2026 SC Award winner AlgoSec — Best Risk/Policy Management Solution

Organizations now face growing security risks across connected applications, APIs, and complex hybrid environments as they adopt cloud-based technologies.

Teams are also tasked with managing risk and compliance across fragmented infrastructures, where cloud and network security operate as two separate entities with their own distinct tools, teams, and languages. This division can create dangerous gaps in visibility and control.

By taking an application-centric approach that automates and simplifies security policy management across virtual, cloud, and physical environments, AlgoSec earned the Best Risk/Policy Management Solution category in the 2026 SC Awards.

The AlgoSec Horizon Platform uses advanced AI to automatically identify business applications across multi-clouds and data centers, delivering a single source of visibility for security and compliance.

In replacing manual workflows with intelligent automation, Horizon manages the entire lifecycle from risk analysis and policy design to change simulation and validation. Horizon aims to translate complex rules to align with business needs, promising accurate and safe security changes.

SC Awards Judge Travis Hartman, former chief technology officer for Army Forces Command, said the totality of AlgoSec's offering was "easy to understand with clear integration to enterprise environment."

AlgoSec Horizon now services more than 2,200 organizations worldwide since it was founded in 2004. Last year, AlgoSec generated double-digit year-over-year annual recurring revenue growth, a gross dollar retention rate exceeding 90%, and 37% year-over-year new business growth.

For organizations looking to run Horizon with existing cloud platforms, the product integrates with ServiceNow, ITSM, next-generation firewalls, Cisco ACI and other SDNs, SASE/SSE, and leading cloud providers.