WHO IS PHALYNX
Diverse cyber practitioners on a mission to help security teams make smarter buying decisions.
"We built Phalynx because we’ve been in your seat — running vendor evaluations with scattered data, biased inputs, and no peer signal. There’s a better way."
WHAT WE DO
Requirements-driven discovery. Peer-powered validation.
Phalynx gives you a structured, requirements-first evaluation process. We surface vendors that match your criteria, then connect you with peers doing the same evaluation, so every decision is defensible, documented, and repeatable.
WHY WE BUILT IT
Because practitioners deserve better signal.
Pay-to-play analyst models. Vendor-led demos. Peer conversations trapped in private Slack channels. The evaluation process was broken and everyone knew it. Phalynx exists to solve that problem.
THE TEAM
Built by practitioners, for practitioners.
Derrick Honea
Founder, Managing Partner
Derrick Honea is a well-respected cybersecurity professional turned entrepreneur. He has spent the last 20 years working with startups and helping enterprise organizations architect the latest technologies they use to defend against cyber threats. This immersion has allowed Derrick to foster and develop an incredible network of CISOs, Venture Capital Investors and other cybersecurity professionals from Fortune 500 companies. This community has now become foundational in Derrick’s cause to champion innovation and growth within the cyber-tech industry. Derrick offers a unique perspective to analyze, educate and promote collaboration among his peers.
Core Principles
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Practitioner-first
Every feature, every decision, every word is filtered through one question: would a senior security practitioner find this useful?
02
Peer-powered
The best evaluation signal comes from other practitioners, not vendors, not analysts, not ad spend. We build for that.
03
Purpose-built
Every evaluation produces a traceable, documented record. Because being right isn’t enough, you have to be able to prove it.