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LinkShadow
The network detection and response company — it sees the lateral movement inside your network that a perimeter firewall structurally cannot, and extends to vulnerability remediation, software deployment & the remote essentials. This hub is your complete intel file.
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The company, at a glance
Quick answer
Four intel pages. One cloud-native agent.
The complete LinkShadow platform — every linked card is a full intel page, from the NDR flagship to the DSPM and ITDR modules that extend it.
Intelligent NDR
See what the firewall cannot.
The flagship, and the only LinkShadow product with independent analyst recognition. Sensors inspect mirrored traffic — SPAN, TAP or virtual — to surface lateral movement, C2 beaconing and data staging that never crosses the perimeter, so a firewall never sees it. The Master runs on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid. Gartner placed it in VISIONARIES on the 2026 MQ for NDR — not a Leader. It detects; it does not enforce.
DSPM
Where the sensitive data actually sits.
Data discovery, classification and exposure analysis as a module on CyberMeshX — correlated with the NDR and ITDR signal in one console rather than sold as a standalone programme. Honestly: the newest and least-proven of the three, in a field where Varonis, Cyera, Securiti and Wiz are deeper. Strongest as an extension of an existing NDR deployment.
ITDR
Detection across the identities you already run.
Identity threat DETECTION layered on the IAM, PAM and SSO you already run — it issues no credentials and replaces no identity provider, so it belongs beside Okta or Entra, never instead of one. The thinnest of the three, and duplicative if you own Entra ID Protection, CrowdStrike or Silverfort. Best value alongside LinkShadow NDR.
CyberMeshX (CMX) — the platform, not a fourth product
Platform & engineCyberMeshX is the architecture that brings NDR, DSPM and ITDR together, launched May 2025. Worth being exact, because LinkShadow's own demo form lists four options and it is easy to read CMX as a fourth product: it is the correlation layer OVER the three, not something bought on its own. That changes the buying case — the consolidation pitch only pays off across multiple modules, and a single-product buyer takes vendor-concentration risk with a small vendor in exchange. TechBag prices the modules separately.
What LinkShadow is NOT — and the limits worth knowing early
Platform & engineNot SIEM and not SASE. Its Open XDR, UEBA, MDR and CDR pages describe capability framings across the three products, not separately licensed things you can buy. Four facts belong in front of a shortlist: no published pricing at all (marketplace listings are BYOL); no named customers anywhere — every reference is anonymised to a role and industry; no publicly identified CEO and no disclosed funding; and no India data residency, its policy allowing storage anywhere in the world. The technology is real — the Gartner placement is genuine. A regulated Indian buyer should insist on the on-premises deployment.
LinkShadow sells across 1 of the products TechBag carries in network security & SASE. The Network Security & SASE guide shows how the category splits and which part is yours. →
Why “see inside the network” is the whole story
Attackers who gain a foothold move laterally, and that movement never crosses the perimeter where the firewall is watching — which is the visibility gap NDR exists to close. detection on mirrored traffic — sensors, a Master, and no blocking— deep packet inspection and behavioural analytics that surface lateral movement, beaconing and data staging, with the Master running on-premises if the data must stay in India doubled down on it.
Sensors on mirrored traffic
Sensors receive traffic from a SPAN port, a TAP or a virtual mirror and inspect it. This is the part teams underestimate: you get visibility exactly where you mirror and nowhere else, so choosing the segments is the real deployment work — network engineering, not an agent push.
The Master — on-prem or cloud
Sensors feed a Master that correlates and stores. It may run ON-PREMISES, which for a regulated Indian estate is the whole conversation: traffic and metadata stay in country by architecture, with no vendor cloud in the path. LinkShadow offers no India cloud residency.
Behavioural analytics, not signatures alone
Models baseline each host and user, then surface deviation — beaconing on an odd interval, a workstation suddenly talking to twenty hosts, staging before exfiltration. It is why NDR catches what signatures miss, and why it needs a tuning period before detections are precise.
