# Cyber Company Profiles: CyCraft Technology

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## At a Glance

- Website: [cycraft.com](https://www.cycraft.com)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/cycraft-technology
- Type: Security for AI, Detection Response, Security Operations, Threat Intelligence
- Also known as: CyCraft, CyCraft Technology Corporation, CyCraft-KY
- Market readiness: Established (30/40)
- Defensibility: Defensible (15/21)
- Founded: 2017
- Last updated: 2026-09-11

## Executive Summary

Founded in Taiwan in 2017, CyCraft sells software that maps a customer's attack surface and detects attacks on endpoints. Its customers are hundreds of organizations in government, defense, finance, semiconductors, and manufacturing, and more than 90 percent of them renew. It sells a managed service too, one that automates most monitoring and first-response tasks. Pavilion Capital and the CID Group funded its US$5.65 million Series B, and it later listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. Wired and The Register covered its investigations of intrusions into at least seven Taiwanese chip firms and a Chinese state-sponsored campaign against financial firms there. Its threat intelligence from that casework is what a rival would take longest to reproduce, and its position is strongest in Taiwan.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Sourced Details](#sourced-details)
- [Matrix Coverage](#matrix-coverage)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Sourced Details

| Detail | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Description | CyCraft Technology is a Taiwan-based, publicly listed (TWSE Innovation Board, 7823) cybersecurity vendor whose XCockpit platform combines endpoint detection, identity attack-surface management, and external attack-surface management for threat detection and response. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2017 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | New Taipei City, Taiwan | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Subsidiaries | CyCraft Japan (Japan subsidiary (株式会社 CyCraft Japan), Tokyo.), CyCraft Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore subsidiary.) |  |
| Latest funding | Series B, US$5.65M (2019) | [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| XCockpit | AI threat exposure management platform combining external attack-surface management, identity attack-surface management, and endpoint detection and automated forensics in one console. |
| XecGuard | AI security guardrail product that screens prompts and outputs for large language model and generative AI applications. |
| XecDefend | Defense-grade AI offering that the vendor describes as applying its cyber technology to the counter-drone domain. |
| CyberTotal | Cloud threat intelligence service that aggregates and scores indicators to enrich detection and investigation across the platform. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [Cyber Defense Matrix](https://cyberdefensematrix.com) [\[f5\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devices | ✓ |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |
| Networks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |
| Users | ✓ |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |

CyCraft XCockpit integrates external attack surface management, internal attack surface management, and endpoint security posture management. These three lines are mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix.

Mapped to the [AI Defense Matrix](https://aidefensematrix.com) [\[f6\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Gateways & Routers |  |  | ✓ |  |  |  |

CyCraft XecGuard is a distinct guardrail product that screens prompts and outputs for large language model and generative AI applications, and is mapped appropriately to the AI Defense Matrix.

## Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

**Established (30/40)**

Analyzed 2026-07-05. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 4/5 | Independent reporting establishes the buyer pain as urgent and concrete in CyCraft's exact accounts: Wired documented Chinese intrusions into at least seven Taiwanese chip firms (s5) and The Register documented a supply-chain attack on software used by 80 percent of Taiwan's financial institutions (s6), a body of incident evidence few same-size peers can point to. \[[s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Capability Depth | 4/5 | Beyond the vendor's one-platform-three-modules architecture, CyCraft holds an external validation point the detection peers lack: the regulator-cited record confirms three U.S. MITRE ATT&CK evaluations (s1), and reputable independent outlets covered its original research on the Chimera (s5) and Operation Cache Panda (s6) campaigns. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Market Timing | 4/5 | BusinessNext independently reports company-estimated 2025 revenue near NT$369 million growing about 23 percent with fourth-quarter revenue near NT$117 million (s2), and the renewal rate above 90 percent in the listing record (s1) shows buyers in a heavily targeted region are actively funding and keeping the product. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Team Credibility | 4/5 | The founders sold their prior company Xecure Lab to Israeli vendor Verint for about 100 times its paid-in capital in early 2014 (s3), a verifiable in-domain exit, and they sustain original research presented at Black Hat, including the Chimera disclosure Wired covered (s5). \[[s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| GTM Proof | 4/5 | Traction is multiply sourced: BusinessNext independently reports company-estimated NT$369 million 2025 revenue (s2), the listing record shows deployments across hundreds of government, defense, financial, and semiconductor organizations with a renewal rate above 90 percent (s1), and CommonWealth names customers including Bank of Taiwan, Fubon Financial Holdings, and MediaTek (s4). \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Funding Efficiency | 3/5 | CyCraft had raised at least US$8.15 million by 2019 (s8) and later reached a 2026 public listing with company-estimated revenue growth (s2), visible shipping that points to a capital-efficient path, but the full pre-listing financing history and margins are not in the public record, so efficiency stays unconfirmed. \[[s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Category Clarity | 4/5 | CyCraft fits established detection-and-response and exposure-management categories that independent outlets place without vendor coaching, framing it plainly as an AI cybersecurity company (s2), while its Gartner mentions are vendor-displayed rather than an independent leader placement (s1). \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 | Taiwan-specific threat intelligence built from national-scale incident response (s5, s6) and government-defense procurement standing (s1) give real friction at home, but a global platform vendor could bundle the core detection capability and the regional position does not travel overseas. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |

