About the Cybersecurity Team of the Year category
Who this award is for
This award is for a team and what its people achieved together. Recent nominees include an IT and security team of ten that secured more than 5,000 devices across 67 locations of a hospice care provider, the enterprise security team at an energy utility, and a security automation team at a healthcare technology company.
This is the broadest team category. If the team has a specialty, it can also enter the category for that specialty: SOC Team of the Year, Pentest Team of the Year, Threat Intelligence Team of the Year or Defensive Cyberspace Operations Team of the Year. To recognize one person, such as the team's leader, add Cybersecurity Professional of the Year or Chief Information Security Officer of the Year (CISO).
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.
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 is on the team, how it is organized and how its members work with each other and with the rest of the organization or its clients.
- Innovation — something the team does differently, such as a new operating model, automation it built or a partnership that lets a small team cover more ground.
- Impact — what the team delivered: systems and people protected, incidents handled, projects completed, response times improved, staff kept and developed. Describe one or two achievements in detail, with numbers.
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.
