Nikoloz K.
Founder at Mandos Cyber
14 years on the cybersecurity buyer side. Founder of Mandos.
I built CybersecTools, the world’s largest independent cybersecurity product directory (9,000+ products). I run CybersecRadars, tracking 3,200+ cybersecurity companies and growing weekly. And I deliver CISO Lens services to cybersecurity vendors who need to fix their positioning and win enterprise deals.
I spent 14 years inside cybersecurity teams. Banking floors in Tbilisi. Forbes Cloud 100 fintech in Amsterdam. M&A diligence on €100M+ deals across 24 EEA markets. Global incident response across 100+ markets at JDE Peet’s.
What I saw on the buying side never matched what vendors were saying. Great products kept losing because their positioning hid what they actually did. Decks failed in 30 minutes. Websites failed in 30 seconds.
I built CybersecTools because security teams deserved a real way to discover tools. 9,000+ products, 16 categories, mapped to NIST CSF 2.0. Vendors can buy visibility on the platform, but we never recommend specific products. The best tool is the one that works in your environment.
CybersecRadars came next, to layer market intelligence on top of the directory. Today it tracks 3,200+ cybersecurity companies and grows weekly.
CISO Lens is what happens when you put 14 years of buyer perspective and 9,000+ products of category data behind vendor positioning advice.
That’s the work I do now.
CybersecTools sells vendor visibility but never recommends products. CISO Lens takes no revenue share or vendor equity. The advice has to stand on its own.
Most positioning advice is intuition wrapped in frameworks. Mine is benchmarked against 9,000+ products and a category dataset that’s actually live.
Every CISO Lens engagement runs through me directly. No account managers. No junior analysts.
2025 — Now
Independent cybersecurity market intelligence company. Operating CybersecTools (9,000+ products), CybersecRadars (3,200+ companies tracked, growing weekly), and CISO Lens services. Netherlands.
2021 — 2025
Forbes Cloud 100 fintech. Built Corporate Security, IAM, and Security Operations. Reported to CTO during 8-month CISO vacancy. Represented the company in security discussions with Goldman Sachs and CBA.
2020 — 2021
Cybersecurity vendor advisory across the threat intelligence platform space. Threat detection coverage across 140+ MITRE ATT&CK techniques.
2019 — 2020
Global enterprise IT/OT/IoT security across 100+ markets. Incident response leadership. Renegotiated MSSP contracts saving €3.5M.
2017 — 2019
Security strategies across 24 EEA countries. M&A security due diligence on €100M+ acquisitions. Built centralized security audit solution serving Google, Uber, and PayPal.
2015 — 2016
Banking integrations and security engineering inside one of Europe’s largest banks.
2013 — 2015
Built Georgia’s first ISP CERT. National-scale incident response and infrastructure protection.
2012 — 2013
Cybersecurity consulting engagements. Concurrent NATO-affiliated cyber-warfare research at CASE Think-Tank.
Founder-led delivery. Selective engagements per quarter. If I can help, I will tell you which engagement fits. If not, I will tell you that too.
Book a 30-min callA selective roster of cybersecurity vendors per quarter.
