Chicago, November 2nd / PRNewswire / -- Keeper Security won seven top honors in Cyber Defense Magazine's Top InfoSec Innovators Awards of 2026, highlighting the company's active efforts in helping its clients protect themselves against emerging AI and quantum computing risks.
Cyber Defense Magazine issued Top InfoSec Innovator Awards includes:
- Next-generation cybersecurity for governments
- Most innovative identity management for AI proxies
- Popular Company: Privileged Access Management ( PAM )
- Pioneering quantum-resistant encryption
- Pioneering Visionary in Cybersecurity: Darren Guccione, CEO and Co-Founder
- Pioneering Chief Technology Officer: Craig Lurey, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder
- Pioneering Chief Information Security Officer: Shane Barney, Chief Information Security Officer
Cyber Defense Magazine Editor Yan Ross states: "We recognize the global cybersecurity innovators who are helping to reverse the exponential growth of cybercrime. We are delighted to award these prestigious honors to Keeper Security and their leadership team."
These honors not only recognize the technical advancements of Keeper, but also acknowledge the vision of the management team that drove these improvements. Under the leadership of the award recipients Guccione, Lurey, and Barney, the company is rapidly expanding its zero-trust, zero-knowledge security architecture to protect some of the most complex and strictly regulated corporate environments around the world. This includes advancing core PAM capabilities, such as KeeperAI, which can automatically identify and terminate high-risk privileged sessions in real-time; at the same time, the company also maintains the highest level of public sector security standards through FedRAMP High Certification and GovRAMP High Authorization.
In addition to traditional access control, Keeper also takes proactive measures to defend against future threats. Keeper AI Agent Kit incorporates autonomous systems and Model Context Protocol servers into the same strict governance framework as human users. To protect this continuously expanding digital ecosystem, Keeper has designed an encrypted and agile architecture to address evolving encryption threats. By overlaying Kyber standardized encryption, which is based on the elliptic curve cryptography used to defend against current threats, Keeper ensures that the platform has long-term resilience and can quickly switch algorithms in the event of new quantum vulnerabilities.
Guccione indicates that "the cybersecurity industry is experiencing the most disruptive changes we have ever seen. AI The explosive growth of proxies forces organizations to defend at machine speed, while the threat of quantum decryption requires us to completely rethink how organizations should protect data. You cannot address these challenges with traditional tools. Winning these awards once again proves that we are solving the right problems and providing the architectures that organizations need now and in the future."
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About Keeper Security
Keeper Security is a leading zero-trust, zero-knowledge identity security solution that is trusted by millions of users and thousands of organizations worldwide. KeeperPAM ® is its privileged access management platform, which integrates password and token management, key management, privileged session management, and terminal privilege management into one cloud-native platform, all protected by quantum-resistant encryption. KeeperAI ® provides real-time, native to AI, threat detection in each privileged session. With the widespread adoption of AI proxies and identity becoming a decisive attack surface, Keeper offers access governance for human, machine, non-human identities, and AI proxies, serving as a unified control plane for enterprises in terms of access, compliance, and visibility.
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