Salt Security Named Winner of Three Top InfoSec Innovator Awards for 2026

Salt Security Wins 'Most Promising Agentic AI Security Solution', 'Trailblazing AI-based Cybersecurity Innovation', and 'Transformational API Security Solution' in Cyber Defense Magazine's 14th Annual InfoSec Awards at CyberDefenseCon 2026

PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Salt Security is proud to announce it has been named the winner of three prestigious awards from Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry's leading electronic information security magazine:

• The Most Promising Agentic AI Security Solution
  
  
• Trailblazing AI-based CyberSecurity Innovation
  
  
• Transformational API Security Solution

The recognition spans the two defining security challenges of 2026: the rapid, ungoverned proliferation of AI agents and the expanding API attack surface they operate across. Salt Security's State of Agentic AI and API Security 2H 2026 report, released this month and based on a survey of more than 380 security and technology professionals, found that nearly half of enterprises have confirmed or suspected that an AI agent took an unauthorized action in the past year, and fewer than one in five have the ability to automatically stop a misbehaving agent. The awards reflect Salt's work to close the gap between agent deployment and agent governance at production scale.

"Being recognized across three categories: agentic AI security, AI-based cybersecurity innovation, and API security, reflects exactly where enterprise risk is concentrating right now. Our research shows that the governance gap is not theoretical: agents are already acting in ways organizations did not intend, and most organizations cannot stop them in time. We are honored to be recognized as leaders in addressing that problem," said Roey Eliyahu, CEO of Salt Security.

"Salt Security 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.

The full list of the Top InfoSec Innovators for 2026 is found here: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-infosec-innovators-for-2026/

About Salt Security

Salt Security is the leader in agentic and API security, protecting the world's most innovative enterprises from AI agent and API attacks. The Salt Security Agentic Security Platform discovers agents, MCP servers, and APIs operating in an environment; governs the connections and permissions between them; monitors agent behavior at runtime; and eliminates vulnerabilities before they reach production. Salt Security was founded in 2016 and is backed by Sequoia Capital, S Capital, Tenaya Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Advent International, and other leading investors. For more information, visit salt.security.

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

Cyber Defense Magazine was founded in 2012 by Gary S. Miliefsky, globally recognized cybersecurity thought leader, inventor and entrepreneur, and continues to be the premier source of IT Security information. Learn more at http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com. Cyber Defense Magazine is a proud member of the Cyber Defense Media Group.

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