# Cyber Company Profiles: Sepio

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## At a Glance

- Website: [sepiocyber.com](https://sepiocyber.com)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/sepio
- Type: Infrastructure, Endpoint Security, Detection Response
- Also known as: Sepio Systems
- Market readiness: Established (26/40)
- Defensibility: Contested (14/21)
- Founded: 2016
- Funding: $48M total
- Last updated: 2026-08-28

## Executive Summary

Sepio sells federal agencies, hospitals and banks a platform that identifies connected devices from physical-layer measurements and flags rogue or spoofed hardware. The company holds four United States patents granted between 2021 and 2023 on peripheral and physical-layer hardware security, one of them describing a repository of device fingerprints. Sepio's own post records a November 2022 CISA contract to implement that platform, and Baptist Health is the one named customer reference on its current pages. Adoption evidence beyond that contract and that reference is either Sepio's own or dates from a 2019 SecurityWeek count of more than 25 banks, insurers and telecommunications customers. Sepio fits a buyer who can evaluate the mechanism itself rather than one who buys on peer adoption.

## 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 | Hardware security company whose platform identifies every connected device from physical-layer evidence, flags rogue or spoofed hardware, and enforces device trust policies across IT, OT, and IoT environments. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2016 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | Rockville, Maryland, US | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Funding | $48M total | [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | Series B extension, $11M (August 2024) | [\[f5\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Sepio Platform | Asset risk management platform that discovers connected devices, verifies device identity with AssetDNA physical-layer fingerprinting, scores hardware risk, and enforces trust policies. |
| Sepio HWDR | Expert-managed Hardware Detection and Response service that adds continuous monitoring of hardware assets and hardware-related incidents on top of the Sepio Platform. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [Cyber Defense Matrix](https://cyberdefensematrix.com):

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

Sepio Platform inventories connected hardware, blocks devices that breach trust policy, and detects rogue or spoofed devices from physical-layer evidence. Sepio says machine learning supports its hardware identification and risk analysis, a non-AI security problem.

## Market Readiness

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

**Established (26/40)**

Analyzed 2026-08-28. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 4/5 | Sepio names the physical-layer blind spot precisely and aims it at regulated buyers in government, healthcare, critical infrastructure and financial services. Three non-vendor records corroborate the pain: SecurityWeek's account of rogue-hardware compromise including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory intrusion, MITRE's CVE-2023-45866 record of an unauthenticated Bluetooth peripheral injecting keystrokes, and CISA's directive requiring federal asset discovery every seven days. \[[s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s15](#profile-analysis-sources), [s24](#profile-analysis-sources), [s32](#profile-analysis-sources), [s34](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Capability Depth | 3/5 | The vendor's own pages document a concrete mechanism, five steps from discovery to enforcement built on patented AssetDNA fingerprinting, and Sepio publishes a real installation guide for its endpoint agent across Windows, Linux and macOS. What the reviewed record adds beyond the vendor is legal rather than technical: four granted United States patents evidence what the company owns, not an independent evaluation of how well the product works, and the reviewed record carries no third-party benchmark, open-source implementation or customer technical writeup. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s28](#profile-analysis-sources), [s29](#profile-analysis-sources), [s36](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Market Timing | 3/5 | CISA's Binding Operational Directive 23-01, issued in October 2022, is the enabler: it obliged federal civilian agencies to discover every network-addressable asset every seven days by April 3, 2023, which is the demand Sepio's federal positioning answers. That driver is nearly four years old, and the buyer-side signals since then are indirect, since the analyst characterizations Sepio republishes reach the record through its own pages and announcements rather than through independent reporting. \[[s15](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources), [s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s28](#profile-analysis-sources), [s32](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Team Credibility | 4/5 | Appleboum's public bio documents co-founding WebSilicon in 1998, its 2013 acquisition by Magal, and a subsequent security chief technology officer role at Magal's North American division, a verifiable prior build and exit in the same domain. SecurityWeek independently names all four founders, dates the company to April 2016, and quotes an investor describing them as a team that has worked together for over twenty years. \[[s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s24](#profile-analysis-sources), [s33](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| GTM Proof | 3/5 | The Lenovo OEM embedding, the Microsoft marketplace listing and the CISA award Sepio's own post records evidence real distribution, and Baptist Health is one named commercial reference. Independent corroboration of scale is what the record lacks: the count of more than 25 banks, insurers and telecommunications companies is SecurityWeek's 2019 reporting with no later update, and the several-million-dollar Lenovo revenue figure is Sepio's own projection for one partnership, relayed through its own announcement. \[[s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources), [s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s24](#profile-analysis-sources), [s26](#profile-analysis-sources), [s28](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Funding Efficiency | 3/5 | Calcalist reports $48 million raised in total, with $22 million in Series B in October 2022 and an $11 million extension led by Tau Capital in August 2024. That is a modest raise against an enterprise, federal and OEM motion, and Sepio has kept shipping since, launching the ThinkShield Solutions integration and Microsoft consumption-commitment eligibility. No revenue, margin or growth-efficiency figure appears anywhere in the reviewed record, so the efficiency itself is unconfirmed. \[[s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s19](#profile-analysis-sources), [s21](#profile-analysis-sources), [s23](#profile-analysis-sources), [s27](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Category Clarity | 3/5 | Third parties do place the offer: Microsoft's marketplace lists it as a CPS Protection Platform, and the analyst characterizations Sepio republishes credit it a reputation in the network access control market and quote a Gartner Magic Quadrant for CPS Protection Platforms. Sepio's own pages meanwhile lead with the term Zero Trust Hardware Access while its federal post calls the product Asset Risk Management, so a buyer still needs the vendor's explanation to know which budget line this fills. \[[s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources), [s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s28](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 | Four United States patents granted to the company, one of them describing a repository of physical-layer fingerprint data, plus a device knowledge base Sepio describes as enriched by open-source intelligence and proprietary research, put the core mechanism beyond a quarterly feature copy. The Lenovo embedding is a current distribution relationship whose exclusivity and durability the record does not establish, and network access control and asset visibility vendors Sepio itself integrates with sell into the same budgets, so absorption by a good-enough alternative stays the open threat. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources), [s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s36](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |

### Business Risks

- Forescout or Cisco, whose network access control products Sepio already integrates with, could add device fingerprinting good enough to absorb the gap Sepio sells as a standalone product.
- Lenovo could deprioritize or end the ThinkShield Hardware Defense partnership, removing the channel Sepio itself projects as a several-million-dollar revenue source.
- Sepio anchors its government credibility on a single 2022 CISA contract award, and a budget shift or a competitive re-award could leave it without a current federal reference.
- Buyers could keep funding asset visibility through existing network access control, cyber-physical systems or asset management line items, leaving no separate budget for physical-layer verification.
- Better-funded cyber-physical systems platform vendors could outspend Sepio on go-to-market while its last capital event remains the August 2024 Series B extension.

### Problem & Market

Sepio sells visibility into a layer of the network that mainstream security tools do not inspect. Network access control, endpoint detection and asset inventory products infer what a device is from traffic, agents or integrations with other tools. Sepio argues those signals can be manipulated, and its own pages contrast tools that rely on network traffic or behavioral analysis with identification from a device's electrical presence. Rogue peripherals, unmanaged switches and impersonated devices are the blind spot the company targets.

Independent records document the attack class. SecurityWeek's 2019 coverage describes Sepio as formed to defend against compromise via rogue hardware, and recounts an intrusion at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory through an unauthorized Raspberry Pi computer attached to the network. MITRE's record for CVE-2023-45866 documents an unauthenticated peripheral acting as a Bluetooth keyboard and injecting keystrokes with no user interaction.

Regulation supplies the demand-side pressure on the federal side. CISA's Binding Operational Directive 23-01 requires federal civilian agencies to perform automated asset discovery every seven days and to enumerate the vulnerabilities on what they find. Sepio markets compliance help with that directive, with NDAA Section 889 and with FCC rules, and its about page names government, critical infrastructure, healthcare and financial services among its primary environments. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s15](#profile-analysis-sources), [s20](#profile-analysis-sources), [s24](#profile-analysis-sources), [s32](#profile-analysis-sources), [s34](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities

Sepio Platform turns physical-layer measurements into a device trust decision. The platform page sets out five steps: discover every connected asset across network, endpoint and peripheral, verify identity with the patented AssetDNA method, validate the device against its expected role, location, ownership, behavior and policy, score hardware risk, and enforce the outcome through alerts, access restrictions, isolation, blocking and third-party orchestration. The about page states that AssetDNA identifies devices by their physical characteristics with no agents required.

Enforcement runs through the surrounding stack. The Lenovo-branded deployment blocks rogue devices as soon as they are detected, and the technology partner page describes integrations with Cisco Identity Services Engine and Forescout CounterAct that automate network enforcement of security policies. Sepio also publishes an installation guide for an endpoint agent, with procedures for Windows, for Debian, Ubuntu and Red Hat based Linux systems, and for macOS.

A managed service sits on top of the software. Sepio HWDR is a continuous, expert-managed service for detecting and mitigating hardware threats, and a dedicated page courts managed security service providers. Sepio's MSSP page says the product strengthens an MSSP stack rather than replacing it.

That agent guide is the technical reference the reviewed pages carry. It covers installation, firewall ports, upgrade and removal, and no public API reference, architecture document or administration guide appears among them, while the marketplace listing names open APIs as a feature. Lenovo's embedding and the November 2022 CISA award are commercial signals rather than technical validation, so a buyer evaluating the mechanism works mostly from Sepio's own descriptions. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources), [s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s28](#profile-analysis-sources), [s29](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitive Positioning

Sepio positions physical-layer identity as the gap adjacent categories leave open. Its Why Sepio page argues that tools relying on network traffic or behavioral analysis cannot see what is physically there, and that Sepio identifies devices from their electrical presence instead. Network access control, agentless asset visibility and cyber-physical systems vendors sell device visibility across the same IT, OT and IoT environments, so buyers weigh Sepio against tooling they may already own.

Partnership softens part of that rivalry. Sepio's technology partner page describes an integration with Forescout CounterAct that automates network enforcement, and describes Axonius aggregating, normalizing and correlating data from Sepio alongside other customer-owned tools to deliver full asset visibility. Sepio feeds device identity into the enforcement and inventory tools a buyer already runs rather than replacing them.

The public record uses several overlapping labels for the same offer. Sepio's own pages lead with Zero Trust Hardware Access, its CISA post calls the product Asset Risk Management, its Lenovo announcement calls the company the pioneer of Hardware Asset Risk Management, and its Microsoft marketplace listing is titled Sepio CPS Protection Platform. The analyst characterizations Sepio republishes place it differently again, one crediting a solid reputation in the network access control market and one quoting a Gartner Magic Quadrant for CPS Protection Platforms on its trafficless approach. \[[s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources), [s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s28](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Go-to-Market & Traction

Two of Sepio's routes to market run through larger companies' channels. Lenovo sells ThinkShield Hardware Defense powered by Sepio and folded it into its own ThinkShield Solutions, an integration Sepio announced in May 2025, for small and medium-sized businesses, schools and other organizations with limited IT resources. Sepio's Microsoft marketplace listing became eligible under the Azure Consumption Commitment, so organizations with existing agreements can apply committed Azure spend toward buying it, and a partner program recruits managed security service providers.

Federal procurement is the clearest direct signal. Sepio's own post records that CISA awarded it a contract on November 15, 2022 to implement its asset risk management platform. The government solutions page publishes the CAGE code and DUNS number federal contracting uses, lists GSA and NASA SEWP under a government agencies heading marked vetted for federal, and names the regulations Sepio offers help complying with.