### Business Risks

- A global platform vendor could bundle AI-native detection and exposure management into existing Asia-Pacific enterprise deals, eroding CyCraft's differentiation outside its government and defense accounts.
- The overseas-growth plan depends on winning buyers who default to global incumbents, where CyCraft's Taiwan threat intelligence and procurement standing do not apply.
- CyCraft's publicly disclosed deployments and references concentrate in Taiwan government, defense, financial, and semiconductor accounts, so its growth depends on extending beyond a familiar regional base.
- The newer XecGuard LLM-security and XecDefend counter-drone lines carry no disclosed traction, and spreading across security, AI, and defense could blur the category placement buyers rely on.
- Most headline scale figures originate from the company's own pre-IPO briefing, so if independent corroboration does not keep pace, the overseas-growth case weakens.

### Problem & Market

CyCraft sells to the security teams of large, regulated, high-value organizations in Taiwan and across East and Southeast Asia. The listing record names the buyers concretely: government, defense, financial services, semiconductors, and high-tech manufacturing, deployed across hundreds of organizations.

The pain those buyers face is independently documented, not only vendor-asserted. Wired reported CyCraft's investigation of Chinese hackers who compromised at least seven Taiwanese chip firms to steal source code and chip designs, and The Register reported its analysis of a supply-chain attack that reached software used by 80 percent of Taiwan's financial institutions. For defenders in a region this heavily targeted by state-sponsored intrusion, the labor cost of manual detection and response is concrete rather than hypothetical. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities

XCockpit is the core platform, built as one console over three modules: external attack-surface management for asset discovery and dark-web intelligence, identity attack-surface management for privilege mapping and attack-path prediction, and an endpoint module for real-time detection and automated forensics. CyberTotal supplies the threat intelligence that enriches detection across the platform.

The capability evidence sits outside the vendor's marketing. The regulator-cited record confirms CyCraft passed three U.S. MITRE ATT&CK evaluations, an external validation point few peers its size hold. Reputable independent outlets separately covered the depth of its research, reporting on the Chimera semiconductor-espionage investigation and the Operation Cache Panda financial-sector attack, where CyCraft identified the supply-chain vector and a QuasarRAT payload.

Two newer lines extend the portfolio into AI-specific and defense markets. XecGuard screens prompts and outputs for large language model applications, and XecDefend applies the company's cyber technology to counter-drone defense. Neither carries disclosed traction yet. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitive Positioning

CyCraft competes in detection-and-response and exposure management, where buyers already hold a clear reference set. Inside its home region it differentiates on local threat intelligence, autonomous analysis, and a procurement position tuned to Taiwan government and defense requirements.

The defensibility turns on whether that regional position travels. Its Taiwan-specific threat intelligence, built from years of national-scale incident response like the Chimera and Operation Cache Panda investigations, plus government and defense procurement standing, is a barrier a foreign vendor cannot easily clear at home, where sovereignty concerns favor a domestic supplier.

