Fortanix Named a Winner in Inaugural 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards for Data Security Platform

Fortanix, a global leader in data and AI security and a pioneer of Confidential Computing, today announced it has been named a winner in the Data Security Platform category of the 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards, presented by The Hacker News. The inaugural awards program recognized companies for their contributions, innovation, and impact in the cybersecurity industry, as evaluated by an independent panel of judges.

The award recognizes Fortanix's innovation in helping organizations protect sensitive data, AI models, and applications across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. As enterprises accelerate AI adoption and modernize their security architectures, Fortanix provides a unified platform that secures data at rest, in transit, and in use through hardware-enforced protection, centralized cryptographic controls, and Confidential Computing technologies.

"Congratulations to Fortanix on winning the Data Security award in the 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards,” said The Hacker News panel of award judges. “Fortanix brings together encryption, key management, and hardware-based security to protect sensitive data and AI systems as they move and are used across cloud and on-premises environments. We recognize their work in helping enterprises address a real gap in data protection."

Unlike traditional security approaches that focus primarily on protecting infrastructure perimeters, Fortanix secures the data itself throughout its entire lifecycle. The Fortanix platform combines enterprise encryption, key management, PQC readiness, confidential computing, AI security, and cryptographic posture management into a unified solution that provides centralized visibility and policy enforcement across distributed environments.

For organizations building modern AI factories, Fortanix extends these capabilities through its Confidential AI platform, which provides attestation-based trust, secure key release, and zero-trust enforcement for AI systems. This approach helps protect sensitive data and AI models from threats such as data leakage, model extraction and unauthorized access while supporting compliance requirements and data sovereignty mandates.

The Fortanix platform includes solutions for post-quantum cryptography readiness, regulatory compliance, HSM modernization and AI model protection, alongside core products including Fortanix Confidential AI, Data Security Manager (DSM), Key Insight and Confidential Computing Manager.

Enterprises, especially in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and government, rely on Fortanix to maintain data sovereignty and meet compliance requirements, including GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and DORA, and enabling them to adopt AI without compromising trust.

"Most security tools protect data at rest or in transit, but leave it exposed at the most critical moment, when it's actually being used,” said Bob Wallace, VP of Marketing and Operations at Fortanix. “Fortanix closes that gap with Confidential Computing, and this recognition from The Hacker News community reflects how urgently enterprises need that protection as AI workloads scale."

To learn more about Fortanix and its award-winning Data Security Platform, as well as its other solutions, visit fortanix.com.

About Fortanix

Fortanix is the global leader in data and AI security and a pioneer of Confidential Computing, delivering a unified platform to protect sensitive data, AI models, and applications across on-premises and multi-cloud environments—at rest, in transit, and in use. Built on hardware-enforced security, Fortanix enables workloads to run in tamper-proof, isolated enclaves, protecting against data leakage, model extraction, and unauthorized access, even from privileged insiders.

As enterprises scale modern AI factories, Fortanix provides a Confidential AI foundation built on attestation-based trust, secure key release, and zero-trust enforcement. This ensures AI systems remain verifiable, auditable, and trustworthy—while enabling crypto agility and long-term resilience through post-quantum cryptography (PQC).

Trusted by leading enterprises and sovereign entities in highly regulated industries and powered by an industry-standard approach to Confidential Computing supported by leading technology providers, including Intel and Microsoft, Fortanix enables organizations to safely use sensitive data and drive AI adoption with confidence. Learn more at fortanix.com.

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