Filigran XTM Platform Wins Hacker News Award for Best Intelligence-Powered Cybersecurity Platform

We’re thrilled to share that the Filigran XTM platform has won The Hacker News Cybersecurity Stars Award for ‘Best Intelligence-Powered Cybersecurity Platform’ – a recognition that celebrates the most innovative and impactful solutions in cybersecurity. This award not only reflects the work of the Filigran team, but also the invaluable input from our customers and open-source community. It also validates that we’re on the right track: make threat intelligence truly actionable, so organizations can prevent attacks before they happen, not just respond after the fact.

TL;DR

• Filigran’s XTM platform has won The Hacker News Cybersecurity Stars Award for ‘Best Intelligence-Powered Cybersecurity Platform‘, recognizing the most innovative and impactful solutions in the industry.
• 82% of security leaders cite operationalizing threat intelligence as a top requirement, yet most organizations still can’t bridge the gap between knowing about a threat and acting on it.
• The XTM platform closes that gap by unifying threat intelligence (OpenCTI), adversarial exposure validation (OpenAEV), risk management (OpenGRC), and agentic CTEM automation (XTM One) in a single, continuous defense ecosystem.
• Unlike traditional approaches that rely on manual detection rules, fragmented feeds, and siloed tools, XTM automates exposure validation and pushes remediation directly into your security stack – so teams move faster than attackers.
• Trusted by a community of 6,500+ practitioners across 18 countries, this award belongs to every customer, contributor, and team member who has helped make threat intelligence practical and accessible at scale.

Closing the Loop: From Intelligence to Defense

The Filigran XTM Platform unifies threat intelligence with continuous exposure validation and cyber risk reduction, encompassing OpenCTI (threat intelligence), OpenAEV (adversarial exposure), OpenGRC (compliance), and XTM One (agentic CTEM) solutions. Unified in one platform, XTM closes the loop between threat intelligence and real-world defense – without the manual overhead.

The Hacker News: “We congratulate Filigran on winning the Intelligence Powered Cybersecurity award at the 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards. Filigran has built an open source platform that brings together threat intelligence, security control validation, and risk management in one place, helping organizations shift from reactive defense to planning ahead. Their work demonstrates a real commitment to making threat intelligence practical and accessible across the security industry.”

Best Intelligence-Powered Cybersecurity Platform

The Problem That Still Haunts Security Teams

The 2025 Forrester State of Threat Intel Report found that 82% of security leaders cite operationalizing threat intelligence as a top requirement. Yet for most organizations, it remains out of reach. Not because they lack intelligence, but because having it isn’t the same as acting on it.

The real challenge lies in the gap between knowing a threat exists and understanding what it means for your organization: does it apply to you, are you exposed, and if so, what do you do about it?

Filigran eXtended Threat Management Platform

That’s the gap the XTM Platform closes: No more stitching together fragmented feeds. No more manually writing detection rules. No more correlating logs across siloed systems or validating defenses through time-consuming manual testing. The XTM platform puts the right intelligence in your hands, automates exposure validation, and pushes remediation directly into your security tools – so your team can prioritize and act with confidence.

The XTM platform answers these important questions:

• Which threats are active in the wild? – OpenCTI
• Do they apply to us? – OpenCTI Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIR)
• Are we exposed? – OpenAEV & XTM One
• How do we fix it? – XTM One + OpenCTI security stack integrations

Why This Award Matters

The Hacker News CyberStars Awards recognize the companies that are genuinely moving the needle in cybersecurity through real-world impact. Being named Best Intelligence-Powered Cybersecurity Platform validates what we hear from our community of 6,500+ practitioners and our customers every day: that the XTM platform is changing how security teams operate.

But this award isn’t just ours. It belongs to every customer who trusted us with their security posture, every contributor who has shaped our open-source products, and every member of the Filigran team across 18 countries who builds, supports, and champions this mission.

What’s Next

We’re just getting started. We have many exciting new capabilities and additions planned. Since our commitment to transparency doesn’t stop at open-source code we’ve made our XTM Platform roadmap publicly available. You now have a real-time window into what’s in development, what’s planned next, and what’s under consideration. At Filigran, our competitive edge doesn’t come from secrecy. It comes from building openly, alongside the community that shapes what we build.

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