Globee Awards honors Optery for helping organizations prevent social engineering attacks.
Optery, the award-winning personal data removal platform helping individuals and businesses remove exposed personal information from data broker and people-search websites, is honored to be named the Best of Category winner in Social Engineering in the 2026 Globee® Awards for Cybersecurity, a globally recognized program celebrating excellence in all areas of cybersecurity.
This recognition highlights Optery’s contributions to digital security by helping organizations comprehensively remove the exposed personal data attackers use for phishing, smishing, vishing, impersonation, and business email compromise.
Optery helps address a key enabler of modern social engineering attacks: the widespread exposure of personal data on data broker and people-search websites. Optery scans hundreds of these sites to locate exposed personal information tied to an individual, automates opt-out requests, verifies removals, and continuously monitors for republished profiles. Users receive detailed reports showing exactly where their personal data was found and removed, including before-and-after screenshots. 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. Optery currently supports automated removals for 640+ data broker sites and 1,000+ sites including Custom Removals requests, with coverage continually expanding. For Optery customers, the result is significantly reduced social engineering risk and fewer attacks reaching employees.
San Madan, President of the Globee Awards, commented:
“Congratulations to the 2026 winners for their exceptional contributions to strengthening our digital world. Your innovation, dedication, and leadership continue to advance cybersecurity and inspire progress across industries. We are proud to recognize and celebrate your success.”
Lawrence Gentilello, CEO of Optery, said:
“Organizations have invested heavily in detecting and responding to social engineering attacks, but attackers still have easy access to the personal data that makes those attacks work. We’re honored to receive this recognition from the Globee Awards for helping organizations remove that data and reduce social engineering risk at the source.”
Karthik Ramesh, Chief Information Security Officer at Optery, said:
“Organizations need a proactive way to comprehensively reduce the personal data attackers use to target employees and executives, and that is exactly the problem Optery is able to solve. This recognition reflects the importance of Optery’s work in helping organizations prevent social engineering attacks.”
View the full list of 2026 winners: https://globeeawards.com/cybersecurity/winners/