SAN FRANCISCO, June 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Optery has been named a winner in the 2025 Fortress Cybersecurity Awards, presented by the Business Intelligence Group. The company was recognized in the category of Privacy Enhancing Technologies for its work in reducing the online exposure of employee and executive personal data—the most exploited vulnerability in modern cyberattacks.
The Fortress Cybersecurity Awards program honors the industry’s leading companies and professionals who are going beyond compliance to build and maintain secure systems and processes. Winners are selected based on innovation, measurable impact, and commitment to security best practices.
“The volume and complexity of threats facing organizations today is growing by the minute,” said Russ Fordyce, CEO of the Business Intelligence Group. “The winners of this year’s Fortress Cybersecurity Awards are not only keeping up—they’re setting the pace. We’re proud to honor Optery for building systems and solutions that make us all more secure.”
Optery was recognized for its enterprise-grade personal data removal platform that finds and eliminates exposed PII from the web, protecting organizations from a range of PII-based threats such as social engineering and credential compromise.
“We are honored to receive this award from the Business Intelligence Group,” said Lawrence Gentilello, CEO of Optery. “Today’s threat landscape demands that companies tackle personal data exposure to prevent cyber and physical attacks, but it requires the right tech and expertise. Innovation means little without measurable impact, and this recognition validates the work our team puts in every day to ensure we remain the industry leader in personal data removal.”
“Personal data exposure across data broker sites fuels today’s most successful attack vectors—phishing, smishing, and business email compromise—making privacy essential to security,” said Paul Mander, GM of Optery for Business. “We’re grateful to be acknowledged for helping organizations close this critical vulnerability with unmatched scale and precision.”
See all the winners: www.bintelligence.com/posts/securing-the-future-these-companies-are-redefining-what-cyber-defense-looks-like
About Optery www.optery.com
Optery is the first company to offer a free report with dozens of screenshots showing where your personal information is being posted by hundreds of data brokers online, and the first to offer IT teams a completely self-service platform for finding and removing employee personal information from the web. Optery subscription plans automatically remove customers from these sites, clearing your home address, phone number, email, and other personal information from the Internet at scale. The service provides users with a proactive defense against escalating PII-based threats such as phishing and other social engineering attacks, credential compromise, identity fraud, doxing, and harassment. Optery has completed its AICPA SOC 2, Type II security attestation, and distinguishes itself with unparalleled search technology, data removal automation, visual evidence-based before-and-after reporting, data broker coverage, and API integration options. Optery was awarded “Editors’ Choice” by PCMag.com as the most outstanding product in the personal data removal category in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025, received Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech award for security and privacy in 2023, was named winner in the Employee Privacy Protection, Attack Surface Management, and Digital Footprint Management categories of the 2024 and 2025 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, received the Top InfoSec Innovator Award for Attack Surface Management by Cyber Defense Magazine in 2024, and won the Best Service for Attack Surface Management award from Cyber Defense Magazine in 2025. Hundreds of thousands of people and hundreds of businesses use Optery to prevent attacks and keep their personal information off the Internet.
About Business Intelligence Group www.bintelligence.com
The Business Intelligence Group was founded with the mission of recognizing true talent and superior performance in the business world. Unlike other industry award programs, these programs are judged by business executives with real-world experience. The organization’s proprietary scoring system measures performance across multiple business domains and rewards companies whose achievements are significant and measurable.
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