Neon Cyber Emerges From Stealth, Shining a Light Into the Browser

Neon Cyber argues that phishing, social engineering, and insider threats demand protections that follow users into the browser, where most attacks now begin.

Neon Cyber’s purpose is to move the focus of current cybersecurity from the infrastructure to the workforce.

The company emerged from stealth, September 16, after raising seed funding from Austin-based Silverton Partners in April 2025.

Much of cybersecurity’s mitigations were designed years ago to protect infrastructure and data, which was correct at the time. But company use of the internet has changed. Cloud computing and remote working have hastened the demise of the perimeter, and the arrival of AI has increased the speed of attacks. The old methods no longer work, yet cybersecurity has not adapted its core defense.

The need now is to move security closer to the cause of insecurity – which is the workforce rather than the infrastructure. It is the workforce that ...