Named commercial references stay scarce, and the traction figures on the record are dated or the company's own. Baptist Health appears in a case study and its chief information security officer appears in a homepage testimonial. SecurityWeek reported in 2019 that Sepio's rogue-device product had been deployed at more than 25 banks, insurance and telecommunications companies across five countries, and no later source in the reviewed record updates that count. The several-million-dollar revenue figure attached to the Lenovo channel is Sepio's own projection, quoted in its own announcement, and it covers that one partnership rather than the company. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s15](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources), [s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s24](#profile-analysis-sources), [s26](#profile-analysis-sources), [s27](#profile-analysis-sources), [s28](#profile-analysis-sources), [s30](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Team & Credibility

Sepio's founders have built networking and security hardware together for decades. Chief executive Yossi Appleboum co-founded WebSilicon in 1998, stayed through its 2013 acquisition by Magal, led its rebranding as CyberSeal, and then served as cyber security chief technology officer of Senstar, Magal's North American division. SecurityWeek records that Bentsi Ben-Atar, Iftah Bratspiess, Yossi Appleboum and Greg Poch founded Sepio in April 2016, and Israel's companies registry lists Cyber Sepio Systems Ltd with an incorporation date of 23 March 2016.

Governance shows investor depth and one unexplained transition. The board page lists eight members, three of them labelled United States board members, and includes co-founder Iftah Bratspiess and USVP general partner Dafina Toncheva, whom the Series B announcement names as the partner who led her firm's investment. The advisory board page lists ten people and records Lane Bess as former chairman, while a homepage testimonial still identifies him as chairman of Sepio.

Repeat institutional investors back the company across rounds. Calcalist reports USVP, Hanaco Ventures, Munich RE Ventures, Merlin Ventures, Citi Ventures and Pico Partners among the investors, and Tau Capital leading the 2024 extension. The leadership page names thirteen executives, including a chief commercial officer and a VP of product management. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s11](#profile-analysis-sources), [s22](#profile-analysis-sources), [s23](#profile-analysis-sources), [s24](#profile-analysis-sources), [s33](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Trust Readiness

Sepio publishes a substantial set of compliance artifacts. The certifications page records SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001, 27017 and 27018 certifications, names each of the three ISO certificates as a PDF, names Decrypt as the SOC 2 auditor, and offers the SOC 2 report on request. The trust center publishes platform security, corporate security, secure development, security governance, privacy and resiliency statements as separate commitments.

The federal signal is an award rather than a documented deployment. Sepio's own post records that CISA awarded it a contract in November 2022 to implement its asset risk management platform, and the reviewed sources describe neither a completed installation on federal networks nor the evaluation behind the award. The marketed alignment with NDAA Section 889 and Binding Operational Directive 23-01 is a product capability that helps customers meet their own obligations.

The remaining gap is the product's own failure modes. A system that can block devices holds disruptive power, and the reviewed pages do not address mis-enforcement or whether enforcement fails open or closed. The trust center invites vulnerability disclosure through a bounty program and a named security contact, and the reviewed record carries no published disclosure-policy terms. Buyers in the procurements Sepio courts will ask for both. \[[s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s12](#profile-analysis-sources), [s13](#profile-analysis-sources), [s15](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitors

| Company | Relationship | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Forescout | adjacent | Sepio's technology partner page describes an integration with Forescout CounterAct that automates network enforcement, so the two products meet in the same enforcement path. |
| Axonius | adjacent | Axonius aggregates and correlates data from Sepio alongside other customer-owned tools to deliver asset visibility, so it consumes Sepio's output while addressing the same buyer need. |
| Cisco | adjacent | Sepio integrates with Cisco Identity Services Engine to automate network enforcement, so that enforcement path runs through access-control infrastructure Cisco sells. |

## 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

**Contested (14/21)**

Band guidance: reinforce or reposition. Analyzed 2026-08-28. Scope: whole company.

Sepio holds two advantages the record documents. It holds four United States patents granted between 2021 and 2023 on peripheral and physical-layer hardware security. Its buyers are federal agencies, hospitals and banks, where contracting and legal review slow a replacement. The limits are the other side of the same facts. Customers buy software they run themselves, and hardware detection and response is a separate managed service alongside the platform. Its SOC 2 and ISO certifications are ones a funded competitor can earn. Sepio enforces policy partly through orchestration tools the customer already owns, so leaving costs effort rather than broken operations. Its device knowledge base could raise the cost of leaving, and the reviewed record does not size it.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 | Sepio sells software the customer configures and operates, and the customer's own team runs the platform and owns the outcomes. HWDR adds an expert-managed monitoring layer as a separate service rather than as the delivered product, so the base delivery stays at the software-product level, level with the same-asset peer Axonius. \[[s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 | An accumulated device inventory, tuned trust policies and integrations with network access control, orchestration and asset-inventory tools create meaningful friction for a customer leaving. Those are ordinary integration and data-history costs: the reviewed record documents no production workflow that depends on the platform to run and does not size a migration, so leaving costs effort rather than broken operations. \[[s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s28](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 | SOC 2 Type II and three ISO certifications are attestations any funded competitor can obtain through ordinary enterprise-market preparation. The marketed NDAA 889 and CISA BOD 23-01 alignment is a product capability that helps customers meet their own mandates. The government page publishes contracting identifiers and a vetted-for-federal listing under GSA and NASA SEWP, not a federal security authorization Sepio itself holds, so a determined operator could manage a replacement. \[[s13](#deep-dive-sources), [s15](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 | Identifying a device from its physical-layer electrical characteristics demands hardware engineering and years of accumulated reference data, and one granted patent describes storing fingerprint vectors of physical-layer characteristics per device and machine learning that updates them. The founders built that expertise across decades of networking-hardware work, so this is not a weekend rebuild. \[[s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s36](#deep-dive-sources), [s37](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Buyer Profile | 3/3 | Sepio's evidenced buyers are federal, healthcare and financial. Its own post records a CISA contract to implement its platform, Baptist Health appears as a named healthcare reference, and SecurityWeek reported deployments at banks, insurers and telecommunications companies in 2019. Procurement and legal processes sit between buyers of that class and a replacement, which is what the rung describes. \[[s14](#deep-dive-sources), [s15](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources), [s24](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Layer | 2/3 | Sepio sells a platform with its own policy engine and risk scoring, and other products build on what it produces. The marketplace listing names open APIs among its core features, Axonius correlates data from Sepio into its own inventory, and its integrations with Cisco Identity Services Engine and Forescout CounterAct automate network enforcement of security policies. The reviewed record shows no customer application that depends on Sepio to run, so it stays a platform rather than infrastructure. \[[s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s28](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 2/3 | Justia's assignee record lists four United States patents granted to Cyber Sepio Systems Ltd between December 2021 and January 2023, one describing a repository that stores physical-layer characteristics for each device. Sepio separately describes a knowledge base it enriches with open-source intelligence and proprietary research. Both are vendor-retained assets the record evidences rather than infers. Patent disclosures are public while the rights are exclusive, and the reviewed record neither publishes the knowledge base nor sizes it. \[[s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources), [s35](#deep-dive-sources), [s36](#deep-dive-sources), [s37](#deep-dive-sources)\] |

