The security space is one of many that has found newfound opportunities thanks to the onset of the AI era. As agentic AI takes the tech market by storm in early 2025, one security vendor is celebrating continued growth and touting its early adoption of the technology. Channel Insider asked Torq’s CTO and Co-Founder Leonid Belkind how the company’s EMEA expansion and aggressive growth are fueled by the channel and emerging technologies.
EMEA expansion follows strong 2024
Torq recently announced a new headquarters office in London to serve the EMEA region. The location formalizes the company’s availability in the region, though several partners and companies based on the continent were already utilizing Torq’s solutions. The company said in a statement its EMEA operations are led by Usman Gulfaraz, vice president of EMEA sales, and Torq has appointed Jaicee Matthews as its head of marketing in the region.
“An additional thing that makes us feel that our investment in growth in the EMEA region will provide a great return is the fact that, despite our clear Americas focus in previous years, we have a growing number of household European enterprise names (across various industries) already adopting Torq,” said Belkind.
The move comes as Torq reported it had achieved 300% revenue growth and 200% employee growth in 2024. Torq also recently closed its Series C funding round and has publicly stated its goal to achieve $100 million in ARR by 2026. Its existing and future EMEA partners will join a global partner network led by Torq’s Head of Global Channels and Alliances Sheldon Muir.
Agentic AI: hot topic now, Torq’s basis for years
Torq calls itself a “pioneer of the autonomous security operations center” and was founded in 2020 with a vision of what security professionals would need from security solutions in an automated, complex future. To that end, the company has tested and deployed agentic AI for nearly two years in an effort to automate routine and some advanced security tasks to free up IT professionals to focus on more strategic and high-level projects.
“Torq identified this opportunity more than 1.5 years ago and started the development of our first Agentic AI solutions targeted at SOC Analysis and Security Engineers. Since that initial phase we have collected a lot of experience, as well as feedback, regarding the usage of such solutions in real-life environments, allowing us to perform continuous improvement in the outcomes we are delivering,” Belkind said.
Belkind highlighted that the company’s platform has been “AI-driven” since its inception and the team continues to innovate as new AI technologies are brought to market. The hyper-automation platform, as Torq describes it, promises higher margins, faster onboarding, and enhanced security features to its MSSP partner base in comparison to traditional SOAR solutions.
“Today we are delivering a 3rd generation of our architecture for responsible AI Agents. This one is utilizing a full-blow MAS (Multi Agentic System) architecture, where a single process is orchestrated by multiple AI Agents exchanging information and introducing opinionated processes. This puts us ‘way ahead of the curve’ in comparison to the AI solutions that the Enterprise Cybersecurity industry is currently offering. The existing framework, in addition to allowing responsible and scalable delivery of existing Agentic AI functionality, allows our AI Research and Development teams to deliver innovative solutions to the market at a speed much faster than before.”
What’s next for Torq and the security market
Torq appears to be laser-focused on continuing its exponential growth across the Americas and EMEA. That growth will be driven by several factors, including expanding its partner base across all regions and continuing to develop both the product and supporting go-to-market support.
“Our goal as a whole for this year is to keep the same tremendous growth trajectory from previous years (more than 3x revenue). Naturally, to maintain such a level of growth we need to open ourselves up to new opportunities, explore new markets and partnerships that will serve as force-multipliers to our own GTM organization in reaching this goal,” said Belkind.
AI, agentic or otherwise, is not a new entrant to the cybersecurity space, but it is continuing to gain relevance as it becomes the new go-to tool of defenders and threat actors worldwide. Security also isn’t the only part of the tech stack getting more complex; Belkind points to SaaS applications and the sprawl of data assets as other areas where partners and their clients are seeing change. All of this coupled together drives home a phrase those in the channel are becoming quite familiar with – technology needs and concerns are not what they used to be, and that means partners have to adjust accordingly.
“The technological landscape in recent years is becoming more and more dynamic. Business lines acquire new applications (many of them SaaS) with a velocity that is greater than what we’ve ever seen, in order to stay competitive. Organizations’ data assets are now processed by a growing number of “subprocessors” specializing in various business functions,” Belkind said. “Furthermore, with the introduction of Agentic AI innovation in countless areas of business process orchestration, it will be very difficult to predict the exact technological stack that the company will rely on in 2, 3, 4 (and so on) years.”
Belkind, like others in the security space, advises partners and their customers to shift away from point solutions cobbled together and towards more holistic solutions (like the platform play Torq and many others have launched over the past few years) that provide more adaptability and flexibility at scale.
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