{"id":262588,"date":"2026-06-02T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/optery-wins-2026-fortress-cybersecurity-award-in-privacy-enhancin\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T00:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:55:19","slug":"optery-wins-2026-fortress-cybersecurity-award-in-privacy-enhancin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/optery-wins-2026-fortress-cybersecurity-award-in-privacy-enhancin\/","title":{"rendered":"Optery Wins 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Award in Privacy Enhancin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/natlawreview.com\/press-releases\/optery-wins-2026-fortress-cybersecurity-award-privacy-enhancing-technologies\">Optery Wins 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Award in Privacy Enhancin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/natlawreview.com\/press-releases\/optery-wins-2026-fortress-cybersecurity-award-privacy-enhancing-technologies\">https:\/\/natlawreview.com\/press-releases\/optery-wins-2026-fortress-cybersecurity-award-privacy-enhancing-technologies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-02 19:54:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"natlawreview.com\">natlawreview.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recognition honors organizations, products, and leaders delivering measurable results in digital defense<\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO, June  02, 2026  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s program recognized winners across 27 categories and 6 countries.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">2026 Fortress Cyber Security Award<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In the age of AI-enabled social engineering, reducing exposed personal data has become a security priority. Optery\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The threats are real, and so is the defense. 2026 is about getting ahead of the attacker \u2014 execution, accountability, and measurable resilience,&#8221; said Russ Fordyce, Chief Recognition Officer, Business Intelligence Group. &#8220;Optery stood out because its work in Privacy Enhancing Technologies reflects where the market is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/natlawreview.com\/press-releases\/optery-wins-2026-fortress-cybersecurity-award-privacy-enhancing-technologies\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optery Wins 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Award in Privacy Enhancin https:\/\/natlawreview.com\/press-releases\/optery-wins-2026-fortress-cybersecurity-award-privacy-enhancing-technologies Publish Date: 2026-06-02 19:54:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ml.globenewswire.com\/Resource\/Download\/203f46a2-530b-4fde-be22-52bff0f534e7\/cybersecurityaward-2026.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,57],"class_list":["post-262588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262590,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262588\/revisions\/262590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}