Nok Nok Labs:

Headquarters: Palo Alto, California

Founded: 2011

Leadership: Phil Dunkelberger, CEO and founder

How they made onto the list:

The company is totally based on cloud computing services, with strong authentication services served with open authentication protocol as the base. The company may introduce its first suite this year. According to the company, preparing a scalable authentication protocol for the cloud defined by working groups and making it free so that products that can add value in management.

Interesting Fact: Dunkelberger acquired the encryption technology known as "Pretty Good Privacy" for less than $2 million and sold it to Symantec two years ago for more than $300 million.

Risk I/O:

Headquarters: Chicago

Founded: 2011

Leadership: Co-founders CEO Ed Bellis and CTO Jeff Heuer

How they made onto the list:

Risk I/O offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool by the same name that aggregates large quantities of data from a variety of security-assessment tools for the purpose of vulnerability management.

According to Bellis, the primary motivation in starting such a company is based on his experience as CISO at Orbitz and the security challenges he faced in business.

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