Top Cybersecurity companies
Companies defending or attacking software, networks, and cloud infrastructure.
Ranked by current headcount across the largest Cybersecurity companies. Refreshed daily.
- 1Palo Alto Networks· Santa Clara, California, United States
- Series C
- 21.4k employees
- Founded 2005
- 2Fortinet· Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Series B
- 16k employees
- Founded 2014
- 3CrowdStrike· Remote, Oregon, United States
- Post-IPO equity
- 11.3k employees
- Founded 2011
- 4NETWORK-SECURITY-SOLUTIONS· Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland
- 10.5k employees
- Founded 2010
- 5Zscaler· San Jose, California, United States
- Post-IPO debt
- 9.6k employees
- Founded 2008
- 6Own Company· Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, United States
- Series E
- 8.5k employees
- Founded 2012
- 7Check Point Software· Redwood City, California, United States
- Post-IPO debt
- 8.4k employees
- Founded 1993
- 8TrendAI· Japan
- 8.1k employees
- Founded 1996
- 9Cloudflare· San Francisco, California, United States
- Post-IPO debt
- 6.9k employees
- Founded 2009
- 10HackerOne· San Francisco, California, United States
- Series unknown
- 6.6k employees
- Founded 2012
- 11McAfee· Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Private equity
- 5.6k employees
- 12Proofpoint· Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Post-IPO debt
- 5k employees
- Founded 2002
- 13Kaspersky· Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Private equity
- 4.5k employees
- Founded 1997
- 14
- 4k employees
- 15Trellix· Plano, Texas, United States
- 3.9k employees
- Founded 2022
- 16Bugcrowd· San Francisco, California, United States
- Debt
- 3.6k employees
- Founded 2012
- 17Qualys· San Mateo, California, United States
- Series C
- 3.6k employees
- Founded 1999
- 18Ghana Armed Forces
- 3.5k employees
- Founded 1957
- 19Arctic Wolf· Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States
- Convertible note
- 3.4k employees
- Founded 2012
- 20Netskope· Santa Clara, California, United States
- Series unknown
- 3.3k employees
- Founded 2012
- 21Rapid7· Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Post-IPO equity
- 3.3k employees
- Founded 2000
- 22Wiz· New York, New York, United States
- Series unknown
- 3.3k employees
- Founded 2020
- 23TryHackMe· London, England, United Kingdom
- 3.3k employees
- Founded 2018
- 24SentinelOne· Mountain View, California, United States
- Post-IPO equity
- 3.2k employees
- Founded 2013
- 25Youtube At Channel· India
- 3.2k employees
- Founded 2006
Find engineers and designers at top Cybersecurity companies
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