Optery Triumphs in 2025 Cybersecurity Awards with Triple Crown Victory

Optery Triumphs in 2025 Cybersecurity Awards with Triple Crown Victory

Summary

• Optery, the personal data removal company, won three categories at the 2025 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards.
• The wins came in Attack Surface Management, Digital Footprint Management and Employee Privacy Protection.
• The awards recognize Optery’s tools for finding and removing personal information exposed online.
• They also reflect growing demand for services that shrink the personal data attackers can use.

Three wins for Optery

Optery won in three categories at the 2025 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, the company announced in March 2025. A “Triple Crown,” in its words. It was the second year in a row Optery won in three categories.

The three categories

Optery’s wins came in Attack Surface Management, Digital Footprint Management and Employee Privacy Protection. All three relate to the same problem: personal information about employees and executives that sits on data broker sites and people-search pages, where attackers can find it.

The Digital Footprint Management win recognizes Optery’s service for finding and removing a person’s data from those sites. The Employee Privacy Protection category covers its business offering, which removes employees’ exposed data so it is harder to use for phishing and social engineering. Attack Surface Management reflects the idea that exposed personal data is part of a company’s attack surface.

Why personal data removal matters to security

Attackers often start with public information. Names, home addresses, phone numbers and family details found online make phishing emails and phone scams far more convincing, and they help attackers single out executives, their spouses and their kids for harassment, extortion or a well-timed fake call to the finance team.

Services like Optery’s scan data broker sites, file removal requests and keep monitoring for the data to reappear. For companies, it is a way to cut the material attackers can use against their staff.

What the awards mean

Industry awards raise a company’s visibility and give buyers a reference point. Rivals take note.

The broader trend is clear. More companies now see employees’ exposed personal data as a security risk, not only a privacy issue, and demand for removal services is growing.

Where Optery goes from here

Three category wins for the second straight year give Optery a strong marketing point in a crowded data removal market. Its challenge now is keeping removals effective as data brokers keep repopulating their sites.

For security teams, the next step is practical: check what personal data about your executives and staff is publicly available, and consider whether removing it would make social engineering harder.

Frank Jones, CISSP

Frank Jones has loved computers from the age of 13. Frank got his hacking career started when he downloaded a war dialing program that he used to detect dial up modems in his hometown of Chicago. Frank Jones now works as a JAVA coder and cyber security researcher.