Mend.io, a leader in application security, has been named a finalist in both the Top InfoSec Innovator Awards and the Top 25 Most Innovative Cybersecurity Companies in the World 2026 by Cyber Defense Magazine. The recognition highlights Mend.io's leadership in AI Security and its approach to helping organizations secure AI-powered applications throughout the software lifecycle, from development through runtime.
Mend.io named finalist in Cyber Defense Magazine's Top InfoSec Innovator Awards and Top 25 Most Innovative Companies.
Recognition for securing AI applications across development and runtime lifecycle.
Mend AI helps identify, assess, and protect AI components including models, agents, system prompts, and runtime interactions.
AI adoption creates rapidly expanding attack surface traditional security wasn't designed for.
Mend.io will be at Black Hat USA Booth #5347, August 4-6, 2026.
Award highlights innovation in addressing emerging AI security challenges.
Mend.io was recognized for its approach to securing the full AI application lifecycle, helping organizations identify, assess, and protect the growing number of AI components introduced into modern applications, including models, agents, system prompts, and runtime interactions. As AI adoption accelerates, organizations face a rapidly expanding attack surface that traditional application security approaches were not designed to address. Through Mend AI, Mend.io helps security teams gain visibility into AI risks, test AI behavior, secure system prompts, prioritize vulnerabilities, and enforce protections in production environments.
The Top InfoSec Innovator Awards recognize companies demonstrating innovation, impact, and the ability to address emerging cybersecurity challenges. Mend.io was selected as a finalist by a panel of industry experts for its work advancing AI security and helping organizations manage the risks introduced by AI-powered applications. The award highlights the company's commitment to helping organizations stay ahead of AI-driven risk by enabling teams to secure applications throughout the entire software lifecycle.
"Being named a finalist in Cyber Defense Magazine's InfoSec Awards program underscores the growing need to secure AI-powered applications as organizations rapidly accelerate AI adoption," said Azi Cohen, CEO of Mend.io. "AI is transforming how applications are built, deployed, and secured, creating new challenges that require security solutions designed for this evolving landscape. This recognition reflects our commitment to helping organizations stay ahead of AI-driven risk by enabling teams to secure applications throughout the entire software lifecycle, from development to runtime."
"Mend.io 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.
About Mend.io
Mend.io is a leading application security solution that helps organizations fix less and reduce risk faster. Built for both AI-driven and modern development workflows, Mend.io gives teams visibility into all code: human-written, AI-generated, open-source, third-party and container components, and helps them prioritize and remediate the risks that matter most.
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