Optery Named Digital Risk Protection Market Disruptor by Cyber Defense Magazine

New updates have been reported about Optery.

Optery, a San Francisco-based provider of enterprise personal data removal, has been recognized as a Market Disruptor in the Digital Risk Protection category by Cyber Defense Magazine’s Global InfoSec Awards, underscoring its position in the cybersecurity and privacy ecosystem. The award highlights Optery’s patented search technology and automated opt-out workflows, which the company claims uncover and remove significantly more data broker profiles per employee than alternative services, directly reducing exposure that enables phishing, smishing, vishing, and credential compromise.

CEO and founder Lawrence Gentilello framed the recognition as validation of Optery’s strategy to address social-engineering risk at its source by eliminating exposed employee data at scale, rather than only reinforcing perimeter defenses. Optery’s CCO and GM for Optery for Business, Paul Mander, emphasized that data broker and people-search sites effectively provide attackers with targeting blueprints, positioning Optery’s platform as a proactive control for security teams, while CISO Karthik Ramesh highlighted that limiting publicly available employee PII constrains attacker reconnaissance and thus narrows the enterprise attack surface. The company will showcase its technology with live demos at RSAC 2026, leveraging the award and its growing roster of industry accolades to deepen penetration in the enterprise market and strengthen its value proposition around digital risk protection and attack surface management.