{"id":2274,"date":"2022-02-10T11:28:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T11:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2025-02-24T17:07:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T22:07:36","slug":"deleteme-2022-cybersecurity-excellence-awards","status":"publish","type":"b2b-post","link":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/business\/blog\/deleteme-2022-cybersecurity-excellence-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Cybersecurity Excellence Award: Our Journey &amp; Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are excited to announce that DeleteMe was recognized (twice!) with 2022 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, an annual competition honoring individuals and companies demonstrating excellence, innovation and leadership in information security.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, DeleteMe received:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2022 Cybersecurity Excellence Award in<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurity-excellence-awards.com\/candidates\/abines-deleteme-privacy-solution-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Privacy product\/service category<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 North America<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; The 2022 Cybersecurity Excellence Award for<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurity-excellence-awards.com\/candidates\/abines-deleteme-privacy-solution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 North America<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are grateful to Holger Schulze, CEO of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecurity-insiders.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cybersecurity Insiders<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the analysts at Cybersecurity Insiders, and everyone who voted for us in these two categories, especially in a competitive field of entrants (900+) in so many important cybersecurity categories.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winning an award always provides a good opportunity to reflect on how we got here and where we\u2019re going as a company.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DeleteMe started in 2009 with a mission to protect <\/span>individual consumers<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the dangers of having their personally identifiable information (PII) available on the open web.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But today, PII is a corporate concern. The last three years have seen a boom in demand for better privacy, driven by emerging information-risk in the business world, and sweeping changes to how people live their lives during the Covid pandemic. A few quick examples we\u2019ve seen:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A rapid growth of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toolbox.com\/it-security\/threat-reports\/news\/ransomware-threat-in-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">social-engineering-driven cyber threats<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to businesses;<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A shift by millions of people to working remotely, fueling massive growth in<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/01\/27\/ftc-u-s-consumers-lost-770-million-in-social-media-scams-in-2021-up-18x-from-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fraud<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparitech.com\/identity-theft-protection\/identity-theft-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">identity theft<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and social threats like<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.safehome.org\/family-safety\/doxxing-online-harassment-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">doxing and harassment<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A maturing range of technologies affecting privacy and identity (like the proliferation of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/08\/25\/federal-facial-recognition-expansion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">facial recognition<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> technology,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2021\/03\/17\/2194592\/0\/en\/The-behavioral-biometrics-market-is-anticipated-to-register-a-CAGR-of-over-21-3-during-the-forecast-period-2021-2026.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">behavioral biometrics<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2018\/06\/gdpr-and-browser-fingerprinting-how-it-changes-game-sneakiest-web-trackers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">device fingerprinting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2026 personal information-driven risk has never been higher for the private and public sectors.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of all of the above, we expect 2022 to be a great year for DeleteMe. Here is a taste of our product roadmap that we think will continue to make DeleteMe the most trusted name in consumer privacy:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Improvements to the Privacy Center, our central hub for fast, frictionless deployment and easy management of DeleteMe for business<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Continuous updates to the list of data broker sites we remove our Members from&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new self-scanning tool, allowing a member to request real-time removals<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Again, we\u2019d like to thank the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, the users who voted for us, and all of our customers who\u2019ve been with us for the last 10 years. 2022 is going to be a big year. This award is a great way to get things rolling.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&nbsp;are excited to announce that DeleteMe was recognized (twice!) with 2022 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, an annual competition honoring individuals and companies demonstrating excellence, innovation and leadership in information security.&nbsp; In particular, DeleteMe received: &#8211; The 2022 Cybersecurity Excellence Award in the Privacy product\/service category \u2013 North America &#8211; The 2022 Cybersecurity Excellence Award for Most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":7611,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"b2b-category":[46],"class_list":["post-2274","b2b-post","type-b2b-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","b2b-category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/b2b-post\/2274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/b2b-post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/b2b-post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/b2b-post\/2274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"b2b-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/b2b-category?post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}