2026 WINNER · CYBERSECURITY STARS AWARDS
Fortress Information Security · AI Supply Chain Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure
Most Innovative Critical Infrastructure Platform
Overview
Fortress Information Security is an AI-native supply chain cybersecurity company securing the software and cyber supply chains that support critical infrastructure. The Fortress Platform delivers automated, end-to-end visibility, intelligence sharing, and actionable remediation across the vendor and hardware ecosystems that critical infrastructure operators depend on every day. Suppliers, asset owners and AI agents are uniquely connected in a shared, always-on risk assessment and mitigation network. Fortress supports 7 of the 10 largest publicly owned utilities and three of the six U.S. military branches.
Key Capabilities
Fortress secures critical infrastructure supply chains and vendor partner networks. Providing end-to-end visibility, intelligence sharing, and actionable remediation support, the Fortress Platform delivers a wide-ranging solution that span third-party assessments, product evaluations, and continuous monitoring, covering cybersecurity, foreign influence, operational, regulatory, and financial risks across the full supply chain. AI agents continuously surface risk signals across vendors, assets, threat feeds, and regulatory changes at machine scale and Fortress analysts provide additional context to assess and quantify risk.
Fortress drives smarter decision-making by partnering with customers and leveraging the North American Energy Software Assurance Database (NAESAD) and Asset to Vendor (A2V) industry-wide data exchanges. This collaboration surfaces shared intelligence that speeds the resolution of both third-party and product risks. Findings are prioritized and mapped to each customer's asset profile and compliance requirements, then delivered with built-in workflows for remediation and validation. Optional managed services ensure no risk is left unaddressed.
How we are different
Fortress Information Security solely focuses on securing the software and cyber supply chains that support critical infrastructure. Built purposely for critical industries, Fortress assesses and mitigates risk in the hardware vendor ecosystems that critical infrastructure companies rely on every day. In the past year alone, Fortress has identified more than 2 million vulnerabilities among products and partners within critical industries. Fortress is the one platform that delivers comprehensive risk management across the full supply chain at a cost, speed and scale that protects America's critical infrastructure.
Fortress rebuilt its platform as an AI-native system from the ground up — not AI added to legacy architecture, but a purpose-built agentic engine that makes continuous, comprehensive supply chain governance viable at a scale no manual process can match. Fortress AI Monitoring (AIM) proactively monitors products to identify security and compliance risks through the product lifecycle. Fortress has leveraged AIM to monitor more than 7,600 products, identifying more than 50,000 risks worthy of assessment.
Still, Fortress keeps humans in the loop to structurally govern the outcomes that AI agents produce. AI surfaces risk signals. Humans validate and act, producing measurable, regulator-defensible reduction in risk exposure.
Fortress operates the North American Energy Software Assurance Database (NAESAD) and the Asset to Vendor Network (A2V) — industry data exchanges that turn individual assessments into shared intelligence across the critical infrastructure ecosystem. NAESAD has compiled more than 18,000 software bills of materials (SBOMs) and A2V has compiled more than 12,000 vendor assessments. Risk identified for one operator becomes a signal for all.
Fortress combines SBOM analysis, vulnerability intelligence, supply chain visibility, and vendor risk management to surface hidden risks before they become operational threats. And unlike competitors who find vulnerabilities and quantify risks, Fortress fixes them.
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