VanishID Named Winner of Two Top InfoSec Innovator Awards for 2026

VanishID Wins ‘Editor’s Choice Digital Executive Protection’ and ‘Groundbreaking Digital Workforce Protection’ In Cyber Defense Magazine’s Annual InfoSec Awards

ORLANDO, FL, UNITED STATES, October 20, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — VanishID is proud to announce we have been named the winner for the following award from Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry’s leading electronic information security magazine:

Editor’s Choice Digital Executive Protection
Groundbreaking Digital Workforce Protection

Together, these awards recognize a shift in who attackers target and what it takes to defend them. Executives remain the highest-value targets, and protecting them is foundational. But attackers now use exposed identity data to reach anyone connected to an organization, from the C-suite to frontline employees, through social engineering, harassment, credential compromise, and physical threats. VanishID is being recognized for delivering both: rigorous protection for the leaders attackers prize most, and the same protection extended across the entire workforce, so there is no unguarded path into the business.

Identity data has always been exposed. AI has made it faster to gather. Attackers can find exposed identity data, weaponize it, and run social engineering, credential abuse, and physical attacks to compromise organizations. What took weeks of attacker research now costs almost nothing in time or money. An organization under attack now has to defend against attackers with AI across everyone all at once: executives, employees, their families. MITRE’s ATT&CK framework T1589, Gather Victim Identity Information, admits gathering victim identity info ‘cannot be easily mitigated with preventive controls’. VanishID built the first one.

VanishID runs an agentic platform 24/7 to find exposed identity data across the open, deep, and dark web, triggers countermeasures through the tools organizations already use to neutralize exposure, and removes exposed identity data wherever possible. This innovation enables organizations to address exposed identity risk at the speed of AI and to protect the people and processes behind the business.

“We’re thrilled to be a member of this coveted group of winners in the 14th year of Cyber Defense Awards.” said Matt Polak, CEO and Founder of VanishID. “This recognition reflects the work we’ve put in to build a security control that mitigates the risk exposed identity attacks pose to organizations.”

“VanishID 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,” said Gary S. Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine.

The full list of the Top InfoSec Innovators for 2026: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-infosec-innovators-for-2026/

About VanishID

VanishID is the external identity security company using agentic AI to identify and neutralize the exposed identity information attackers target. More than 100 organizations, including Fortune 500 enterprises, financial institutions, health systems, and public sector agencies, rely on VanishID. The company is SOC 2 Type II certified and backed by Dell Technologies Capital, Crosslink Capital, Rally Ventures, and other investors. Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, VanishID was founded in 2019.
Learn more at vanishid.com.

About Cyber Defense Awards
This is Cyber Defense Magazine’s 14th year of honoring cybersecurity innovators, in this case the Top Global CISOs for 2026, on our Cyber Defense Awards platform. In this competition, judges for these and other prestigious awards includes cybersecurity industry veterans, trailblazers and market makers Ron Gula of Gula Tech Adventures, Gary Miliefsky of CDMG, Dr. Lindsey Polley de Lopez of VentureScope, Katie Gray of In-Q-Tel, Robert R. Ackerman Jr. of DataTribe, Ira Winkler from CruiseCon, Dino Boukouris of AltitudeCyber and with much appreciation to emeritus judges Robert Herjavec of Cyderes, Dr. Peter Stephenson of CDMG and David DeWalt of NightDragon. Top InfoSec Innovators for 2026 is found here: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-infosec-innovators-for-2026/ and download The Black Unicorn Report for 2026: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/the-black-unicorn-report-for-2026/ and Top Global CISOs Winners for 2026, here: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-global-cisos-winners-for-2026/.

About Cyber Defense Magazine
Cyber Defense Magazine was founded in 2012 by Gary S. Miliefsky, globally recognized cyber security thought leader, inventor and entrepreneur and continues to be the premier source of IT Security information. We are managed and published by and for ethical, honest, passionate information security professionals. Our mission is to share cutting-edge knowledge, real-world stories and awards on the best ideas, products and services in the information technology industry. We deliver electronic magazines every month online for free, and limited special editions exclusively for the RSAC, BlackHat and Cyber Defense Conferences. Learn more about us at http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com. Cyber Defense Magazine is a proud member of the Cyber Defense Media Group.

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