Outside the region that advantage thins. Global endpoint and detection vendors set the buyer's default in the overseas markets CyCraft's growth plan targets, and the core detection capability sits within bundling range of a larger platform, so the regional moat reads as an early foothold rather than a proven, transferable one. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Go-to-Market & Traction

CyCraft's traction is concrete and increasingly independent. BusinessNext reports company-estimated 2025 revenue near NT$369 million, up about 23 percent year over year, with fourth-quarter revenue near NT$117 million, and the listing record shows deployments across hundreds of government, defense, financial, and semiconductor organizations with a renewal rate above 90 percent.

Named reference customers are stronger than the prior public record suggested. CommonWealth reported that Bank of Taiwan, the Joint Credit Information Center, Fubon Financial Holdings, and MediaTek engaged the company, and that Singapore's national-security venture Ensign InfoSecurity chose it for critical detection and response. The 2026 public listing adds regulated financial disclosure that most security companies its size never reach. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Team & Credibility

The founding team carries a verifiable prior exit in exactly this domain. They built Xecure Lab, which Israeli vendor Verint acquired for about 100 times its paid-in capital in early 2014, before founding CyCraft.

Recognition reinforces the background. The team sustains original threat research presented at Black Hat, including the Chimera disclosure Wired covered. That combination of a prior exit and an independently covered research record meets the bar for strong, though regionally concentrated, team credibility. \[[s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Trust Readiness

CyCraft carries external trust signals strong for its size. The 2026 public listing brings regulated financial disclosure that most security companies never reach, and the company has long served national governments and large enterprises across Asia.

Third-party validation is the readiness strength. Three U.S. MITRE ATT&CK evaluations and recognition in Gartner research give buyers reference points beyond the vendor's own claims, and independent press coverage of its incident-response work on the Chimera and Operation Cache Panda campaigns gives buyers outside reference points. The main limit is geographic: the trust collateral and references concentrate in Asia, so a buyer outside the region has fewer local proof points to lean on. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitors

| Company | Relationship | Note |
|---|---|---|
| CrowdStrike | competes with | Global endpoint and XDR platform whose Threat Graph and enterprise reach set the buyer default in markets CyCraft wants to enter. |
| Cynet | competes with | Unified detection-and-response platform serving mid-market buyers with a similar all-in-one positioning. |
| SentinelOne | competes with | Autonomous endpoint protection and XDR vendor competing on AI-driven detection in the same enterprise accounts. |
| Rapid7 | competes with | Exposure management and detection-and-response vendor overlapping CyCraft's attack-surface and endpoint modules. |

## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how [defensible](https://zeltser.com/scoring-security-product-strategy) it is against market forces and examining the [eight areas](https://zeltser.com/security-product-creation-framework) behind it.

### Defensibility

**Defensible (15/21)**

Band guidance: press the advantage. Analyzed 2026-09-11. Scope: whole company.

CyCraft's threat intelligence from its intrusion casework is what a rival would take longest to reproduce. Founded in 2017, it sells attack-surface mapping and endpoint detection to hundreds of organizations in government, defense, finance, semiconductors, and manufacturing. Its software monitors customers' endpoints and privileged accounts, and more than 90 percent of its customers renew. Partners in Taiwan, Japan, and Singapore offer managed detection and response on its platform. Pavilion Capital and the CID Group funded its US$5.65 million Series B. Wired and The Register covered its investigations of intrusions into at least seven Taiwanese chip firms and a Chinese state-sponsored campaign against financial firms there. Its position is strongest in Taiwan.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 2/3 | CyCraft's commercial engine is XCockpit sold as a software subscription, and the TWSE Market Insights article on its listing says the company also delivers an AI-powered SOC-as-a-Service automating monitoring and first response. The 2019 platform launch enabled regional partners to offer managed detection, but a customer can buy delivered operations from CyCraft, not code alone. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 | Endpoint agents deployed across the estate, identity and attack-path mapping wired into the environment, and detection workflows built on the platform create friction, and the renewal rate above 90 percent shows customers stay, whatever mix of stickiness and satisfaction drives it. The hold is meaningful but regionally bounded, since the deployments the cited record names sit in Taiwan and neighboring Asian markets. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s10](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 | CyCraft's about page states ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification, a baseline attestation that eases procurement without gating competitors, and no accreditation in the fetched record mandates the product or locks buyers to it. Its home-market concentration is a market-access and switching factor rather than a compliance certification rivals must match. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 | Autonomous detection and forensics across endpoint, identity, and external attack surface at national scale, under sustained state-sponsored pressure, is hard real-time adversarial engineering. Original research on the Chimera and Operation Cache Panda campaigns evidences unusual investigative depth. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Buyer Profile | 3/3 | CyCraft sells to government, defense, financial services, and semiconductor organizations through a contact-sales motion with no public pricing. Buyers in these regulated classes are among the most demanding and least churn-prone, and the TWSE Market Insights article reports deployment across hundreds of such organizations. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Layer | 2/3 | XCockpit spans the customer's endpoints, identities, and external surface and runs the detection workflow, more than a single-use application. But the cited pages show no third-party software depending on it to function, so it is a security-operations platform rather than infrastructure others build on. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 2/3 | CyCraft accumulates threat intelligence from investigating state-sponsored intrusions into Taiwan's chip and financial sectors, original research built from casework rather than from writing software, and separately markets CyberTotal's aggregated CTI. The corpus is a genuine content asset. CyberTotal is marketed as aggregating global CTI, and the record does not size the corpus against rivals, so its weight rests on the documented Taiwan incident research. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources)\] |

