RunSafe Security Wins Cybersecurity Stars Award, as Software Vulnerability Mitigation Emerges as the Next Frontier in Cybersecurity

Posted on June 15, 2026

Best Embedded Security Platform recognition from The Hacker News underscores growing OT industry demand for approaches that help organizations mitigate vulnerabilities when patching alone is not enough

MCLEAN, Va. – June 12, 2026 – RunSafe Security, a leader in embedded software vulnerability management and vulnerability mitigation, today announced it has been named the winner in the Best Embedded Security Platform category in the 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards presented by The Hacker News.

The recognition comes at a time when organizations are confronting the reality that software vulnerabilities are being discovered faster than they can be remediated. As AI accelerates vulnerability identification and exploit creation, many mission-critical systems, including operational technology, medical devices, defense platforms, industrial control systems, automotive software, aerospace systems, and embedded devices, cannot be patched quickly enough. Increasingly, organizations are looking beyond vulnerability discovery and embracing software vulnerability mitigation to reduce exploitability and improve cyber resilience.

RunSafe Security is helping define this emerging category.

“Organizations simply cannot patch their way out of the vulnerability problem,” said Joseph M. Saunders, Founder and CEO of RunSafe Security. “The cybersecurity industry has spent decades focused on finding vulnerabilities, but finding vulnerabilities is no longer enough. As software complexity grows and AI accelerates the speed of cyber threats, organizations need ways to reduce exploitability and maintain resilience. We believe automated vulnerability mitigation represents the next evolution in cybersecurity, and we’re honored that The Hacker News has recognized our approach.”

“We congratulate RunSafe Security on winning the Best Embedded Security Platform award in the 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards,” said The Hacker News team. “RunSafe helps teams secure the embedded software that runs critical infrastructure by identifying vulnerabilities, generating precise software inventories, and hardening code without requiring rewrites or slowing down performance. Their work addresses a genuinely difficult problem in a field where most systems cannot be easily patched or updated in the field.”

Unlike traditional approaches that focus primarily on identifying vulnerabilities and prioritizing patches, RunSafe enables organizations to identify vulnerabilities and proactively reduce their exploitability—even when software cannot be immediately updated. The company’s platform combines Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation, vulnerability identification, reachability analysis, remediation prioritization, and patented runtime exploit prevention technologies to reduce cyber risk without requiring source code changes or disrupting operations.

RunSafe’s technologies are designed for environments where availability, safety, and operational continuity are paramount, including:

  • Critical infrastructure and operational technology environments.
  • Industrial control systems and manufacturing platforms.
  • Medical devices and healthcare technologies.
  • Defense, aerospace, and national security systems.
  • Automotive and transportation software.
  • Embedded systems and connected devices.

The company’s patented software randomization and runtime exploit prevention technologies help neutralize entire classes of memory-based attacks, providing protection for deployed software without requiring application rewrites or source code modifications.

As the number of vulnerabilities continues to grow and software lifecycles extend across decades, resilience is becoming as important as prevention. Security leaders are increasingly recognizing that reducing exploitability is essential to protecting systems that cannot always be patched immediately.

“Cyber resilience requires more than discovering vulnerabilities. It requires the ability to mitigate them even before a fix is available,” Saunders added. “Organizations need practical ways to protect the systems they have today, without waiting for patches that may or may not arrive on time. That is the problem RunSafe was built to solve.”

The Cybersecurity Stars Awards recognize companies and technologies delivering innovation and measurable impact across the cybersecurity industry. RunSafe was recognized for its leadership in protecting embedded software and helping organizations address one of cybersecurity’s most persistent challenges: the widening gap between vulnerability discovery and remediation.

For more information about RunSafe Security and its software vulnerability mitigation platform, visit www.runsafesecurity.com.

About RunSafe Security

RunSafe Security is a software vulnerability management and software vulnerability mitigation company helping organizations protect mission-critical software from cyberattacks. The company’s platform combines SBOM generation, vulnerability visibility, reachability analysis, remediation prioritization, and patented runtime exploit prevention technologies to reduce exploitability and improve cyber resilience. RunSafe protects embedded systems, critical infrastructure, operational technology, medical devices, defense platforms, aerospace systems, automotive software, and other connected environments where software availability and security are essential.

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Kari Ritacco
RedIron PR for RunSafe Security
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