VAI Cloud Wins 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Award in Cloud Security

Recognition honors organizations, products, and leaders delivering measurable results in digital defense

Ronkonkoma, NY – June 2, 2026 – VAI Cloud, LLC today announced it has been named a winner in the 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Awards, in the category of Cloud Security. Presented by the Business Intelligence Group, the award recognizes the organizations, products, and people applying cybersecurity in ways that deliver real, measurable protection.

The 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Awards honor achievement across the full landscape of digital defense, spotlighting the companies and leaders moving security beyond reaction and into proactive, accountable practice. This year's program recognized winners across 27 categories and 6 countries.

VAI Cloud was recognized for its private cloud ERP platform, trusted for nearly two decades by organizations in distribution, manufacturing, and specialty retail and service. With deep expertise in food & beverage, hardgoods, and pharmaceutical operations, VAI Cloud delivers the secure, high‑availability infrastructure these industries demand. The platform provides built‑in scalability, disaster recovery, and continuous uptime, enabling companies to run advanced analytics, warehouse automation, financials, CRM, and e‑commerce on a single, unified cloud environment.

Through this work, the company has helped its ERP customers who turn to VAI Cloud for uninterrupted access, rapid recovery, and dependable performance, especially as VAI Cloud continually strengthens its security posture with new storage technology featuring quantum‑safe encryption for all data at rest, ensuring customers stay ahead of evolving cybersecurity requirements. This investment reflects VAI’s commitment to maintaining a secure, resilient cloud infrastructure.

Across its customer community, VAI Cloud is delivering improved resilience, rapid recovery from disruptions, and measurable risk reduction. Companies reported returning to full operations within minutes of power and internet restoration after severe windstorms, and resuming business just three hours after a 5.7 magnitude earthquake disrupted their network. Organizations that once faced system wide shutdowns when a single home office went offline now operate remotely without interruption, supported by VAI Cloud’s centralized database and intuitive remote access capabilities for warehouse teams and drivers. Customers also cited the platform’s High Availability and Disaster Recovery—with Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) meeting or exceeding industry standards—as a critical safeguard against outages that previously risked millions in lost orders. By outsourcing infrastructure management and strengthening redundancy, businesses have reduced costs, eliminated detrimental downtime, and freed internal teams to focus on higher value work.

VAI Cloud continuously advances its defenses with Zero Trust Network Access, enhanced WAF protection, ransomware detection and response at the storage and backup vault layers, and quantum‑safe encryption aligned with FIPS 140‑3. These capabilities exceed what many organizations can deploy independently.

"The threats are real, and so is the defense. 2026 is about getting ahead of the attacker — execution, accountability, and measurable resilience," said Russ Fordyce, Chief Recognition Officer, Business Intelligence Group. “VAI Cloud stood out because its work in Cloud Security reflects where the market is headed: practical cybersecurity that solves real problems, earns trust, and protects the people and assets that depend on it. This recognition highlights a team that is not just keeping pace with the threat landscape, but helping define what meaningful defense looks like."

"We are honored to be recognized in the 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Awards for our work in Cloud Security,” said Kevin Beasley, CIO of VAI Cloud. "This award reflects the talent of our team, the trust of our customers, and our commitment to building security solutions that create real outcomes, not just headlines. We believe the future of cybersecurity belongs to organizations that can pair innovation with accountability, and we are proud to be part of that movement."

The Fortress Cybersecurity Awards celebrate the people and organizations leading the next phase of digital defense, where progress is judged not by novelty, but by impact. Winners are selected based on how effectively they are using cybersecurity to reduce risk, protect data and assets, prevent harm, and strengthen the resilience of the organizations and communities they serve.

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