2026 SC Award winner Permiso Security — Best Threat Detection Technology

Permiso Security is the winner of the 2026 SC Award for Best Threat Detection Technology for its Permiso Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) platform, which detects identity-based attacks across cloud and hybrid environments.

As organizations expand across cloud infrastructure, SaaS platforms and AI-driven systems, identities — both human and machine — have become a primary attack surface. Permiso monitors identity activity across identity providers, IaaS/PaaS platforms and SaaS environments to detect credential compromise, privilege escalation, account takeover and lateral movement in real time.

Built on the company’s Universal Identity Graph, the platform correlates relationships between human, non-human and AI identities and their credentials, helping teams identify suspicious activity earlier in the attack chain. Permiso has developed more than 1,500 detection signals tied to known attacker TTPs, enabling organizations to detect identity-based threats traditional endpoint and network security tools often miss.

The platform’s agentless architecture integrates with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes, allowing organizations to deploy quickly and gain visibility across distributed infrastructure.

Permiso secures tens of millions of identities globally and is trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises operating some of the world’s largest cloud environments. The company reports 150% net revenue retention and growing adoption across financial services, healthcare, SaaS and manufacturing.

Customers report dramatic improvements, including reducing investigation timelines from weeks to minutes while gaining greater visibility into non-human and AI identities.

“[Permiso] addresses the modern ‘entire network’ by securing the identity layer across all cloud and AI environments,” said SC Awards judge Mayank Singhi, engineering manager at Google.