Founder-led cybersecurity company backs OpenAI’s collective cyber defense call by helping everyone protect 2X the endpoints from vulnerabilities

HOUSTON, Oct. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Action1, a leading provider of autonomous endpoint management (AEM) solutions, today announced that it is doubling endpoint coverage throughout October for everyone using Action1, from free users to enterprise customers, giving more people and organizations an immediate way to patch more endpoints and reduce their exposure to vulnerabilities.

The move puts Action1’s support for OpenAI’s call for collective action on cyber defense into practice. The call urges cybersecurity companies and technology partners to help close security gaps, patch vulnerable systems, and put more resources in defenders’ hands. Action1 is among the organizations that have joined the initiative.

Unpatched software remains one of the biggest security gaps, and the problem is accelerating. Action1’s 2026 Software Vulnerability Ratings Report found that critical vulnerabilities more than doubled, while active exploitation jumped by 254%. For many organizations, the barrier is not that the risks are unknown, but a lack of capacity needed to eliminate them proactively.

Rather than stopping at awareness, Action1 is giving IT and security teams a concrete way to act: patch twice as many endpoints, remediate vulnerabilities across more of their environment, and bring previously uncovered systems under management. At Action1’s global scale, the initiative extends protection from vulnerabilities to tens of millions of additional endpoints worldwide throughout Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

Action1 was founded in 2018 by cybersecurity industry veterans Alex Vovk and Mike Walters, co-founders of Netwrix, a multi-billion-dollar cybersecurity company. They believe better cybersecurity should not be reserved for organizations with the biggest budgets.

As a founder-led company, Action1 has the freedom to act on that belief and put the IT community first. Doubling endpoint coverage at no cost is a practical step toward a safer digital world.

“Patching is the foundation of cyber defense, and we believe it shouldn’t ever be treated as a premium feature,” said Mike Walters, President and Co-founder of Action1. “Yet too many systems still go unpatched, and AI-enabled attackers are moving faster than ever. This October, we want to change that pattern by giving organizations and individual users room to bring their entire environment up to date.”

The offer is simple: 2X for everyone. From October 1 to 31, new and existing free users get 400 endpoints instead of 200, while paid customers get twice their current endpoint coverage at no additional cost. Smaller organizations, non-profits, consultants, and individual users can extend the same patching workflow to more devices without new spending. For large enterprises, where scale and complexity make consistent remediation difficult, doubled capacity brings more of their endpoint estate under protection.

For more information, please visit: https://go.action1.com/cybersecurity-awareness-month-2026 

About Action1

Action1 is an autonomous patch management platform trusted by many Fortune 500 companies. Cloud-native, infinitely scalable, highly secure, and configurable in 5 minutes—it just works and is always free for the first 200 endpoints, with no functional limits. By pioneering autonomous OS and third-party patching with peer-to-peer patch distribution and real-time vulnerability assessment and remediation without needing a VPN, it eliminates routine labor, preempts ransomware and security risks, and protects the digital employee experience.

In 2026, Action1 was recognized by Inc. 5000 as the fastest-growing founder-led cybersecurity company in America. At the helm of Action1 are industry veterans Alex Vovk and Mike Walters, American entrepreneurs who founded Netwrix, which has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry-leading cybersecurity company.

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