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10 Cybersecurity Startups To Watch From Black Hat 2023
Kyle Alspach
Numerous early stage companies—including in fast-growing areas such as code security and cloud security—unveiled new products or had other major announcements at Black Hat USA this week.
Torq
Founded: 2020
At Black Hat 2023, Torq, which offers a no-code method for automating security operations, unveiled a new generative AI-powered tool that it says can autonomously address the vast majority of Tier-1 tickets. The new tool on the startup’s Hyperautomation Platform, Torq Socrates, is the cybersecurity industry’s “first Tier-1 analysis AI agent,” the company said in a news release. Torq Socrates works by using Large Language Models (LLMs) to analyze each organization’s specific Security Operations Center playbook, the startup said. However, human analysts are still in control, Torq noted, with human approval “required in order to perform potentially disruptive actions such as quarantining an executive’s laptop, or blocking entire network segments.”
In June, Torq announced a channel program that the startup said offers the “highest guaranteed-margin opportunities possible.” The Torq Partner Acceleration Program guarantees MSP/MSSP partners margin of 25 percent, the company said.
