- Capability group
- Connectivity, Cyber & Trust Technologies
- Domain
- Critical Technology · Hard Power
- Identifier
- factbase.org/cap/4MZ9YZKS2J
- Reference
- Computer security Wikipedia
Papers
7.1k
2020–2024
Paper growth
+105%
2020–24 on 2015–19
Patent families
216k
2020–2024
Filed abroad
18%
families in more than one office
In the framework
What the capability covers and what it leaves to others, and the indicators it will be measured by.
Bounds
Covers the protective technology base; defensive operations belong to National Security's Defensive Cyber Operations, the protected infrastructure to Strategic Infrastructure, and the security workforce to Human Capital. The seam is technology versus operation: the tool is held here, its employment there.
Lineage
Carried from v0.0 (formerly Protective cyber security technologies) with the same identifier; retained in its original group as the security layer of connectivity, with the operational seam to National Security stated.
Indicators
- cybersecurity patent familiesPatents
- cybersecurity industry revenuePending
- security firms of global standingPending
Research
Papers classified to the capability, by year and by the nation of their authors' institutions, 2020–2024. Read from the v0.0 research topic Protective cyber security technologies.
Papers by year
The five leading nations, papers by year
Share of papers, 2020–2024
Of papers with a known author nation; 46% have none and are left out.
- 1India18.1%804 papers
- 2United States16.1%716 papers
- 3China9.0%399 papers
- 4United Kingdom5.2%230 papers
- 5Germany2.6%117 papers
- 6Saudi Arabia2.5%113 papers
- 7Russia2.5%111 papers
- 8Canada2.2%99 papers
- 9Australia2.2%99 papers
- 10Italy2.0%87 papers
Leading institutions, 2020–2024
By fractional count: each paper divided among its authors' institutions.
- 1SRM Institute of Science and Technology25fractional papers
- 2Vellore Institute of Technology University22fractional papers
- 3Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham22fractional papers
- 4Chitkara University21fractional papers
- 5Chandigarh University16fractional papers
- 6Graphic Era University13fractional papers
- 7Lovely Professional University13fractional papers
- 8China Southern Power Grid (China)13fractional papers
- 9University of Tennessee at Chattanooga12fractional papers
- 10Jain University12fractional papers
Patents
Patent families by the nation of origin of their applicants and their earliest priority year, from the CPC and IPC classes the capability is read from. 2025 onwards is incomplete: families are published 18 months after priority.
Families by priority year
The five leading origins, families by year
28,103 applicants filed here in 2015–2024; the five largest held 9% of families (HHI 35 of 10,000: unconcentrated).
Share of families by origin, 2020–2024
- 1China70.9%153,069 families
- 2United States14.1%30,423 families
- 3South Korea4.6%9,835 families
- 4Japan3.0%6,533 families
- 5Germany1.5%3,198 families
- 6France0.7%1,427 families
- 7Taiwan0.6%1,370 families
- 8United Kingdom0.6%1,226 families
- 9Sweden0.5%1,109 families
- 10Israel0.4%878 families
Applicants filing most internationally, 2015–2024
Families filed in more than one office, by applicant as the offices name them.
- 1HUAWEI TECH CO LTD3,932international families
- 2SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD2,340international families
- 3MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC1,943international families
- 4ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M1,527international families
- 5ZTE CORP1,248international families
- 6INTEL CORP1,151international families
- 7QUALCOMM INC1,119international families
- 8ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD975international families
- 9SIEMENS AG896international families
- 10NEC CORP881international families
Classification read
- G06F21/50 Platform integrity: malware and intrusion detection, secure boot · 345.8k documents
- G06F21/60 Protecting data: access control and encryption services · 378.2k documents
- G06F21/70 Hardware security of computer components · 179.7k documents
- H04L63/00 Network security: firewalls, access control, malicious-traffic detection · 1.4m documents
- H04L9/40 Network security protocols · 126k documents
- H04W12/00 Wireless network security · 547.1k documents
Shares inventions with
Capabilities whose classes the same families also fall in, by overlap (Jaccard).
- Privacy, Identity & Trust Technologies45,520 families · 0.440
- Advanced Wireless Communication18,625 families · 0.059
Companies
50 companies in this capability, across 8 regions. The leading 12:
- 1MicrosoftLargest security vendor by revenue, with Defender (XDR/endpoint), Sentinel (SIEM), Entra (identity) and Purview, and among the top international patent applicants in this field.Design
- 2Palo Alto NetworksLargest pure-play cybersecurity firm (next-generation firewalls, Prisma SASE, Cortex XSIAM, Unit 42); it completed its $25bn acquisition of Israel's CyberArk (identity security) in February 2026.Design
- 3CrowdStrikeMarket leader in cloud-delivered endpoint detection and response through its Falcon platform, which has expanded into cloud, identity and next-gen SIEM.Design
- 4FortinetShips more firewall units than any other vendor, built on its own FortiGate security ASICs and FortiOS, alongside SASE and SecOps products.Manufacture
- 5Cisco SystemsMajor security vendor for firewalls, Duo identity, Talos threat intelligence and Splunk SIEM/SOAR (acquired 2024 for $28bn).Design
- 6Alphabet (Google DeepMind)Google Security Operations, Mandiant incident response and threat intelligence, and Wiz cloud security (its $32bn acquisition closed in March 2026) make it a top-tier security player.Software & services
- 7Check Point Software TechnologiesPioneer of the stateful firewall and still a leading network, cloud and email security vendor through its Infinity platform; Israel's largest security company.Design
- 8ZscalerLeading security service edge (SSE) and zero-trust cloud provider; its Zero Trust Exchange processes hundreds of billions of transactions a day.Software & services
- 9CloudflareGlobal edge network providing DDoS mitigation, web application firewall, zero-trust access and SASE services.Software & services
- 10OktaLeading independent identity and access management platform for workforce and customer identity (Okta and Auth0).Software & services
- 11Qi-An-Xin Technology GroupChina's largest dedicated cybersecurity vendor, supplying endpoint, network and SOC products to government and enterprises; it was the official cybersecurity provider for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.Design
- 12Trend MicroJapan's leading security vendor, covering endpoint, cloud workload and network security through its Vision One XDR platform and the Zero Day Initiative.Design