Optery Wins Transformational Anti-Phishing Award in Cyber Defense Magazine’s Top InfoSec Innovators Awards for 2026 - markets.businessinsider.com
Optery, the leading provider of enterprise-grade personal data removal software, has won the Transformational Anti-Phishing award in Cyber Defense Magazine's Top InfoSec Innovators Awards for 2026.
The award was announced during CyberDefenseCon 2026, recognizing Optery's innovative approach to combating phishing attacks by targeting the information threat actors use to identify and target employees. Optery for Business helps security teams reduce exposure by finding and removing employee and executive personal information from data broker and people-search sites.
Technology and Recognition
Optery combines patented search technology and automated removals to reduce exposure across hundreds of data broker sites. The service typically finds approximately 100 exposed profiles per employee, including dozens missed by other services, and provides visual proof of its results through before-and-after screenshots.
The company has received numerous industry accolades, including being named CNET's Editors' Choice and Best Overall Data Removal Service of 2026, and PCMag's Editors' Choice for five consecutive years. In a TechCrunch evaluation, Optery found nearly 50 exposed profiles that remained after a journalist used a competitor service.
Optery is the most awarded personal data removal service in the industry, with recognition from major cybersecurity and technology organizations including the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, Globee® Awards, and Fast Company.
Industry Validation
The award was presented by Cyber Defense Magazine, now in its 14th year of honoring cybersecurity innovators. Judges praised Optery for understanding tomorrow's threats today, providing cost-effective solutions, and innovating in unexpected ways to help mitigate cyber risk.
Optery embodies three major features we judges look for with the potential to become winners: understanding tomorrow's threats, today, providing a cost-effective solution and innovating in unexpected ways that can help mitigate cyber risk and get one step ahead of the next breach.
Enterprise Solutions
Optery offers enterprise capabilities including real-time reporting and is SOC 2 Type II attested. Through a self-service administrative dashboard, security and IT teams can enroll employees, monitor exposure, track removals, and measure progress across their organizations.
Over one million people and 1,000 businesses currently use Optery to prevent attacks and keep their personal information off the Internet. The service provides users with a proactive defense against PII-based threats through automated subscription plans that clear home addresses, phone numbers, emails, and other personal information from the Internet at scale.
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