22 of the Best Data Security Companies for 2026

The editors at Solutions Review examine the best data security companies providing stand-alone solutions in 2026.

According to IBM, data security is the practice of protecting digital information from unauthorized access, corruption, or theft throughout its lifecycle. This concept encompasses every aspect of information security, from the physical security of hardware and storage devices to administrative and access controls and the logical security of software applications. It also includes organizational policies and procedures.

Most IAM and SIEM platforms offer some level of data protection, but because it’s not their primary focus, there will still be gaps in your data security. Especially dangerous for enterprises handling big data. As data protection technology develops and becomes more refined and defined, this list will likely see continuous updates. As it stands, these are the vendors leading the way in data security.

Note from the Editor: This list is presented in alphabetical order and does not reflect any form of ranking.

The Best Data Security Companies for 2026

Baffle

Description: Baffle delivers an enterprise-level transparent data security mesh that secures unstructured and structured data throughout the GenAI pipeline and at the field or file level via a “no-code” model. The solution supports tokenization, format-preserving encryption (FPE), AES-256 encryption for databases and files, and role-based access control. As a transparent solution, cloud-native services are easily supported with almost no performance or functionality impact. Its cloud security solution simplifies the encryption, tokenization, and masking of your data in the cloud without requiring any application code modification or embedded SDKs, enabling vast scalability.

BigID

Description: BigID is a cloud-native, AI-ready platform for data security, privacy, compliance, and governance. The company’s security solution suite encompasses data classification, security posture management, AI-augmented data remediation, custom data retention policies, data labeling, automatic data classification, dark data discovery, and a collection of pre-trained, AI-supervised classifiers. BigID also integrates seamlessly with leading platforms like Informatica, Alation, ServiceNow, Databricks, Snowflake, Wiz, Splunk, Collibra, and more.

Cavelo

Description: Cavelo is a platform designed to help teams get a handle on their digital assets and sensitive data, all through a single pane of glass. The Cavelo Platform downloads in minutes—enabling users to quickly improve their data protection, data compliance, and data discovery processes. The platform’s key pillars—service integrations and process automation—allow brands to customize their dashboards and features to match their unique business requirements and regulatory frameworks. The Cavelo platform is a right-sized platform that scales with a business as it grows, regardless of how many data sources, cloud applications, and endpoints connect to its network.

comforte

Description: comforte’s TAMUNIO platform combines discovery, policy enforcement, and protection to help users feel confident in how their data is used in analytics and AI across platforms. The platform is designed to secure structured and unstructured data with AI-driven detection and Confidential-Computing-based Data Sovereignty Zones, all backed by a unified governance layer that maintains consistent controls in various environments. Capabilities include AI-assisted PII detection, audit-ready evidence and reporting, operational visibility with SIEM integration, central policy and access controls, vaultless tokenization, format-preserving encryption, and more.

Concentric AI

Description: Concentric AI secures data-centric work using AI to protect business-critical information hidden in the millions of files and databases used by today’s distributed workforce. The company’s unique deep learning solution autonomously and accurately finds sensitive content, assesses risk, and remediates security issues, allowing organizations across industries to meet their data security needs for the first time. Concentric AI’s Semantic Intelligence automates the security of unstructured and structured data using deep learning to categorize data, assess business criticality, and reduce risk.

CrowdStrike

Description: CrowdStrike, a global cybersecurity company, offers an advanced, cloud-native platform that protects critical areas of enterprise risk, including endpoints, cloud workloads, identity, and data. For example, its CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM platform is engineered to help brands outpace threats in the AI era by unifying their cross-domain data, adversary-trained AI, and expert automation. Features include AI agents for data onboarding, correlation rule generation, AI-powered data pipelines, search analysis accelerators, an index-free architecture, and I-driven detection, centralized case management, and intelligent workflow automation.

Drata

Description: Drata is a security and compliance automation platform that continuously monitors and collects evidence of a company’s security controls while streamlining compliance workflows end-to-end to ensure audit readiness. Drata automates compliance operations and evidence collection with security monitoring integrations across your SaaS services. Gain visibility into your compliance status and control across your security program, and build a single picture of controls, people, devices, applications, vendors, and risk across your company.

Druva

Description: Druva enables cyber, data, and operational resilience for every organization with the Data Resiliency Cloud, the industry’s first and only at-scale SaaS solution. Customers can radically simplify data protection, streamline data governance, and gain data visibility and insights as they accelerate cloud adoption. Druva pioneered a SaaS-based approach to eliminate complex infrastructure and related management costs and deliver data resilience via a single platform spanning multiple geographies and clouds. Druva is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including 60 of the Fortune 500.

Exabeam

Description: Exabeam’s product portfolio is outfitted with multiple choices for SIEM, threat detection, investigation, and response solutions. With cloud-native and self-hosted platforms, Exabeam can help companies of various needs improve their security and intelligence. Some of its specific products include a cloud-native SIEM that unites cloud-scale log management with a unified workbench to accelerate threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR); the New-Scale Security Operations Platform, which provides multi-agent capabilities for security operations; multi-layered risk-scoring tools; and more.

Imperva

Description: Imperva Data Security Fabric (DSF) provides data-centric protection enterprise-wide to fill the gaps left by traditional perimeter security, native data repository access controls, and data encryption solutions, which are powerless against numerous data breach threats such as data handling mistakes, malicious insiders, and attack exploits that leverage compromised account credentials. Through a single dashboard, you can manage data discovery and classification, data activity monitoring, data risk analytics, threat detection, additional data loss prevention options, data access control, and data masking, and provide instant audit and compliance reporting.

