Fortra
Announced Best Cybersecurity Company win via BusinessWire
Independent recognition for the cybersecurity industry
Now in its second decade, the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize the companies, products, and professionals moving security forward, each scored by practitioner judges against its peers.
The program is presented by Cybersecurity Insiders and backed by its community of 600,000+ cybersecurity professionals.
- Early-bird ends
- November 5, 2026
- Nominations close
- February 27, 2027
- Jury winners
- Week of March 22Ahead of RSAC Conference
- Community Choice
- Mid-July 2027Ahead of Black Hat USA
2026 Award Winners
What a win gives you
Recognition you can put to work across marketing, sales, investor relations and hiring.
Official badge
Use it worldwide on your website, decks, email signatures and event booths.
Permanent profile page
Your nomination in the searchable awards directory, with logo, images and links.
Winner toolkit
Press release template and social assets for every winning entry. Certificate available on request.
Shared with the community
Gold, Best in Class and Community Choice winners are shared on social media.
Four steps from nomination to recognition
Open to cybersecurity companies and professionals worldwide. Nominate your company, a product, your team, yourself, or a colleague whose work deserves recognition.
Want the details first? Read the 2027 Nomination Guide
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Choose your category
Pick your category among more than 100 categories covering products, companies, professionals, and industry solutions. Enter one category or several that best match your achievement, with a separate nomination for each.
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Submit your nomination
Summarize your achievement and provide the reasons your nomination deserves recognition based on innovation, impact, and leadership. Complete payment to activate your entry, or use nominations included in your package.
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Get reviewed
Once approved, your nomination profile page goes live. Practitioner judges assess innovation, impact and leadership within peer groups, defined by category, company size, and geography, to ensure a level playing field.
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Receive your recognition
Winners receive an official award badge and a toolkit with press release templates and social assets. Use them to share your recognition with customers, colleagues, and the wider cybersecurity community.
Find your award category
Start with what you're nominating, then pick the category that describes it most precisely.
Cybersecurity Product / Service
Nominate a product or service that solves a real problem for customers, and show the results it achieves.
- Agentic AI Security
- Agentic AI Platform
- Fraud Prevention
Cybersecurity Company
Nominate a company for its innovation, growth, leadership, or the quality of service it delivers to customers.
- Best Cybersecurity Company
- Most Innovative Company
- Best Startup
Cybersecurity Industry Solution
Nominate a security solution built for a specific industry or operating environment, from hospitals to factory floors.
- Healthcare
- Critical Infrastructure
- Financial Services
Cybersecurity Professional / Team
Nominate a security leader, practitioner, or team for the impact of their work. Self-nominations welcome.
- Woman of the Year
- Professional of the Year
- AI Security Innovator of the Year
Don’t see the right fit? Contact us with a few sentences about what you want recognized. Custom categories may be available.
Just Nominated
The newest approved nominations, most recent first.
Zimperium
Leveraged triple win in Mobile Security for investor communications
Lattice Semiconductor
Promoted multiple wins across Embedded Security and Network Security
TekStream
Highlighted Team of the Year recognition in recruiting materials
Three ways to be recognized
Every approved nomination competes for a jury award and enters Community Choice automatically. The top Gold winners can also be named Best in Class.
March, ahead of RSAC
Jury awards
Decided by practitioner judges
Judges from the Cybersecurity Insiders community score every nomination on innovation, impact and excellence, against its peers in the same category. Package level and sponsorship have no effect on scores.
July, ahead of Black Hat USA
Community Choice
Chosen by the community
A separate public vote: every approved nomination enters automatically at no extra cost, and each share from a nomination page counts as a vote. Votes never influence jury results.
Throughout the year
Best in Class
The highest recognition we award
In the domains where it is awarded, the top Gold winners are named Best in Class and announced by name. No separate entry is needed. First awarded in 2026 in AI security.
And your win can do more: press campaigns, research and programs from Cybersecurity Insiders turn recognition into category leadership. See how winners promote their recognition
Ready to stand out?
2027 nominations are open until February 27, 2027. Early-bird prices end November 5.