Chicago, IL – March, 2026 – ZeroThreat.ai, the AI-powered automated web and API pentesting platform that validates real exploit paths in minutes, today announced it has been named the Silver Award winner of the Cybersecurity Excellence Award for Best Web Application Security Platform. The award, recognized globally across the cybersecurity industry, honors organizations that demonstrate transformative innovation, measurable security impact, and enterprise-grade execution.
This recognition affirms ZeroThreat.ai‘s mission: to replace surface-level vulnerability detection with continuous, AI-driven attacker simulation that confirms real exploitability – not theoretical risk.
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The Recognition
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, evaluated by an independent panel of security practitioners, CISOs, and industry analysts, honored ZeroThreat.ai with the Silver Award for its unprecedented combination of automated pentesting depth, Agentic AI-driven exploit validation, and production-safe scanning capabilities – all delivered at enterprise scale.
ZeroThreat.ai was selected from hundreds of nominees across the application security category based on three criteria:
- Proven reduction in false positives through exploitability-first validation, delivering evidence-backed findings that eliminate alert fatigue
- Technical innovation in Agentic AI pentesting, executing adaptive, attacker-driven workflows that mirror real-world exploitation paths across modern web apps and APIs
- Demonstrated accuracy at scale, with 100,000+ vulnerability checks, real-time CVE-to-detection mapping, and zero-day pattern recognition, improving detection depth and precision
Why ZeroThreat.ai Won
Traditional DAST tools and manual penetration testing have long failed enterprise security teams with the same fundamental problems: high false positive rates, point-in-time assessments, and findings that reflect theoretical exposure rather than confirmed exploitability. ZeroThreat.ai was built to eliminate these failure modes entirely.
The platform simulates over 100,000 attack paths – spanning OWASP Top 10, CWE/SANS Top 25, authentication vulnerabilities, authorization flaws, business logic weaknesses, and sensitive data exposure, using Agentic AI that dynamically adapts its attack strategies based on real application behavior. Unlike rule-based scanners, ZeroThreat.ai thinks like an attacker.
Key differentiators that earned ZeroThreat.ai this recognition include:
- Exploit Validation – Every finding is confirmed exploitable, eliminating wasted remediation cycles on false positives
- Agentic AI Attacker Simulation – Adaptive, intelligent attack chains that mirror real-world adversarial behavior
- Business Logic Vulnerability Detection – Discovery of flaws that automated scanners consistently miss
- Production-Safe Scanning – Enterprise-grade testing with zero risk of disrupting live environments
- Near-Zero False Positives – Accuracy that security teams can act on immediately
- API Security Testing – Full coverage of REST, GraphQL, and API-specific attack surfaces
Leadership Statement
ZeroThreat.ai’s leadership team responded to the award with a clear statement of intent:
“Winning this award is a reflection of the problem we set out to solve. Security teams have been buried under false positives and point-in-time assessments for too long. ZeroThreat.ai exists to change that – by bringing attacker-level intelligence and exploit validation to every organization, continuously, at scale. This recognition validates that automated pentesting is not the future of application security. It is the standard.”
Dharmesh Acharya Founder, ZeroThreat.ai
Impact on Enterprise Security Teams
ZeroThreat’s award-winning platform addresses the three most critical gaps in enterprise application security programs today:
- Continuous Testing vs Point-in-Time Assessments
Manual pentests happen once or twice a year. ZeroThreat enables continuous security validation across the full development lifecycle – from staging to production – with production-safe scanning that integrates directly into CI/CD pipelines.
- Exploit Validation vs Theoretical Detection
ZeroThreat doesn’t flag what might be vulnerable. It confirms what is exploitable. Security teams receive validated findings they can act on immediately – dramatically reducing remediation time and analyst fatigue.
- Business Logic Security – The Testing Gap No Scanner Fills
Business logic vulnerabilities – flaws in how an application is designed to behave – are invisible to traditional pentesting tools. ZeroThreat’s Agentic AI models attacker intent to uncover these high-impact, low-visibility risks that represent some of today’s most damaging breaches.
Enterprise Readiness at Scale
ZeroThreat’s platform is purpose-built for enterprise environments requiring security testing without operational compromise:
- On-Premise Deployment – Air-gapped and Zero Trust Architecture-compliant deployments for regulated industries
- Compliance Reporting – Pre-built reports mapped to HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and GDPR
- DevSecOps Integrations – Native CI/CD integration for shift-left security at every stage of development
- AI-Driven Remediation Guidance – Actionable fix recommendations delivered directly to development teams
- Authenticated and Unauthenticated Testing – Full coverage of complex, modern application environments
Industry Context
Application security has become the most critical – and most under-resourced – domain in enterprise cybersecurity. According to industry research, web application and API vulnerabilities represent the leading attack vector in data breaches globally. Yet most organizations rely on legacy vulnerability scanners or pentesting tools that were not designed for the complexity of modern cloud-native, microservice-driven, and API-first architectures.
ZeroThreat.ai’s Cybersecurity Excellence Award recognition comes as enterprise demand for AI-native application security platforms accelerates. Organizations across financial services, healthcare, SaaS, and critical infrastructure are actively replacing traditional scanning tools with platforms that deliver pentesting-level depth, continuous coverage, and validated findings.
ZeroThreat.ai is positioned as the definitive platform for this transition, combining the intelligence of a skilled human pentester with the speed and scalability of automation.
About ZeroThreat.ai
ZeroThreat.ai is an AI-powered automated web and API pentesting platform that validates real exploit paths in minutes. Designed for security teams, DevSecOps organizations, and enterprise environments, ZeroThreat.ai replaces surface-level scanning with Agentic AI-driven attacker simulation, delivering near-zero false positives, business logic vulnerability detection, and production-safe continuous security testing at scale.
ZeroThreat supports full compliance reporting across HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and GDPR, with on-premise deployment options for air-gapped and regulated environments.
Learn more: https://zerothreat.ai/
Media Contact
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Co-Founder, ZeroThreat Inc.
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