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Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize products that give AI agents their own identities and control what those agents can reach. The category covers agent authentication, permissions and tracing actions to a responsible owner.
Nominations are open
Enter this category by February 27, 2027. Anyone can submit an entry: the company, the nominee, a colleague or an agency.
The AI Agent Identity Security category covers identity and access for AI agents, which act on behalf of people and organizations and use tools and data on their own. Typical entries register agents and give them their own credentials, limit each agent to the access its task needs, carry the identity of the person an agent acts for, and keep a record that ties each agent action to someone responsible for it.
Securing what agents do more widely fits Agentic AI Security, and setting policy for agents across an organization fits Agentic AI Governance. Service accounts and API keys used by other software fit Non-Human Identity (NHI) Security and Non-Human Identity Management, and a product that also covers them can enter those as well. This category is about securing AI agents. AI that recommends access for people fits AI Identity Governance and Access Reviews, and other identity products that use AI to do their work enter the category for what they do and can also enter AI-Powered Security Solution.
Each category is judged separately, so you can enter a product in every category that matches what it does, with a separate nomination for each. Tailor each nomination to that category's focus. Entering several related categories gives the product more than one chance to be recognized.
An independent jury of security practitioners, analysts and CISOs scores each nomination on leadership, innovation and impact. Each nomination competes in its category against organizations of similar size and region, so a mid-sized firm is not ranked against a global enterprise. Your entry package, any sponsorship and public votes do not affect the jury's scores.
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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.
A vendor can enter its own product or service, and a PR agency can enter it on a client's behalf. The nomination form has a confidential field for detail that is shared with the judges and not published, such as customer names, deployment figures or roadmap. Deadlines, pricing and entry steps are on the How it Works page.