ZeroThreat Named Community Choice Winner for Web Application Security
ZeroThreat has been named a 2026 Community Choice Award winner in Web Application Security by the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. It is the program's only recognition decided by direct community voting.

About the Community Choice Award
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize the companies, products, and professionals advancing the state of cybersecurity. This Community Choice is the only category determined entirely by the security community itself, not by a judging panel.
In the Web Application Security category, ZeroThreat drew close to 300 public votes, finishing ahead of every other nominee in the category by a wide margin.
Earlier in 2026, ZeroThreat received a Silver Award for innovation in AI-powered web application security and real-time threat intelligence. The Community Choice recognition adds a different dimension to that achievement: while jury recognition evaluates what a product demonstrates, Community Choice reflects what cybersecurity professionals are willing to actively support.
Why the Security Community Chose ZeroThreat
Nobody votes for a security tool because of its category page. They vote for what happened after they pointed it at production, which are the findings they didn't have to re-verify, the flow that finally got tested, the sprint where the fix actually shipped. These are the five things that earned those votes.
Findings You Don't Have to Re-Verify
Every finding ships with real exploit evidence, including request, response, and reproduction path. Teams stop burning triage hours confirming whether an alert is real and start the day with a queue of confirmed, actionable issues. Near-zero false positives is the outcome practitioners notice first.
Depth Where Scanners Usually Stop
Most pentesting tools test what they can crawl. ZeroThreat extracts routes directly from JavaScript bundles and drives complex UI flows, reaching authenticated areas, multi-step workflows, and single-page application paths that never appear in a sitemap.
Authorization and Business Logic Testing
Broken access control is the flaw class that automated tools have historically handed back to humans. ZeroThreat tests authenticated flows for BOLA, BFLA, IDOR, and SSRF, and chains findings into multi-step attack paths that reflect how an attacker would actually move through the application, but not how a signature file describes a weakness.
Risk Ranked by Business Impact
Severity scores tell you how bad vulnerability is in theory. ZeroThreat's business-aware risk prioritization tells you which findings sit on paths that touch authentication, payments, or customer data in your application. So remediation order follows real exposure, not CVSS alone.
Zero Setup, Fast First Findings
No agents to deploy, no Playwright specs to write, and no lengthy configuration before testing begins. Point ZeroThreat at an application and it automatically maps the attack surface and starts testing. Less setup means faster first findings and easier adoption across security teams.
What This Recognition Means to Us

Dharmesh Acharya
Co-Founder
Awards decided by a panel tell you the product met a standard. Public votes tell you practitioners chose to speak up for it. That's the harder one to earn, and the one we're most grateful for. Our entire thesis is that security teams deserve proof instead of guesses — and this says the people doing the work agree.
Why Recognition from the Security Community Matters
Confidence Backed by the Community
Being named a Community Choice Winner reflects recognition from the cybersecurity community and reinforces confidence in ZeroThreat’s approach to automated web application security.
Security That Finds Real Risk
ZeroThreat focuses on identifying exploitable vulnerabilities with validation and evidence, helping security teams prioritize issues that can actually impact their applications.
Faster, Continuous Testing
Automated pentesting helps teams move beyond periodic assessments by continuously testing web applications and APIs throughout the development lifecycle.
Built for Modern Applications
From complex web applications and APIs to dynamic user journeys, ZeroThreat is designed to test the attack surfaces modern development teams rely on.
Less Manual Effort, More Security Coverage
By automating repetitive pentesting workflows, ZeroThreat helps security teams expand testing coverage while reducing the manual effort required to uncover and validate vulnerabilities.
Community Recognition. Customer Validation.

5.0
"ZeroThreat gives our team an easy, highly accurate way to test the security of our applications and APIs. Its AI-powered engine for automation is both powerful and straightforward to use."

Securing Applications Across Industries
From healthcare and fintech to eCommerce, insurance, and the public sector, ZeroThreat helps security teams identify and validate vulnerabilities before they become real-world threats.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Community Choice Award?
It is the only Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognition determined entirely by community voting rather than an expert jury. The 2026 winners were selected from 79,455 votes cast during the awards season and announced during Black Hat USA week.
How is it different from the Cybersecurity Excellence Award ZeroThreat also won?
What does ZeroThreat do?
The Community Voted. See Why.
Run a real pentest against your own application and judge the findings yourself.