### Strategic Market Segmentation

CyCraft sells to the security teams of large, heavily regulated organizations in Taiwan and neighboring Asian markets. The TWSE Market Insights article names the buyers concretely: government, defense, financial services, semiconductors, and high-tech manufacturing, deployed across hundreds of organizations, and independent reporting corroborates CyCraft's incident work in the semiconductor and financial sectors, though those victims are not named references.

The segment is defined as much by geography as by industry. CyCraft's proof, procurement standing, and threat intelligence concentrate in Taiwan, with subsidiaries carrying the same motion into Japan and Singapore. These are buyers in one of the world's most heavily targeted regions, for whom the labor of manual detection and response against state-sponsored intrusion is a standing cost rather than a hypothetical one.

A second, newer segment sits beside the core. XecGuard targets developers and enterprises building large language model applications, a horizontal AI-security buyer distinct from the regional security-operations teams XCockpit serves, and one where CyCraft has not yet disclosed customers. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities & AI Advantages

XCockpit is CyCraft's core platform, built as one console over three modules: external attack-surface management for asset discovery and dark-web intelligence, identity attack-surface management for privilege mapping and attack-path prediction, and an endpoint module for real-time detection and automated forensics. The pitch is autonomous analysis that compresses the human labor of investigation, which the endpoint module frames as autonomous case management.

The capability evidence CyCraft can point to sits outside its own marketing. The TWSE Market Insights article reports the product passed the U.S. MITRE ATT&CK evaluation three times, and reputable independent outlets covered the depth of its research: Wired on the Chimera investigation into intrusions at seven Taiwanese chip firms, and The Register on Operation Cache Panda, where CyCraft identified a supply-chain attack against software used across most of Taiwan's financial sector.

Two newer lines extend the portfolio beyond detection and response. XecGuard screens prompts and outputs for large language model applications, and XecDefend applies the company's cyber technology to counter-drone defense. The vendor's pages also present XecART, an AI red-teaming solution, beyond the counted product lines, a scope question for the next full refresh. Neither carries traction disclosed in the cited record, and the XecGuard community program on the homepage is developer outreach rather than a commercial reference, so the demonstrated capability remains the XCockpit platform and the threat research behind it. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s10](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Sales Engagement & Go-to-Market

CyCraft runs an enterprise, contact-sales motion rather than a self-service one. The website routes prospects to a demo-request form that asks for company, region, and the nearest CyCraft office, and the product is sold as a subscription rather than a published-price purchase. Its 2026 listing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange also brings the company under regulated financial disclosure.

Distribution leans on a regional partner channel and founder visibility. CyCraft's 2019 platform launch was built to let security partners in Taiwan, Japan, and Singapore deliver managed detection and response on top of its software, and co-founder Benson Wu fronts the company's public standing through Taiwan government advisory roles and conference research. That combination reaches buyers through relationships and reputation rather than paid acquisition.

