About

Hi, I’m Nika.

I founded Mandos to help cybersecurity founders and investors understand the market, categories, and what matters to security teams.

I draw on proprietary intelligence on 6,694 cybersecurity companies and 14 years as an enterprise security leader, evaluating and implementing security solutions: buying and replacing security products, running RFPs, defending budgets to boards, M&A diligence on €100M+ deals, and a €35M vendor consolidation across 24 markets. Every week I share what I find with 17,000+ followers on LinkedIn and the readers of the Mandos Brief.

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Nika (Nikoloz) Kokhreidze

Founder · Mandos Cyber & CybersecTools

Featured in

6,694
companies: 13,176
products: 9,011
funding rounds: 4,491
M&A deals

What I do.

Research and analysis

The weekly Mandos Brief, the quarterly Pacesetters and guides for founders and investors, built on 6,694 companies tracked every day.

Read the Mandos Brief

CybersecTools

A searchable directory of cybersecurity products. Security teams use it to find and compare solutions.

Visit CybersecTools

Advisory

Positioning work for cybersecurity founders, so buyers understand what you do. How I work.

See the services

For cyber-focused funds: the Mandos Platform and Mandos Fund Advisory.

Why I do this.

Great products lose deals when buyers can’t tell what they do.

What I saw from the buyer side

Where I come from
I spent 14 years as an enterprise security leader, evaluating and implementing security solutions. Enterprise security across industries and markets, most recently a Forbes Cloud 100 fintech in Amsterdam. I ran the evaluations, owned the budgets and led the teams doing the buying.
What I saw
What vendors said never matched what buyers needed to hear. Decks failed in 30 minutes. Websites failed in 30 seconds. And nobody ever told them why.
What it costs
At least 6,694 companies ship security products, and most buyers can name only a few of them. Good companies stay invisible, and buyers miss options they would have wanted.
What I do about it
I track the market every day and explain it the way buyers see it. CybersecTools so security teams can find you. The Mandos Brief and Pacesetters so founders and investors see where the market is moving. And advisory, so your positioning makes sense to the people who buy.

How this stays honest.

Editorial integritySponsored placements are labeled. Sponsorship does not affect Mandos' rankings or scores.
Data firstA company earns its place on a map or ranking by what it does in the market.
Founder-ledEvery engagement runs through me. No account managers, no junior analysts.

14 years as an enterprise security leader.

NowFounder of Mandos Cyber and CybersecTools, a searchable directory of cybersecurity products.

2025 — 2026
Various Companies
Fractional CISO
M&A cybersecurity due diligence and fractional CISO services for executives, boards, and PE firms. Risk-based security assessments and integration roadmaps that show what shape a target's security is really in — and what integration will cost — before a deal closes.
2021 — 2025
Mambu
Head of Corporate Security & Security Operations
Forbes Cloud 100 fintech. Built Corporate Security, IAM, and Security Operations. Represented the company in security discussions with Goldman Sachs and CBA.
2020 — 2021
EclecticIQ
Cybersecurity Lead
Vendor advisory across the threat intelligence platform space. Detection coverage across 140+ MITRE ATT&CK techniques.
2019 — 2020
JDE Peet's
Global IT Security Manager
Global IT/OT/IoT security across 100+ markets.
2017 — 2019
Intrum
Group Information Security & IT Risk Manager
Security strategy across 24 EEA countries, including M&A due diligence.

Earlier: Société Générale · Silknet · Swiss Capital

What moved in cybersecurity this week, and why it matters.

The Mandos Brief. Independent market intelligence, every Monday.

Hi, I’m Nika.

I founded Mandos to help cybersecurity founders and investors understand the market, categories, and what matters to security teams.

Netherlands · KVK 97994448 · LinkedIn ↗

What I do.

Research and analysis

The weekly Mandos Brief, the quarterly Pacesetters and guides for founders and investors, built on 6,694 companies tracked every day.

Read the Mandos Brief

CybersecTools

A searchable directory of cybersecurity products. Security teams use it to find and compare solutions.

Visit CybersecTools

Advisory

Positioning work for cybersecurity founders, so buyers understand what you do. How I work.

See the services

For cyber-focused funds: the Mandos Platform and Mandos Fund Advisory.

14 years as an enterprise security leader.

NowFounder of Mandos Cyber and CybersecTools, a searchable directory of cybersecurity products.

2025 — 2026

Various Companies

Fractional CISO

M&A cybersecurity due diligence and fractional CISO services for executives, boards, and PE firms. Risk-based security assessments and integration roadmaps that show what shape a target's security is really in — and what integration will cost — before a deal closes.

2021 — 2025

Mambu

Head of Corporate Security & Security Operations

Forbes Cloud 100 fintech. Built Corporate Security, IAM, and Security Operations. Represented the company in security discussions with Goldman Sachs and CBA.

2020 — 2021

EclecticIQ

Cybersecurity Lead

Vendor advisory across the threat intelligence platform space. Detection coverage across 140+ MITRE ATT&CK techniques.

2019 — 2020

JDE Peet's

Global IT Security Manager

Global IT/OT/IoT security across 100+ markets.

2017 — 2019

Intrum

Group Information Security & IT Risk Manager

Security strategy across 24 EEA countries, including M&A due diligence.

Earlier: Société Générale · Silknet · Swiss Capital