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  Choosing a security firm

  Top 10 Cybersecurity Companies in 2026

  The top 10 cybersecurity companies below are ranked for one buyer: a team shipping a product that has smart contracts on one side and a web application, an API and a cloud account on the other. Each entry was checked on September 3, 2026 against the firm's own published material, and the three archives that sit on GitHub were counted through the API rather than estimated. One of the ten publishes price bands and lead times before the sales call, and the other nine quote on request.

  September 3, 2026·14 min read

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  Audit deliverables

  Audit Report Explained: Scope, Severity and Status Fields

  An audit report explained properly starts at the scope statement and the dates, not at the findings table. Everything below those pages is conditional on them: which files were read, in what window and under which severity rule the firm writes its labels. This guide walks a real published report end to end, and measures the severity and status vocabulary that member firm reports actually use.

  September 3, 2026·16 min read

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  Audit deliverables

  How to Tell a Fake Audit Report From a Real One

  A fake audit report is a document that claims a security review which never happened, or a real report that no longer describes the code you are about to use. Both are caught the same way, by checking the report against the two things it should name: the commit that was audited and the deployed address it maps to. This guide gives the procedure, and a measurement of how often published reports carry those anchors at all.

  September 3, 2026·13 min read