Cybersecurity Project of the Year Archives Winners

This award is for one project: a defined piece of security work with a goal, a team and a result. A recent nominee is a security transformation across the hospitals and clinics of a defense ministry's health service.

A project can also be entered alongside the team or program it belongs to. Add Cybersecurity Team of the Year for the people who delivered it.

Related categories to enter

Each category is judged separately, so you can enter a nominee in every category that fits their work, with a separate nomination for each. Tailor each nomination to that category's focus. Entering several related categories gives the work more than one chance to be recognized.

Cybersecurity Team of the Year — to recognize the people who delivered the project
Best Risk and Compliance Program, Best Cybersecurity Strategy or Best Cybersecurity Awareness Program — if the project is part of a longer-running program
SOC Team of the Year — for a security operations center build or migration
Security Program Optimization Leader of the Year — if the project improved how an existing program runs
Cybersecurity Architect of the Year — to recognize the architect behind the design
Most Innovative Cybersecurity Product — for a new product, entered as a product

How entries are judged

An independent jury of security practitioners, analysts and CISOs scores each nomination on leadership, innovation and impact. Each nomination competes in its category against peers in a similar setting and region. Your entry package, any sponsorship and public votes do not affect the jury's scores.

Strong entries in this category show:

Leadership — who ran the project, the teams and partners involved and how scope, budget and deadlines were managed.
Innovation — what was new about the approach: a design choice, a way of rolling out without disruption, or a first for the sector.
Impact — what the project delivered: sites, users or systems covered, risks removed, whether it finished on time and on budget, what has improved since launch. State the goal and whether the project met it.

The jury awards Gold, Silver or Bronze, or a Finalist badge, and results are published on this site and announced to the 600,000+ member Cybersecurity Insiders community. Every approved nomination also enters the separate Community Choice award, decided by public votes.

How to enter

Anyone can submit a nomination: the nominee, a colleague or manager, the organization, or an agency entering a client. The nomination form has a confidential field for detail that is shared with the judges and not published, such as internal figures, customer names or incident details. Deadlines, pricing and entry steps are on the How it Works page.