### Strategic Market Segmentation

Sepio targets regulated, hardware-dense environments where an unverified device carries consequence. Its about page names enterprise, critical infrastructure, healthcare, government, financial services, retail and industrial as the primary environments, and dedicated solution pages address several of them, including operational technology assets in critical infrastructure.

Federal government is a deliberate segment with its own machinery. The government solutions page offers help complying with NDAA Section 889, CISA Binding Operational Directive 23-01 and FCC rules, publishes the CAGE code and DUNS number federal contracting uses, and lists GSA and NASA SEWP under a government agencies heading marked vetted for federal. Sepio's own post records a CISA contract award in November 2022 to implement its asset risk management platform.

The OEM motion serves the opposite end of the market. Lenovo's ThinkShield Solutions aims the embedded version at small and medium-sized businesses, schools and organizations with limited IT resources, buyers Sepio's direct enterprise motion would reach less economically. Serving regulated enterprises and resource-poor small businesses through different channels is coherent, and it splits positioning, packaging and support across two very different customer profiles. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s15](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources), [s18](#deep-dive-sources), [s20](#deep-dive-sources), [s30](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities & AI Advantages

Sepio Platform decides device trust from physical-layer evidence rather than from what a device reports about itself. The platform page sets out five steps: discover every connected asset, verify identity with the patented AssetDNA method, validate the device against its expected role, location, ownership, behavior and policy, score hardware risk, and enforce the outcome through alerts, access restrictions, isolation, blocking and third-party orchestration. The about page describes fingerprinting from a device's own physical characteristics with no agents required, and separate documentation covers an endpoint agent for Windows, Linux and macOS.

Two different data assets sit behind the product, and the cited pages keep them apart. AssetDNA identifies a device from inherent physical characteristics rather than from data that can be changed, spoofed or hidden. Separately, Sepio correlates discovered assets with external vulnerability sources, open-source intelligence and internal cyber research, and its CISA post describes an extensive knowledge base enriched by open-source intelligence and proprietary research that pinpoints vulnerable devices. Those pages present that knowledge base as vulnerability intelligence rather than as an input to identity verification.

Sepio holds four United States patents granted between December 2021 and January 2023, which Justia's assignee record lists with Yosef Appleboum, Iftah Bratspiess and Bentsi Ben-Atar as inventors. One covers detecting transparent network devices through a repository that stores physical-layer characteristics for each specific device and an initial database of fingerprint vectors for known attack tools. One covers preventing attacks through a computer's USB port, and two cover protecting a computer system that interfaces with peripheral elements through a generic port.

Sepio treats AI as a reason to buy hardware verification rather than as a product category of its own. An August 2026 post argues that trust in enterprise AI has to begin with the endpoint beneath it, and states that Sepio's role is not to govern models or evaluate AI-generated output but to verify the hardware environment enterprise AI depends on. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources), [s29](#deep-dive-sources), [s31](#deep-dive-sources), [s36](#deep-dive-sources), [s37](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Sales Engagement & Go-to-Market

Two of Sepio's routes to market run through larger companies. Lenovo sells ThinkShield Hardware Defense powered by Sepio and folded it into its own ThinkShield Solutions, an integration Sepio announced in May 2025, for small and medium-sized businesses, schools and organizations with limited IT resources. Sepio's Microsoft marketplace listing became eligible under the Azure Consumption Commitment, so organizations with existing agreements can apply committed Azure spend toward buying it, and a partner program recruits managed security service providers.

Direct enterprise business is also on the record, in older and thinner form. Sepio's own post records that CISA awarded it a contract in November 2022 to implement its asset risk management platform. SecurityWeek reported in 2019 that the product had been deployed at more than 25 banks, insurance and telecommunications companies across five countries, and no later source in the reviewed record updates that count. Baptist Health is the one named customer reference on the current pages.

Nothing in the cited record discloses the sales mix. No channel, pipeline or revenue breakdown appears on any reviewed page, so which motion carries most of the business is unknown. The revenue figure attached to the Lenovo channel is Sepio's own projection of several million dollars over twelve months, quoted in its own announcement, and it covers that one partnership rather than the company. \[[s14](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources), [s18](#deep-dive-sources), [s24](#deep-dive-sources), [s26](#deep-dive-sources), [s27](#deep-dive-sources), [s28](#deep-dive-sources), [s30](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Pricing Model

The reviewed pages carry no price a buyer could size a deployment against. The site has no pricing page. The Microsoft marketplace listing shows that the price varies, and a second Sepio listing there shows a starting price of $1.00 a month. Neither names the metric a buyer would be charged on, which is the pattern of negotiated enterprise deals.

