Next-gen industry analysis: data-driven, AI-first.
IT-Harvest is a research firm built around a single product: a live, exhaustive database of the cybersecurity industry. Our Dashboard tracks every vendor in the space — not a curated shortlist of the biggest names, but the entire market. Today that means detailed, continuously refreshed data on more than 4,100 cybersecurity vendors and the products they sell.
The Dashboard
What the Dashboard does
The IT-Harvest Dashboard (dashboard.it-harvest.com) puts the full cybersecurity landscape at your fingertips. Every vendor is profiled with the data that actually drives decisions: products and the categories they fall under, headquarters location, employee counts and growth trends, funding and revenue estimates, and the relationships between companies as the market consolidates.
We re-ingest product data from roughly 4,100 vendors every quarter. As companies update how they describe themselves, our search results update with them — so when you search a category, you see every vendor that belongs in it, tracked all the way to IPO, acquisition, or shutdown.
It is the difference between a representative list and an exhaustive one. Ask a general-purpose AI for every hardware security module on the market and you might get sixteen products from five vendors. Our database holds 139 HSM products from 71 vendors worldwide. If you are making a buying decision, starting from the complete picture is the only approach that makes sense.
Who we serve
Built for the people who can't afford a blind spot
Our customers use IT-Harvest to discover vendors, compare categories, track competitors, and ground their strategy in data rather than anecdote.
Security teams & CISOs
Evaluating tools against the complete market, not a vendor shortlist — comparing categories and grounding buying decisions in data rather than anecdote.
Investors & analysts
Sizing markets and diligencing companies with continuously refreshed funding, revenue, headcount, and M&A data across the entire industry.
Vendors
Understanding exactly where they sit in a crowded field — who they compete with, and who is moving around them as the market consolidates.
Why we built it
The long tail
The traditional analyst model was born when computers first entered business. It worked by acquiring deep expertise in a handful of dominant players and charging for decision advice. That made sense in an era of a dozen major vendors. It breaks down completely in an era of thousands.
In cybersecurity alone we count more than 4,100 vendors. The legacy firms cover only the largest fraction — all of the Magic Quadrants for cybersecurity include 144 vendors, leaving more than 3,900 in the long tail uncovered. One major firm has publicly said it will not track a vendor with less than $50 million in revenue — precisely backwards during a period of explosive innovation, when the most interesting companies are the new ones.
We believe an analyst firm should track all technology companies and their products. Across the wider technology economy that is an estimated 250,000 vendors and roughly a million products. Covering that with old methods would be impossible. Covering it with AI and automation is exactly the problem we set out to solve.
How we do it
AI and automation at the core
It took us three years to work out how to put AI and automation to work against the long tail — first within the microcosm of cybersecurity, where we proved the model. That head start is our advantage. The result is a research platform that scales to cover an entire industry continuously, instead of sampling a few representative vendors and calling it a category.
We are living through the biggest technological upheaval of any time. As in every revolution before it, the old guard gives way to the innovators. IT-Harvest was built for that world: comprehensive, current, and powered by automation rather than constrained by it.
The analyst behind the data
“The future of technology research is the long tail — and covering it well requires the help of AI.”
IT-Harvest was founded by Richard Stiennon — a longtime industry analyst, former Gartner research VP, and author of Security Yearbook, the annual history and data reference for the cybersecurity industry. He has also written two books on the analyst profession itself: UP and to the RIGHT and Curmudgeon.
- Former VP of Research, Gartner
- Author of the Security Yearbook series
- Author, UP and to the RIGHT
- Author, Curmudgeon
Explore the full cybersecurity landscape
See every vendor, product, and category in one living platform — and start your research from the complete picture.