The go-to-market strength is a home market that rewards it: the exchange listing and the founder's advisory standing sit in Taiwan, and the renewal rate above 90 percent reported in the TWSE article shows buyers keep the product. The partner channel reaches further: CyCraft has offered the platform to partners in eight Asian markets, with Taiwan, Japan, and Singapore partners enabled for managed detection and NTT Security Japan and India's Sectonics among named relationships, so the open transfer question is beyond Asia rather than beyond Taiwan. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Pricing Model

CyCraft publishes no pricing, which signals large negotiated deals. The site offers a demo request rather than a quote or a sign-up, and the TWSE Market Insights article describes a subscription SaaS model without naming the unit buyers pay for, whether endpoints, assets, or platform modules.

The AI line does not yet show a second pricing motion. XecGuard is presented as a guardrail API, but its page routes prospects to a demo request and a contact form like the rest of the line. CyCraft has not disclosed prices for either, so procurement has no public anchor and the company keeps room to price against value in each negotiation. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Delivery & Operations

CyCraft delivers XCockpit as a subscription SaaS with an endpoint agent deployed across the customer's estate. The endpoint module monitors devices and privileged-account activity and runs autonomous case management, which the company positions as reducing the analyst labor a fragmented toolset demands.

The operational claims are vendor-stated and regionally supported. The TWSE Market Insights article credits the unified platform with materially faster incident response and lower maintenance cost than fragmented alternatives, figures reported in the TWSE article with no independent test named. Support and delivery run through regional offices, with a Taipei headquarters and subsidiaries in Japan and Singapore, matching where the customer base sits. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s10](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Earning Customers' Trust

CyCraft's strongest trust signals are independent evaluation and regulated disclosure. The product passed the U.S. MITRE ATT&CK evaluation three times, and the February 2026 listing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange places the company under public-market financial reporting and governance obligations.

Independent press coverage of its incident work reinforces the record. Wired and The Register reported original CyCraft research on the Chimera and Operation Cache Panda campaigns, giving buyers reference points beyond the vendor's own claims. Analyst recognitions from Gartner, IDC, and Frost and Sullivan appear on the company's awards page, but as vendor-displayed mentions rather than an independent leader placement, and the about page states ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification, a baseline attestation rather than a claimed differentiator.

The limit on that trust is geographic. The references and analyst mentions concentrate in Asia, and the MITRE evaluations are the external signal from a U.S. evaluator, so a buyer outside the region has fewer local proof points, and the record shows no formal accreditation aimed at the defense and AI-security markets CyCraft is entering. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning

CyCraft positions XCockpit as a unified platform rather than a point tool, and the architecture supports the claim. Endpoint, identity, and external-attack-surface modules share one console, and CyberTotal supplies the threat intelligence that enriches detection across them, so the platform's value compounds as more of the customer's surface runs through it.

The ecosystem beyond the product is a regional service channel. Partners in Taiwan, Japan, and Singapore were enlisted to deliver managed detection and response on the platform, and adjacent offerings such as XecART sits beside it as an AI red-teaming offering, and a SEMI E187 assessment tool extends the portfolio into the semiconductor supply chain. That channel puts CyCraft in front of buyers its direct sales force does not reach.

What the platform lacks is third-party gravity of its own. The reviewed pages show no marketplace listings or broad integration catalog, and larger endpoint platforms could bundle similar detection, a strategic risk the cited record does not size. The ecosystem is real but regional, an early channel rather than an installed-base moat. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Team & Execution Capability

CyCraft's founders carry a verifiable prior exit in exactly this domain. Chief executive Benson Wu and co-founder Birdman Chiu built Xecure Lab, an early Taiwanese specialist in APT defense, which Israel's Verint acquired in early 2014 for roughly a hundred times its paid-in capital before they founded CyCraft.

The team's research reputation is independently visible. The founders present original threat research at Black Hat, DEFCON, and HITCON, and CyCraft researchers presented the Chimera disclosure Wired covered, and Benson Wu holds Taiwan government cybersecurity advisory appointments and leads a national defense-industry association. That standing anchors the company's credibility with government and defense buyers.

