Recognition highlights Cloud Range’s innovative platform that validates human and agentic AI performance to achieve true cyber readiness
Cloud Range today announced it has won the 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Award for its Cyber Range and AI Validation Platform. Presented by the Business Intelligence Group, the award recognizes organizations, products, and leaders delivering measurable results in digital defense.
Cloud Range’s advanced cyber range platform enables organizations to test, measure, and improve cyber defense performance across both human teams and agentic AI within a contained, emulated enterprise network environment. By immersing security teams and AI agents in live-fire attack simulations, organizations can validate human and AI performance under adversarial conditions before real incidents occur.
“This recognition reflects the innovation and necessity for what Cloud Range has developed to ensure both human defenders and agentic AI are performing safely and accurately,” said Debbie Gordon, CEO and Founder of Cloud Range. “Organizations can no longer assume readiness based on traditional cyber training or isolated AI agent testing. Security leaders need measurable evidence that their teams, technologies, and increasingly their AI agents can perform effectively during real attacks. The future of cybersecurity requires continuous validation of both human and AI performance to prove operational readiness, and this award reinforces that direction.”
Cloud Range’s platform includes cloud-based enterprise networks that mimic the complexity of modern IT, OT/ICS, cloud, and hybrid environments, allowing teams to operate within conditions that closely mirror real-world operations. The platform contains licensed security tools, adversary-driven attacks mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, realistic network traffic and activity, and measurable readiness metrics to help organizations evaluate cyber defense performance for humans and AI agents. Security leaders and teams can assess incident response effectiveness, validate workflows, identify operational gaps, and measure improvement over time in a safe, controlled environment rather than during or after actual incidents. Ultimately, this continuous validation provides security leaders with defensible metrics and the actionable insights needed to proactively reduce cyber risk.
Specifically for validating AI agents, organizations can assess agent operational reliability, escalation logic, decision-making behavior, and potential failure modes before deploying them into production. The platform also enables direct comparison between human and AI performance under identical attack conditions, helping organizations make more informed decisions about operational adoption and human-in-the-loop requirements.
Over the past 12 months, Cloud Range has continued expanding its cyber readiness and AI validation capabilities while supporting organizations across enterprise, government, higher education, and critical infrastructure sectors. The company also achieved 140% growth over the past three years as organizations increasingly prioritize proven operational readiness and resilience.
“Congratulations to Cloud Range. They let organizations prove their readiness under real-world conditions, testing people and AI agents against live threats so everyone performs when it matters most,” said Russ Fordyce, Chief Recognition Officer, Business Intelligence Group. “Cloud Range stood out because its work reflects where the market is headed: practical cybersecurity that solves real problems, earns trust, and protects the people and assets that depend on it. This recognition highlights a team that is not just keeping pace with the threat landscape, but helping define what meaningful defense looks like.”
The Fortress Cybersecurity Awards recognize organizations and leaders advancing cybersecurity through measurable impact, operational effectiveness, and resilient security practices. To learn more about the 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Awards, visit: https://www.bintelligence.com/posts/2026-fortress-cybersecurity-awards-honoring-the-organizations-products-and-leaders-defending-the-digital-world.
To learn more about Cloud Range’s Cyber Range and AI Validation Platform, visit: cloudrangecyber.com.
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