AttackIQ Wins Three 2026 Top InfoSec Innovator Awards for Adversarial Exposure Validation, CTEM and Agentic AI

Cyber Defense Magazine names AttackIQ a Market Disruptor, Next Gen, and Most Innovative

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AttackIQ, the leader in threat-informed Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), today announced three wins in Cyber Defense Magazine’s 2026 Top InfoSec Innovator Awards. The company was recognized as a Market Disruptor in Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV), Next Gen in Continuous Threat Exposure Management and Most Innovative in Agentic AI Platform.

The recognition highlights AttackIQ’s approach to transforming cybersecurity from fragmented, point-in-time assessments into continuous, evidence-based security operations. By combining adversarial exposure validation with AI, AttackIQ helps organizations identify exploitable attack paths, validate defensive effectiveness of security controls and prioritize the exposures that pose the greatest risk.

Powering these capabilities is AVA Agentic OS, AttackIQ’s agentic operating system purpose-built for CTEM. AVA OS orchestrates specialized AI agents to execute autonomous cybersecurity missions across threat intelligence, adversarial exposure validation, detection engineering, defense optimization, connecting the results to remediation and threat debt reduction.

“Organizations don’t need more disconnected security findings. They need to know which exposures actually matter, whether their defenses can stop an attack and what actions will reduce risk,” said Carl Wright, Chief Commercial Officer at AttackIQ. “These awards reinforce our commitment to making continuous, evidence-based security a reality through AVA Agentic OS.”

Learn more about AVA Agentic OS at www.attackiq.com/platform/ava-os.

About AttackIQ

AttackIQ is the leader in threat-informed Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), helping organizations continuously validate defenses, break attack paths, and reduce threat debt through evidence-based security operations.

Through AVA Agentic OS, AttackIQ has introduced the industry’s first agentic operating system purpose-built for CTEM, enabling organizations to execute Continuous Threat Exposure Management autonomously at enterprise scale.

By orchestrating specialized AI agents across threat intelligence, adversary exposure validation, security validation, detection engineering, control optimization, threat debt reduction, and AI security validation, AttackIQ transforms fragmented security activities into continuous cyber resilience.

Trusted by the world’s largest enterprises, government agencies, and managed security providers, AttackIQ empowers organizations to continuously discover, validate, and reduce cyber risk with confidence.

CTEM Runs on AVA.

About Cyber Defense Awards

This is Cyber Defense Magazine's 14th year of honoring cybersecurity innovators in its Top InfoSec Innovators awards. Judges include cybersecurity industry veterans Ron Gula of Gula Tech Adventures, Gary Miliefsky of CDMG, Dr. Lindsey Polley de Lopez of VentureScope, Katie Gray of In-Q-Tel, Robert R. Ackerman Jr. of DataTribe, Ira Winkler from CruiseCon, Dino Boukouris of AltitudeCyber, and emeritus judges Robert Herjavec of Cyderes, Dr. Peter Stephenson of CDMG, and David DeWalt of NightDragon. Top InfoSec Innovators for 2026: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-infosec-innovators-for-2026/

About Cyber Defense Magazine

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