Optery Wins 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Award in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Optery Wins 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Award in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Publish Date: 2026-06-02 09:28:00
Source Domain: markets.businessinsider.com
SAN FRANCISCO, June 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Optery today announced it has been named a winner in the 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Awards, in the category of Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Presented by the Business Intelligence Group, the award recognizes the organizations, products, and people applying cybersecurity in ways that deliver real, measurable protection.
The 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Awards honor achievement across the full landscape of digital defense, spotlighting the companies and leaders moving security beyond reaction and into proactive, accountable practice. This year’s program recognized winners across 27 categories and 6 countries.
Optery was recognized for its enterprise-grade personal data removal platform, which helps organizations find and remove employee and executive personal information from hundreds of data broker and people-search sites. Through this work, the company has helped organizations reduce exposed personal data, decrease the information available to attackers for social engineering, impersonation, and account takeovers, and strengthen protections for employees, executives, and high-risk individuals.
In the age of AI-enabled social engineering, reducing exposed personal data has become a security priority. Optery’s 2026 Enterprise Social Engineering Survey Report found that cybersecurity leaders rated data brokers as the #1 source of attacker intelligence, while personal data removal from data brokers ranked as the #1 investment for social engineering defense.
“The threats are real, and so is the defense. 2026 is about getting ahead of the attacker — execution, accountability, and measurable resilience,” said Russ Fordyce, Chief Recognition Officer, Business Intelligence Group. “Optery stood out because its work in Privacy Enhancing Technologies reflects where the market is headed: practical cybersecurity that solves real problems, earns trust, and protects the people and assets that depend on it. This…
