Build
Incubate security companies and develop products from early research through working software.
Founder-led cybersecurity product company
We build and operate security products from the hard parts outward.
Apogee1 LLC is a cybersecurity product company and venture studio. We build practical security products, incubate new companies, conduct applied research, and selectively advise cyber founders and investors.
Security products
Company building
Research
Apogee1 LLCSan Francisco, California
Two launched appsA1Scan + A1Run on Google Play
Founder-operatedKevin Watkins, founder and core team
Working platformShadowLines DLP3 in active development
The company
One operating home for security products, research and company building.
Apogee1 brings a builder’s perspective to cybersecurity: start with evidence, find the structural problem, and make something useful enough to operate in the real world.
Flagship venture
01 / Portfolio
An Apogee1 company
Working product · active development
ShadowLines
Graph-powered data protection for modern security teams.
ShadowLines is developing DLP3, an API-first cloud and data security platform. DLP3 discovers how mixed environments actually work, maps the relationships that matter, retains the evidence behind findings, and helps teams move from exposure to action.
Visit ShadowLinesWorking product interfaceSynthetic demonstration data
Applied security tools
Launched products. Useful edges.
The AG1 mobile lab explores practical device discovery and command workflows. A1Scan and A1Run are launched products published by Apogee1 on Google Play.
Launched · Google PlayAG1scan
A1Scan
Nearby-device discovery for Android across Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi and the local network. Built to make assets visible in environments the operator owns or is authorized to assess.
View on Google Play
Launched · Google PlayAG1run
A1Run
An Android command workspace for running custom or prebuilt shell commands, saving reusable commands, and sharing output on devices the operator owns or is authorized to administer.
View on Google PlaySelective strategic advisory
Operating experience, applied selectively.
Alongside its product work, Apogee1 selectively supports cybersecurity founders, venture teams and strategic partners at the moments when technical truth matters most.
Start a conversationTechnical diligence
Independent assessment of architecture, security claims, engineering reality and product risk.
Product security
Threat-informed guidance for products, platforms, development teams and security roadmaps.
Company strategy
Technical narrative, market framing, product direction and strategic partnership support.
Team
Kevin Watkins
Apogee1 is founder-led and currently operated by Kevin Watkins.
Cybersecurity technologist, founder, security researcher, author and investor.
Kevin co-founded Appthority, where he served as CTO and helped build a category-defining mobile security company. Appthority was named Most Innovative Company at RSA Conference 2012 and was acquired by Symantec in 2018. He later held security research roles at Symantec and Broadcom.
Today, Kevin builds through Apogee1 and serves as Venture Partner at Chispa VC — Technical Diligence & Product Security. He is the author of Deadly Sins of Mobile Applications and a named inventor on numerous security patents.
2012AppthorityRSAC Most Innovative Company
2018SymantecAppthority acquired
TodayApogee1 + ChispaBuilding and technical diligence
Writing & research
Security insight, published.
Kevin writes about the systems people carry, the data those systems expose, and the security assumptions hiding underneath.
The book
Deadly Sins of Mobile Applications
Your Privacy at Risk
A practical examination of how mobile applications can reach beyond user expectations, collect sensitive information, and put personal and business data at risk.
Contact
Building something consequential in security?
contact@apogee1.netCompany building · Security research
Technical diligence · Strategic advisory