Mate Security Recognized for Cybersecurity Innovation in 10th Annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards Program

Prestigious Annual Awards Program Honors Breakthrough Information Security Products and Companies Around the World

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CyberSecurity Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the most innovative companies, products, and technologies driving progress in the global information security industry, today announced that Mate Security, a company building the foundation for agentic cyberdefense, has been selected as winner of the “Security Response Solution of the Year” award in the 10^th annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program.

Mate is the open foundation for agentic cyberdefense, powered by a context layer that gives AI agents a broader understanding of how an organization functions so they can analyze events across every security use case. Its agents investigate, reach evidence-based verdicts, and respond to alerts across an organization's existing stack.

The Confidence, Precision, and Reversibility (CPR) framework evaluates every proposed action for the certainty level of the conclusion, how surgical the action is, and whether it can be undone. That confidence is grounded in each agent's measured track record on similar cases. Scoped containment and precision means that, for example, one session would be revoked rather than an entire account, one URL would be blocked instead of the domain, and one URL is blocked rather than the domain; one host is isolated and not the segment.

"CPR weighs the risk of acting against the risk of not acting. A human can decide fast, and an agent acts on its own only when acting is the safer choice," said Inbal Argov, VP Product Strategy at Mate Security, who created the CPR framework.

This organizational context is possible through Mate’s Security Context Graph, a living model of organizational security knowledge and relationships, populated by the company’s Reason Mining engine. It supplies asset ownership and dependencies, business criticality, privileged identities, and applicable policy, allowing Mate to assess blast radius against the customer's architecture.

“Precision and reversibility require organizational context. That means for agents to act with precision, alerts need to be evaluated in relation to the specific business environment rather than in isolation. When we started Mate, we knew we had to build context and trust into our product,” said Asaf Wiener, co-founder and CEO of Mate Security. “Enterprises need security platforms that can not only act faster, but also make the right decisions with enough context at scale. We are answering that need and are grateful to CyberSecurity Breakthrough for this award. We will continue moving fast and stay laser-focused on our customers, as we proudly build the foundation for agentic cyberdefense in the AI era.״

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 10^th 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.

“Mate compresses multi-day MTTR to minutes with real organizational context. Response is the hardest part to automate because a wrong action can damage the entire business. From isolating a production host to revoking a shared credential, this can cost more than the incident. So most actions are routed through human approval, and that delay is costly in the age of AI-related attacks,” said Steve Johansson, managing director, CyberSecurity Breakthrough. “By building a shared context layer that gives AI agents organizational understanding, Mate is helping security teams build AI-driven operations grounded in context, governance, and organizational knowledge rather than automation alone.”

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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About Mate Security
Mate is the open foundation for agentic cyberdefense. Its context layer turns organizational data into knowledge AI agents can act on, so they can investigate, reach evidence-based verdicts, and respond to alerts across every cybersecurity use case. That knowledge lives in Mate's Security Context Graph, a living model of an organization's security relationships built by its Reason Mining engine. It captures asset ownership, business criticality, privileged identities, and policy so Mate can weigh blast radius before it acts. The result: threats contained in minutes, 100% of alerts investigated, less noise, no SIEM lock-in, and detections that scale with the organization.

For more information, visit the Mate Security website.

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