IT-Harvest

IT-Harvest is an industry analyst firm that covers the 3,123+ vendors in the IT security industry. Founded in 2005.  Security Yearbook 2022: A History and Directory of the IT Security Industry, was published in June 2022.   dashboard.it-harvest.com is the only platform for researching and understanding the cybersecurity industry. Launched in March, 2022.

Chief Research Analyst

sāf.ai, Inc.

Advisory Board Member

Quick Heal

Board Member

Anitian

Anitian is on a mission to make security and compliance easy. We use the power and scale of the cloud to deliver security and compliance solutions for organizations of all sizes.  

As the corporate perimeter vanishes, due to remote workers and cloud enabled services, the traditional “castle defense” of large perimeter and data center appliances is ineffective. Furthermore, modern, high-performance DevOps environments cannot afford to be bogged down with tiresome compliance busywork.

The cloud allows us to build dynamic, responsive, and resilient environments that are secure and compliant, by default and by design. This is the genesis of our Compliance Automation (CA) platform.

Anitian harnesses the power of the cloud to:

    Rapidly deploy compute environments with security and compliance automatically integrated into every component
    Dramatically reduce the cost and time to build and maintain security and compliance
    Aggressively scan trillions of records for indicators of compromise
    Empower people to make more accurate decisions about risk
    Put the cloud to work protecting your data, business, and reputation

We serve thousands of companies and leaders with security and compliance solutions. Our reference accounts include some of the most recognized name brands in the world. Let us put the cloud to work protecting your business, your data, and your job.

Member Board Of Directors

Phosphorus Cybersecurity Inc.

To stay secure, devices must have up-to-date software, without which it may contain un-patched security vulnerabilities that may allow exploitation of the device and its data by attackers. Phosphorus provides secure software updates & alerts for all the critical devices in your network. Keyword: agentless.  With Phosphorus you can reliably patch and update in a timely fashion and receive alert's and remediate an insecure configuration.  phosphorus.io

Member Of The Board Of Advisors

Spyderbat

Advisor

Protect 2020

At the Protect 2020 Academy we have developed E-Learning training modules that are interactive, engaging, and fun to use. Each course is designed and created to deliver cost effective training solutions to all levels throughout your company.

We are a fast-growing company in an innovative and exciting industry. We have a passion for training and have developed courses that help to change and develop individual behaviors or even up-skill an entire workforce.

Non-executive Director

International Data Sanitization Consortium (IDSC)

The International Data Sanitization Consortium (IDSC) was established in July 2017 to connect, educate and guide organizations and standards bodies on best practices to achieve data sanitization. The Consortium also aims to implement and influence security and privacy laws, standards and regulations in this area. Members include educators, analysts, software vendors, hardware manufacturers, IT Asset Disposition companies and enterprise organizations. Learn more at datasanitization.org.

Director

There Will Be Cyberwar

There Will Be Cyberwar: How The Move To Network-Centric War Fighting Has Set The Stage For Cyberwar 

The move on the part of the US military, which began in 1996, to Network-Centric Warfare (NCW), meant the combination of sensor grids, C&C grids, and precision targeting to increase speed to command, and represented a military offset. Along with networking comes exposure to cyber attacks, attacks that will be used in future wars. Get this book on Amazon! http://www.amazon.com/There-Will-Be-Cyberwar-Network-Centric/dp/0985460784/

Author of There Will Be Cyberwar

securitycurrent

securitycurrent is a complete news and analysis media venture dedicated to IT security. We strive to recruit the best and brightest contributors and report on security news. Watch this space! http://www.securitycurrent.com/

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I am busy creating the first and only platform for researching the cybersecurity industry. Seat holders  get access to all our data on 3,800+ cybersecurity vendors and 10,500 products. A platform for every security architect and CISO. 


Read my research at stiennon.substack.com (always free.)

I have been meaning to do this ever since we mapped all cybersecurity products to NIST CSF 2.0.   Here, for the first time ever, is a count of products per NIST Subcategory.

Richard Stiennon

On a mission to provide actionable insights and foster informed decision-making with complete data on the cybersecurity industry.

Open article: Mapping 11,326 products to NIST CSF 2.0 by stiennon.substack.com

I will be speaking at an exclusive AI session hosted by CISO Platform on 'Mapping the AI Security Landscape: How CISOs Can Navigate Innovation and Risk'. 

In this session, I’ll break down how CISOs can design a secure AI stack, automate SOC workflows, and enforce strong guardrails to reduce AI risk. I’ll explore the emerging AI Security Landscape from architectures and defensive controls to governance models helping leaders navigate innovation without losing control.

