Recognition highlights Cloud Range’s innovative platform that validates human and agentic AI performance to achieve true cyber readiness

NASHVILLE, Tenn.: 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.

About Cloud Range

Cloud Range is a pioneer in cybersecurity simulation and readiness platforms, delivering the first full-service, cloud-based cyber range to help organizations evaluate, validate, and strengthen their cyber capabilities before real incidents occur. Its platform provides realistic IT, OT/ICS, and cloud environments where organizations can safely evaluate how people, processes, technologies, and AI agents perform under real-world attack conditions. Used by enterprise SOC and incident response teams, managed security service providers (MSSPs), governments, higher education institutions, utilities, critical infrastructure, and many other industries, Cloud Range enables customers to measure team performance, assess candidates, onboard new hires, validate tools and processes, and test and train AI models and agents before deployment.

Cloud Range has received numerous industry awards, including the Global InfoSec Award for Visionary Cyber Defense Readiness Platform, the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards for Cyber Readiness and Validation, and the ASTORS Homeland Security Award for Best Cyber Defense Team Training. Learn more at cloudrangecyber.com.

About the Fortress Cybersecurity Awards

The Fortress Cybersecurity Awards recognize the world's leading companies, products, and people working to keep data and digital assets safe. As cyber threats grow more sophisticated and more frequent, the program identifies and honors the organizations and individuals building the defenses that protect businesses, governments, and the people who depend on them. Judged by a panel of experienced security and business professionals who provide transparent feedback and detailed scoring, the awards celebrate measurable progress in digital defense.

About Business Intelligence Group

Business Intelligence Group (BIG) is an independent awards organization that has been recognizing outstanding achievement in business since 2012. Now in its 14th awards season, BIG operates 12 annual programs spanning innovation, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, customer service, cloud computing, sustainability, sales and marketing, workplace culture, and women's leadership. For more information about BIG award programs, nomination deadlines, and judging criteria, visit bintelligence.com.

Fonte: Business Wire