On Friday, December 12, 2025, in London, our CAIO and Co-Founder Hanah-Marie Darley took the stage at Black Hat Europe for the Startup Spotlight finals. After presentations from an exceptional cohort of cybersecurity startups, the judges selected Geordie as the Black Hat Europe 2025 Startup Spotlight winner. As the winner, we’ll go on to compete in the Black Hat USA 2026 Startup Spotlight in August.
This is a proud moment for our team, and a strong validation of the new kind of security needed to deploy and scale AI agents safely: continuous visibility, behavioural observability, and real-time control across agent workflows.
Why this matters right now
Enterprises are moving quickly from experimentation to agents in production that can take actions, chain tools together, and operate with increasing autonomy across systems and data.
This momentum is driving a new set of urgent, practical questions from CISOs and security teams, including:
- What agents do we have?
- What tools are those agents connected to?
- What are the agents doing in production?
- What risks does that create?
- How do we address and eliminate risk without blocking innovation?
Our message at Black Hat Europe was straightforward: security teams need a way to see agents holistically, understand their behaviour continuously, and apply controls in real time, before business disruptions occur.
What we presented on the Startup Spotlight stage
Geordie is purpose-built for agentic security and governance. On stage, Hanah walked through how we help security teams get a holistic, real-time understanding of their agentic footprint, so they can confidently say “yes” to agentic innovation without unleashing risk.
We showed how Geordie supports:
- Vendor-agnostic discovery and inventory to understand what agents exist across the business
- Continuous assessment of agent configurations, connected tools, and workflows
- Observability into agent behaviour, including the ability to understand, audit, and respond as agents act
- Clear, contextual insights into agent-driven risk so teams can prioritise what matters
- Real-time guardrails and mitigations so security teams can reduce risk without adding friction or latency
At the centre of this is Beam, our real-time context mitigation engine. Beam secures agentic activity by:
- Giving agents the context they need in real time to avoid risk
- Protecting operational resiliency by keeping agent decisions aligned with governance policies
- Responding to risks without causing unnecessary business disruptions
Validation from the security community
“We couldn’t have achieved this milestone without the enterprise security teams who have worked with us as early customers and design partners, partnering with us to solve the real problems they face as they accelerate agentic adoption,” said Henry Comfort, Co-Founder and CEO of Geordie. “This recognition from Black Hat Europe is a strong signal that agentic security and governance is becoming a first-order priority, and Geordie is here to partner with the teams leading that work.”
“Security teams are asking for clarity and control: what agents exist, what they’re connected to, what they’re doing, and how to intervene in real time,” said Hanah-Marie Darley. “We built Geordie to give teams the deep understanding, continuous observability, and real-time control they need to deploy agents safely and at scale.”
Thank you to the Black Hat team, the judges, and our peers for an outstanding event, and to everyone who connected with us in London. If you want to see how Geordie an help secure AI agents in your environment, please request a demo.
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