Top 10 Cloud Security Companies
Cloud infrastructure is integral to modern and complex enterprise operating environments, underpinning digital transformation, improving efficiency and collaboration, and providing crucial insight that informs strategic decision making.
But the sheer complexity of many enterprise cloud environments means effectively securing them is a priority for business leaders. Risks such as data breaches, insecure APIs, account hijacking, data loss, and lack of visibility mean CISO’s face a diverse and ever-evolving threat landscape.
In such an environment large organisations turn to dedicated cloud security companies to mitigate threats. Here, we explore some of the most prominent and successful of these vital businesses.
10. Trend Micro
CEO: Eva Chen
Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
Trend Micro is a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity underpinned by decades of security expertise and a team of more than 7,000 globally recognised security experts across 65 countries. Its Trend Vision One platform helps more than 500,000+ organisations and 25+ million individuals manage security holistically with comprehensive prevention, detection, and response capabilities powered by AI. To help customers optimise security performance, Trend Micro operates strategic alliances with the world’s largest IT vendors including AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Capgemini, and NVIDIA.
9. Symantec (Broadcom)
CEO: Hock E. Tan
Headquarters: San Jose, California
The Symantec brand is an established name in cybersecurity with a long history of success. Today it’s a portfolio of integrated enterprise security solutions operating as part of infrastructure technology leader Broadcom Inc. It offers product lines across endpoint security, web and network security services, cloud security and data loss prevention, information security, and email security. The Symantec Enterprise Cloud solution provides data-centric hybrid security for large and complex global organisations on devices, in private data centres, and in the cloud.
8. Microsoft (Azure Security)
CEO: Satya Nadella
Headquarters: Redmond, Washington
When Microsoft Azure launched in 2010 it marked a pivotal shift from on-prem data centres to cloud computing for businesses. Today the globally trusted cloud platform offers a global network of more than 300 highly secure data centres in 60 regions, built in security solutions, and a dedicated team of more than 10,000 security experts who continuously monitor systems, detect vulnerabilities, and track breaches. Azure also uses a package of security controls, advanced threat intelligence, and tools like identity protection and encryption.
7. Cisco
CEO: Chuck Robbins
Headquarters: San Jose, California
Cisco is driven by a firm purpose: to power an inclusive future for all by helping its customers reimagine their applications, power hybrid work, secure their enterprise, transform infrastructure, and be more sustainable. The company has been at the forefront of technology innovation for more than 40 years and, in the security space, helps global organisations mitigate risk across networks, cloud, endpoints, and email. Its Cisco Security Suites of end-to-end solutions are built on zero-trust principles and powered by AI to strengthen organisational security posture.
6. McAfee
CEO: Craig Boundy
Headquarters: San Jose, California
McAfee is a global online protection leader that has protected millions of consumers around the world for more than 35 years. As one of the world’s leading independent cybersecurity companies it strives to make life online safe and enjoyable for everyone across activities, devices, and locations. McAfee is known for delivering comprehensive protection to safeguard people’s privacy and identity in addition to its award-winning antivirus which blocks more than 23 million threats, and conducts four billion AI threat scans, each day.
5. Check Point Software Technologies
CEO: Nadav Zafrir
Headquarters: Tel Aviva, Israel
Large corporate enterprises and governments worldwide rely on Check Point Software Technologies to defend against the most sophisticated cyber attacks. The company, founded in 1993 and operating from offices worldwide, offers a suite of innovative solutions through its Check Point Infinity Platform. This consolidated and collaborative cybersecurity platform is AI-powered and cloud-delivered and helps customers maintain enterprise-grade security across data centres, networks, the cloud, and office and remote work environments with unified management.
4. Fortinet
CEO: Ken Xie
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California
Fortinet has been spearheading the evolution and innovation of cybersecurity and the convergence of networking and security for more than 20 years. The company’s portfolio of more than 50 enterprise-grade products is the largest integrated offering on the market, securing more than 850,000 global customers. Its solutions are also among the most deployed, most patented, and most validated in the industry. Fortinet’s flagship operating system, FortiOS, serves as the foundation for the company’s Fortinet Security Fabric, an AI-drive unified cybersecurity platform.
3. Zscaler
CEO: Jay Chaudhry
Headquarters: San Jose, California
Zscaler recognises that the world has changed: traditional network and security models aren’t optimised for digital transformation, agile strategies, or hybrid working environments. Its cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform helps enterprise customers accelerate their transformation, protecting them from cyber attacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. In a little over 15 years, the company has built a customer base of more than 7,500 organisations, including 30% of the Forbes Global 2000.
2. CrowdStrike
CEO: George Kurtz
Headquarters: Austin, Texas
CrowdStrike’s cybersecurity products have redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting the critical enterprise risk areas, such as endpoints and cloud workloads, identity, and data. Founded in 2011, the company today protects 300 of the Fortune 500, 543 of the Fortune 1,000, and 44 of the 50 US states.
At the heart of this success is the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, powered by world-class AI and the CrowdStrike Security Cloud. Designed and built to overcome the limitations of legacy security solutions, the Falcon platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise. This enables it to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritised observability of vulnerabilities.
CrowdStrike’s solutions protect customers across industries and sectors including small business, state and local governments, federal government, education, retail, and healthcare.
1. Palo Alto Networks
CEO: Nikesh Arora
Headquarters: Santa Clara, California
The world’s most valuable enterprises, including all of the Fortune 10, eight of the 10 largest US banks, nine of the 10 largest manufacturing companies worldwide, and seven of the 10 largest global oil and gas companies trust Palo Alto Networks to keep them secure.
The business, founded by Nir Zuk, Rajiv Batra, and Yu Ming Mao in 2005, delivers innovative solutions that help customers secure digital transformation in a rapidly changing world. Its mission is to be the cybersecurity partner choice by addressing the world’s greatest security challenges through continuous innovation and harnessing the latest breakthroughs in AI.
Palo Alto’s best-in-class cybersecurity portfolio consists of industry-leading solutions that work together intelligently to strengthen security, simplify operations, and improve ROI. They cover a vast range of applications across network security, cloud-native application protection, security operations, and endpoint security. It also provides industry-leading platforms for network security, code-to-cloud, and AI-driven security operations.
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