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Confluera delivers real-time infrastructure-wide cyber kill chain tracking and response by leveraging Continuous Attack Graph technology to deterministically stop and remediate cyberthreats in real-time. The company's platform combines behavioral analytics and ML-powered anomaly detection to identify and intercept cyberattacks across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, reducing alert noise by up to 98% while accelerating incident response 10x. Founded by cybersecurity veterans and backed by leading venture capitalists, Confluera has developed the industry's first Real-time Attack Interception and Defense Platform. The solution automatically tracks every movement across cloud infrastructure, connecting the dots between users, processes, IAM roles, and control plane resources to provide complete attack visualization. In March 2023, Confluera was acquired by XM Cyber, extending its run-time protection capabilities on cloud workloads and strengthening its position in the CNAPP market.

We're a tech firm that's been delivering IT solutions since 1986, and we've learned a thing or two along the way. Based in West Des Moines, Iowa, our team of 87 consultants and engineers partner with organizations to solve real business problems through technology - whether that's optimizing their marketing operations, securing their identity systems, or helping them make sense of their data. What sets us apart isn't just our technical expertise in platforms like Salesforce, Oracle, AWS, and Adobe - it's that we take the time to understand your business inside and out. We've built our reputation on being the consultants who actually show up, who challenge the status quo when needed, and who deliver solutions that stick. Our clients tell us they appreciate having local experts who fit their culture and aren't afraid to have honest conversations about what will work best for their organization.

Boeing Intelligence & Analytics (BI&A) serves the Intelligence Community with innovation and vision through advanced analytics and intelligence solutions. A fully owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company under Boeing Defense, Space & Security, BI&A delivers seamless solutions ready for tomorrow's challenges by integrating cutting-edge engineering practices with rigorous cybersecurity measures. The company maintains top-tier technical talent and industry expertise in software engineering, systems integration and development, rapid prototyping, and project leadership to support critical national security missions. Every day, Boeing Intelligence & Analytics supports global missions by building and delivering intelligence, analytics, and cyber solutions that enable users to advance national security. From hardware and software engineering solutions to analytics that keep this nation safe, BI&A integrates products and people to keep mission partners ahead of evolving global and cyber threats. The company has provided customers with the tools needed to counter evolving global and cyber threats and to improve wartime decision-making, all while cultivating a healthy work-life balance for its highly-skilled workforce.

GeoComply is a geolocation compliance and fraud prevention company founded in 2011. Its software verifies users' true digital identity by combining precise geolocation data with device intelligence and behavioral analysis, helping digital businesses detect location fraud and meet regulatory requirements. The company serves clients across online gaming and sports betting, financial services, and media streaming. The platform operates at significant scale: it protects over 400 million devices worldwide and analyzes more than 10 billion transactions annually. GeoComply began by building compliance-grade systems for the highly regulated online gaming market before expanding into financial services and streaming. Its solutions are designed to block fraudulent actors while keeping the experience frictionless for legitimate users. The company's technical work spans several domains: Location-based compliance and geolocation data Fraud prevention and identity verification Device intelligence and behavioral analysis Compliance-grade systems for regulated industries GeoComply operates as a global team across five countries and three continents. Its work sits at the intersection of cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, and data infrastructure - areas that require close collaboration between engineering, data science, and compliance functions.

H2 Performance Consulting is a U.S.-based professional services firm founded in 2005 by consulting industry veterans and performance management practitioners. Classified as an Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB), the firm holds ISO 20000 and ISO 27001 certifications and operates across three core practice areas: cyber security, technology services, and program & acquisition management. The firm serves both public and private sector clients, with a particular focus on defense and government organisations. Its work centres on planning and managing IT projects, programs, and portfolios, as well as delivering organisational performance analysis and large-scale IT acquisition consulting. H2 Performance Consulting is accessible through federal contract vehicles including SEAPORT-NxG, GSA MAS, and GSA MOBIS. H2 Performance Consulting describes its approach as collaborative, working as a partner to organisations of all sizes to deliver technology and performance solutions that are concrete, maintainable, and scalable. The firm emphasises maintaining a diverse workforce and states a commitment to community impact alongside its client work.

Conifers.AI is transforming security operations centers (SOCs) with CognitiveSOC™, an agentic AI platform that enables enterprises and managed security service providers to achieve SOC excellence. The company addresses a critical challenge in modern cybersecurity: SOCs are drowning in alert volumes - processing an average of 960 alerts daily, with large enterprises facing over 3,000 alerts from 30+ security tools. This overload forces security teams to make difficult trade-offs between comprehensive coverage and thorough investigation quality. CognitiveSOC™ stands apart as the industry's first mesh agentic AI platform built specifically to solve complex, multi-tier SOC challenges at scale. Unlike traditional automation tools that focus solely on basic triage, Conifers delivers comprehensive coverage across all investigation tiers with verified performance: 87% faster investigations, 3x SOC throughput, approximately 2.5-minute average investigation time, and greater than 99% accuracy. The platform combines multiple AI techniques - including large language models, domain-specific language models, machine learning, statistical analysis, and static analysis - in an intelligent orchestration layer that applies the optimal combination of capabilities to each incident. This patent-pending architecture continuously learns from organizational policies, procedures, and risk tolerances, ensuring investigations align with each customer's unique context. Founded in 2024 by security industry veterans and backed by SYN Ventures, PICUS Capital, and Washington Harbour Partners, Conifers has been recognized by Gartner as "the company to beat in AI SOC Agents for threat investigation."