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Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize platforms that use AI to automate security workflows across tools. The category covers AI-driven automation that keeps significant actions within set limits and under human control.
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 Security Workflow Automation category is about AI used to do security work. Entries are platforms where AI reads unstructured input such as tickets, emails and alerts, chooses which tool or step comes next, and helps build and run tasks across security, identity, cloud and IT service management tools. Fixed, rule-based steps still handle predictable checks. Typical entries set which tools, data and accounts each workflow may use, keep approval of significant changes out of the AI's hands, and cope with retries, duplicate requests and steps that fail halfway. They log every input, decision, approval and action so that a step can be undone.
Playbook platforms fit Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR), and a SOAR platform in which AI builds or runs workflows can enter both. The broad category for automation of every kind is Security Automation, which an AI workflow platform can enter as well. When AI agents do the security work themselves, such as sorting vulnerabilities or answering questionnaires, the platform fits Agentic Security Platform. This category judges how a workflow platform controls what it runs, and a product with both strengths can enter both. AI that investigates alerts and reaches a verdict fits AI SOC Platform.
This category matches a category in the AI Security Market Map by Cybersecurity Insiders, which describes what buyers need from these products and how to test them.
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.