The same profile is regionally concentrated. The founders' networks, government roles, and research reputation are Taiwanese, which is a strength at home and a thinner asset in the overseas markets CyCraft's growth plan targets, where the team is far less known. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\]

## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [TWSE Market Insights: New listed company CyCraft-KY (7823)](https://www.twse.com.tw/market_insights/en/detail/8a8216d69bde495d019c1d8b033f0126) | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| f2 | [CyCraft: AI Cybersecurity Startup Raised US$5.65M in Series B Funding](https://www.cycraft.com/en/news/cybersecurity20190802) | official | 2026-06-24 |
| f3 | [CyCraft: About (Taiwan headquarters)](https://www.cycraft.com/about-cycraft) | official | 2026-06-24 |
| f4 | [PR Newswire APAC: CyCraft Raised US$5.65M in Series B Funding](https://en.prnasia.com/releases/apac/ai-cybersecurity-startup-cycraft-raised-us-5-65-million-in-series-b-funding-253716.shtml) | press | 2026-06-24 |
| f5 | [CyCraft XCockpit: Threat Exposure Management Platform](https://www.cycraft.com/en/xcockpit) | official | 2026-07-28 |
| f6 | [TWSE Market Insights: New listed company CyCraft-KY (7823)](https://www.twse.com.tw/market_insights/en/detail/8a8216d69bde495d019c1d8b033f0126) | regulatory | 2026-06-24 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

Cited from the Market Readiness section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [TWSE Market Insights: New listed company CyCraft-KY (7823)](https://www.twse.com.tw/market_insights/en/detail/8a8216d69bde495d019c1d8b033f0126) “CyCraft Technology Corporation is a leading AI-native cybersecurity software company from Taiwan and the only vendor in the country to have passed the U.S. MITRE ATT&CK evaluation three times and been named in Gartner cybersecurity research reports seven times.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s2 | [BusinessNext: CyCraft (7823) pre-IPO briefing, 2025 revenue NT$369M (translated from Chinese)](https://www.bnext.com.tw/article/89760/cycraft-will-ipo-in-feburary) “2025年全年度營收預估會來到新台幣3.69億元，年增23％，且第四季單季營收預估達1.17億元 (translation: 2025 full-year revenue is estimated at NT$369 million, up about 23 percent year over year, with fourth-quarter revenue of NT$117 million)” | press | 2026-06-28 |
| s3 | [CommonWealth Magazine: Singapore Turns to Taiwan (Xecure Lab sale to Verint)](https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=2276) “Xecure Lab, which at the time had paid-in capital of NT$2.95 million, was ultimately sold for 100 times that amount to Israel-based Verint in early 2014.” | press | 2026-06-28 |
| s4 | [CommonWealth Magazine: Singapore Turns to Taiwan (named Taiwan customers)](https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=2276) “Over the past six months, six Taiwanese financial institutions, including Bank of Taiwan, the Joint Credit Information Center, and Fubon Financial Holdings, have sought the help of CyCarrier, as has the IC design company that most prizes confidentiality, MediaTek.” | press | 2026-06-28 |
| s5 | [Wired: Chinese Hackers Have Pillaged Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry](https://www.wired.com/story/chinese-hackers-taiwan-semiconductor-industry-skeleton-key/) “researchers from the Taiwanese cybersecurity firm CyCraft plan to present new details of a hacking campaign that compromised at least seven Taiwanese chip firms over the past two years ... CyCraft has previously given this group of hackers the name Chimera.” | press | 2026-06-28 |
| s6 | [The Register: China's APT10 cyber-spies targeted Taiwanese financial firms (Operation Cache Panda)](https://www.theregister.com/security/2022/02/23/chinese-cyber-attackers-targeted-taiwanese-financial-firms/1198606) “China's state-sponsored snoops conducted a two-month campaign against Taiwanese financial services firms, according to CyCraft ... The cyber-spies installed backdoors using QuasarRAT ... the application targeted is used by 80 per cent of Taiwan's financial institutions.” | press | 2026-06-28 |
| s7 | [CyCraft: XCockpit Threat Exposure Management Platform](https://www.cycraft.com/en) “Next-gen Threat Exposure Management Platform. Anticipate Attack Paths. Monitor for Warning Signs. Discern Security Vulnerabilities.” | official | 2026-06-28 |
| s8 | [PR Newswire APAC: CyCraft Raised US$5.65M in Series B Funding (2019)](https://en.prnasia.com/releases/apac/ai-cybersecurity-startup-cycraft-raised-us-5-65-million-in-series-b-funding-253716.shtml) “CyCraft, announced that it has closed US$5.65 million in Series B funding from Pavilion Capital and the CID Group ... In total, this round of funding brings CyCraft's total funding to date to US$8.15 million.” | press | 2026-06-28 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