Lepide

Description: With Lepide, you can detect and prevent cyber-attacks and insider threats at the source and as they move through your data stores. Enhance your identity and data security by gaining visibility into permissions, threat events, and anomalous user behavior. The platform gets smarter the longer it runs, detecting and responding to threats more accurately through AI and Machine Learning. Lepide can seamlessly integrate with SIEM solutions to add context to reports and streamline your threat response/investigations, and can divert resources to individual pieces of functionality as required to ensure smooth and reliable scalability.

Mage Data

Description: After a successful two-year transformation, data masking vendor MENTIS is now Mage. The Mage data security platform secures sensitive data within your enterprise by identifying and locating it across your data landscape. With Mage, organizations can identify and locate the presence of sensitive data across the enterprise; securely anonymize sensitive data through robust data protection measures that offer masking, encryption, and tokenization; monitor and log all access to sensitive data with near-real-time reporting, and minimize the risk of sensitive data exposure by deleting or tokenizing inactive sensitive data. Mage helps organizations securely migrate to the cloud while ensuring the referential integrity between data on the Cloud and on-premises.

ManageEngine

Description: DataSecurity Plus, the data visibility and data leak prevention component of Log360, helps fight insider threats, prevent data loss, and meet compliance requirements. The DataSecurity Plus suite offers file server auditing, file analysis, data risk assessment, data leak prevention, and cloud protection. Audit and report on all file accesses and modifications with real-time alerts and automated threat responses for high-risk file activities. DataSecurity Plus is a platform that ensures file system integrity and data loss prevention, and allows organizations to protect sensitive data across the entire enterprise data landscape with a single solution.

Protegrity

Description: The Protegrity Data Security platform gives you the choice to protect data where and how you choose to use it, control over how data is protected enterprise-wide, and confidence that the data is secure even if a breach occurs. This allows you to leverage data, including its application in advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI. The platform’s transparent controls and comprehensive protection capabilities give businesses the confidence to move forward with cloud-supported, data-driven initiatives, including advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI. Protegrity’s data protection methods work in concert with centralized policy enforcement to ensure data is always secure across the myriad of data warehouses, file servers, big data systems, and mainframes.

Rubrik

Description: Rubrik Security Cloud helps you protect your data, monitor data risk, and recover data and applications so you can keep your business moving forward. Automated discovery and end-to-end workflows eliminate the tapestry of operational work to help you ensure business outcomes and pre-defined SLAs. The platform provides a 360-degree view of all your users, content, and application relationships across time, allowing you to understand granular or meta-scale changes in your environment. With Rubrik Security Cloud, you can automatically protect data from cyber-attacks, continuously monitor data risks, and quickly recover data and applications.

Satori

Description: Satori is a comprehensive, agentless, uniform data security platform designed to mitigate risks and maintain compliance without slowing down a company’s business processes. With its transparent data proxy—deployed between users and data stores—teams can automatically classify and control access to sensitive data without changing your data or impacting your users. Satori dynamically anonymizes, redacts, and masks data without using SQL views or altering the data store. Satori can automatically classify data and automatically apply masking policies whenever the data changes.

Secrata

Description: Secrata by Topia Technology is an enterprise data security platform developed to address the security gaps created by device and cloud adoption. The Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) module ensures full control and visibility for IT and provides ease of use for employees. EFSS uses workspaces to help the user manage their files. An integrated messaging platform enables secure collaboration and document annotation. EFSS is easily integrated into existing workflows to drive adoption and extend corporate assets. IT can control where files can reside and be sent using a powerful policy engine.

Sotero

Description: Sotero is a zero-trust data security platform that protects all your data all the time and anywhere. The Sotero data security platform employs an intelligent data security fabric that ensures your sensitive data is always protected. Sotero automatically secures all your data instances and applications, regardless of source, location, or lifecycle stage (at rest, in transit, or in use). With Sotero, you can move from a fragmented, complex data security stack to one unified data security fabric that provides 360° management of your entire data security ecosystem.

Splunk

Description: Splunk is a unified security and observability platform designed to help organizations improve their digital resilience for the AI era. The company’s SIEM solution, included in the Splunk Enterprise Security Essentials suite, is an AI-powered SecOps platform seamlessly integrated with agentic AI, SOAR, UEBA, and SIEM technologies. Specific capabilities include Risk-Based Alerting (RBA), Federated Analytics, detection versioning, investigative workflows, case management, Threat Topology, a MITRE ATT&CK Framework, and multiple dashboards for differe

Thales

Description: The Thales CipherTrust Data Security Platform is an integrated suite of data-centric security products and solutions that unify data discovery, protection, and control in one platform. CipherTrust Data Security Platform unifies data discovery, classification, data protection, and unprecedented granular access controls with centralized key management–all on a single platform. The platform offers advanced multi-cloud Bring Your Own Encryption (BYOE) solutions to avoid cloud vendor encryption lock-in and to enable data mobility, efficiently securing data across multiple cloud vendors with centralized, independent encryption key management.

Varonis

Description: The Varonis Data Security Platform visualizes where sensitive data is exposed and offers centralized permissions management to enforce the least privilege. The platform uses sophisticated rule logic to produce high-fidelity classification results that can be confidently acted upon with DLPs, CASBs, etc. Varonis automatically builds a baseline, or “peace-time profile,” over hours, days, and weeks for every user and device, so when they behave strangely, they get noticed. The platform contains hundreds of machine-learning threat models based on real-world attack techniques spanning the cyber kill chain.

Velotix

Description: In today’s dynamic landscape of privacy policies and regulations, businesses face a formidable challenge in maintaining compliance while staying agile. Velotix introduces a revolutionary AI-driven data security platform that not only mitigates risks but also streamlines policy management at scale, empowering organizations to confidently navigate the complexities of data governance. Velotix’s innovative platform facilitates self-service data access while automating policy creation and enforcement, leveraging prompt time and context-based access controls.