NEW YORK, Oct. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Astelia, a cybersecurity platform founded by the leaders of Israel's National Red Team, today announced that it has been named “Vulnerability Assessment Solution of the Year” in the 10th annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program. Conducted by CyberSecurity Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization, the annual program recognizes the most innovative companies, products, and technologies driving progress in the global information security industry.
Through deterministic reachability analysis, Astelia maps networks through read-only integrations and uses agentic AI to analyze each vulnerability's exploit requirements. Correlating the two reveals which vulnerabilities an attacker can actually reach, eliminating almost all noise. By correlating these layers, Astelia classifies the true exposure level of each vulnerability, explains why it is or is not a threat, and identifies the small subset that is actually reachable within your environment.
Astelia then shows the network path proof for every vulnerability, including firewall ACLs, NAT, and port-level controls. Astelia maps your network topology and uses agentic AI to analyze exploit requirements. With Astelia, teams can assess the exposure of reachable vulnerabilities by visualizing attack paths to critical assets through network controls, open ports and runtime context.
Multiple remediation and mitigation plans beyond patching can be harnessed, including targeted changes to compensating controls, segmentation, ACLs, config changes, and network configuration changes - each tied to the path it breaks - to reduce MTTR. In addition, Astelia Agents automate new vulnerability detection, analysis, and remediation across 100+ MCP integrations, keeping teams in control.
"Our platform lets you focus on the small fraction of vulnerabilities that are truly reachable and critical to your business. We founded Astelia after years of leading national red teams, so we know firsthand how vulnerabilities are actually exploited," said Alon Noy, CEO and Co-Founder of Astelia. "We humbly accept this award from CyberSecurity Breakthrough, and we'll keep reshaping vulnerability and exposure management by helping enterprises find and eliminate the 1% of vulnerabilities that actually matter, and ignore the rest."
Marking its 10-year milestone this year, the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards has spent a decade on a mission that hasn’t wavered: to celebrate excellence and spotlight breakthrough innovation driving the global cybersecurity industry forward. Over that decade, the program has grown to span a wide range of categories, including Cloud Security, Threat Intelligence, Risk Management, Fraud Prevention, Mobile Security, Application Security, Identity Management, and more, consistently shining a light on the solutions and organizations redefining how we safeguard the digital world.
In this landmark 10th year, the 2026 awards program received thousands of nominations from organizations in more than 20 countries around the world, representing breakthrough technologies from disruptive startups to established global enterprises. This year’s winners embody the cutting edge of cybersecurity technology, delivering next-generation protection and resilience in today’s increasingly complex threat landscape.
“Astelia is a game changer for any vulnerability management program. Chasing vulnerabilities attackers can't reach means neglecting the ones they can. With new AI models having the ability to weaponize any vulnerability, that distinction has never mattered more. Legacy tools can’t reach the 1% of vulnerabilities that attackers can actually reach and exploit,” said Steve Johansson, managing director, CyberSecurity Breakthrough. “Unlike traditional tools that prioritize vulnerabilities based on risk models and external context, Astelia delivers explainable, evidence-backed insights that security and IT teams can act on with confidence.”
About Astelia
Astelia is an AI-native exposure management company that helps organizations identify and remediate the vulnerabilities attackers can actually reach. Its platform combines reachability analysis, evidence-based remediation, and agentic AI to determine real exposure and identify the fastest path to eliminating it. Using read-only integrations, Astelia correlates network topology with the technical requirements needed to exploit each vulnerability, enabling security and IT teams to prioritize remediation based on proof rather than assumptions. Founded in 2024 by former leaders of the Israeli National Red Team, Astelia brings deep offensive and defensive cybersecurity expertise to help enterprises identify and eliminate vulnerabilities that present real exposure.
About CyberSecurity Breakthrough
Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in information security and cybersecurity technology companies, products and people. The CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards provide a platform for public recognition around the achievements of breakthrough information security companies and products in categories including Cloud Security, Threat Detection, Risk Management, Fraud Prevention, Mobile Security, Web and Email Security, UTM, Firewall and more. For more information visit CyberSecurityBreakthrough.com.
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