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Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize anti-malware products. The category covers products that detect and remove malware on endpoints or in files, email, storage and web traffic.
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 Anti-Malware category covers products whose main job is finding and stopping malicious code wherever it appears. Typical entries scan endpoints, file shares, cloud storage, email attachments and web downloads, use signatures, behavior analysis, machine learning and sandboxes, and remove or quarantine what they find. Content disarm and reconstruction, which rebuilds files without active content, enters here too.
Endpoint platforms that combine malware prevention with other controls fit Endpoint Security, which anti-malware products can enter as well, and products for households fit Consumer Cybersecurity. Content disarm and reconstruction for email can also enter Email Security, and ransomware-specific defenses fit Ransomware Protection.
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.