LOS ANGELES, Oct. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CyberSecurity Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the most innovative companies, products, and technologies driving progress in the global information security industry, today announced that Censinet, the leading provider of healthcare risk management solutions, is the recipient of the “Overall Risk Management Solution of the Year” award in the 10th annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program.
Censinet delivers healthcare risk intelligence through Censinet RiskOps™, its AI-native platform purpose-built exclusively for healthcare. The platform brings third-party risk, enterprise risk, systemic risk, and AI governance together, helping healthcare organizations move beyond managing risk in silos to see and manage risk across the enterprise.
But identifying risk is only part of the equation. Healthcare organizations also need to understand what that risk means: what it affects, how critical it is, and where action matters most. Fueled by a network of more than 61,000 vendors and products, Censinet RiskOps™ combines healthcare-specific intelligence with an understanding of the technologies, dependencies, and critical functions that keep healthcare organizations running. This allows organizations to move beyond individual findings to understand potential impact and prioritize risk based on what matters most to their operations and patient care.
Censinet extends that visibility to systemic risk through the operationalization of the Health Sector Coordinating Council’s (HSCC) SMART framework. All 17 critical healthcare function maps are embedded directly within Censinet RiskOps™, allowing organizations to map the vendors and technologies they rely on to essential clinical and business functions. This reveals critical dependencies, concentration risk, and potential single points of failure, helping leaders strengthen mitigation and continuity planning before a disruption occurs.
That same approach extends to one of healthcare’s fastest-growing areas of risk: artificial intelligence. AI Telemetry identifies AI-capable products across an organization’s technology portfolio, while healthcare-specific AI risk assessments aligned with the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and centralized governance dashboards provide the foundation for consistent oversight. Organizations can bring AI into the same risk management framework they use across the rest of the enterprise rather than managing it as a separate governance challenge.
Censinet also uses AI to transform how risk teams work. The Censinet Risk Assessor Agent automates key activities within third-party risk assessments, including questionnaire selection, document analysis, finding generation, and executive summary creation, reducing time spent on key assessment workflows by 66%. By automating time-intensive work while preserving human oversight and decision-making, Censinet enables risk professionals to focus their expertise where it matters more: understanding risk, determining its significance, and deciding what to do about it.
“Healthcare risk is systemic. A vulnerable vendor, technology failure, internal gap, or emerging AI risk doesn’t exist in isolation. What matters is understanding how that risk could affect the operations and patient care that healthcare organizations depend on every day,” said Ed Gaudet, CEO and Founder of Censinet. “That’s what we’ve built Censinet RiskOps™ to do: connect risk with the context needed to understand its impact and act on it. We’re honored to be recognized by CyberSecurity Breakthrough as the Overall Risk Management Solution of the Year.”
Marking its 10-year milestone this year, the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards has spent a decade on a mission that hasn’t wavered: to celebrate excellence and spotlight breakthrough innovation driving the global cybersecurity industry forward. Over that decade, the program has grown to span a wide range of categories, including Cloud Security, Threat Intelligence, Risk Management, Fraud Prevention, Mobile Security, Application Security, Identity Management, and more, consistently shining a light on the solutions and organizations redefining how we safeguard the digital world.
In this landmark 10th year, the 2026 awards program received thousands of nominations from organizations in more than 20 countries around the world, representing breakthrough technologies from disruptive startups to established global enterprises. This year’s winners embody the cutting edge of cybersecurity technology, delivering next-generation protection and resilience in today’s increasingly complex threat landscape.
“Censinet provides healthcare organizations with a continuous, enterprise-wide view of risk that supports decision-making, oversight, and operational resilience. Healthcare is becoming more dependent on technology, and organizations face a complex risk environment where cyber threats, operational dependencies, vendors, enterprise initiatives, and AI are interconnected,” said Steve Johansson, managing director, CyberSecurity Breakthrough. “Censinet enables healthcare organizations to continuously understand how risk evolves across this environment, providing continuous intelligence to help prioritize action, strengthen governance, improve operational resilience, and better protect patient care.”
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About Censinet
Censinet®, based in Boston, MA, is the only AI-native risk intelligence platform purpose-built for U.S. healthcare. Censinet RiskOps™ helps healthcare organizations identify, assess, prioritize, and manage risk across third parties, the enterprise, critical healthcare functions, and artificial intelligence. Powered by healthcare-specific intelligence, AI-driven automation, and the collective scale of the Censinet network, Censinet enables healthcare leaders to see risk clearly, make better-informed decisions, and strengthen operational resilience. Censinet is an American Hospital Association (AHA) Preferred Cybersecurity Provider. Learn more at censinet.com.
Media contact: Steve Johansson steve@cybersecuritybreakthrough.com 213.255.3658
