NeuShield Named Category Winner in Cyber Defense Magazine’s 2025 Top InfoSec Innovator Awards
NeuShield Wins in Cyber Resilience and Recognized for Groundbreaking Active Data Protection and Approach to Ransomware Protection
FREMONT, California () — NeuShield, creators of the industry’s first Mirror Shielding™ technology, today announced it has been named the winner in the Cyber Resilience category of Cyber Defense Magazine’s 13th Annual Top InfoSec Innovator Awards during CyberDefenseCon 2025.
“We are honored to receive this award, especially in a category as critical as Cyber Resilience,” said Yuen Pin Yeap, CEO of NeuShield. “The nature of cyber threats is evolving faster than ever. At NeuShield, we’ve focused on not just prevention, but instant recovery, removing the reliance on backups, reducing downtime, and giving organizations confidence they can bounce back. This recognition validates our mission and the hard work of our team.”
“NeuShield stands out in this year’s awards because it delivers a fundamentally new model for data protection, rather than incremental improvements on legacy approaches,” said Gary S. Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine. “Its Mirror Shielding™ architecture, One-Click Restore capability, and minimal performance overhead all align with the core traits we look for: anticipating tomorrow’s threats today, delivering cost-effective outcomes, and innovating in unexpected but practical ways.”
Why NeuShield Was Chosen as Winner
NeuShield earned top marks from the judging panel due to several distinguishing features and advancements:
- Mirror Shielding™ — Instead of copying or backing up data, NeuShield places a barrier over protected files so any changes (including malicious ones) are redirected to an overlay. The underlying original files remain untouched.
- One-Click Restore — Users can revert their system and data to a known good state with a single click, undoing ransomware damage, with no complex recovery or backup restore needed.
- Full system recovery even if unbootable — Recent enhancements enable recovery from the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), enabling recovery of systems that won’t boot.
- Advanced data protection — Features such as Database Guardian (restoring databases and associated files), exfiltration protection, disk protection, boot protection, cloud drive protection (for OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, etc.), Data Engrams™ (versioned overlays), and file lockdown offer multilayer resilience.
- Minimal performance impact — The endpoint client engine uses less than 10 MB of memory on average and imposes negligible CPU or I/O overhead, making deployment feasible across many environments.
- Global reach & adoption — Since being named a finalist, NeuShield has accelerated deployments, partner integrations, and customer use cases across multiple continents (APAC, EMEA, Middle East). This increased adoption and real-world validation bolstered its winning selection.
About the Awards
Cyber Defense Magazine’s Top InfoSec Innovator Awards are judged by a panel of prominent CISOs, security practitioners, and editorial experts. Winners are selected based on innovation, efficacy, differentiators, and market relevance. The awards are announced during CyberDefenseCon, a gathering of top global cybersecurity leaders. This marks the 13th annual ceremony.
You can see the full list of InfoSec Innovators for 2025 here:
https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-infosec-innovators-for-2025/
About NeuShield
NeuShield delivers a completely revolutionary approach to ransomware data protection. Rather than trying to detect and block threats one-by-one, the company’s patented NeuShield Data Sentinel product shields important data to prevent threats from modifying it. Business and consumers use NeuShield Data Sentinel as a simple, reliable and budget-friendly way to revert digital files and devices to their pre-attack state when other malware defenses, like antivirus and anti-ransomware, fail. For additional information, visit neushield.com or connect with us on X (formerly Twitter) @NeuShield.