The procurement paths point the same way. Azure Consumption Commitment eligibility lets organizations apply committed Microsoft Azure spend toward acquiring Sepio through the marketplace, and the government page publishes contracting identifiers rather than a price. At the other end, the small-business offer is sold under Lenovo's ThinkShield brand, and the reviewed sources do not disclose Sepio's OEM economics.

What the company believes buyers pay for is not publicly testable. Whether the charge falls per asset, per site or per enforcement point appears nowhere in the reviewed pages, and the HWDR managed service adds a second layer whose terms the reviewed pages do not state. Hidden pricing fits the regulated-enterprise motion, and it removes a signal an evaluator would otherwise use to judge how Sepio values its own differentiation. \[[s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s15](#deep-dive-sources), [s18](#deep-dive-sources), [s27](#deep-dive-sources), [s28](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Delivery & Operations

Deployment burden is the pitch's load-bearing claim. Sepio offers the platform as software as a service or on premises, and both the company and press coverage of its funding repeat that the solution requires no traffic or activity monitoring. Separate documentation provides an endpoint agent for Windows, for Debian, Ubuntu and Red Hat based Linux systems, and for macOS, without stating which coverage requires it.

Sepio enforces policy both directly and through infrastructure the customer already owns. Its platform page says security teams can automatically isolate, block, alert or restrict devices in real time, and that integration with third-party security and IT tools extends those enforcement capabilities. The technology partner page describes integrations with Cisco Identity Services Engine and Forescout CounterAct that automate network enforcement of security policies. The reviewed pages do not document how the platform behaves during an outage, or whether enforcement fails open or closed, which is the difference between a failure that stops blocking and one that stops access.

The HWDR service shifts operating burden from customer to vendor. Sepio HWDR is a continuous, expert-managed service for protecting cyber-physical systems from hardware-based threats, and the company aims the same operational model at managed security service providers. The reviewed pages stop short of service-level commitments, data-residency specifics or support-tier detail. \[[s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s19](#deep-dive-sources), [s23](#deep-dive-sources), [s29](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Earning Customers' Trust

The certifications page carries more than a badge list. It records a completed SOC 2 Type II audit against the AICPA Trust Services criteria, names Decrypt as the auditor, and offers the report on request rather than for download. It publishes ISO/IEC 27001, 27017 and 27018 certificates as PDFs, each with its own description, and frames 27018 as a commitment to privacy and data protection in cloud environments. That is the set an enterprise procurement questionnaire asks for, and every item on it is an attestation a funded competitor can also earn.

The trust center splits its commitments into six named areas, and the two pages describing them do not agree about privacy. The certifications page says Sepio's privacy program is about not storing any private data. The trust center says the program minimizes data exposure and that Sepio does not store unnecessary private data. For a product that inventories every connected device, that is the difference a hospital or a bank will ask Sepio to reconcile.

The other five areas are consistent and thin. Sepio describes a secure development lifecycle that runs from design review to penetration testing, and corporate infrastructure defended by endpoint protection and a dedicated internal network. Its disaster recovery and business continuity plans are ones Sepio says have been tested against its recovery objectives. No policy document, control list or test result sits behind any of them.

The federal signal is an award rather than a documented deployment. Sepio's own post records the November 2022 CISA contract to implement its asset risk management platform. No reviewed source describes a completed installation on federal networks, or the evaluation behind the award. Marketed alignment with NDAA Section 889 and Binding Operational Directive 23-01 is a product capability that helps customers meet their own obligations.

The product's own failure modes are the gap a regulated buyer will press on. A platform that blocks rogue devices as soon as it detects them holds disruptive power, and the reviewed pages say nothing about mis-enforcement or about whether enforcement fails open or closed. The trust center invites researchers through a bounty program. Both pages give a CISO address, one for cybersecurity disclosure and one for concerns about certified security controls. Neither publishes disclosure-policy terms a researcher could rely on. \[[s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources), [s13](#deep-dive-sources), [s15](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning

Sepio behaves as a data source and enforcement broker rather than a destination platform. Its technology partner page describes integrations with Cisco Identity Services Engine and Forescout CounterAct that automate network enforcement, a ServiceNow partnership at the Select Partner Build level, and Axonius aggregating and correlating data from Sepio alongside other customer-owned tools. Sepio's MSSP page says the product strengthens the stack rather than replacing it, which also means it strengthens products addressing the same asset-visibility need.

OEM embedding substitutes for platform gravity. Lenovo's ThinkShield carries the technology to buyers under another brand, and the Microsoft marketplace puts procurement inside the Azure ecosystem. Both are rented surfaces. The marketplace listing names open APIs among the platform's core features, and the reviewed record shows no developer program or marketplace of Sepio's own.

The ecosystem position concentrates dependency risk. Lenovo's continued prioritization, Microsoft's marketplace terms and partners' integration roadmaps all sit outside Sepio's control, and the company's own projection ties several million dollars of expected twelve-month revenue to the Lenovo channel. \[[s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s18](#deep-dive-sources), [s26](#deep-dive-sources), [s27](#deep-dive-sources), [s28](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Team & Execution Capability

The founding team has built networking and security hardware together for a long time. Chief executive Yossi Appleboum co-founded WebSilicon in 1998, stayed through its 2013 acquisition by Magal, led its rebranding as CyberSeal, and then served as cyber security chief technology officer of Senstar, Magal's North American division. SecurityWeek records that Bentsi Ben-Atar, Iftah Bratspiess, Yossi Appleboum and Greg Poch founded Sepio in April 2016, and quotes an investor describing them as founders who have worked as a team for over twenty years.