Join me live on 30th October, Thursday at 12:00 PM EST | 9:30 PM IST

Register here to join: https://lnkd.in/gwUnAqWp

Drop your questions for me in the comments below!

Can't wait to dig into this newly arrived book on the Chinese cybersecurity industry. Thank you Bruce ZHANG and the Z-One team for producing this major work.

This brings us to 3,966 active cybersecurity vendors and 661 archived.

IT-Harvest has initiated coverage of these 28 vendors. 
Multifactor (YC F25), Atlas Systems, GhostEye, Alter (YC S25), BitPatrol (YC X25), Cotool, Probo (YC X25), MindFort AI (YC X25), Casco (YC X25), Tinfoil, Better Auth, Golf (YC X25), Haleum (YC W25), AISLE™, Ossprey Security, SubImage (YC W25), winfunc (YC S24), Unbound, Aedilic, Baited, Vega, Fabrix Security, aiquery.io, Cyborg, Defakto Security, AIRRIVED, WEEDS Korea, and Alert AI.
We strive to provide the first analyst coverage for every cybersecurity startup.

Of Long Tails and Stalking Horses.  A call to action for industry analyst firms. https://lnkd.in/g7b5-gdp

We just dropped the biggest update to the IT-Harvest Dashboard yet. We have added Security Stack Analysis. Substack and press release just published.

Open article: Adding Security Stack Analysis to the IT-Harvest Dashboard by stiennon.substack.com

Adding Security Stack Analysis to the IT-Harvest Dashboard

Initiating coverage of eleven more cybersecurity vendors.

IT-Harvest has initiated coverage of the eleven cybersecurity vendors. 

Breeze Security
Zaun
DRTConfidence
Inception Cyber AI
InstaSecure
Keep Aware
Lattica
MagicMirror
Morado
Netarx
Spektrum Labs

Happy to share that I'll be speaking at Mapping the AI Security Landscape: How CISOs Can Navigate Innovation & Risk! Make sure to attend it on October 30.

Your attack surface is changing faster than your policies can catch up. The question is no longer “if” AI will impact your SOC… but how fast.

Join Richard Stiennon (Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest) for a live, vendor-neutral walkthrough of the new AI Security Landscape - what goes in your AI stack, what to automate in your SOC, and what guardrails actually hold.

Date: Oct 30 (Thursday) | 12 PM EST / 9:30 PM IST (Virtual)
Audience: CISOs, Deputy CISOs, Security Architecture & SOC Leaders

Register Here (or share your team): https://lnkd.in/gJTKcRRZ

What you’ll take away:
- The AI Security Stack — controls across model, data, app, and infra layers
- SOC Automation — where copilots add value and where to keep a human-in-the-loop
- Governance & Risk — model risk registers, policy loops, and red teaming frameworks

Walk away with:
A clean reference map + a 30-60-90 day AI Security Action Plan to brief your exec team and guide your SOC roadmap.

View event: Mapping the AI Security Landscape: How CISOs Can Navigate Innovation & Risk

Mapping the AI Security Landscape: How CISOs Can Navigate Innovation & Risk

Great to talk to Bob Dubois in this podcast. Brings back memories of rowing a Phoenician style fishing boat off the coast of Malaga. :-)

Wodan’s Day Update · New Podcast Episode · AI security: hype vs reality.

Richard Stiennon, founder of IT-Harvest and one of the most respected analysts in cybersecurity, joins us to cut through the noise.

We talked about:
• How attackers are already using LLMs to automate exploits in minutes
• Why SOC bots and agentic AI are the next billion-dollar wave
• The real reason “good enough” security will fail in 2025
• How CISOs can tell credible AI security start-ups from buzzware

“You’ll have minutes to detect and respond. The rest will just say we thought it was good enough.” – Richard Stiennon

Listen now on YouTube - https://lnkd.in/ea8_N254

#AISecurity #Cybersecurity #DataPrivacy #HomomorphicEncryption #RichardStiennon #Podcast

Open video: AI Security Hype vs Reality | R. Stiennon on Attack Automation & Buyer Mistakes | Wodan AI Podcast on youtube.com

AI Security Hype vs Reality | R. Stiennon on Attack Automation & Buyer Mistakes | Wodan AI Podcast

OnPoint Ski & Snowboard CyberCon is on February 19, 2026 at The Heights Ski and Country Club in Ontario. It blends cybersecurity insights, great conversations, and time on the hill in a single day. I already got my ticket! 

Get your ticket and share with your industry friends/colleagues:

Open article: OnPoint Ski & Snowboard CyberCon 2026 by eventbrite.ca

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