ZeroThreat Named a 2026 Top InfoSec Innovator Award Winner for Publisher’s Choice in Penetration Testing

USA, October 2026 – ZeroThreat, an AI penetration testing platform for web applications and APIs, has been named a winner in Cyber Defense Magazine’s (CDM) Top InfoSec Innovators 2026 Awards. The company received the Publisher’s Choice Penetration Testing award during the 14th Annual InfoSec Awards, held at CyberDefenseCon 2026.

The award recognizes ZeroThreat’s approach to application security testing, which goes beyond isolated vulnerability detection to assess application context, business logic, and authorization boundaries. By examining how these elements interact, ZeroThreat helps security teams identify vulnerabilities, understand their potential impact, and uncover attack paths that could be exploited in real-world scenarios.

“Being named among this year’s winners at the 14th Annual InfoSec Awards is a proud moment for our team. CyberDefenseCon 2026 brings together top global CISOs by invitation only, and standing among this group carries real weight. The competition was strong, and the judging panel is made up of leading infosec experts from around the world. Earning their recognition means a great deal to us,” said Dharmesh Acharya, Co-founder of ZeroThreat.

What Makes ZeroThreat’s AI Pentesting Platform Stand Out?

ZeroThreat approaches penetration testing with a clear focus on how applications work. Rather than reporting vulnerabilities as separate, disconnected findings, the platform helps organizations see how each weakness can affect real-world security.

• Business-Aware Pentesting: Analyzes application features, business logic, and authorization boundaries to find weaknesses that attackers can exploit.
• Automated AI Workflow: Learns how an application functions and independently carries out multi-step business workflows to expose security gaps.
• Attack Chain Discovery: Links individual vulnerabilities together to identify and validate multi-step attack paths that point to deeper risks.
• Proof-Based Exploit Validation: Confirms exploitability with supporting evidence, so security teams can separate genuine threats from false positives.
• Complex Workflow Testing: Covers intricate application workflows to catch security issues that traditional, isolated tests often overlook.

Together, these capabilities give security teams a clearer picture of how vulnerabilities connect and what an attacker could achieve by exploiting them. The result is validated, context-rich insight that helps teams focus remediation on the risks that matter most.

Commenting on the winners, Gary S. Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine, said, “Our judges look for three things in a winner: a grasp of tomorrow’s threats today, a cost-effective solution, and innovation that surprises. ZeroThreat delivers on all three, helping organizations cut cyber risk and stay one step ahead of the next breach.”

The award reinforces ZeroThreat’s commitment to helping organizations strengthen application security through AI pentesting. The platform focuses on uncovering exploitable vulnerabilities and guiding teams to prioritize remediation based on the security risks that matter in practice.

The Top InfoSec Innovator Awards are part of the Cyber Defense Awards, which are now in their 14th year of recognizing cybersecurity innovators. The program seeks out companies capable of making a meaningful impact against the rapid rise in cybercrime. Winners are chosen by a panel of cybersecurity industry veterans, trailblazers, and market makers.

About ZeroThreat

ZeroThreat is an AI penetration testing platform for web apps and APIs that understands application context, business logic, and authorization boundaries to uncover exploitable vulnerabilities and real-world attack paths. It helps security teams identify vulnerabilities, validate findings, and prioritize remediation based on practical business security risks.