2025 Sponsors | AKJ Associates

2025 Principal Sponsors

BeyondTrust is the global cybersecurity leader protecting Paths to Privilege™. Our identity-centric approach goes beyond securing privileges and access, empowering organizations with the most effective solution to manage the entire identity attack surface and neutralize threats, whether from external attacks or insiders.
BeyondTrust is leading the charge in transforming identity security to prevent breaches and limit the blast radius of attacks, while creating a superior customer experience and operational efficiencies. We are trusted by 20,000 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 100, and our global ecosystem of partners. Learn more at www.beyondtrust.com.

2025 Strategic Sponsors

CultureAI is a Human Risk Management Platform that harnesses behavioural insights and telemetry data to empower technology to handle the heavy lifting in reducing human cyber risk. The shifting cyber threat landscape is complex and often overwhelming. Today, threats target people as much as systems, placing employees on the frontline. CultureAI utilises APIs, behavioural intelligence, and advanced integrations to proactively detect real-time human risk across entire organisations and automates interventions to fix them.

Learn more: https://www.culture.ai/

Illumio, the Zero Trust Segmentation company, stops breaches and ransomware from spreading across the hybrid attack surface.

The Illumio ZTS Platform visualises all communication and traffic between workflows, devices, and the internet in one console, automatically sets granular segmentation policies to control unnecessary and unwanted communications, and isolates high-valueassets and compromised systems to proactively or reactively stop the spread of a breach.

ZTS is proven to help organisations of all sizes, from Fortune 100 to small business, stop breaches and ransomware in minutes, save millions in application downtime, and accelerate digital transformation projects.

Assume breach. Minimise impact. Increase resilience.

Mimecast is a leading cybersecurity company that specialises in cloud-based email management for Google Workspace, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Office 365. The company provides a range of services including security, archiving, and continuity to protect business communications.

Proofpoint, Inc. is a leading cybersecurity and compliance company that protects organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: their people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including 80 percent of the Fortune 100, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions that mitigate their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web. More information is available at www.proofpoint.com.

Searchlight Cyber provides organizations with relevant and actionable dark web intelligence to help them prevent cybercriminal activity. Founded in 2017 with a mission to stop criminals acting with impunity on the dark web, we have been involved in some of the world’s largest dark web investigations and have the most comprehensive dataset based on proprietary techniques and ground-breaking academic research. Today we provide governments, law enforcement agencies, and enterprises around the world with dark web investigation and monitoring capabilities - empowering them in their fight against criminal activity on the dark web.

Silverfort secures every dimension of identity. We are the first to deliver an end-to-end identity security platform that is easy to deploy and won't disrupt business operations, resulting in better security outcomes with less work. Discover every identity across every environment, analyse exposures to reduce your attack surfaces, and enforce security controls inline to stop lateral movement, ransomware, and other identity threats.

Learn more at www.silverfort.com.

Stop Ransomware! ThreatLocker® improves enterprise-level server and endpoint security with Zero Trust controls, including Allowlisting, Ringfencing™, Elevation, Storage, Network Control, Configuration Management, and Detect EDR and MDR solutions.

2025 Education Seminar Sponsors

Abnormal Security is the leading AI-native human behavior security platform, leveraging machine learning to stop sophisticated inbound attacks and detect compromised accounts across email and connected applications. The anomaly detection engine leverages identity and context to understand human behavior and analyze the risk of every cloud email event—detecting and stopping sophisticated, socially-engineered attacks that target the human vulnerability.

You can deploy Abnormal in minutes with an API integration for Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace and experience the full value of the platform instantly. Additional protection will be available soon for Slack, Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Zoom, Amazon Web Services and multiple other cloud applications.

IRONSCALES is the leader in AI-powered email security protecting over 15,000 global organizations from advanced phishing threats. As the pioneer of adaptive AI, we detect and remediate attacks like business email compromise (BEC), account takeovers (ATO), and zero-days that other solutions miss. By combining the power of AI and continuous human insights, we safeguard inboxes, unburden IT teams, and turn employees into a vital part of cyber defense across enterprises and managed service providers. IRONSCALES is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. To learn more, visit www.ironscales.com or follow us on X @IRONSCALES.

OneSpan is a global leader in digital identity and anti-fraud solutions, empowering financial institutions and enterprises to secure transactions, prevent fraud, and ensure trust in digital interactions. The company specialises in authentication, transaction signing, and fraud prevention, serving some of the world's largest banks and organisations across highly regulated industries. The OneSpan security solutions protect digital identities and secure financial transactions.

OneSpan’s security portfolio includes password-less authentication, multi-factor authentication (MFA), and adaptive security to prevent account takeovers and fraudulent transactions. With solutions like OneSpan Cloud Authentication and Mobile Security Suite, financial institutions can deploy biometric authentication, cryptographic transaction signing, and behavioral biometrics to verify user identities and detect anomalies. In addition, OneSpan is a leader in high-assurance digital signing, offering e-signature solutions with identity verification and digital evidence protection to ensure the integrity of electronic transactions. The company also provides secure remote access and identity verification solutions, enabling businesses to onboard customers securely while minimising friction.

With a strong presence in banking, financial services, insurance, and fintech, OneSpan’s security solutions play a critical role in helping organisations balance security and user convenience. By leveraging end-to-end encryption and hardware-based security, OneSpan helps enterprises combat fraud while enabling seamless digital transformation.

Thousands of customers, including more than half of the world’s top 100 banks, already trust OneSpan to secure their digital journeys.
As well as this, OneSpan's commitment to excellence has been recognised through several industry awards. Notably, the company received the 2022 SC Award for Best Mobile Security Solution and was honoured with Frost & Sullivan's 2022 Product Leadership Award for Continuous Password-less Authentication. These awards proof OneSpan's dedication to providing cutting-edge security solutions.

Learn more at www.onespan.com

Red Sift enables organizations to anticipate, respond to, and protect against cyberattacks while continuing to operate effectively. The award-winning Red Sift Pulse platform is the only integrated solution that combines four converged cybersecurity applications, cyber intelligence, and trusted AI that puts organizations on a robust path to cyber resilience. Red Sift is a global organization supported by a diverse team across 15 countries. It boasts an international client roster that includes Capgemini, Domino’s, ZoomInfo, Athletic Greens, and several leading law firms. Red Sift is the official DMARC provider for Cisco and a trusted partner for Microsoft and Entrust, among others. Learn more at redsift.com.

Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK) is on a mission to secure the world’s data. With Zero Trust Data Security™, we help organizations achieve business resilience against cyberattacks, malicious insiders, and operational disruptions. Rubrik Security Cloud, powered by machine learning, secures data across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS applications. We help organizations uphold data integrity, deliver data availability that withstands adverse conditions, continuously monitor data risks and threats, and restore businesses with their data when infrastructure is attacked. For more information please visit www.rubrik.com and follow @rubrikInc on X (formerly Twitter) and Rubrik on LinkedIn.

Varonis (Nasdaq: VRNS) is a leader in data security, fighting a different battle than conventional cybersecurity companies. Our cloud-native Data Security Platform continuously discovers and classifies critical data, removes exposures, and detects advanced threats with AI-powered automation.

Thousands of organizations worldwide trust Varonis to defend their data wherever it lives — across SaaS, IaaS, and hybrid cloud environments. Customers use Varonis to automate a wide range of security outcomes, including data security posture management (DSPM), data classification, data access governance (DAG), data detection and response (DDR), data loss prevention (DLP), and insider risk management.

Varonis protects data first, not last. Learn more at www.varonis.com.

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