CyberMeshX correlation
Where network, data and identity signal meet. An anomalous identity, on a beaconing host, reaching data it never touches is far higher-confidence than any one signal — but this only pays off across multiple modules. With one product it is a console, not an advantage.
Start with Intelligent NDR (see what the firewall cannot) — then, if the consolidation argument holds on your numbers, add DSPM and ITDR so data and identity signal correlate in the same console.
Peer & market recognition
Every claim on this hub traces to one of these public signals.
Visionaries — MQ for NDR
NOT a Leader; May 2026
Representative Vendor
Market Guide for NDR
Innovation Index leader
Frost Radar NDR 2024
Intelligent NDR
east-west visibility
On-prem, cloud or hybrid
Master may stay in country
2015 · Athens, Georgia
US-registered, 7 offices
Kochi office · Truvisor
distribution since Apr 2026
No India data residency
and no named customers
The company in six figures
See the platform, hear the pitch
LinkShadow Corporate Video 2026
The company and the platform, in its own words.
The Vision Behind LinkShadow’s 2026 Gartner Recognition
On the Magic Quadrant placement — Visionaries.
Ross Brewer on the Future of Network Detection & Response
Where NDR is heading, from the MQ 2026 vantage.
The Role of NDR in Modern Cybersecurity Compliance
Why east-west visibility shows up in audits.
Ahmad Fida Explains LinkShadow DSPM
The data-posture module, explained by its CSO.
Why ITDR is Essential — Visibility Across All Identities
The identity-detection module and what it covers.
From Security Silos to Unified Cyber Intelligence
The CyberMeshX consolidation argument.
Why Cybersecurity Needs to Move Beyond Point Solutions
The case against tool sprawl, from the vendor.
Where LinkShadow sits — the grids
Two company-level views you won’t find on any vendor site — tap any dot for the rationale. The category-level grid lives on the product page.
LinkShadow Across Its Platform
Each dot is a LinkShadow product: competitive position vs category momentum.
The flagship — Visionaries on the 2026 MQ.
The MDR × Integration Map
Detection depth and platform breadth vs the field \u2014 where LinkShadow sits against the NDR Leaders.
Visionaries on NDR; flexible on-prem or cloud.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform standings and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
New to this? Learn it properly.
Zero-jargon starting points, in reading order. Each links into the deep education on the product page.
Where should you start with LinkShadow?
Answer three questions; we’ll point you at the right starting product. No email required — this isn’t that kind of quiz.
1. What are you trying to see?
2. Does the data have to stay in India?
3. What do you already own?
What is NDR, and what can a firewall not see?
A firewall inspects traffic crossing the perimeter. NDR watches traffic INSIDE the network — lateral movement, beaconing, staging — which never crosses it.
Read →Sensor, Master, and why on-prem matters in India
Where the Master runs decides whether traffic metadata leaves the country. LinkShadow offers no India data residency, so on-premises is the deployment to insist on.
Read →Visionaries is not Leader — reading the 2026 MQ honestly
LinkShadow’s placement is real and is not the top-right. Vectra, Darktrace and ExtraHop sit above it on Ability to Execute.
Read →DSPM and ITDR — modules, not standalone buys
Both are strongest as extensions of an NDR deployment. Bought alone they compete with vendors that have far deeper track records.
Read →The acronym decoder
Every term on these pages, in one place- LinkShadow
- A US-registered cybersecurity company (2015, Athens GA) selling Intelligent NDR, DSPM and ITDR on the CyberMeshX platform. Positioned in Visionaries on the 2026 Gartner MQ for NDR.
- NDR
- Network Detection and Response — watches traffic inside the network for lateral movement, beaconing and anomalous behaviour a perimeter firewall cannot see. It detects; it does not enforce.
- CyberMeshX (CMX)
- LinkShadow's platform architecture (May 2025) correlating NDR, DSPM and ITDR in one console. A layer over the three products, NOT a fourth product you buy separately.