Governance shows investor depth and one unexplained transition. The board page lists eight members, three of them labelled United States board members, and includes co-founder Iftah Bratspiess and USVP general partner Dafina Toncheva, whom the Series B announcement names as the partner who led her firm's investment. The advisory board page lists ten people and records Lane Bess as former chairman, while a homepage testimonial still identifies him as chairman of Sepio.

The organization spans two countries. SecurityWeek placed research and development in Tel Aviv with headquarters in Maryland when it covered the Series A, and Israel's companies registry lists Cyber Sepio Systems Ltd with an incorporation date of 23 March 2016. The leadership page names thirteen executives, including a chief commercial officer and a VP of product management. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s10](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources), [s22](#deep-dive-sources), [s24](#deep-dive-sources), [s33](#deep-dive-sources)\]

## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [Sepio homepage](https://sepiocyber.com/) | official | 2026-08-28 |
| f2 | [Yossi Appleboum leadership bio](https://sepiocyber.com/leadership/yossi-appleboum/) | official | 2026-08-28 |
| f3 | [Sepio company profile on LinkedIn, About](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sepiocyber/about/) | official | 2026-08-12 |
| f4 | [Industrial Cyber on the Sepio Series B extension](https://industrialcyber.co/news/sepios-total-funding-reaches-48-million-with-latest-investment-round/) | press | 2026-08-28 |
| f5 | [Calcalist on the Sepio Series B extension](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hj51evsqa) | press | 2026-08-28 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

Cited from the Market Readiness section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Sepio homepage](https://sepiocyber.com/) “Sepio delivers the missing foundation of Zero Trust by validating devices based on what they physically are, not what they claim to be.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s2 | [Sepio about page](https://sepiocyber.com/about-sepio/) “AssetDNA™ fingerprinting (Patented)” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s3 | [Sepio Platform overview page](https://sepiocyber.com/sepio-platform/) “Sepio enables this framework through five connected pillars: discovery, verification, validation, risk scoring, and enforcement.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s4 | [Sepio HWDR service page](https://sepiocyber.com/sepio-hwdr/) “Sepio’s Hardware Detection and Response (HWDR) provides a continuous, expert-managed service focused on protecting cyber-physical systems (CPS) from hardware-based cyber threats.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s5 | [Sepio Why Sepio page](https://sepiocyber.com/why-sepio/) “Unlike conventional tools that rely on network traffic or behavioral analysis, Sepio operates independently of traffic, leveraging physical-layer fingerprinting (AssetDNA™) to identify devices based on their electrical presence.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s6 | [Sepio ThinkShield Hardware Defense page](https://sepiocyber.com/thinkshield/) “The hardware access control capabilities of the solution block Rogue Devices as soon as they are detected.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s7 | [Sepio technology partners page](https://sepiocyber.com/technology-partners/) “Sepio collaborates with leading global cybersecurity technology partners to help organizations integrate comprehensive asset risk management across their infrastructure.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s8 | [Sepio leadership page](https://sepiocyber.com/sepio-leadership/) “VP of Global OEM Sales” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s9 | [Sepio: Yossi Appleboum leadership bio](https://sepiocyber.com/leadership/yossi-appleboum/) “In 1998, Yossi Appleboum was one of the founders of WebSilicon, an Israeli company which focused on delivering networking and security systems.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s10 | [Sepio board of directors page](https://sepiocyber.com/board-of-directors/) “Bonnie Stith Board member (US) Gary Connor Board member (US) Stan Lowe Board Member (US)” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s11 | [Sepio advisory board page](https://sepiocyber.com/advisory-board/) “Lane Bess Frm. Chairman” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s12 | [Sepio trust center](https://sepiocyber.com/trust-center/) “Sepio’s Trust Center Bounty Program reflects our commitment to transparency and proactive cybersecurity.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s13 | [Sepio security certifications page](https://sepiocyber.com/certifications/) “Leveraging our world-class security framework, we have been awarded SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, and ISO/IEC 27018 certifications.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s14 | [Sepio case studies listing](https://sepiocyber.com/resources/case-studies/) “Baptist Health keeps patients safe by expanding its Zero Trust approach with Sepio and integrations to their existing tools.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s15 | [Sepio government and federal agencies solutions page](https://sepiocyber.com/solutions/government-agencies/) “Help comply with regulations, including NDAA Section 889, CISA BOD 23-01 , FCC.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s16 | [Sepio MSSP solutions page](https://sepiocyber.com/solutions/mssp/) “No. It strengthens the MSSP stack by adding a layer of hardware truth that can enrich downstream tooling, investigations, and customer reporting.