The 20 Coolest Cloud Security Companies Of The 2026 Cloud 100
As part of CRN’s Cloud 100, here are 20 cloud security companies you should know about in 2026.
While the reliance on cloud infrastructure only continues to increase for much of the world’s data, the same holds true for the solution providers charged with helping to secure that data. The task has never been bigger or more challenging, however. Researchers have pointed to a major acceleration recently in cloud-focused attacks, including from sophisticated nation-state threat actors. At the same time, the massive, almost-ubiquitous adoption of GenAI and agentic technologies is making the cloud a bigger target with every passing day.
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Findings from cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike, for instance, reveal that cloud intrusions surged by 136 percent during the first half of 2025 compared with all of 2024. Clearly, threat actors are continuing to follow the organizations that are themselves moving more and more of their data to the cloud, according to Adam Meyers, senior vice president for counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike. In a word, “the adversaries are keeping pace” with the shift to the cloud, Meyers said. Notably, China-linked attackers are believed to be behind 40 percent of the increase in cloud threats, according to the CrowdStrike research.
Solution providers, meanwhile, continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the capabilities necessary for protecting public cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, as well as securing the data leveraged in SaaS apps and AI tools.
CRN has been closely following an array of vendors across the cloud security space, ranging from venture-funded companies delivering new innovations for protecting cloud infrastructure and data, to established vendors with a complete cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) offering for comprehensive application, cloud and AI security.
As part of CRN’s Cloud 100 for 2026, here are 20 cloud security companies you should know about.
Check Point Software Technologies
Nadav Zafrir
CEO
Recent cloud security moves from Check Point Software Technologies included the launch of AI Cloud Protect, focused on enabling AI model development by introducing safeguards against threats such as prompt injections and model exfiltration. Check Point also unveiled its fully integrated CNAPP offering with Wiz in September 2025, which integrates Check Point’s prevention-focused CloudGuard product with the Wiz cloud-native platform.
Cloudflare
Matthew Prince
Co-Founder, CEO
Major expansions in cloud security by Cloudflare over the past year have included the debut of the vendor’s security posture management offering, which provides unified visibility and risk remediation across SaaS apps, cloud infrastructure, email and web assets within a centralized dashboard. In August 2025, Cloudflare added new capabilities such as AI security posture management (AI-SPM) for protecting AI usage and enforcing policies.
CrowdStrike
George Kurtz
Co-Founder, CEO
CrowdStrike rolled out numerous expansions to its Falcon Cloud Security offering in 2025, including with the debut of AI model scanning capabilities and a new AI security dashboard in April. In other updates, the company introduced runtime cloud data protection along with comprehensive GenAI data protection across cloud environments. And in December, CrowdStrike launched pay-as-you-go pricing for Falcon Cloud Security in AWS Marketplace.
Cyera
Yotam Segev
Co-Founder, CEO
In August 2025, Cyera unveiled a major expansion of its cloud data security capabilities with the launch of its AI Guardian offering. Cyera said that AI Guardian includes two new products that will complement its existing data security offerings focused on DSPM (data security posture management) and DLP (data loss prevention). The newly introduced products are AI-SPM—which offers a complete, granular AI asset inventory—as well as AI Runtime Protection for real-time monitoring and response around risks related to AI data, according to Cyera.
Darktrace
Jill Popelka
CEO
Following the acquisition of Cado Security, Darktrace debuted a new set of enhanced automated forensics capabilities in September 2025, which the company called the industry’s “first truly automated cloud forensics” offering. Key functionality in the offering—the Forensic Acquisition and Investigation platform—includes rapid access for security teams to “forensic-level” data, which can be used to more effectively investigate cloud threats.
Fortinet
Ken Xie
Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO
In August 2025, Fortinet expanded its FortiCloud offering with the addition of FortiIdentity, which aims to deliver cloud-based identity management through the platform. The vendor said the identity and access management capabilities of FortiIdentity will offer a “cloud-native approach to secure identity management” with the option to now deliver the offering via FortiCloud. The company also introduced new capabilities for its Lacework FortiCNAPP, including real-time CloudTrail alerting.
Illumio
Andrew Rubin
Co-Founder, CEO
In April 2025, Illumio unveiled Illumio Insights, the company’s Cloud Detection and Response offering built on its “security graph” technology. Key benefits include rapid, agentless deployment as well as reduced detection times and “one-click” containment of attacks, according to Illumio. Other capabilities include ingestion of network flows, automatic classification of traffic and the ability to “immediately find the risk,” the company said.
Netskope
Sanjay Beri
Co-Founder, CEO
In April 2025, Netskope enhanced its cloud-focused DSPM (data security posture management) offering with several new capabilities, including functionality that can enable safe training of LLMs. The new Support Safe Training capability prevents data that is sensitive or regulated from being unintentionally fed into LLMs, while other updates include improved assessment for the risk connected to various activities related to AI, according to the company.
