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Business Wire
18 hours ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Lumu Named a 2025 Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum
MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lumu, the leader in Continuous Compromise Assessment®, today announced it has been selected as a 2025 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, a prestigious recognition that honors the most innovative and impactful emerging tech companies from around the world. Our Continuous Compromise Assessment model provides organizations the confidence to focus on resilience—not just prevention. We're excited to contribute our insights on cyber risk, network visibility, and operational security at a global level. As part of the 2025 cohort, Lumu joins a select group of companies driving critical innovation in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, digital trust, and beyond. As part of this recognition, Lumu is invited to engage with a global ecosystem of business, government, academic, and civil society leaders, enabling unique collaboration opportunities over the next two years. 'Being named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum is a great honor and a powerful validation of Lumu's transformative approach to cybersecurity,' said Ricardo Villadiego, Founder and CEO of Lumu. 'Our Continuous Compromise Assessment model provides organizations the confidence to focus on resilience—not just prevention. We're excited to contribute our insights on cyber risk, network visibility, and operational security at a global level.' The World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneer program is known for identifying companies with cutting-edge technology and the potential for long-term impact on business and society. Past recipients of the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneer designation include companies such as Google, Airbnb, Dropbox, Twitter, Spotify, and Cylance—organizations that went on to redefine their industries and drive global innovation. Lumu provides organizations: Security Operations Efficiency: Lumu empowers security teams to do more with less by eliminating guesswork, accelerating detection, and automating response, making security operations smarter and more effective. Unmatched Threat Visibility: Through Continuous Compromise Assessment, Lumu delivers real-time visibility into confirmed threats across the network, closing the breach detection gap from months to minutes. Built for Every Organization: Lumu's SaaS platform is designed to scale, from small teams to large enterprises, ensuring advanced threat detection is accessible to all. Ecosystem Integration: Lumu works seamlessly with existing security tools including EDR/XDR, SIEMs, firewalls, so organizations can enhance their current stack without disruption. Proven Global Adoption: Trusted by almost 10,000 security teams from 28 countries across finance, healthcare, education, and government to strengthen cybersecurity outcomes. As a Technology Pioneer, Lumu will participate in World Economic Forum initiatives, events, and cross-industry projects, contributing to the global conversation on digital resilience and modern threat defense. About Lumu Lumu is a cybersecurity company that enables organizations to measure and understand compromise in real time. By collecting and analyzing network metadata, Lumu identifies confirmed points of compromise and enables immediate, automated response across existing infrastructure. Headquartered in Miami, Lumu is trusted by thousands of organizations around the world to close the breach detection gap. For more information, visit


Business Wire
06-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Lumu Named a Leader and Outperformer in the GigaOm Radar for Network Detection and Response for Third Consecutive Year
MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lumu, the cybersecurity company pioneering Continuous Compromise Assessment®, today announced that GigaOm named the company a leader and outperformer in the GigaOm Radar for Network Detection and Response (NDR) for the third consecutive year. "SaaS is redefining how NDR is delivered, and it's clear that the future of the category will be dominated by platforms that can deliver speed, scalability, and simplicity." -Ricardo Villadiego, founder and CEO of Lumu Lumu achieved the highest possible scores in contextualized visibility and automated response, as well as configurability, manageability, observability, performance, resiliency, framework support, and integrated flow data — setting the standard for the NDR category. These results reflect Lumu's ability to deliver deep, actionable insights and immediate threat mitigation through a SaaS-based platform. By combining advanced detection with ease of management and resilient architecture, Lumu empowers organizations to streamline security operations, accelerate response times, and stay ahead in today's evolving threat landscape. The recent GigaOm Radar report examines 29 of the top NDR solutions and compares offerings against the capabilities (table stakes, key features, and emerging features) and nonfunctional requirements (business criteria) outlined in the companion Key Criteria report. Together, these reports provide an overview of the market, identify leading NDR offerings, and help decision-makers evaluate solutions to make a more informed investment decision. 'We are thrilled to be recognized by GigaOm in their Radar for Network Detection and Response for the third year in a row — a validation of Lumu's commitment to delivering scalable, cloud-native detection and response capabilities to organizations of all sizes and industries. Today's cyberattacks are designed to bypass traditional, siloed defenses like perimeter security and endpoint detection. Lumu Defender provides real-time, network-level threat detection and integrates seamlessly with existing security stacks to automate and accelerate response — all through a SaaS model that ensures rapid deployment, continuous updates, and immediate value. SaaS is redefining how NDR is delivered, and it's clear that the future of the category will be dominated by platforms that can deliver speed, scalability, and simplicity. We're proud to be acknowledged for empowering organizations to detect and respond faster with a solution built for the future of cybersecurity,' said Ricardo Villadiego, founder and CEO of Lumu. Lumu Defender, the company's flagship NDR solution, acts as the core of an organization's security operation. It delivers Continuous Compromise Assessment to identify network threats and applies its powerful capabilities beyond the network to cover identities, devices, and workloads. Lumu Defender captures and analyzes a wide range of network metadata. This metadata is then fed into Lumu's Illumination Process, which combines known Indicators of Compromise (loCs) correlation, anomaly detection using AI models, and deep correlation analysis to identify potential threats with high accuracy. The solution leverages collective defense by continuously learning from the network data of all its customers, enabling it to adapt to evolving threats rapidly. Providing complete network visibility, Lumu Defender integrates seamlessly with existing cybersecurity defenses to automate threat response. Once a threat is detected, the solution provides rich context and visibility into the incident, including affected assets, attack techniques (mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework), and potential impact. It then enables automated response actions through Lumu AutoPilot and out-of-the-box integrations with over 125+ existing security tools. To learn more about Lumu's industry-leading cybersecurity solutions and download the latest GigaOm report, please visit Lumu is a cybersecurity company that helps organizations operate cybersecurity proficiently by measuring and understanding compromise in real time. Through its Continuous Compromise Assessment model, Lumu empowers security teams to act immediately on confirmed compromises and minimize risk exposure. For more information, visit