BreachRx Announces 2026 Rex Awards Recognizing the Most Influential Leaders in Cyber Incident Response
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BreachRx, the leader in cyber incident response management (CIRM), today announced the recipients of the cybersecurity industry's first awards dedicated exclusively to excellence in cyber incident response. Selected from hundreds of accomplished executives, researchers, and legal experts, the 2026 honorees represent the individuals redefining how organizations prepare for, lead, and recover from today’s most complex cyber incidents. Only a select group of recipients are recognized, making the Rex Awards one of the cybersecurity industry's most exclusive honors dedicated to incident response.
As cyber incidents become faster, more disruptive, and increasingly driven by AI, incident response has evolved into one of the most critical disciplines in enterprise security. The Rex Awards recognize leaders who are pushing that discipline forward through operational excellence, strategic leadership, technical innovation, and legal expertise.
“The people who lead organizations through cyber crises rarely receive the recognition they deserve,” said Andy Lunsford, Co-Founder and CEO of BreachRx. “Every major incident demands extraordinary leadership, bringing together security, legal, privacy, communications, and executives, often under immense pressure. The Rex Awards recognize the individuals who have transformed incident response into a true enterprise discipline and are defining what excellence looks like for the rest of the industry."
Modern incident response now extends well beyond containment. Security teams still need speed and technical precision, but legal, privacy, communications, IT, executives, and business leaders must also make coordinated decisions under compressed timelines. The Rex Awards recognize individuals helping organizations meet that challenge through stronger execution, clearer leadership, and more resilient response models.
Recipients were selected by the Rex Awards Committee following evaluations of documented contributions to the practice of incident response, operational leadership, innovation, and measurable industry impact.
Incident Response Excellence
The Incident Response Excellence category recognizes professionals delivering high‑impact incident response programs with proven operational results.
Incident Response Visionary
The Incident Response Visionary category highlights leaders whose strategic work and public voice are reshaping how the industry prepares for and manages complex cyber incidents.
Incident Response Master of the Storm
The Incident Response Master of the Storm category honors those whose legal, regulatory, and policy work helps organizations make sound, defensible decisions during complex data breach and cyber crisis scenarios.
Incident Response Team Builder
The Incident Response Team Builder category honors leaders who have cultivated high-performing IR teams, empowering them to respond to cyber crises with speed, coordination, and resilience.
Elevating Incident Response in the AI Era
The Rex Awards were created to celebrate the people shaping one of cybersecurity’s fastest-evolving disciplines. As AI accelerates the speed, scale, and complexity of cyber incidents, BreachRx believes incident response leadership deserves the same level of recognition long afforded to threat research, product innovation, and executive leadership. While incidents are inevitable, chaos doesn’t have to be.
BreachRx’s newly launched Rex Platform™ is an agentic AI incident command center that helps organizations coordinate response across security, IT, legal, communications, privacy, and executive leadership. Rex brings workflow-aware AI into the incident system of record, helping teams clarify ownership, adapt playbooks, track obligations, document decisions, and maintain control as AI‑accelerated incidents and simultaneous events evolve.
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About BreachRx
BreachRx offers the Rex Platform, an agentic AI platform that helps enterprises respond to cyber incidents and other disruptive events. As AI-driven threats increase the volume, speed, and simultaneity of incidents, organizations are now facing a continuous state of disruption. Enterprise response is even more mission-critical and Rex elevates incident response to a coordinated, enterprise-wide capability spanning security, IT, legal, communications, and executive leadership. The platform provides intelligent agents to manage the response, clarify ownership, adapt playbooks, and coordinate stakeholders as incidents evolve. Organizations can manage scale, reduce chaos, and maintain control under pressure. The result is faster, more consistent response, less chaos, and confident, defensible decisions at scale.
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