Optery has been named the winner of the 2025 Most Innovative Anti-Phishing award from Cyber Defense Magazine!
Now in its 13th year, the Cyber Defense Awards, presented during CyberDefenseCon 2025, honor companies delivering exceptional solutions in cybersecurity.
Optery is unique among personal data removal solutions, combining sophisticated patented search technology with automated opt-out software to discover and remove dozens more exposed data broker profiles per person than other services. This dual approach dramatically reduces the online attack surface that fuels phishing and other social engineering attacks.
The Top InfoSec Innovator Awards 2025 spotlight the cybersecurity companies driving industry innovation and shaping the future of cyber defense. Now in its 13th year, the Cyber Defense Awards, presented during CyberDefenseCon 2025, honor companies delivering exceptional solutions in cybersecurity. The event brings together Top Global CISOs, who gather by invitation only, to connect with leading cybersecurity innovators.
“Phishing continues to be the most pervasive threat vector in cybersecurity, and exposed personal data is a primary enabler,” said Chen Atlas, CTO and Founder of Optery. “Optery’s innovation lies in combining the industry’s most sophisticated personal data removal automation and AI, with expertly trained human privacy agents, creating a solution that finds and removes more personal information than ever before. This gives security organizations an additional lever to neutralize phishing risks at their source. We’re honored to be recognized by Cyber Defense Magazine for helping companies stem the tide of phishing attacks and reduce their overall exposure in a measurable, lasting way.”
“Phishing defense has traditionally been reactive, focused on detecting or responding to attacks after they begin,” said Paul Mander, GM of Optery for Business. “Optery changes that by playing offense. We simulate attacker reconnaissance, find the exposed employee and executive data they would exploit, and remove it before it can be weaponized. This proactive approach shuts down phishing campaigns before they ever start. The result is far fewer attacks to defend against, reduced breach risk, improved security culture, and a lighter load on security teams. We’re grateful for this recognition from Cyber Defense Magazine.”
“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,” said Gary S. Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine.
Optery is excited to be among the distinguished group of winners. The full list of the Top InfoSec Innovators for 2025 is found here: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-infosec-innovators-for-2025/
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