Jeremey Davis, Managing Director, CyberGlobal Tampa
August 2026 —Invest: spoke with Jeremey Davis, managing director of CyberGlobal Tampa, about the company’s U.S. expansion, the growing need for continuous cybersecurity monitoring, and Tampa Bay’s opportunity to strengthen its position as a cyber hub. “The investment being made in positioning USF as a top-tier cybersecurity program is significant and something I’m excited to see develop having grown up and lived here my whole life,” Davis said.
What key changes over the past year have most impacted CyberGlobal?
The past year has been huge for us. The company is nine years old and has had a strong presence in Europe for many years, but it wasn’t until last year that we began expanding into the United States. Since then, we’ve opened in at least a dozen markets — Florida, Dallas, Denver, Charlotte, Boston and more. Beyond the geographic expansion, we announced a partnership with Bitdefender to provide endpoint detection and response services integrated with our 24/7 Security Operations Center monitoring. We also rolled out PentX, our artificial intelligence (AI)-powered penetration testing solution. Those were the three biggest developments: the U.S. expansion, the Bitdefender partnership, and the launch of PentX.
How important is cybersecurity to Tampa Bay’s growth as a tech hub?
It’s essential. People don’t always understand that anyone can be a target for a cyber threat — it’s not just large enterprises. Small and medium-sized businesses, anyone with a web presence, anyone with a cloud solution or a connection to on-premises servers, can be a target. The challenge for smaller businesses is that they have far less capacity to respond and recover. Some treat it as an afterthought until they find their server data encrypted and someone calling with a ransom demand. A larger company with resources might weather that for a few days, but for a small business to be unable to operate for days or weeks at a time, the damage can be severe.
Where do you see the biggest cybersecurity opportunities in the Tampa Bay region?
Municipalities are one significant area. Education is another. Florida has a strong mix of public, private and charter schools, and they have an obligation to protect student records. Many of those schools, like small and medium-sized businesses, don’t have a dedicated cybersecurity team. The question becomes how to balance the need to protect sensitive data with the reality of maintaining a cost-effective setup. That’s exactly where a provider like CyberGlobal can step in and fill the gap.
What service expansions have been most impactful for your clients?
A lot of companies say they do cybersecurity, but you have to unpack what that actually means. It can range from password and account management all the way to the full range of services CyberGlobal provides. The most common request we get is for an initial cybersecurity assessment or regular penetration testing. Many clients come in not knowing what they don’t know. They want someone to identify their weaknesses and tell them where they can improve.
From a regulatory standpoint, most compliance frameworks also require some form of annual penetration testing to demonstrate due diligence. That’s part of what makes PentX valuable. A single annual pen test is just a snapshot in time, and in today’s environment, that’s not enough. By automating the process, we can run frequent scans and identify what has changed from one week to the next, rather than from one year to the next.
How is CyberGlobal approaching talent development, particularly in Tampa Bay?
Most of our engineering presence is based in Romania. One of the advantages of Eastern Europe, whether Poland, Romania or elsewhere, is a high degree of technical professionalism at an approachable cost point, which makes it particularly appealing for small and medium-sized businesses. As for Tampa specifically, the region has strong resources in the University of Tampa and the University of South Florida. The investment being made in positioning USF as a top-tier cybersecurity program is significant and something I’m excited to see develop having grown up and lived here my whole life.
How is CyberGlobal engaging with the Tampa Bay community to strengthen cybersecurity awareness?
CyberGlobal’s model relies on having a local presence, and I am that presence for Tampa. Attending and speaking at events like CyberBay, engaging with local businesses and getting the message out through interviews and community conversations is all part of how we evangelize the need for cybersecurity. One area gaining momentum is cyber insurance. Businesses are increasingly realizing they need specific coverage for cyber incidents, and a requirement of obtaining that coverage is often completing an assessment or penetration test to demonstrate due diligence. That dynamic feeds directly into demand for the services we provide. It also means that students graduating from cybersecurity programs here in Tampa have a very rich and long career ahead of them.
What are your key goals and priorities for CyberGlobal over the next two to three years?
The priority is building relationships. This business grows on trust. That means developing partnerships with businesses across the region and working with managed service providers to deliver capabilities their clients need but that they may not be able to provide in-house.
At the end of the day, that’s where everybody wins. If a service provider can’t meet a client’s needs and CyberGlobal can step in and provide that, the client is happy, the service provider is happy, and we’re happy. That’s the model we’re building toward.
