Cybersecurity has become one of the hottest sectors within IT, with investors pumping billions of dollars into security startups in the hopes of producing the next big cybersecurity product.
Meanwhile, major vendors — including Sophos, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point and Crowdstrike — keep expanding and hiring at a faster clip than the rest of the IT world.
Ultimately, all the investments and R&D and hirings are driven by hackers trying to break into systems to steal information, blackmail organizations or just wreak havoc with operations. The escalating number and severity of attacks has gotten the attention of the political establishment in America — and new security-related laws and rules are being implemented seemingly every week.
CRN Cybersecurity Week 2022 will look at a number of issues, trends and products in this key technology sector.
Here Are 6 Hot Browser Security Startups In 2022
Some startups are developing new ‘enterprise browsers,’ which build upon open-source code, while others are adamantly anti-enterprise browsers, saying there’s no need to develop entirely new ones. CRN looks at what six hot startups are doing in the browser security space.