Recognition underscores Optery’s unmatched ability to find and remove exposed employee PII across data broker sites, helping prevent cyber and physical threats
Optery, the leader in enterprise-grade personal data removal and the first company to offer IT teams a completely self-service platform for finding and removing employee PII from the web, today announced it has been named a winner in three categories of the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards: Attack Surface Management, Anti-Phishing, and Human Risk Management.
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards celebrate excellence, innovation, and leadership in the cybersecurity industry. Optery’s recognition across three categories highlights the critical role of personal data removal in modern cybersecurity.
Optery combines patented search technology with sophisticated opt-out automation to discover and remove dozens more exposed data broker profiles per person on average than other services, and proves its work with before-and-after screenshots. This comprehensive approach helps organizations minimize the attack surface for phishing and other forms of social engineering, while managing human risk by limiting the personal data attackers can use to target employees, executives, and their families with cyber and physical threats.
Optery currently supports automated removals for 640+ data broker sites and 1,000+ sites including Custom Removals requests, with coverage continually expanding.
“We’re grateful to the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards for recognizing Optery’s work and the importance of personal data removal as a cybersecurity control,” said Paul Mander, Chief Commercial Officer & GM of Optery for Business. “Exposed employee personal data gives attackers the intelligence they need to target people and organizations. Optery helps minimize that risk through continuous exposure reduction at scale.”
“Security leaders are prioritizing personal data removal because they know it directly reduces risk to their employees and their organizations by helping prevent targeted attacks and reducing their volume,” said Karthik Ramesh, CISO at Optery. “Optery helps organizations continuously discover and remove exposed employee personal data across data broker and people-search sites in the most thorough way possible. We are honored by this recognition from the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards.”
“We congratulate Optery for Business on earning Gold Award recognition in the Attack Surface Management, Anti-Phishing, and Human Risk Management categories of the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards,” said Holger Schulze, founder of Cybersecurity Insiders and organizer of the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. “Selected by an independent jury of cybersecurity practitioners, analysts, and CISOs, this recognition highlights the role of innovative security solutions in strengthening cybersecurity across organizations worldwide.”