attack (IOAs) and global threat intelligence to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated runtime protection and immediate remediation across vast, multi-cloud ecosystems.

Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment with reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value.

1. Palo Alto Networks

CEO: Nikesh Arora
HQ: Santa Clara, California, US

Palo Alto Networks stands at the pinnacle of the cybersecurity market, continuously shaping the cloud-centric future with cutting-edge technology.

As the premier cybersecurity partner of choice for tens of thousands of global organisations, its market-leading Prisma Cloud platform offers the industry’s most comprehensive Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP). 

It addresses the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in AI, analytics, automation and orchestration. 

By delivering an entirely integrated platform that secures everything from code to cloud across multi-cloud environments, network layers and mobile devices, Palo Alto Networks remains the definitive gold standard for enterprise cloud security.