Anzenna Named a 2026 Top InfoSec Innovator by Cyber Defense Magazine

Cyber Defense Magazine recognized Anzenna at CyberDefenseCon 2026 for AI DLP that enforces policy as data moves into AI tools and agents.

SAN MATEO, CA, UNITED STATES, October 26, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Anzenna announced that it has been named a winner in Cyber Defense Magazine’s 2026 Top InfoSec Innovator Awards. Winners were announced at CyberDefenseCon 2026, held October 20 and 21 at The Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, Florida. Now in their 14th year, the awards recognize security companies taking a new approach to problems the industry has not yet solved.

The problem Anzenna was built for is how company data leaves the business now. Employees paste source code and customer records into AI chatbots, often on personal accounts, and coding agents read credentials and pass them to MCP servers that no one on the security team approved. The DLP tools most enterprises run were designed to watch email and file shares, so this movement rarely shows up. When an older tool does fire, the alert says that data moved without saying who moved it or whether that was normal for them, and an analyst spends hours rebuilding the story by hand.

Anzenna enforces a company’s AI policy in real time, in the browser and on the device, across prompts, file uploads, coding agents and MCP servers. It discovers every AI tool and agent in use, including the ones running on personal accounts, and blocks or coaches employees at the moment they try to move sensitive data somewhere it should not go. Each action is tied to the person who took it and weighed against how that person normally works. That identity link is what lets Anzenna’s investigation agent close roughly 90 percent of alerts on its own and hand the security team a finished case, with the evidence attached, for the few that need a human decision.

Anzenna works alongside the tools a company already runs, including CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, Intune and Okta, and goes live in about 15 minutes.
“Most security leaders we meet have lost sight of where their data goes once AI is involved, and the tools they bought were never designed to see it,” said Ganesh Krishnan, CEO of Anzenna. “We tie every prompt and agent action back to a real identity, so the team can see intent and close the case instead of chasing an alert. We are grateful to Gary Miliefsky and Cyber Defense Magazine for this recognition, and we are going to keep building where the risk is moving fastest, inside AI agents.”

Security teams can see Anzenna run against their own environment at https://www.anzenna.ai.

About Anzenna
Anzenna is an autonomous AI DLP and Insider Risk solution without the alert fatigue. Anzenna helps enterprises protect sensitive data as AI adoption creates new exfiltration paths. It monitors and governs what every AI agent, non-human identity, and employee is actually doing across the full enterprise surface: Endpoint, Browser, MCP, IDE and coding agents, OAuth-authorized AI apps, and file and data movement. Its Identity-Data-Action graph links AI activity back to the human behind it, fusing behavioral signals with HR context, data sensitivity, and departure status to catch threats that access control alone cannot see. Anzenna remediates in real time through existing endpoint and identity infrastructure like CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, Okta, and others, and generates autonomous, evidence-backed investigation reports instead of alerts in under two minutes. For more information visit https://www.anzenna.ai

About Cyber Defense Magazine
Cyber Defense Magazine, part of Cyber Defense Media Group, publishes news and analysis for information security professionals in business and government. It runs the annual Global InfoSec Awards and Top InfoSec Innovator Awards, and publishes special editions for major industry conferences such as RSAC and Black Hat. Learn more at https://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com

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