When you are deciding whether to trust a company with your personal information, outside validation matters more than anything the company says about itself. So here is one worth knowing about. Privacy Bee has been named a Silver Award recipient in the Fastest Growing Cybersecurity Company category of the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Award, recognition decided by an independent jury of cybersecurity practitioners, analysts, and CISOs.

We are proud of this one, and here is what it actually means for you.

Who gives this award, and why it counts

The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards are run by Cybersecurity Insiders, a research and information platform backed by a community of more than 600,000 security professionals. The program has recognized companies, products, and people across the industry for over a decade.

What makes this recognition meaningful is who decided it. The Silver Award was selected by an independent jury of practicing cybersecurity experts, the analysts and CISOs who evaluate security companies for a living. This is not a popularity contest or a paid placement. It is a panel of people whose job is to know the difference between a company that talks a good game and one that delivers.

The organizers put it this way. “We congratulate Privacy Bee for Silver Award recognition in the Fastest Growing Cybersecurity Company category of the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards,” said Holger Schulze, founder of Cybersecurity Insiders. “Selected by an independent jury of cybersecurity practitioners, analysts, and CISOs, this recognition highlights meaningful contributions that strengthen cybersecurity across organizations worldwide.”

Why “Fastest Growing” is the category that matters here

It would be easy to read a growth award as being about business success. It is really about trust at scale.

A privacy company only grows quickly when it keeps the promises it makes. People hand us their most sensitive information, their names, addresses, phone numbers, and family details, precisely so we can get it removed from the places exposing them. That is not a decision anyone makes lightly. Growing fast in this space means that more and more people looked closely, decided we were worth trusting, and stayed.

That is the part we are proud of. We are growing because the work works. Every day we find where people are exposed across Data Brokers and People Search Sites, and we get that information taken down and keep it down. An expert jury looked at how we do that and how quickly it is scaling, and they ranked us among the fastest-growing companies in the entire industry. That is not us saying we are good at this. That is the people who evaluate security companies for a living saying it.

The Cybersecurity Excellence Award, and the trust behind it

An award is a moment. Protecting your privacy is a process. What this Cybersecurity Excellence Award recognizes is not a one-time effort, it is the ongoing work of finding where your information is exposed and removing it, again and again. Data Brokers and People Search Sites do not stop collecting, so we do not stop either. When your information reappears, we work to take it down again. That is the difference between a company that cleans up once and one that stays on watch. It is also why an independent jury of security experts saw enough here to recognize how fast this approach is growing.

What this means when you are deciding

You should not take any company at its word, including us. That is the whole point of looking for outside proof. An award judged by independent security professionals is one kind of proof. Our SOC 2 Type II certification is another. The reviews from real customers are another. Stacked together, they answer the only question that matters when you are handing over your data, can this company be trusted to do what it says.

We are confident the answer is yes, and we would rather show you than tell you. The recognition is nice. Earning your trust is the real win.

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