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ProjectDiscovery is Selected as a Top 10 Finalist for RSAC™ 2025 Conference 20th Annual Innovation Sandbox Contest
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We’re excited to share that ProjectDiscovery has been named one of the Top 10 Finalists in the 2025 RSA Innovation Sandbox! On Monday, April 28, we’ll take the stage at RSA Conference in San Francisco to showcase how we’re rethinking vulnerability management from the ground up with speed, accuracy, and the power of open-source.
The RSA Innovation Sandbox is widely regarded as the cybersecurity industry’s premier startup competition. Each year, 10 early-stage companies are selected to pitch live to a crowd of investors, operators, and security leaders. Past finalists include an elite group of innovators that have left a lasting mark on cybersecurity, such as Axonius, Cybereason, Imperva, SentinelOne, and Wiz. Each of these companies has gone on to raise billions and help redefine the modern security landscape. Over the last 19 years, Innovation Sandbox alumni have pulled in more than $16.4 billion in funding and seen over 90 acquisitions.
This recognition signals that the security industry is ready for a modern solution to vulnerability management. Legacy scanners were built for a different internet. Today, teams ship faster, infrastructure changes daily, and attackers use automation to find weaknesses in seconds. Meanwhile, defenders are still stuck wading through false positives, incomplete asset lists, and outdated UIs.
At ProjectDiscovery, we’ve taken a fundamentally different approach. We started with the open-source community, building tools like Nuclei, httpx, and subfinder to match how security engineers actually work. They’re designed for today’s workflows: transparent, automation-friendly, and deeply customizable. Whether you’re running quick scans locally or scaling across complex environments, they adapt to the way real teams work.
Over the last four years, we’ve built a thriving global community of 100,000+ engineers. Our users contribute detection templates, build plugins, file pull requests, and share feedback daily. This community is our unfair advantage. It keeps us fast, accurate, and incredibly aligned with real-world attacker behavior.
ProjectDiscovery’s enterprise platform takes that open-source DNA and layers on scalable automation, customizable workflows, and deep visibility so security teams can spend less time triaging and more time fixing. From pre-deploy checks in CI/CD to scheduled internal scans across hybrid environments, we’re making modern security practical, actionable, and extensible.
“The out-of-the-box functionality allowed us to consolidate asset management, automate scans, and set custom compliance checks, eliminating the need for constant manual upkeep.”
We’re incredibly proud to be named a finalist in the RSA Innovation Sandbox. But more than anything, it's proof that the future of security won’t come from legacy vendors or closed-off black-box tools. It’ll be shaped by builders, by open communities, and by platforms that prioritize speed, transparency, and adaptability. This recognition affirms what we’ve believed all along: the next wave of security innovation will be open, community-powered, and built for the modern web. We’re proud to be leading that charge.
If you’re curious about how ProjectDiscovery is helping teams move from reactive scanning to proactive security engineering, come find us at RSAC 2025, or connect with our sales team.