ZeroThreat Wins Bronze Stevie® Award in Tech Startup of the Year – Software at 23rd Annual International Business Awards

USA, August 2026 - ZeroThreat, an AI-powered automated penetration testing platform built for web applications and APIs, has been named a Bronze Stevie® Award winner in the Tech Startup of the Year – Software category at the 23rd Annual International Business Awards®.

This award recognizes ZeroThreat’s efforts to address a long-standing challenge in application security: helping security teams move beyond overwhelming volumes of vulnerability findings and focus on risks that have been validated, understood, and prioritized for remediation.

The judges at IBA recognized the technical approach ZeroThreat use for AI-powered automated penetration testing, particularly its Application Journeys. This capability supports stateful security testing across dynamic single-page applications (SPAs) while enabling the platform to scale across more than 130,000 automated vulnerability checks.

They also highlighted ZeroThreat’s emphasis on validating exploitability rather than simply identifying potential vulnerabilities, recognizing it as a key differentiator in the increasingly competitive application security landscape. The submission was further supported by industry recognition, including recognition at the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, as well as its presence on platforms such as G2, Gartner Peer Insights, and Capterra, strengthening the platform’s market credibility and validation.

From Alert Overload to Actionable Security Insights

Traditional vulnerability scanners can uncover a high volume of potential security weaknesses, but detecting is only the first step. Security teams still need to determine whether a vulnerability can actually be exploited, whether it can be combined with other weaknesses, and what level of risk it poses to the business.

ZeroThreat takes a validation-first approach to automated penetration testing. By combining AI-driven security testing with automated exploit validation, the platform helps organizations move beyond simply asking, “Is there a vulnerability?” and instead determine whether that vulnerability can be practically exploited.

It is built to deliver broad security coverage while providing deeper testing across modern application attack surfaces. Key capabilities include:

• 130,000+ automated vulnerability checks covering a broad range of application security weaknesses.
• Exploit validation to help separate actionable vulnerabilities from unverified findings.
• Application Journeys for testing stateful workflows and complex single-page applications (SPAs).
• Automated web application and API penetration testing across modern application environments.
• Business logic and attack-chain testing to identify vulnerabilities that traditional scanners may overlook.
• CVE-based security testing to help organizations detect common known vulnerabilities.

“Security teams are already dealing with high volumes of vulnerability alerts. What they need is greater clarity and confidence in knowing which vulnerabilities pose a real, exploitable risk. At ZeroThreat, we have focused on bridging the gap between identifying a vulnerability and proving its exploitability. Being recognized by the International Business Awards is especially meaningful to us because it reinforces the importance of this challenge and validates the technology-driven approach we are taking to address it,” said Dharmesh Acharya, Co-Founder of ZeroThreat.

“Our goal with ZeroThreat is to make deep, application-aware pentesting scalable and accessible to every team. By automating continuous testing for modern applications, we enable security teams to protect their software effectively without depending solely on manual testing.”

This Bronze award marks another major milestone in ZeroThreat’s growing list of industry achievements. It reinforces the company’s commitment to transforming application security testing from a slow, manual process into a continuous, scalable, and evidence-driven standard for modern security teams.

About ZeroThreat

ZeroThreat is an AI-powered automated penetration testing platform built to secure modern web applications and APIs. It enables security teams to discover, assess, validate, and prioritize vulnerabilities through comprehensive security testing and automated exploit validation. By reducing the dependence on manual testing, ZeroThreat helps organizations identify and focus on security weaknesses that pose real and actionable risk.