Safety First: What Are Experts from Brno Working On

Whalebone

Small is the one who has a small goal. “Cybersecurity is a human right, not a privilege,” says Robert Šefr, the technical director at Whalebone. It protects people at the DNS level.

Progress

Their Flowmon platform can detect anomalies or the first signs of intrusion even in places where attackers bypass current security measures, all thanks to AI and machine learning.

Logmanager

Develops its own solutions for collecting, managing, and analyzing logs.

Jamf

Security for Macs, Macbooks, iPads, iPhones, and Apple TVs.

Gen Digital, ESET

Two global cybersecurity giants—with Czech and Slovak roots—also run key branches out of Brno.

GoodAccess

Looking into increasing your internal cybersecurity, but don’t have your own IT team? GoodAccess offers a platform tailored for business transitioning to cloud or SaaS environments. Built on zero-trust architecture, it verifies every access request and helps anticipate potential cyberattacks.

Dynatrace

Last year, the American company acquired a Brno-based startup for half a billion crowns (over 37 millions of dollars). Runesecft develops software that not only searches for potential misconfigurations or vulnerabilities in IT systems, but also monitors whether companies and organizations comply with security standards and regulations.

Safetica

If you accidentally send an email full of sensitive data to the wrong address, Safetica has you covered. The company is increasingly using its product to reduce risks and protect corporate data in 120 markets, collaborating with Microsoft and ESET.

Redamp.io

This company is creating a platform that even non-technical teams can easily install and manage. It includes remote access, secure viewing, VPN or SSH, phishing simulation, and ongoing training and education—all from one place.

Solarwinds

The Texas-based company has been operating a development center in Brno since 2008.

Gerycortex

It monitors security in IT and industrial IoT networks and visualizes network communication at the user, device, and application levels.

ThreatMark

Brno is buzzing with cybersecurity investment. Take ThreatMark, which raised more than half a billion crowns (around 22 million euro) earlier this year for its technology that can spot when a thief is trying to access your mobile banking—helping banks prevent online identity fraud before it happens.

Phonexia

Look who’s talking? That’s a million-dollar question—when you have a million-dollar account that someone is about to steal! Brno-based Phonexia has developed technology that identifies speakers by their voice, even if a fraudster tries to disguise it by changing tone or switching languages. A spinoff from Brno University of Technology, the company now runs projects in 50 countries and counts major forensic experts among its clients.