The 25 Hottest Edge Security Companies: 2023 Edge Computing 100

Security At The Edge

With a growing proportion of computing taking place in edge environments, the need for security that caters to the edge has been surging. And that’s only been amplified as a need by the series of high-profile attacks at the edge in 2023.

Two attacks in particular — which targeted Barracuda Email Security Gateway customers Cisco IOS XE — will likely end up as the most impactful attacks against IT hardware of the year, according to Caitlin Condon, head of vulnerability research at cybersecurity vendor Rapid7. And notably, both attacks targeted network hardware devices located on the edge of an organization’s IT setup.

In mid-2023, a China-linked cyberattack campaign exploited a vulnerability in Barracuda’s Email Security Gateway to disproportionately target government agencies, according to Mandiant researchers.

Then in October, researchers found that tens of thousands of Cisco devices running the IOS XE operating system were compromised through exploits of a zero-day vulnerability. “Of edge attacks, this is one of if not the most significant,” said John Gallagher, vice president of Viakoo Labs at IoT security firm Viakoo.

Edge attacks have been on the rise as threat actors continue to seek the path of least resistance, Gallagher told CRN. At this point, “data center security is quite good. And so therefore, it leads [attackers] to say, ‘OK, what are the soft underbellies that maybe are not well-protected?’” he said. “And that, I think, has directly led people over the last number of years to the edge.”

Meanwhile, the demand for secure access service edge (SASE) and security service edge (SSE) technologies also continues to climb as organizations continue working to protect their remote and hybrid workforces. With the arrival of multi-cloud computing and an increasing reliance on cloud-based SaaS applications, SASE “naturally lends itself to being that intermediary layer, the same way that the next-gen firewalls from before were at that perimeter,” said Lee Waskevich, vice president of security at ePlus Technology.

As part of CRN’s Edge Computing 100 for 2023, here are 25 security vendors working to protect the new perimeter for today’s businesses.

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KYLE ALSPACH 

Kyle Alspach is a Senior Editor at CRN focused on cybersecurity. His coverage spans news, analysis and deep dives on the cybersecurity industry, with a focus on fast-growing segments such as cloud security, application security and identity security.  He can be reached at [email protected].

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