- Sensor and Master
- The two-part architecture: sensors inspect mirrored traffic, a Master correlates and stores. The Master may run on-premises — the choice that decides whether data stays in India.
- Visionaries
- A Magic Quadrant position indicating strong vision with less proven execution than Leaders. Vectra AI, Darktrace and ExtraHop are the Leaders on the 2026 MQ for NDR.
- East-west traffic
- Traffic between hosts INSIDE a network, rather than north-south traffic crossing the perimeter. Most attacker movement after a foothold is east-west, and a firewall does not see it.
Buy it like you’ve done this before
The procurement playbook TechBag runs with IT buyers — steps, licensing cheat-sheet, and the pitfalls that cost quarters.
Scope what you actually need to see
NDR earns its place when you have no visibility into east-west traffic. TechBag scopes which segments matter, how mirroring would be arranged, and whether the honest answer is LinkShadow or one of the MQ Leaders — Vectra, Darktrace or ExtraHop — for your risk appetite.
Decide on-premises or cloud, early
LinkShadow offers NO India data residency; its privacy policy allows storage anywhere in the world. If in-country handling is a requirement, the on-premises Master is the deployment to insist on, and that belongs in the design before pricing, not after.
Plan the traffic mirroring
You get visibility exactly where you mirror traffic. SPAN ports, TAPs and virtual mirrors all have to be arranged, and this is the real deployment effort — network engineering, not an agent push. Scope it honestly or the coverage will surprise you.
Ask for references — and expect friction
LinkShadow names no customers publicly; every reference on its site is anonymised by role and industry. If your procurement requires reference checks, raise it in the first meeting. TechBag will not pretend this is not a gap.
Get the quote — there is no list price
LinkShadow publishes no pricing at all; marketplace listings are bring-your-own-licence, and aggregator ‘pricing’ pages are generated rather than vendor figures. Price the modules separately so the consolidation argument has to prove itself on your numbers.
Buy through the channel, in INR with GST
TechBag handles scoping, commercials and support locally — INR invoicing with GST, a local point of contact, and honest comparison against the alternatives rather than a single-vendor pitch.
The licensing cheat-sheet
| Product | Licensing model | How you enter | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligent NDR | Quote-only — per sensor and Master | Deep packet inspection + behavioural analytics | See lateral movement a firewall cannot |
| DSPM | Quote-only — CyberMeshX module | Discovery, classification, exposure analysis | Extend an existing NDR deployment |
| ITDR | Quote-only — CyberMeshX module | Identity threat detection on your IdP | Correlate identity with network signal |
| CyberMeshX | Platform layer — not bought alone | Correlation across the modules you own | Pays off only across multiple modules |
Per-user/device plus appliances and MDR service — TechBag models the mix (managed vs self-managed) for your size.
Five pitfalls that cost buyers quarters
Reading Visionaries as Leader
LinkShadow’s 2026 Magic Quadrant placement for NDR is real and worth citing — and it is Visionaries, not Leader. Vectra AI, Darktrace and ExtraHop are the Leaders, placed above it on Ability to Execute. A buyer whose first requirement is the most-proven NDR should shortlist those three; LinkShadow’s case is architecture and value. Also keep three separate things distinct: the 2026 Magic Quadrant, the older 2024 Market Guide (where it was a Representative Vendor), and the Frost Radar (a different firm entirely). They are not interchangeable, and upgrading any of them in a deck is the fastest way to lose credibility in a technical evaluation.
Assuming NDR blocks something
It does not. NDR DETECTS — it surfaces lateral movement, beaconing and anomalous behaviour, and then something else acts. It is an addition to a firewall, never a replacement, and no inspected-throughput figure applies because nothing is being enforced. Budget for what consumes the detections: a SOC, an MDR service, or an XDR workflow. An NDR deployment with nobody watching the console is an expensive log.
