CyberSmart's primary growth channel is managed service providers, and Akhtar positioned the company against the broader cybersecurity software market serving SMEs. He did not name specific competitor companies in the interview. Akhtar referenced the general venture capital expectation of three-to-four-times annual revenue growth as a benchmark some investors applied when evaluating companies in the sector, but he did not attribute specific revenue or valuation figures to any named rival.
Akhtar mentioned acquire.com (formerly microacquire.com) as a platform where small technology companies with asking prices below $100,000 could be acquired to add product features, framing micro-acquisitions as a build-versus-buy alternative rather than a competitive dynamic.