Security

Cybersecurity, identity, fraud and the security of AI systems.

Companies filed under it

30 companies, by country: United States 10, United Kingdom 3, France 2, Armenia 1, Austria 1, Canada 1, China 1, Colombia 1, Czechia 1, India 1, Ireland 1, Italy 1, Lithuania 1, Luxembourg 1, Netherlands 1, Portugal 1, Singapore 1, Spain 1.

• 1Password (Canada). Secures every identity, from people to AI agents: passwords, passkeys and secrets for over 150,000 businesses, and a security layer for how agents authenticate and connect to the internet.
• AISLE (Czechia). AI-native vulnerability management: autonomous systems that find, fix and verify vulnerabilities, including in heavily audited open-source code; deployable in cloud, on-prem or air-gapped.
• Akamai (United States). Cloud company that powers and protects AI applications: cloud computing from core to edge plus multi-layered security against cyber threats.
• AustriaCard (Austria). Austrian card, secure identity and digital solutions group; its GaiaB offer helps organisations deploy secure, governed AI while keeping control of data and infrastructure (per its speaker's Web Summit bio).
• Cloudflare (United States). Connectivity cloud and security platform; its homepage now leads with "Build for the agent era".
• CrowdStrike (United States). Global cybersecurity company with a cloud-native, AI-native platform protecting endpoints, cloud workloads, identities and data.
• Delinea (United States). Identity security platform that governs what humans, machines and AI agents do once they have access, extending privileged access management into continuous, just-in-time authorization across on-premises, multi-cloud and ephemeral infrastructure.
• Descope (United States). Customer and agentic identity platform: passwordless login, MFA, SSO and multi-tenancy, and it secures AI agents and MCP servers with standards-based authorisation, scoped access and token management, so human and machine identities live in one place.
• EasyDMARC (Armenia). Email trust platform: DMARC, email authentication, DNS, sender insights, threat intelligence and deliverability.
• Eversec Technology (China). Chinese company presented at Web Summit through its co-founder and CEO, described as an expert in AI governance and cybersecurity; the company's own site was not confirmed, so 'what' is not yet sourced beyond that.
• Exein (Italy). Runtime security for physical AI, data systems, AI agents, cloud workloads, Linux and Kubernetes.
• Feedzai (Portugal). AI-native fraud and financial crime prevention platform; founded in Portugal (its CTO, the first employee, is listed by Web Summit from Portugal).
• Firefox Enterprise by Mozilla (Netherlands). Mozilla's customer-controlled, on-premises enterprise browser platform for European organisations reassessing data control and technology dependencies, giving IT and security teams control over data and browser environment.
• Gcore (Luxembourg). Edge AI, cloud computing, CDN, cybersecurity and low-latency network services across six continents, with 210+ points of presence.
• Kiggu (Colombia). Colombian offensive-cybersecurity startup; Kiggu Pro orchestrates automated security, agentic AI and expert human talent in one environment, acting as the security team for companies that lack one.
• Ledger (France). Hardware crypto wallets and security for digital assets; its Chief Human Agency Officer leads AI initiatives so humans stay in control as AI agents act.
• ManageEngine (India). Division of Zoho Corporation providing an AI-powered digital enterprise management platform for IT management worldwide.
• Mobbeel (Spain). Spanish digital identity company (Cáceres, founded 2009): identity verification, KYC/AML, biometric authentication and electronic signature.
• Nisos (United States). Open source intelligence company that unmasks digital threats and the real people behind them (from its CEO's Web Summit bio; its site refused an automated read of robots.txt, so nothing from it was read).
• NordVPN (Lithuania). VPN service for online privacy, growing into a broader cybersecurity offering (per its CTO's Web Summit bio).
• Persona (United States). Identity platform that helps businesses verify people and organisations, assess risk and build trust online (from its CEO's Web Summit bio; the company site refused an automated read).
• Polygraf AI (United States). AI security and governance for mission-critical operations: its AI Behavioral Control Plane gives real-time visibility, governance and inline enforcement across human and agentic AI interactions, to stop data exposure, unauthorised AI actions and compliance violations.
• Proofpoint (United States). Enterprise cybersecurity and compliance (email, web, cloud, data); its CEO describes the mission as human- and agent-centric security.
• Proton (France (the speaker's Web Summit listing; headquarters not sourced)). Privacy-by-default online services, used by over 100 million people per its own site.
• ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools) (United States). Independent nonprofit building open-source online safety tools as a public good.
• SpaceComputer (Singapore). Cybersecurity company building confidential computing, key management, attestation and zero-trust services for cloud and AI workloads, extended to satellites and space systems.
• Sumsub (United Kingdom). Identity verification and trust platform: verifies users, businesses and transactions, with fraud prevention and compliance.
• The Hacking Games (United Kingdom). Turns gamers' and hackers' talent into cybersecurity careers.
• Topsec Cloud Solutions (Ireland). Fully managed email security service against phishing, malware and ransomware.
• Trent AI (United Kingdom). Agentic AI security platform that works like an AI security engineer: finds the real risk in code, cloud and AI agents and verifies every fix.

At the summit

The summit's own track "Cybersecurity Summit" is bridged to this topic (our judgement, declared in data/topics/security/topic.json). The sessions in our programme on it:

• 10:05 AI vs. AI: The battle for the cyber advantage Thu 12 Nov, until 10:25 · Stage 8 Our pick
• 10:25 Outsmarting AI: Defence at machine speed Thu 12 Nov, until 10:45 · Stage 8 Our pick
• 10:45 The biological bottleneck Thu 12 Nov, until 11:10 · Stage 8 Our pick
• 11:10 The attackers are open source. The defences aren't. Thu 12 Nov, until 11:30 · Stage 8 Our pick
• 11:30 Big Tech detox Thu 12 Nov, until 11:50 · Stage 8 Our pick
• 11:50 An AI identity crisis Thu 12 Nov, until 12:10 · Stage 8 Our pick
• 12:10 It takes two to trust: Operationalizing public-private security Thu 12 Nov, until 12:30 · Stage 8 Our pick
• 12:30 Is there a foreign operative on your payroll? Thu 12 Nov, until 12:45 · Stage 8 Our pick
• 14:10 Zombie data: How your data comes back to haunt you Thu 12 Nov, until 14:30 · Stage 8 Our pick
• 14:30 Securing the AI frontline Thu 12 Nov, until 14:55 · Stage 8 Our pick
• 14:55 The real threat isn’t a nation-state, it’s a teenager. Thu 12 Nov, until 15:25 · Stage 8 Our pick
• 15:25 The perimeter is dead. So what happens to trust? Thu 12 Nov, until 15:50 · Stage 8 Our pick
• 15:50 Beyond the front door: Identity, access, and user trust Thu 12 Nov, until 16:10 · Stage 8 Our pick
• 16:10 Brazil's blueprint for cyber resilience Thu 12 Nov, until 16:20 · Stage 8 Our pick

The same, as data: topics/security.json (how to read them: the data, as JSON). The industry graph, all fields and companies: graph/industry.json.

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