Expecting India data residency because there is an India office
The Kochi office and the Truvisor distribution agreement are real, and both are recent (distribution from April 2026). Neither is data residency. LinkShadow’s privacy policy states data may be used, processed or stored anywhere in the world, and the company makes no DPDP, RBI, SEBI, IRDAI or CERT-In claim anywhere. If in-country handling is a requirement, the answer is the ON-PREMISES deployment — which is a genuinely good answer, because it removes the vendor cloud from the path entirely — and residency in writing, not an office address.
Underestimating the traffic-mirroring work
NDR sees exactly what you mirror to it and nothing else. Every segment you want visibility into needs a SPAN port, a TAP or a virtual mirror, and in a real estate that is a network project with change windows and hardware. Teams that scope NDR as a software purchase discover the coverage gaps after go-live, when the detections that matter turn out to be on the segments nobody mirrored.
Buying DSPM or ITDR standalone without weighing the alternatives
Both are modules on the CyberMeshX platform and both are strongest as extensions of a LinkShadow NDR deployment. Bought alone, DSPM competes with Varonis, Cyera, Securiti and Wiz — all with deeper track records, more India presence and named references — and ITDR competes with Microsoft Entra ID Protection, CrowdStrike and Silverfort, and may simply duplicate what you already run. Neither module carries analyst recognition of its own; the Visionaries placement is for NDR.
Skipping the vendor-viability conversation
LinkShadow publishes no pricing, identifies no CEO publicly, has no disclosed funding and names no customers — every reference on its own site is anonymised to a role and an industry. For BFSI, insurance and government procurement that requires reference checks and vendor-viability evidence, that combination is a real blocker and it is better raised in week one than in the final approval. TechBag would rather lose the deal honestly than have it fail at security review.
The evaluation kit
The flagship intel page carries an 8-question vendor checklist and an automation-savings calculator:
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Six trends with momentum scores (TechBag’s read of analyst and market signals) — and what each means for your next decision.
Category momentum — estimated market growth
Illustrative CAGR synthesis**Directionally consistent with public analyst forecasts; verify exact figures before quoting. The takeaway: east-west detection and the consolidation of network, data and identity signal are the fastest-compounding parts of this market — which is the ground LinkShadow is built on, and where its 2026 Visionaries placement for NDR sits.
East-west visibility becomes a board question
Attackers who get a foothold move laterally, and that movement never crosses the perimeter where the firewall is watching.
What it means for you
NDR exists because perimeter inspection structurally cannot see inside the network. LinkShadow's flagship is built for this, and its 2026 Visionaries placement is real.
On-premises returns as a residency answer
Regulated Indian estates increasingly want in-country handling they can prove architecturally rather than contractually.
What it means for you
LinkShadow's Master can run entirely on-premises, keeping traffic in country by design. For a vendor with no India cloud residency, that is the honest route to a regulated deployment.
Consolidation pressure across network, data and identity
Security teams running separate NDR, DSPM and identity tools spend more time correlating alerts than acting on them.
What it means for you
CyberMeshX is LinkShadow's answer — one console across the three. Real, but conditional: it only pays off across multiple modules, and concentrates risk on a small vendor.
Buyers read Magic Quadrants more carefully
Quadrant position is increasingly checked rather than quoted, and a misstated placement is caught in technical evaluation.
What it means for you
LinkShadow is in Visionaries on the 2026 MQ for NDR. TechBag states that precisely, and keeps it separate from the 2024 Market Guide and the Frost Radar — different processes entirely.
Questions buyers ask about LinkShadow
Ready to shortlist LinkShadow?
Open any of the three intel pages for the deep dive, or let a TechBag advisor build the case with you — on-prem-vs-cloud scoping, traffic-mirroring design, honest comparison against the MQ Leaders (Vectra/Darktrace/ExtraHop), quotes, GST invoicing and local support included.
Stats, positions and figures are illustrative syntheses of public materials; verify before purchase.