When talking about cybersecurity, governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) is often considered the least exciting parts of business protection. However, its importance can't be ignored, and this is why. While cybersecurity focuses on the technical side of protecting systems, networks, devices, and data, GRC is the tool that will help the entire organization understand and communicate how to do it. Cybersecurity aims to protect sensitive business data, intellectual property, personal and health information, and other company systems from cyber-attacks and threats. However, this task has become increasingly difficult over the past few years due to factors including the expansion of hybrid work models, the popularity of cloud services, and the advancement of technology, among others, as well as the growing worldwide connectedness. Even though they are all excellent from a commercial standpoint, they also come with new dangers and difficulties. Organizations have always needed cybersecurity, but in the technologically advanced and linked world of today, they simply cannot survive without it, at least not for the foreseeable future.
Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) is a business strategy for managing a company's overall governance, enterprise risk management, and regulatory compliance. From a cybersecurity standpoint, GRC is a structured approach to aligning IT (people and operations) with business objectives while effectively managing risks and meeting regulatory needs. In this context, to achieve business objectives and maximize the company's bottom line, organizations need to follow the best practices and procedures. This is why GRC exists... to mitigate any threat to productivity and the company's value by creating standards, policies, regulations, and processes.
But this makes it a challenging task for businesses to find the right solution provider who could find the exact requirements. That's where GRC Outlook magazine is bridging the gap with the Top 10 cybersecurity solution providers in the 2022 listing. The companies listed below were selected by a panel of experts.
Brian Bouchard
Co-Founder & CEO
Palo Alto, CA
alacrinet.com
As a leading cybersecurity and information technology consultant, Alacrinet's goal is to deliver the right services and solutions that meet their clients' IT security strategy. They are a full-service partner with a team of experts who continue to develop their skills, knowledge, and certifications for the benefit of their clients.
Leon Lerman
CEO & Co-Founder
New York, NY
cynerio.com
The growing number of connected medical devices in hospital networks has introduced a new breed of threats that healthcare organizations cannot address with IT cybersecurity solutions. Cynerio’s mission is to empower healthcare CISOs and give them full control over the security of their connected clinical engineering and IoT ecosystem, ensuring data protection, service continuity and patient safet...
Christopher O'Malley
President & CEO
Boulder, CO
logrhythm.com
LogRhythm helps busy and lean security operations teams save the day—day after day. There’s a lot riding on the shoulders of security professionals—the reputation and success of their company, the safety of citizens and organizations across the globe, the security of critical resources—the weight of protecting the world.
David Etue
CEO
Washington, DC
nisos.com
Nisos is the Managed Intelligence company. Their services enable security, intelligence, and trust & safety teams to leverage a world-class intelligence capability tailored to their needs. Nisos fuses robust data collection with a deep understanding of the adversarial mindset delivering smarter defense and more effective response against advanced cyber attacks.
H. Alper Memiş
Co-Founder and CEO
San Francisco, CA
picussecurity.com
Picus Security is the pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS). The Picus Complete Security Control Validation Platform is trusted by leading organizations worldwide to continuously validate the effectiveness of security controls against cyber-attacks and supply actionable mitigation insights to optimize them. Picus has offices in North America, Europe and APAC and is supported by a global ne...
Ashan Willy
CEO
Sunnyvale, CA
proofpoint.com
Proofpoint provides the most effective cybersecurity and compliance solutions to protect people on every channel including email, the web, the cloud, and social media.
Pieter Danhieux
CEO, Chairman & Co-Founder
Chippendale, NSW
securecodewarrior.com
Secure Code Warrior builds a culture of security-driven developers by giving them the skills to code securely. Their flagship Learning Platform delivers relevant skills-based pathways, hands-on missions, and contextual tools for developers to rapidly learn, build, and apply their skills to write secure code at speed.
Kunal Popat
Co-Founder
Walnut Creek, CA
sharkstriker.com
SharkStriker is a US based security services provider with SOCs and offices across the globe. They are your cybersecurity team. They are the gatekeepers of your network. They are the reason how you can get the most value out of your cybersecurity. They help you improve your organization’s security ROI by working as an extension of your inhouse team.
Ofer Ben-Noon
CEO
Tel Aviv, Israel
talon-sec.com
Talon provides the first enterprise browser that was designed to secure and enable hybrid work, while reducing complexity and cost. Talon's secure and isolated workspace enables today’s employees, who use the browser more than any other business application, to work from anywhere and from any device, accessing enterprise resources securely from both corporate and non-corporate devices.
Ed Zabar
Founder & CEO
Philadelphia, PA
verif-y.com
Verify is on a mission to give people back control of their Digital Identity while streamlining, cybersecurity, compliance and credentialing solutions for all types of organizations. Organizations who request and receive access to this highly accurate and verified information are able to improve their on-boarding speeds, enhance administrative efficiencies and materially reduce their compliance an...