The annual RSAC Innovation Sandbox contest named Geordie AI the "Most Innovative Startup 2026." This company focuses on security and governance. Every year on the first day of the RSAC Conference in San Francisco, there is a "Shark Tank"-style competition.
Waratek (2015), Reality Defender (2024), and Project Discovery (2025) are some of the past winners of the contest. All of this year's finalists use AI in some way and deal with a wide range of issues, including social engineering, authentication, and identity management. The "virtual anti-fraud team" is made up of several dedicated AI agents who work on fraud prevention, investigation, intervention, proactive discovery, and other tasks. With its Engineering Relationship Management (ERM) platform, Crash Override deals with shadow engineering, AI infiltration, and losing control of the software supply chain.
Glide Identity is a digital identity security company that provides authentication that is safe for AI and ready for agents. Using conversational AI trained in cognitive psychology, Humanix finds the manipulation, deception, and impersonation attacks that cause the most damage. Token Security brings together all the different identities and credentials that are spread out across the cloud, software-as-a-service, vault, identity provider, and single sign-on.
The Agentic AI Workforce from Charm Security is made to stop and fix scams, social engineering, and fraud that targets people. With its Engineering Relationship Management (ERM) platform, Crash Override deals with shadow engineering, AI infiltration, and losing control of the software supply chain. Glide Identity is a company that protects digital identities by providing AI-safe, agent-ready authentication.
Realm Labs lets businesses look inside the AI's "brain" and keep an eye on how it "thinks." Token Security brings together the identities and credentials that are spread out across cloud, software-as-a-service, continuous integration/continuous delivery, vault, identity provider/single sign-on, and generative AI-related environments. ZeroPath is a code-scanning tool that uses a single, AI-native engine to find, check, and fix code vulnerabilities instead of using traditional static application security testing.
