Optery, the leader in enterprise personal data removal, has been named Market Disruptor in the Digital Risk Protection category by Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry’s leading electronic information security magazine. Now in its fourteenth year, the Global InfoSec Awards recognize cybersecurity companies delivering innovative solutions that address today’s most pressing security challenges.
Optery is unique among personal data removal solutions, combining 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. This dual approach dramatically reduces the online employee PII exposure that fuels phishing, smishing, vishing, and credential compromise.
“Organizations are increasingly recognizing that exposed employee data leaves them extremely vulnerable to social engineering and account takeover campaigns,” said Lawrence Gentilello, CEO and Founder of Optery. “Attackers routinely harvest employee and executive information from data brokers and people-search sites to conduct reconnaissance and launch targeted attacks. Optery was built to eliminate this risk at its source by finding and removing exposed employee data at scale. We’re honored that Cyber Defense Magazine recognizes this approach as a disruptive advancement in digital risk protection.”
“Most organizations have invested heavily in securing their networks and endpoints, yet a massive amount of employee data remains publicly exposed on data broker and people-search sites,” said Paul Mander, CCO & GM of Optery for Business. “Data broker sites aggregate and publish sensitive information about employees at scale, giving attackers a roadmap for targeting organizations. Optery helps security teams systematically remove this exposure as comprehensively as possible, and we’re honored to be recognized by Cyber Defense Magazine in the Digital Risk Protection category.”
“As security leaders, we’re constantly looking for ways to shift from reactive defense to proactive risk reduction,” said Karthik Ramesh, Chief Information Security Officer at Optery. “Today the boundary of enterprise security extends well beyond corporate systems because attackers routinely gather intelligence about employees from external data sources, including data broker and people-search sites. Removing that exposure is a powerful preventive control because it limits the intelligence attackers can gather during reconnaissance and makes targeting much more difficult. Optery gives organizations the ability to continuously discover and eliminate this exposure to minimize digital risk. We’re grateful for this recognition from Cyber Defense Magazine.”
“Optery embodies three major features we judges look for 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 Global InfoSec Award winners can be viewed here: http://www.cyberdefenseawards.com/
Optery will be at RSAC 2026 providing live demos of its patented personal data discovery and removal technology at booth N-4308 in the North Moscone Convention Center.