Aperio Systems

Founded: 2016

Top Executive: Yevgeni Nogin, CEO

Emerging vendor details: www.crn.com/rankings-and-lists/ev2017-details.htm?c=68

Aperio Systems addresses a huge cybersecurity gap, securing critical control systems with a last line of defense against data forgery where hackers trick operators into thinking everything is fine, when in fact there's an attack under way. Using dynamic system statistical physics, Aperio detects and corrects fake and manipulated physical sensor data.