Cybercrime Detection, Disruption, Takedown Firm Wins Editor’s Choice Cybersecurity Company

SALT LAKE CITY and LONDON – October 26, 2023 – Netcraft, the global leader in cybercrime detection, disruption, and takedowns, announced today it has been named the winner of the “Editor’s Choice Cybersecurity Company” award from Cyber Defense Magazine, the industry’s leading electronic information security magazine. This recognition is part of the 11th annual Cyber Defense Awards during CyberDefenseCon 2023, an exclusive gathering of the world’s leading CISOs.

“We are thrilled to receive this recognition amongst a coveted group of winners,” said Ryan Woodley, CEO of Netcraft. “ This award is a testament to Netcraft’s dedication and commitment to providing organizations with a safer online environment.”

“Netcraft 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.

The world’s largest takedown provider, Netcraft, is ideally positioned in the global fight against cybercrime, using cutting-edge technologies like AI to detect, validate, and mitigate online threats. Netcraft’s solutions protect customers from threat actors, including those perpetuating phishing, investment, cryptocurrency, and money transfer scams. Netcraft provides automation services and maintains a threat intelligence feed of cybercrime targeting organizations large and small from around the globe. The company also conducts a web survey that has compiled data on nearly one billion websites. Data from its sources provide Netcraft with deep insights into historical trends correlating with real-time data collected from first and third-party sources. Netcraft takes down one-third of the world’s phishing attacks, analyzes over five million threat reports and suspicious URLs every day, and has  blocked 190 million cybercrime attacks, and taken down 20 million attacks to date. 

The complete list of the Top InfoSec Innovators for 2023 is here: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-infosec-innovators-for-2023/.

About Netcraft 

Netcraft is a global leader in cybercrime detection and disruption, combining cutting-edge technology with decades of experience to protect organizations of all sizes from digital threats and attacks. Its mission is to detect and disrupt cybercrime at scale through constant innovation, extensive automation, and unique insight, delivering a safer online experience for everyone. Netcraft is the trusted cybersecurity partner for five of the ten most valuable companies, twelve of the largest banks, and governments of seven of the largest economies in the world. Netcraft’s comprehensive threat feeds, early fraud detection capabilities, and swift automated takedowns are unparalleled in the industry, scaling to perform takedowns for over one-third of the world’s phishing sites and blocking more than 190 million malicious sites. For more information, visit www.netcraft.com. 

About Cyber Defense Awards

This is Cyber Defense Magazine’s 11th year of honoring cybersecurity innovators, in this case the Top Global CISOs for 2023, on our Cyber Defense Awards platform. In this competition, judges for these and other prestigious awards includes cybersecurity industry veterans, trailblazers and market makers Gary Miliefsky of CDMG, Dr. Lindsey Polley de Lopez of VentureScope, Robert R. Ackerman Jr. of Allegis Cyber, Dino Boukouris of MomentumCyber and with much appreciation to emeritus judges Robert Herjavec of Cyderes, Dr. Peter Stephenson of CDMG and David DeWalt of NightDragon.  Top InfoSec Innovators for 2023 is found here: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-infosec-innovators-for-2023/ and download The Black Unicorn Report for 2023: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/the-black-unicorn-report-for-2023/ and Top Global CISOs Winners for 2023, here: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-global-cisos-winners-for-2023/. 

About Cyber Defense Magazine 

Cyber Defense Magazine was founded in 2012 by Gary S. Miliefsky, globally recognized cyber security thought leader, inventor and entrepreneur and continues to be the premier source of IT Security information. We are managed and published by and for ethical, honest, passionate information security professionals. Our mission is to share cutting-edge knowledge, real-world stories and awards on the best ideas, products and services in the information technology industry. We deliver electronic magazines every month online for free, and limited special editions exclusively for the RSA, BlackHat and Cyber Defense Conferences. Learn more about us at http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/. Cyber Defense Magazine is a proud member of the Cyber Defense Media Group.

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