COVERT DEFENSES LLC
Lexington, KY · Cybersecurity · Private
Self-healing security system for industrial IoT networks that detects intrusions and recovers data autonomously without human intervention
- Grants
- $1.5M
- 3 awards
- Sector median: 0
- Raised
- —
- No Form D on record
- Contracts
- $1.1M
- 3 awards · Homeland Security, Defense
- #48 of 603 in cybersecurity
- Patents
- —
- No published records under this name
- Sector median: 0
Capital Timeline
Federal ↑Equity ↓202220232024
| Date | Event | Source | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal grant | Department of Energy · Phase I · Covert Cognizance – A Novel Predictive Modeling Paradigm for Securing Unattended High-Valued Systems | $200,000 | |
| Federal grant | Department of Homeland Security · Phase I · MVP-ROM: Masked Vulnerability-Preserving ROM for Power Systems | $150,000 | |
| Federal grant | Department of Energy · Phase II · Covert Cognizance: A Novel Predictive Modeling Paradigm for Securing Unattended High-Valued Systems | $1,150,000 | |
| Federal contract | Department of Homeland Security · SBIR Program Support For SBIR Company, Covert Defenses To Participate In The NSF I-corps Program | $50,000 | |
| Federal contract | Department of Homeland Security · Reduced Order Modeling Of Critical Infrastructure Protect Surfaces (covert Defenses) | $999,692 | |
| Federal contract | Department of Defense · Covert Cognizance In Suas (small Unmanned Aircraft Systems) For Zero-downtime Operation In Cyber-contested Environments | $72,988 |
Federal grant · SBIR/STTRFederal contract · USAspending
Peer position
| # | Company | Contracts | Disclosed equity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | ForAllSecure, Inc. | $1.5M | $36M |
| 46 | ZIMPERIUM, INC. | $1.3M | $58M |
| 47 | 9 CORNER SOLUTIONS LLC | $1.2M | — |
| 48 | COVERT DEFENSES LLC | $1.1M | — |
| 49 | CryptoMove, Inc. | $1.1M | $8.7M |
| 50 | Illumio, Inc. | $1.1M | $558M |
| 51 | M CUBED TECHNOLOGIES INC | $1.0M | $9.8M |
Ranked on federal contract value rather than capital raised. The equity column is the comparison worth making — companies at the same procurement position often sit at very different points in their funding history.