TELUS Digital’s Fuel iX™ Fortify Wins “AI Safety Innovation Award” in Ninth Annual AI Breakthrough Awards Program
Key takeaways
- Fuel iX Fortify has won the "AI Safety Innovation Award" in the 9th Annual AI Breakthrough Awards, recognizing it for making generative AI security testing automated, scalable, and accessible to both technical and non-technical teams.
- The win reinforces Fortify's core differentiation: it turns AI safety from a manual, time-intensive process into a documented, repeatable one, giving enterprises a clear path to deploying GenAI responsibly and at scale.
VANCOUVER, B.C., June 25, 2026 – TELUS Digital, a global technology service provider specializing in AI-powered digital customer experiences (CX) and future-focused digital transformations, today announced that Fuel iX™ Fortify has been selected as winner of the “AI Safety Innovation Award” in the ninth annual AI Breakthrough Awards program conducted by AI Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global Artificial Intelligence (AI) market today.
Built on an advanced technical research foundation, Fortify elevates and extends the capabilities of experienced red teamers, makes sophisticated adversarial testing features available to non-technical users and provides a consistent method for validating that guardrails are properly configured and application risk is proactively mitigated.
Fuel iX Fortify automates adversarial testing, providing continuous application monitoring and validation throughout the AI development lifecycle, helping organizations confidently and responsibly launch and scale their AI applications. The automated red-teaming solution helps enterprises continuously test generative AI (GenAI) systems to identify security vulnerabilities and map risks by simulating real-world attack scenarios using advanced adversarial techniques.
Fortify employs customized AI models to generate adversarial attacks and judge the results. The solution dynamically generates over 150 research-backed attack types, and uncovers black-box vulnerabilities in hours, mapping risks directly to OWASP, NIST AI RMF and MITRE ATLAS frameworks. Attacks can be executed in both single shot and multi-turn formats. Fortify’s attack model successfully compromised 34 leading AI models across multiple attack vectors. Understanding risk exposure at the model and application layers is critical to every enterprise adopting AI today.
The application also provides actionable remediation approaches to accelerate resolution. It translates complex security vulnerabilities into severity-rated, actionable fixes so teams know exactly what to address and how. Users can track security posture, manage exposure and validate safety through one testing and monitoring lens.
Developers can choose from pre-defined testing plans or design their own, producing dynamic attacks specific to an application's domain and industry. Fortify generates verifiable, board-ready evidence, satisfying regulatory reviews, and empowers both technical and non-technical users to conduct comprehensive security assessments to achieve enterprise-grade GenAI security. In addition, Fortify’s natural language explanations facilitate Human-AI review to validate findings and ensure high-fidelity results.
“The TELUS Digital team is particularly thankful for the Breakthrough Award recognition for AI Safety Innovation. AI Safety and security must be an equal partner with AI quality and value. Our Fuel iX AI applications generated more than two trillion AI tokens in 2025 and another trillion in the first quarter of 2026. That was a strong motivation to ensure that the realization of AI benefits aren’t undermined by hidden AI risks. Fuel iX Fortify addresses the immediate enterprise need for quickly uncovering safety and security vulnerabilities inside GenAI-enabled applications and agents,” said Bret Kinsella, General Manager and Senior Vice President, Fuel iX at TELUS Digital. “Users have reported 97% faster testing cycles with 12x more coverage. Those benefits are directly reducing security risk and ensuring the ethical and safe deployment of AI solutions.”
For nearly a decade, the AI Breakthrough Awards have researched, analyzed and recognized the most important advances in artificial intelligence, and this year's field is the strongest yet. Thousands of nominations from over 20 countries poured in across categories including Agentic AI, Generative AI, Computer Vision, AIOps, Robotics, Natural Language Processing and industry-specific AI applications – underscoring the explosive global growth of AI and its importance as the defining technology of our time.
“Fortify moves AI safety from a subjective hurdle to a documented, repeatable asset. Enterprises are eager to deploy generative AI; however, traditional security tools are ill-equipped for the probabilistic and unpredictable nature of LLMs. Manual ad hoc and red-teaming approaches involve humans and can be prohibitive to AI development due to labor, time and cost,” said Steve Johansson, managing director, AI Breakthrough. “Fuel iX Fortify removes this barrier, putting AI safety and security first. Fortify turns generative AI risk into actionable insight for security teams, significantly accelerating AI model testing, vulnerability identification and mitigation.”
Fortify’s intuitive interface allows non-security staff, including AppSec, DevSecOps and governance, risk & compliance teams, to be onboarded in under 30 minutes.
To learn more about how Fuel iX Fortify can help secure your enterprise AI applications, visit: telusdigital.com/solutions/fuel-ix/fortify
