Straiker Wins 2026 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Award for Cybersecurity Solution of the Year for Artificial Intelligence
Recognition highlights Straiker's approach to securing enterprise AI agents through discovery, adversarial testing, runtime protection, and containment.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 9, 2026 — Straiker, the Agentic Security Ccompany, today announced that it has been named "Cybersecurity Solution of the Year for Artificial Intelligence" in the 2026 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards. Now in its 10th year, the annual program recognizes the most innovative companies, products, and technologies advancing cybersecurity worldwide.
As enterprises move beyond chatbots to coding agents, productivity agents, and custom-built AI agents, security teams face a new challenge: protecting systems that can independently access sensitive data, call tools, and take action. Straiker addresses this challenge with an agentic AI security platform purpose-built to help organizations discover, test, defend, and maintain control over their AI agents.
Straiker's platform brings together three core capabilities:
- Discover AI provides visibility and governance across AI agents, MCP servers, Agent Skills, tools, and connections, identifying risky permissions and security gaps.
- Ascend AI uses autonomous adversarial testing to identify exploitable vulnerabilities, including prompt injection, tool misuse, data exfiltration, and unauthorized agent actions.
- Defend AI delivers real-time runtime protection to detect and block malicious agent behavior, with an agentic kill switch that enables security teams to contain rogue or compromised agents in seconds.
Together, these capabilities help enterprises secure the AI agents they build, buy, and deploy across coding, productivity, and custom agent environments.
"AI is changing what people and businesses can build. Security should give them the freedom to explore that future, not force them to slow down," said Ankur Shah, co-founder and CEO of Straiker. "Our goal is simple: securing the future, so you can focus on imagining it. We're honored to see that mission recognized by CyberSecurity Breakthrough."
The CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards recognize innovation, leadership, and excellence across the global information security industry, highlighting solutions addressing today's most pressing cybersecurity challenges.
About CyberSecurity Breakthrough
CyberSecurity Breakthrough is an independent organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global information security market. The annual awards program honors innovation, leadership, and success across the cybersecurity industry.
Learn more at cybersecuritybreakthrough.com.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 9, 2026 — Straiker, the Agentic Security Ccompany, today announced that it has been named "Cybersecurity Solution of the Year for Artificial Intelligence" in the 2026 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards. Now in its 10th year, the annual program recognizes the most innovative companies, products, and technologies advancing cybersecurity worldwide.
As enterprises move beyond chatbots to coding agents, productivity agents, and custom-built AI agents, security teams face a new challenge: protecting systems that can independently access sensitive data, call tools, and take action. Straiker addresses this challenge with an agentic AI security platform purpose-built to help organizations discover, test, defend, and maintain control over their AI agents.
Straiker's platform brings together three core capabilities:
- Discover AI provides visibility and governance across AI agents, MCP servers, Agent Skills, tools, and connections, identifying risky permissions and security gaps.
- Ascend AI uses autonomous adversarial testing to identify exploitable vulnerabilities, including prompt injection, tool misuse, data exfiltration, and unauthorized agent actions.
- Defend AI delivers real-time runtime protection to detect and block malicious agent behavior, with an agentic kill switch that enables security teams to contain rogue or compromised agents in seconds.
Together, these capabilities help enterprises secure the AI agents they build, buy, and deploy across coding, productivity, and custom agent environments.
"AI is changing what people and businesses can build. Security should give them the freedom to explore that future, not force them to slow down," said Ankur Shah, co-founder and CEO of Straiker. "Our goal is simple: securing the future, so you can focus on imagining it. We're honored to see that mission recognized by CyberSecurity Breakthrough."
The CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards recognize innovation, leadership, and excellence across the global information security industry, highlighting solutions addressing today's most pressing cybersecurity challenges.
About CyberSecurity Breakthrough
CyberSecurity Breakthrough is an independent organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global information security market. The annual awards program honors innovation, leadership, and success across the cybersecurity industry.
Learn more at cybersecuritybreakthrough.com.
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