2025 Sponsors

Virtru

Virtru empowers organizations to unlock the power of data while maintaining control wherever it's stored and shared. From global enterprises to national defense and intelligence agencies, Virtru’s award-winning solutions provide simple, powerful data-centric security, underpinned by the Trusted Data Format (TDF).

N2K

From news to knowledge, N2K delivers critical industry insights, strategic intelligence, and performance-driven learning products that empower cybersecurity professionals to adapt, grow, and lead with confidence in an ever-evolving industry. Trusted by the most influential leaders and operators, N2K collaborates with the world’s top training and knowledge platforms, and partners with organizations ranging from Fortune 100 enterprises to fast-growing startups. N2K and its brands like N2K CyberWire connect the cybersecurity ecosystem and help security businesses and professionals grow.

Expel

Expel is the leading managed detection and response (MDR) provider trusted by some of the world’s most recognizable brands to expel their adversaries, minimize risk, and build security resilience. Expel’s 24/7/365 coverage spans the widest breadth of attack surfaces, including cloud, with 100% transparency. We combine world-class security practitioners and our AI-driven platform, Expel Workbench™, to ingest billions of events monthly and still achieve a 17-minute critical alert MTTR. Expel augments existing programs to help customers maximize their security investments and focus on building trust—with their customers, partners, and employees. 

JP Morgan Chase

DataTribe

DataTribe is a startup foundry that invests in and co-builds world-class startups focused on generational leaps in cybersecurity and data science. Founded by leading investors, startup veterans, and alumni of the U.S. intelligence community, DataTribe commits capital, in-kind services, access to an unparalleled network, and decades of professional expertise to give their companies an unfair advantage. DataTribe is headquartered in the Washington-Baltimore metro area in Fulton, Maryland.

Four Inc.

Four Inc. is a small business boutique aggregator and has been recognized as a Top 100 government contractor on Washington Technology's Top 100 Report consecutively for the last eight years. Four Inc.'s expertise of the federal IT contracting process and their carefully crafted ecosystem of manufacturers and partners has enabled them to expertly deliver the right technology solutions and services to their customers. Through their proven experience and dedication to their core values, they have earned the IT community's respect and trust.

King & Spalding

King & Spalding is an international law firm that represents a broad array of clients, including half of the Fortune Global 100, with 1,300 lawyers in 25 offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm has handled matters in over 160 countries on six continents and is consistently recognized for the results it obtains, uncompromising commitment to quality, and dedication to understanding the business and culture of its clients.

SixMap

SixMap, founded in Berkeley, Calif. in 2020, protects some of the world’s largest government and corporate enterprises with advanced computational mapping that quickly discovers and continuously monitors the unique contours of the extended enterprise. By combining real-time global threat intelligence with a comprehensive view of the attack surface, the platform identifies imminent threats and vulnerabilities, enabling decisive, proactive action to eliminate network attacks. Trusted by U.S. Federal agencies and Fortune 500 companies alike, SixMap joins advanced technology with intelligence community expertise to help you defend against the most sophisticated adversaries.

Sonatype

Sonatype is the leader in secure software development built on open source and AI. As the maintainers of Maven Central and creators of Nexus Repository, Sonatype has spent two decades pioneering how the world manages and secures open source software — making Sonatype the trusted authority for modern software supply chains. With unmatched open source visibility and a unified product suite built for modern software development, Sonatype gives enterprises the intelligence and automated governance they need to harness the full potential of open source and AI. Sonatype handles the complexity behind the scenes: guiding component and model selection, blocking harmful malicious code, automating dependency and vulnerability management, and ensuring faster, more reliable builds — so developers spend more time on innovation and less time on remediation and rework. Trusted by more than 15 million developers, Sonatype helps power secure, modern software development at nearly 2,000 global organizations including 70% of the Fortune 100.

Strider

Strider is the leading strategic intelligence company helping organizations protect and advance their technology, talent, and partnerships in an evolving geopolitical landscape. Using proprietary AI and risk methodologies, Strider transforms open-source data into critical insights that expose state-sponsored threats including intellectual property theft, targeted talent acquisition, and high-risk third-party relationships. With global operations and offices in Salt Lake City, Washington, D.C., London, and Tokyo, Strider delivers the intelligence organizations need to stay ahead of nation-state risk and secure their competitive edge.

threatER

threatER is a comprehensive cybersecurity platform that provides active network defense by automating the enforcement, deployment, and analysis of cyber threats at scale. threatER offers a wide range of solutions to proactively and automatically safeguard organizations against cyber threats. Their patented solution effectively blocks all known threats, enabling the rest of the modern cyber security stack to do its job more efficiently. Your security stack is better with threatER.

W2 Communications

VC in DC

VC in DC organizes networking events for the DC tech community, focusing on fostering connections between local investing professionals.

The Cyber Guild

The Cyber Guild Foundation, established in 2021 as a not-for-profit 501(c)(3), positions mission-driven people at the center of a resilient cybersecurity ecosystem. Today, The Cyber Guild is a vibrant and growing community of cybersecurity professionals, allies, and partners. Together, we're advancing an inclusive workforce, accelerating innovation, and shaping a safer, more secure future for all.

DCA Live

Since 2014, DCA Live has hosted live and virtual events featuring the fastest growing companies and most dynamic professionals in the Washington, DC region's legal, association & nonprofit, entrepreneur, federal tech, real estate and corporate communities. DCA Live also publishes a daily digital newsletter featuring profiles of leading companies and professionals from these industries and news and insights on DC business.

Cybersecurity Association

The Cybersecurity Association, Inc. (formerly the Cybersecurity Association of Maryland, Inc. or CAMI) is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization established in 2015.  We are a trusted community for companies that view cybersecurity as a strategic issue.  We provide an ecosystem through advocacy, education, and growing the cyber community.

Station DC

STATION DC is a non-profit tech club for frontier-tech founders, investors, government and military leaders, regulators, and philanthropists advancing America's national interest. Members gain curated introductions, exclusive events, Capital Factory-powered education, real-time policy intelligence, and flexible meeting space in our 12,000-square-foot Union Market clubhouse--plugging innovators directly into Washington's rooms of power.