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Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize anti-phishing products. The category covers products that detect and block phishing across email, web, messaging and mobile, not only in the inbox.
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-Phishing category covers products that stop phishing wherever it reaches people: email, the web browser, text messages, chat and collaboration apps, social media and phones. Typical entries check links and pages as they open, detect fake login pages built to steal credentials, block phishing kits (ready-made tools for building fake sites) and lookalike domains, and let users report suspicious messages and get an answer fast.
Protecting the mailbox as a whole fits Email Security, and an email product with wider phishing coverage can enter both. Phishing detection and response products, whose category was retired, can enter either one. Training staff with simulated phishing fits Security Awareness Training, and taking down lookalike sites fits Digital Risk Protection (DRP).
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.