2026 WINNER · CYBERSECURITY STARS AWARDS
Surf AI · AI-Driven Remediation & Security Operations
Best Security Operations Platform
Overview
Surf AI is the agentic operations platform for modern security teams. We operationalize security programs by closing the gap between understanding risk and actually eliminating it.
For decades, security was built around a workable assumption: detect threats, respond fast, manage the backlog over time. AI has broken that assumption. The economics of attack have changed. Exposures that were once low-priority because they were hard to find and exploit are now trivially discoverable. Dormant accounts, misconfigured permissions, expired certificates, overexposed data are no longer a management problem, they are an active attack surface.
Security teams have always known this work needed to happen. What stopped them wasn't awareness or effort. It was execution. Context is scattered across identity, cloud, HR, IT and SaaS systems that don't talk to each other. Ownership is unclear. The downstream impact of change is difficult to predict. As a result, known issues accumulate not from negligence, but because the tools to close them at scale didn't exist.
Surf was built for this moment. The platform connects data across identity, cloud, SaaS, and data and IT environments to build a continuously updated map of assets, ownership, dependencies, and business impact. Specialized AI agents coordinate and complete remediation workflows across systems, while keeping security teams in control through defined policies, approvals, and auditability at every step.
This is proactive security hygiene as an always-on operational practice, not a periodic initiative. This approach defines an emerging category—agentic security hygiene—in which the goal is not just to identify risk but to continuously shrink their attack surface before attackers find what hasn't been closed.
Surf AI is actively onboarding enterprise technology clients and is already working with global organizations, including Fortune 500 companies. The company raised $60M in Seed and Series A funding earlier this year and is backed by Accel, Cyberstarts and Boldstart Ventures.
Key Capabilities
Surf is designed to close the gap between knowing what is wrong and actually fixing it, continuously and at scale. This is done through:
Unified context across the environment
Surf ingests and connects data across identity providers, cloud platforms, HR systems, SaaS applications, and IT infrastructure to build a living model of the environment. This means assets,, permissions, ownership, organizational structure, and dependencies all in one continuously updated picture. No single tool sees this. Surf does.
Continuous evaluation and prioritization
The platform continuously analyzes this environment to surface exposures that matter, tracing each to a real current owner, and modeling the downstream impact of potential changes. Findings are no longer isolated alerts, but are tied to real business context, enabling faster, safer action.
Specialized AI agents for execution
Surf deploys purpose-built AI agents across identity, cloud, SaaS, data, and IT domains. Each operates within defined permissions, understands the specific systems it works in, and escalates to your team when a decision requires human judgment.
End-to-end remediation
Surf closes the loop. From surfacing an issue to resolving it, the platform handles the coordination that typically stalls teams: tracing ownership, modeling impact, routing approvals, and executing across systems and teams. The problem gets closed, not handed off.
Enterprise-grade control and auditability
Every action is governed by rules and guardrails the organization defines. Every decision is logged, explained, and reversible. Audit trails are compliance-ready from day one, giving teams the confidence to run continuous operations at scale without sacrificing oversight.
How we are different
Surf stands apart by addressing a problem the security industry has largely acknowledged but not solved: the inability to reliably execute remediation at scale.
The backlog is the attack surface, and we treat it that way
Most security programs were designed to manage risk over time.. That model assumed many exposures could safely wait. AI-enabled attackers have made that assumption untenable. Vulnerabilities that once took weeks to find and exploit are now surfaced in minutes. Surf introduces an operating model built for this reality: continuously reduce exposure as an always-on practice, not a periodic cleanup.
We solve what happens after detection
Security tooling has spent years optimizing for visibility. The harder problem—what happens after a finding is identified—has remained largely manual. Ownership ambiguity, system dependencies, and approval workflows slow remediation even when risks are well understood. Surf is built specifically for this execution layer, turning remediation into a coordinated, repeatable process rather than a series of tickets and follow-up threads
The Context Graph makes action safe
Surf's Context Graph connects assets, identities, permissions, behavior, org structure, ownership, and dependencies into a unified, continuously updated model. This is not another dashboard. It's the operational foundation that makes it possible to act with confidence, knowing who owns something, what depends on it, and what the downstream impact of a change will be before anything happens.
Purpose-built agents, not broad automation
Surf applies AI through specialized agents, each focused on a specific domain and systems required to execute within it. This narrow scope is what makes agents reliable in complex enterprise environments. They follow your policies, operate within defined permissions, and never act without appropriate approval.
Security hygiene as a continuous discipline
Surf reframes proactive security hygiene from a reactive cleanup exercise into an always-on function. Enterprises that adopt this model stop accumulating risk and start systematically closing exposure continuously, at scale, with teams remaining in control.
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