OpenText Cybersecurity
James McGourlay
Interim CEO
In November 2025, OpenText unveiled its new AI Data Platform, which seeks to offer a comprehensive foundation for AI by unifying data governance and contextual intelligence with cross-application orchestration. The architecture of AI Data Platform aims to enable ingestion of structured and unstructured data, and then unify all sources into knowledge graphs that can be used to drive higher accuracy for AI decisions, OpenText said. Crucially, the platform bakes security directly into the way it handles data used by AI apps and agents, according to the company.
Orca Security
Gil Geron
Co-Founder, CEO
A major provider of AI security posture management (AI-SPM) for enhancing visibility into GenAI usage and systems, Orca Security expanded the capabilities of the offering in June 2025 with a focus on protecting AI-related data. Specifically, the expansion has brought new detections for securing the sensitive AI training data stored in cloud-native environments, Orca said.
Palo Alto Networks
Nikesh Arora
Chairman, CEO
Palo Alto Networks unveiled its new Cortex Cloud offering in 2025 that unifies multiple cloud security tools across its portfolio, with the aim of simplifying security operations and dramatically improving response times to threats. Cortex Cloud is the successor to Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Cloud offering, combining cloud detection and response from the vendor’s Cortex product line with cloud posture and application security capabilities from the Prisma CNAPP (cloud-native application protection platform).
Qualys
Sumedh Thakar
President, CEO
Qualys has doubled down on its Risk Operations Center platform, which can combine all of an organization’s assets and data before then applying threat intelligence, business context and compensating controls. That approach provides far greater quantification of risk as well as a way to better prioritize security efforts, the company said. Qualys has also enabled the delivery of a managed version of its offering, with its managed Risk Operations Center (mROC) through partners.
SentinelOne
Tomer Weingarten
Co-Founder, CEO
SentinelOne introduced numerous enhancements to its Singularity Cloud Security platform in 2025 while also bolstering its portfolio of AI security offerings. In November, based on its recent Prompt Security acquisition, SentinelOne debuted Prompt Security for Employees to provide improved visibility into GenAI usage by workers as well as prevention of data exposure and supports more than 15,000 AI services and tools, the company said. Then in December, SentinelOne unveiled new integrations with AWS Security Hub and Amazon CloudWatch.
Snyk
Peter McKay
CEO
In May 2025, Snyk debuted the AI Trust Platform, an AI-native agentic platform specifically built to secure and govern software development in the AI era, according to Snyk. The goals of the new platform, the company said, are to reduce the security risks associated with AI-generated code and help organizations better defend themselves against AI-driven cyberattacks. Then in October, Snyk unveiled what it’s calling the industry’s “first” agentic security orchestration system with the launch of Evo.
Sophos
Joe Levy
CEO
In October 2025, Sophos unveiled a major expansion to its platform—following the acquisition of Secureworks—with the launch of new capabilities for cloud security including identity threat detection and response (ITDR). The Sophos ITDR offering can perform more than 80 checks on cloud identity posture and detect identity-based attacks using advanced AI, according to the company. Sophos also disclosed that as of November, all Sophos MDR and Sophos XDR subscriptions would enable integrations with third-party technologies, including cloud platforms and tools, at no added cost.
Tenable
Steve Vintz, Mark Thurmond
Co-CEOs
Tenable announced in August 2025 that it would add new capabilities for detecting and preventing GenAI risks with the debut of the Tenable AI Exposure offering. The expansion to the Tenable One platform includes “comprehensive” AI discovery as well as management and prioritization of AI exposures, according to the company. In addition, Tenable said it’s providing improved governance of AI usage with new security guardrails to prevent threats and risky behaviors.
Trend Micro
Eva Chen
Co-Founder, CEO
In May 2025, Trend Micro debuted what it called its enterprise AI security platform, with capabilities for protecting data and workloads used within AI initiatives across cloud platforms as well as on-premises environments. The platform, which links Trend Micro security capabilities with an Nvidia Enterprise AI Factory validated design, allows organizations to “seamlessly provide a single set of security rules” across clouds, hybrid and infrastructure and on-premises data centers, the company said.
WatchGuard Technologies
Joe Smolarski
CEO
WatchGuard Technologies has extended its Firebox Unified Threat Management appliances to the public cloud—including AWS and Microsoft Azure—with its WatchGuard Firebox Cloud offering. The platform can be utilized for protection of Virtual Private Cloud systems and also works with WatchGuard Dimension, the company’s cloud network security visibility tool.
Wiz
Assaf Rappaport
Co-Founder, CEO
In April 2025, Wiz debuted its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, with functionality for delivering rapid cloud visibility and improved intelligence for security investigations. Other key capabilities include connecting security data sources—via a centralized system—for a simplified view of security posture, the company said. In December, Wiz unveiled the launch of Wiz Code SAST, enabling the company’s platform to also cover proprietary code analysis.
Zscaler
Jay Chaudhry
Founder, Chairman, CEO
In June 2025, Zscaler unveiled an array of new data protection capabilities including data security classification powered by AI. The update provides “humanlike intuition” for the identification of sensitive data across more than 200 categories, Zscaler said. Meanwhile, the company also introduced improved GenAI protections with capabilities for increased visibility and control over Microsoft 365 Copilot and other GenAI apps, Zscaler said.