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The two awards recognize PKWARE for protecting sensitive data across endpoint, cloud, and mainframe under one policy, and for durable, quantum-ready encryption.
MILWAUKEE, WIS. — October 20, 2026 — PKWARE has won two 2026 Top InfoSec Innovator Awards from Cyber Defense Magazine: Most Innovative Data Security Platform and Best Solution Post Quantum Crypto. Cyber Defense Magazine announced the winners today at CyberDefenseCon 2026 in Orlando, two months after naming PKWARE a finalist in both categories.
Many organizations run one tool to find sensitive data and another to protect it. PK Protect does both, so teams see more of their data, have fewer systems to learn, and spend less keeping it all running. The protection stays with the data, so a copied or shared file is still unreadable to anyone who shouldn’t have it.
Future quantum computers are expected to break the encryption most organizations rely on today, and attackers are already stealing encrypted data to open later. PKWARE has added post-quantum encryption across its products, so the data customers protect today stays protected.
“Two wins in the two categories we care about most — I couldn’t be more proud of this team!” said Tonya Cannady, President & Chief Revenue Officer, PKWARE. “Our engineers did the post-quantum work early so our customers won’t be scrambling to catch up later, and they’ve spent years making sure protection follows the data wherever it goes. Thank you to Cyber Defense Magazine and the judges for seeing it.”
“PKWARE embodies three major features we judges look for with the potential to become winners: understanding tomorrow’s threats, today, providing a cost-effective solution and innovating in unexpected ways that can help mitigate cyber risk and get one step ahead of the next breach,” said Gary S. Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine.
To see how PKWARE helps organizations get quantum ready, visit www.pkware.com/landing/pkware-quantum-readiness.
About PKWARE
PKWARE is the data-centric security platform for the modern enterprise. Where perimeter controls fail and data moves freely into cloud stores, vendor systems, and AI pipelines, PKWARE protects the asset itself. The platform combines AI-powered discovery, automated classification, and persistent protection that travels with the data wherever it goes. Protection includes encryption, masking, redaction, and quantum-ready cryptography. PKWARE serves more than 1,200 customers, including JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Bank of America, and Fiserv, across financial services, healthcare, retail, and government. Learn more at PKWARE.com.
About Cyber Defense Awards
This is Cyber Defense Magazine’s fourteenth year of honoring InfoSec innovators from around the globe. Our submission requirements are for any startup, early stage, later stage, or public companies in the INFORMATION SECURITY (INFOSEC) space who believe they have a unique and compelling value proposition for their product or service. Learn more at www.cyberdefenseawards.com.
About Cyber Defense Magazine
Cyber Defense Magazine is the premier source of cyber security news and information for InfoSec professions in business and government. We are managed and published by and for ethical, honest, passionate information security professionals. Our mission is to share cutting-edge knowledge, real-world stories and awards on the best ideas, products, and services in the information technology industry. CDM is a proud member of the Cyber Defense Media Group. Learn more about us at www.cyberdefensemagazine.com.
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