Corsha Named Most Innovative Machine Identity Management in Cyber Defense Magazine's 2025 InfoSec Awards

Corsha Recognized for Innovative and unique Machine Identity Provider (mIDP)

VIENNA, Va., Nov. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Corsha, the first and only Machine Identity Provider (mIDP) purpose-built to secure machine-to-machine (M2M) communication across operational systems and critical infrastructure, is proud to announce we have been named the winner for the following award from Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry's leading electronic information security magazine:

Most Innovative Machine Identity Management

"We are thrilled to be recognized among this group of innovators in the 13^th year of Cyber Defense Awards during CyberDefenseCon 2025, as judged by experienced security leaders and practitioners in the world. Operational environments are becoming more automated and interconnected, and securing communication between machines now drives production, safety, and availability. At Corsha, we focus on continuously securing these automated communications so organizations can operate with confidence. This award reinforces the importance of ensuring that every machine connection is verified and protected, especially for the operational systems that our manufacturing, public sector, and critical infrastructure customers rely on every day," said Brian Reed, Corsha Chief Market Officer. 

"We are seeing a major shift across critical industries as machines now communicate with each other far more often than humans do. Securing machine identities has become essential to protecting operational environments. Corsha stood out because they deliver a practical and scalable approach to establishing continuous trust for machine communication without adding complexity for the teams who operate these systems. Their innovation addresses a real and rapidly growing gap in cybersecurity for industrial and mission-critical organizations," said Yan Ross, Editor of Cyber Defense Magazine.

The Corsha Machine Identity Provider (mIDP) secures the automated communications that power operational systems. Backed by four patents and a growing portfolio of innovations, Corsha is purpose-built for the realities of industrial control systems and critical infrastructure. The platform continuously verifies every machine connection, providing the trust foundation needed to modernize safely. With Corsha, operational enterprises can unravel complexity, protect high-value production environments, and confidently adopt advanced technologies such as robotics, autonomous systems, and physical AI.

To see the innovations in the Corsha Platform in Action join us for a demo.

The full list of the Top InfoSec Innovators for 2025 is found here: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-infosec-innovators-for-2025/

About Corsha
Corsha securely connects the operational systems that run our world. As the connections between legacy and modern systems grow, the Corsha Machine Identity Provider (mIDP) makes it easy to securely connect any machine, move data, and automate with confidence. With patented advancements in connection discovery, continuous authentication, and behavioral identity and access for machines, the Corsha mIDP empowers manufacturing, public sector, and critical infrastructure enterprises to overcome security bottlenecks, dramatically lower risk, and accelerate adoption of modern technologies like robotics and physical AI. Corsha is backed by leading venture capital investors including Ten Eleven Ventures, Razor's Edge Ventures, Sinewave Ventures, Booz Allen Ventures, and Cybernetix Ventures. Learn more at www.corsha.com.

About Cyber Defense Awards

This is Cyber Defense Magazine's 13th year of honoring cybersecurity innovators, in this case the Top Global CISOs for 2025, on our Cyber Defense Awards platform. In this competition, judges for these and other prestigious awards includes cybersecurity industry veterans, trailblazers and market makers Ron Gula of Gula Tech Adventures, Gary Miliefsky of CDMG, Dr. Lindsey Polley de Lopez of VentureScope, Katie Gray of In-Q-Tel, Robert R. Ackerman Jr. of DataTribe, Dino Boukouris of AltitudeCyber and with much appreciation to emeritus judges Robert Herjavec of Cyderes, Dr. Peter Stephenson of CDMG and David DeWalt of NightDragon. Top InfoSec Innovators for 2025 is found here: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-infosec-innovators-for-2025/ and download The Black Unicorn Report for 2025: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/the-black-unicorn-report-for-2025/ and Top Global CISOs Winners for 2025, here: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-global-cisos-winners-for-2025/.

About Cyber Defense Magazine

Cyber Defense Magazine was founded in 2012 by Gary S. Miliefsky, globally recognized cyber security thought leader, inventor and entrepreneur and continues to be the premier source of IT Security information. 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. We deliver electronic magazines every month online for free, and limited special editions exclusively for the RSA, BlackHat and Cyber Defense Conferences. Learn more about us at http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com. Cyber Defense Magazine is a proud member of the Cyber Defense Media Group.

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