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s17 | [Sepio blog post on its CISA contract](https://sepiocyber.com/blog/cisa-supported-by-sepio/) “On November 15, 2022, CISA awarded Sepio a contract to implement its Asset Risk Management ( ARM ) solution.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s18 | [Sepio news release on the Lenovo ThinkShield partnership](https://sepiocyber.com/news/thinkshield-hardware-defense-partnership/) “The integration of ThinkShield Hardware Defense, powered by Sepio, into the newly launched ThinkShield Solutions marks a major milestone.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s19 | [Sepio news release on its Series B extension](https://sepiocyber.com/news/sepio-strategic-funding-round/) “The solution does not require any traffic or activity monitoring – and as such is use case and device agnostic, whether it is IT/OT/IoT or IoMT.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s20 | [Sepio OT and critical infrastructure solutions page](https://sepiocyber.com/solutions/ot-assets-critical-infrastructure-security/) “Sepio helps critical infrastructure operators discover, verify, and secure OT assets, improving industrial cybersecurity, reducing cyber risk, and strengthening operational resilience through Physical Layer Visibility.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s21 | [Industrial Cyber: Sepio total funding reaches 48 million dollars](https://industrialcyber.co/news/sepios-total-funding-reaches-48-million-with-latest-investment-round/) “The current funding brings the current funds raised to $48 million.” | press | 2026-08-28 |
| s22 | [PR Newswire: Sepio Series B funding announcement](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sepio-announces-series-b-funding-supporting-growth-in-expanding-its-sales-organizations-and-allocating-resources-toward-the-product-roadmap-301658449.html) “The representative instrumental in leading USVP's series B funding for Sepio was Dafina Toncheva, a Silicon Valley-based general partner committed to investing in emerging technologies.” | press | 2026-08-28 |
| s23 | [Calcalist: Sepio extends Series B with 11 million dollars led by Tau Capital](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hj51evsqa) “The current funding brings the total funds raised to $48 million.” | press | 2026-08-28 |
| s24 | [SecurityWeek: Sepio Systems Raises 6.5 Million to Defend Against Rogue Hardware](https://www.securityweek.com/sepio-systems-raises-65-million-defend-against-rogue-hardware/) “To date, Sepio’s RDM has been deployed in more than 25 banks, insurance and telecommunications companies in the U.S., Singapore, Brazil, South Africa and Israel.” | press | 2026-08-28 |
| s26 | [PR Newswire: Sepio projects multi-million dollar revenue from the Lenovo partnership](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sepio-projects-multi-million-dollar-revenue-from-lenovo-thinkshield-hardware-defense-partnership-302455192.html) “"We are proud to project that this collaboration will generate several million dollars in revenue for Sepio over the next 12 months."” | press | 2026-08-28 |
| s27 | [PR Newswire: Sepio becomes eligible for Microsoft MACC](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sepio-becomes-eligible-for-microsoft-macc--unlocks-asset-level-visibility-via-azure-marketplace-302619919.html) “This enables organizations with existing MACC agreements to apply committed Microsoft Azure spend toward acquiring Sepio's innovative software-based solution, bringing deep visibility and control to IT, IoT, OT and CPS environments.” | press | 2026-08-28 |
| s28 | [Microsoft Marketplace: Sepio CPS Protection Platform (MA) listing](https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/saas/sepiosystems.98d4e8ba-8dea-404f-9fdb-31ca3fefb38f) “Price varies” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s29 | [Sepio documentation: installing and uninstalling a Sepio Agent](https://sepiocyber.com/installing-and-uninstalling-a-sepio-agent/) “The Sepio Linux Agent is provided for Debian, Ubuntu, and Red Hat based systems.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s30 | [Sepio news archive](https://sepiocyber.com/news/) “Sepio and Lenovo launch a ThinkShield Hardware Defense Partnership, delivering Zero Trust protection for SMBs, schools, and lean IT teams.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s32 | [CISA: Binding Operational Directive 23-01](https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-23-01-improving-asset-visibility-and-vulnerability-detection-federal-networks) “By April 3, 2023 , all FCEB agencies are required to take the following actions on all federal information systems in scope of this directive:” | regulatory | 2026-08-28 |
| s33 | [Israel Companies Registry (data.gov.il): CYBER SEPIO SYSTEMS LTD record](https://data.gov.il/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=f004176c-b85f-4542-8901-7b3176f9a054&q=515429231) “"שם באנגלית":"CYBER SEPIO SYSTEMS LTD"” | regulatory | 2026-08-28 |
| s34 | [MITRE CVE record CVE-2023-45866: BlueZ unauthenticated Bluetooth HID keystroke injection](https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2023-45866) “An example affected package is bluez 5.64-0ubuntu1 in Ubuntu 22.04LTS.” | research | 2026-08-28 |
| s36 | [Justia Patents: patents assigned to CYBER SEPIO SYSTEMS LTD](https://patents.justia.com/assignee/cyber-sepio-systems-ltd) “Patents Assigned to CYBER SEPIO SYSTEMS LTD” | regulatory | 2026-08-28 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

