Fenix24 Wins Market Disruptor Cyber Resilience in Cyber Defense Magazine's 2026 Top InfoSec Innovator Awards

Company also recognized in Next Gen Breach Readiness and Visionary Ransomware Restoration

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Fenix24™, a global leader in operational recoverability, announces it has won the Market Disruptor Cyber Resilience category in Cyber Defense Magazine's 2026 Top InfoSec Innovator Awards. The company also is recognized in the Next Gen Breach Readiness and Visionary Ransomware Restoration categories.

Many organizations treat a documented recovery plan as proof of cyber resilience. Fenix24's 2026 State of Recoverability Report suggests otherwise: across more than 800 client engagements, only four came close to the 24- to 48-hour recovery time objective typically documented in advance. Fenix24 is recognized as a market disruptor for closing that gap, replacing the assumption that a plan will work with evidence that it does.

That evidence comes from experience with Fenix24 having led more than 500 hands‑on ransomware recoveries, including for 30 of the Fortune 500. Those engagements shaped Argos99™, its recoverability intelligence platform, which correlates telemetry from more than 70 connected data sources to map the servers, identities and dependencies each critical service needs to come back online. Fenix24's Resiliency Operations Center (ROC) then helps organizations constantly have a clear, updated picture of systems by monitoring for configuration drift, dependency changes and backup gaps, and verifying restores on an ongoing basis. Fenix24 clients recover 53% to 57% faster than industry averages, a difference measured in revenue, customer trust, and regulatory exposure saved with every hour shaved off downtime.

"With cyberattacks now a constant threat to organizations, cyber resilience is not a document or a prevention stack. It is the proven ability to restore the business after an attack," said Mark Grazman, Founder and CEO of Fenix24. "We are honored to be recognized as a market disruptor, and hope it signals a wider move toward measuring resilience by evidence, not assurances."

The same approach underlies Fenix24's two additional wins. Modern ransomware embeds in identity systems and application dependencies, so restoring blindly can reintroduce compromised access. Fenix24 prepares for that before an attack, using Argos99 to map those dependencies in advance so systems come back correct and complete, which is the foundation of its Next Gen Breach Readiness win. When an attack does happen, the team mobilizes within one hour of notification, 24/7/365, restores domain controllers, identity and backup infrastructure first, and rebuilds the environment so it is more defensible than before, which is what earned its Visionary Ransomware Restoration win.

"Fenix24 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.

The full list of the Top InfoSec Innovators for 2026 is available here: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-infosec-innovators-for-2026/

About Fenix24

Fenix24, a global leader in operational recoverability, has redefined cyber resilience with the world's first Recovery Dependency Modeling and Recoverability Intelligence Platform, built by a team that has led more than 500 ransomware recoveries, including 30 of the Fortune 500.

Powered by Argos99 and the Resiliency Operations Center, Fenix24 leverages live telemetry from more than 70 enterprise systems, recovery dependency intelligence, and continuous backup posture analysis to deliver continuous validation of recovery readiness, hardened backup infrastructure, and board-level assurance of recoverability.

Purpose-built by frontline recovery experts and deployed across hybrid cloud and on-premise environments, Fenix24's platform delivers measurable improvements in recovery readiness and faster, more confident restoration when ransomware strikes.

Regulators, insurers, and boards now demand proof of recoverability. Fenix24 provides it.

About Cyber Defense Awards

This is Cyber Defense Magazine's 14th year of honoring cybersecurity innovators, in this case the Top Global CISOs for 2026, 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, Ira Winkler from CruiseCon, 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 2026 is found here: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-infosec-innovators-for-2026/ and download The Black Unicorn Report for 2026: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/the-black-unicorn-report-for-2026/ and Top Global CISOs Winners for 2026, here: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-global-cisos-winners-for-2026/.

About Cyber Defense Magazine

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