Cited from the Strategy Deep Dive section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [TWSE Market Insights: New listed company CyCraft-KY (7823)](https://www.twse.com.tw/market_insights/en/detail/8a8216d69bde495d019c1d8b033f0126) “the only vendor in the country to have passed the U.S. MITRE ATT&CK evaluation three times ... deployed across hundreds of leading organizations spanning government, defense, financial services, semiconductors, and high-tech manufacturing, with more than 90% customer renewal rate.” | press | 2026-07-08 |
| s2 | [Wired: Chinese Hackers Have Pillaged Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry](https://www.wired.com/story/chinese-hackers-taiwan-semiconductor-industry-skeleton-key/) “researchers from the Taiwanese cybersecurity firm CyCraft plan to present new details of a hacking campaign that compromised at least seven Taiwanese chip firms over the past two years.” | press | 2026-07-08 |
| s3 | [The Register: China's APT10 cyber-spies targeted Taiwanese financial firms (Operation Cache Panda)](https://www.theregister.com/security/2022/02/23/chinese-cyber-attackers-targeted-taiwanese-financial-firms/1198606) “Operation Cache Panda went after software used by majority of industry players” | press | 2026-07-08 |
| s4 | [CommonWealth Magazine: Singapore Turns to Taiwan (Xecure Lab sale to Verint)](https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=2276) “Xecure Lab, which at the time had paid-in capital of NT$2.95 million, was ultimately sold for 100 times that amount to Israel-based Verint in early 2014.” | press | 2026-07-08 |
| s5 | [CyCraft: XCockpit Threat Exposure Management Platform (EN homepage)](https://www.cycraft.com/en) “Analysis based on the context of the case and autonomous case management increases the productivity of your cybersecurity team and enhances cyber resilience.” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s6 | [CyCraft: About (leadership team and founder background)](https://www.cycraft.com/about-cycraft) “曾於 2011 年與吳明蔚 (Benson Wu) 共同創立臺灣第一家專門研發 APT 防禦產品的新創公司艾斯酷博 (Xecure Lab)，並於 2014 年受到美國 NASDAQ 上市的以色列資安公司威瑞特 (Verint) 肯定與併購。” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s7 | [CyCraft: XecGuard, The LLM Firewall for Trustworthy, Agentic AI](https://www.cycraft.com/en/xecguard) “XecGuard is a robust Guardrail API engineered to secure Large Language Models and AI Agents. XecGuard provide multi-layered defense, including Prompt Injection Protection.” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s8 | [CyCraft: Recognition and Awards (analyst mentions)](https://www.cycraft.com/en/awards) “Recognized as an apex MDR service provider by a leading research organization for two consecutive years.” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s9 | [PR Newswire APAC: CyCraft Raised US$5.65M in Series B Funding (2019)](https://en.prnasia.com/releases/apac/ai-cybersecurity-startup-cycraft-raised-us-5-65-million-in-series-b-funding-253716.shtml) “CyCraft also announced the formal launch of its AI-driven SecOps Platform which enables future-embracing security partners in Taiwan, Japan and Singapore to offer advanced MDR (managed detection and response) and AI-driven managed security services.” | press | 2026-07-08 |
| s10 | [CyCraft: XCockpit Endpoint Security Posture Management](https://www.cycraft.com/en/xcockpit/endpoint) “Monitor endpoint threats and AD privileged account activity, detect prevalent hacker attack techniques in real time, and identify any signs of an attack.” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s11 | [CyCraft: CyberTotal threat intelligence platform](https://www.cycraft.com/cybertotal) | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s12 | [TWSE Market Insights: CyCraft SOC-as-a-Service delivery beyond software licensing](https://www.twse.com.tw/market_insights/en/detail/8a8216d69bde495d019c1d8b033f0126) “Beyond software licensing, CyCraft also delivers an AI-powered SOC-as-a-Service, automating the majority of monitoring and first-response tasks” | press | 2026-07-08 |

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