Cyber Defense Magazine: Top InfoSec Innovators 2025
Cyber Defense Magazine’s Top InfoSec Innovators for 2025 list names DigitalXForce, with the honor Trailblazing, in two categories.
Recognized Categories:
- Trailblazing, AI-Powered Automated GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance), 2025.
- Trailblazing, Enterprise Security Risk Posture Management (ESRPM), 2025.
The 2025 categories are listed on the program’s Top InfoSec Innovators for 2025 page.
DigitalXForce Wins Three 2026 Global InfoSec Awards
Cyber Defense Awards named DigitalXForce a winner in three categories of the 2026 Global InfoSec Awards: Most Innovative, AI Risk Governance & Posture Management Platform; Groundbreaking, Enterprise Security Risk Posture Management (ESRPM) Platform; and Hot Company, Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) Platform.
The three categories name the platform’s security posture, third-party risk management and AI risk governance modules.
DigitalXForce and Lalit Ahluwalia Win Two 2025 Tech Titans Awards
Emerging Company Innovation Award: DigitalXForce, for a platform that helps organizations manage cybersecurity risk with automation and real-time risk assessment, as Dallas Innovates described it.
Emerging Company CEO Award: Lalit Ahluwalia, founder and CEO of DigitalXForce.
DigitalXForce Named a Leader in Two IDC MarketScapes: GRC 2025 and TPRM 2026
DigitalXForce was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Governance, Risk, and Compliance Software Vendor Assessment, 2025 (Doc #US53615325, June 2025), and a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Third-Party Risk Management Software 2026 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US53007725, September 2026). The page on the 2026 IDC MarketScape for third-party risk management software offers the IDC documents DigitalXForce shares as downloads.
Founded in 2023, DigitalXForce was assessed in the same study as long-established vendors including IBM, Archer and MetricStream, which IDC’s public page lists among the companies covered.
This recognition underscores our commitment to reimagining GRC and security posture management with an AI-first approach.
IDC also featured DigitalXForce in the IDC ProductScape: Worldwide Governance, Risk, and Compliance Software Vendor Assessment, 2026, and published an IDC Link on the DigitalXForce Enterprise TRiSCM platform in June 2026 and a Market Note on its TRiSCM dashboard in August 2026. Every IDC document that names DigitalXForce is listed, with its number and date, on IDC Research on DigitalXForce.
What sets DigitalXForce apart
- AI JedAI analyzes the control evidence and XForce GPT writes the findings and recommendations.
- One platform covers internal, vendor, cloud and compliance posture.
- 250+ technology integrations connect it to AWS, Azure, CrowdStrike, Okta and more.
- Continuous Control Assurance (CCA) uses evidence, monitoring and validation to determine whether controls continue to operate as expected. Continuous Control Monitoring (CCM) monitors conditions, evidence and signals associated with controls. CCM is a capability within CCA.
- Risk governance runs in real time instead of at point-in-time reviews.
Each recognition on this page links to a public page that names DigitalXForce.
Innovation & Industry Awards
Innovation in Cybersecurity Award
D CEO magazine named DigitalXForce, led by CEO Lalit Ahluwalia, the winner of Innovation in Cybersecurity at The Innovation Awards 2025, and reported the $33 million valuation the company had recently earned.
Source
Global InfoSec Awards 2025
Cyber Defense Awards named DigitalXForce a winner in three categories of the 2025 Global InfoSec Awards:
- Trailblazer, AI Governance and Risk Management
- Groundbreaking, Automated GRC
- Trailblazer, Enterprise Security Posture Management (ESPM)
Tech Titans Awards 2025
At the 25th Tech Titans Awards in September 2025, DigitalXForce won the Emerging Company Innovation Award and Lalit Ahluwalia won the Emerging Company CEO Award, as Dallas Innovates reported on 18 September 2025.
Global InfoSec Awards 2024, announced at RSA Conference 2024
Cyber Defense Awards announced the 2024 Global InfoSec Awards during RSA Conference 2024. DigitalXForce won one category, and iTRUSTXForce, the cybersecurity services company also led by Lalit Ahluwalia, won two:
- Best Solution, Digital Trust (DigitalXForce)
- Publisher’s Choice, Cybersecurity-as-a-Service (CaaS) (iTRUSTXForce)
- Next Gen, Cybersecurity Service Provider (iTRUSTXForce)
The full list is on the Global InfoSec Awards for 2024 winners page.
Additional Highlights & Recognitions
D CEO’s Dallas 500 for 2026 lists Lalit Ahluwalia among the most powerful business leaders in North Texas.
D CEO and Dallas Innovates named DigitalXForce a finalist for Innovation in Cybersecurity at The Innovation Awards 2024, and it won that category the following year.
DigitalXForce has won Global InfoSec Awards from Cyber Defense Awards in 2024, 2025 and 2026, and regional honors from D CEO and Tech Titans, and D CEO’s Dallas 500 lists its CEO.
From recognition to the platform
This page is for buyers who check recognition before they evaluate a platform. The pages below show the independent research, the customer reviews and the mechanism behind the recognitions above.
IDC research on DigitalXForce
The two IDC MarketScape Leader placements and how to read them.
What customers say
Reviews shown on Gartner Peer Insights.
What is TRiSCM
The category the recognitions describe, defined.
How DigitalXForce works
Evidence from the systems you already run, tested against each control.
To check the platform behind these recognitions on your own controls, request a demo.
