The Evolving Cybersecurity Market

Cybersecurity continued to reign supreme in 2016 as one of the hottest markets for startups. The year saw the emergence of new classes of startups to solve rising problems, as well as the growth of more established startups into full-fledged companies ready to take on legacy security players. This year's roundup of coolest security startups of the year includes new technologies for orchestration, analytics, cloud security, the Internet of Things, and a continued rise in endpoint detection and response. Despite all that growth in technology in 2016, many cybersecurity problems remain unsolved and the innovation around security will surely only continue to accelerate going into 2017.

(For more of our 2016 retrospective, check out 'CRN's 2016 Tech Year In Review.')