Cited from the Strategy Deep Dive section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Sepio homepage](https://sepiocyber.com/) “Sepio delivers the missing foundation of Zero Trust by validating devices based on what they physically are, not what they claim to be.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s2 | [Sepio about page](https://sepiocyber.com/about-sepio/) “AssetDNA™ fingerprinting (Patented)” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s3 | [Sepio Platform overview page](https://sepiocyber.com/sepio-platform/) “Sepio enables this framework through five connected pillars: discovery, verification, validation, risk scoring, and enforcement.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s4 | [Sepio HWDR service page](https://sepiocyber.com/sepio-hwdr/) “Sepio’s Hardware Detection and Response (HWDR) provides a continuous, expert-managed service focused on protecting cyber-physical systems (CPS) from hardware-based cyber threats.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s5 | [Sepio Why Sepio page](https://sepiocyber.com/why-sepio/) “Unlike conventional tools that rely on network traffic or behavioral analysis, Sepio operates independently of traffic, leveraging physical-layer fingerprinting (AssetDNA™) to identify devices based on their electrical presence.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s6 | [Sepio ThinkShield Hardware Defense page](https://sepiocyber.com/thinkshield/) “The hardware access control capabilities of the solution block Rogue Devices as soon as they are detected.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s7 | [Sepio technology partners page](https://sepiocyber.com/technology-partners/) “Sepio collaborates with leading global cybersecurity technology partners to help organizations integrate comprehensive asset risk management across their infrastructure.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s8 | [Sepio leadership page](https://sepiocyber.com/sepio-leadership/) “VP of Global OEM Sales” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s9 | [Sepio: Yossi Appleboum leadership bio](https://sepiocyber.com/leadership/yossi-appleboum/) “In 1998, Yossi Appleboum was one of the founders of WebSilicon, an Israeli company which focused on delivering networking and security systems.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s10 | [Sepio board of directors page](https://sepiocyber.com/board-of-directors/) “Bonnie Stith Board member (US) Gary Connor Board member (US) Stan Lowe Board Member (US)” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s11 | [Sepio advisory board page](https://sepiocyber.com/advisory-board/) “Lane Bess Frm. Chairman” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s12 | [Sepio trust center](https://sepiocyber.com/trust-center/) “Sepio’s Trust Center Bounty Program reflects our commitment to transparency and proactive cybersecurity.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s13 | [Sepio security certifications page](https://sepiocyber.com/certifications/) “Leveraging our world-class security framework, we have been awarded SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, and ISO/IEC 27018 certifications.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s14 | [Sepio case studies listing](https://sepiocyber.com/resources/case-studies/) “Baptist Health keeps patients safe by expanding its Zero Trust approach with Sepio and integrations to their existing tools.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s15 | [Sepio government and federal agencies solutions page](https://sepiocyber.com/solutions/government-agencies/) “Help comply with regulations, including NDAA Section 889, CISA BOD 23-01 , FCC.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s16 | [Sepio MSSP solutions page](https://sepiocyber.com/solutions/mssp/) “No. It strengthens the MSSP stack by adding a layer of hardware truth that can enrich downstream tooling, investigations, and customer reporting.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s17 | [Sepio blog post on its CISA contract](https://sepiocyber.com/blog/cisa-supported-by-sepio/) “On November 15, 2022, CISA awarded Sepio a contract to implement its Asset Risk Management ( ARM ) solution.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s18 | [Sepio news release on the Lenovo ThinkShield partnership](https://sepiocyber.com/news/thinkshield-hardware-defense-partnership/) “The integration of ThinkShield Hardware Defense, powered by Sepio, into the newly launched ThinkShield Solutions marks a major milestone.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s19 | [Sepio news release on its Series B extension](https://sepiocyber.com/news/sepio-strategic-funding-round/) “The solution does not require any traffic or activity monitoring – and as such is use case and device agnostic, whether it is IT/OT/IoT or IoMT.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s20 | [Sepio OT and critical infrastructure solutions page](https://sepiocyber.com/solutions/ot-assets-critical-infrastructure-security/) “Sepio helps critical infrastructure operators discover, verify, and secure OT assets, improving industrial cybersecurity, reducing cyber risk, and strengthening operational resilience through Physical Layer Visibility.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s22 | [PR Newswire: Sepio Series B funding announcement](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sepio-announces-series-b-funding-supporting-growth-in-expanding-its-sales-organizations-and-allocating-resources-toward-the-product-roadmap-301658449.html) “The representative instrumental in leading USVP's series B funding for Sepio was Dafina Toncheva, a Silicon Valley-based general partner committed to investing in emerging technologies.” | press | 2026-08-28 |
| s23 | [Calcalist: Sepio extends Series B with 11 million dollars led by Tau Capital](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hj51evsqa) “The current funding brings the total funds raised to $48 million.” | press | 2026-08-28 |
| s24 | [SecurityWeek: Sepio Systems Raises 6.5 Million to Defend Against Rogue Hardware](https://www.securityweek.com/sepio-systems-raises-65-million-defend-against-rogue-hardware/) “To date, Sepio’s RDM has been deployed in more than 25 banks, insurance and telecommunications companies in the U.S., Singapore, Brazil, South Africa and Israel.” | press | 2026-08-28 |
| s26 | [PR Newswire: Sepio projects multi-million dollar revenue from the Lenovo partnership](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sepio-projects-multi-million-dollar-revenue-from-lenovo-thinkshield-hardware-defense-partnership-302455192.html) “"We are proud to project that this collaboration will generate several million dollars in revenue for Sepio over the next 12 months."” | press | 2026-08-28 |
| s27 | [PR Newswire: Sepio becomes eligible for Microsoft MACC](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sepio-becomes-eligible-for-microsoft-macc--unlocks-asset-level-visibility-via-azure-marketplace-302619919.html) “This enables organizations with existing MACC agreements to apply committed Microsoft Azure spend toward acquiring Sepio's innovative software-based solution, bringing deep visibility and control to IT, IoT, OT and CPS environments.” | press | 2026-08-28 |
| s28 | [Microsoft Marketplace: Sepio CPS Protection Platform (MA) listing](https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/saas/sepiosystems.98d4e8ba-8dea-404f-9fdb-31ca3fefb38f) “Price varies” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s29 | [Sepio documentation: installing and uninstalling a Sepio Agent](https://sepiocyber.com/installing-and-uninstalling-a-sepio-agent/) “The Sepio Linux Agent is provided for Debian, Ubuntu, and Red Hat based systems.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s30 | [Sepio news archive](https://sepiocyber.com/news/) “Sepio and Lenovo launch a ThinkShield Hardware Defense Partnership, delivering Zero Trust protection for SMBs, schools, and lean IT teams.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s31 | [Sepio blog post on hardware trust and enterprise AI](https://sepiocyber.com/blog/hardware-trust/) “Sepio’s primary role in AI security is not to govern models or evaluate AI-generated output. Its role is to help secure and continuously verify the hardware environment on which enterprise AI depends.” | official | 2026-08-28 |
| s33 | [Israel Companies Registry (data.gov.il): CYBER SEPIO SYSTEMS LTD record](https://data.gov.il/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=f004176c-b85f-4542-8901-7b3176f9a054&q=515429231) “"שם באנגלית":"CYBER SEPIO SYSTEMS LTD"” | regulatory | 2026-08-28 |
| s35 | [Justia Patents: United States Patent 11,544,416 record](https://patents.justia.com/patent/11544416) “U.S. Patent for System and method for securing a computer system from threats introduced by USB devices Patent (Patent # 11,544,416 issued January 3, 2023)” | regulatory | 2026-08-28 |
| s36 | [Justia Patents: patents assigned to CYBER SEPIO SYSTEMS LTD](https://patents.justia.com/assignee/cyber-sepio-systems-ltd) “Patents Assigned to CYBER SEPIO SYSTEMS LTD” | regulatory | 2026-08-28 |
| s37 | [Justia Patents: United States Patent 11,539,717 record](https://patents.justia.com/patent/11539717) “The DB typically includes physical layer characteristics for each specific device.” | regulatory | 2026-08-28 |

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