Cytidel wins the ECSO CISO Choice Award 2026

Europe's most promising cyber solution, as chosen by the people who actually buy them.

Last week in Brussels, at the European Cyber Security Organisation's 10-year anniversary event, Cytidel won the ECSO CISO Choice Award 2026.

Most industry awards are decided by analysts or journalists. This one is not. The CISO Choice Award is judged by a European jury of security leaders, this year Frank Van Caenegem, Stephane Lenco, and Elena Santiago Cid, who evaluated finalists from across the continent with one question in mind: would this survive contact with my team's reality? They picked ours.

What they were choosing

That reality looks like this. A typical enterprise security team sees 300 to 400 new vulnerabilities cross their desk every day. The workload doubles roughly every two years. The team does not.

And the window for getting it wrong is shrinking. Frontier AI models are compressing the gap between disclosure and exploitation. In 2025 we tracked an exploit developed 51 seconds after disclosure. When attackers can weaponise a CVE faster than most organisations can read the advisory, prioritisation built on static severity scores stops being a process problem and becomes a structural one.

Our answer is exposure intelligence: continuous monitoring of thousands of sources, from exploit code and threat actor chatter to advisories and social signals, distilled into the two or three vulnerabilities that actually matter today, with the evidence and reasoning behind every call. Early warnings, not post-mortems. On average, we flag high-risk vulnerabilities 51 days before they reach CISA KEV.

That is the approach a jury of Europe's security leaders chose as the most promising on the continent.

Not done yet

The award comes with ECSO's Cybersecurity Made in Europe label, which we will carry with some pride. Our CEO Matt Conlon put it simply: "A huge effort has gone in to build the solution CISOs need, and we're not done yet."

The threat landscape that made this approach necessary is accelerating, and so are we.

Thank you to ECSO for ten years of building Europe's cybersecurity community, to the jury for their time and scrutiny, and to every customer whose hard problems shaped what we build.

If you want to see what the jury saw, book a demo and we will show you.