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Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize API security products. The category covers products that discover APIs, test them for weaknesses and protect them from attack.
Nominations are open
Enter this category by November 5, 2026. Anyone can submit an entry: the company, the nominee, a colleague or an agency.
The API Security category covers products that secure the APIs applications use to exchange data. Typical entries build an inventory of every API, including undocumented (shadow) and outdated (zombie) ones, classify the data they expose, test them for weaknesses such as broken authorization, and detect and block attacks on them in production.
Abuse of an API by clients that look legitimate, such as scraping data a client should not see or misusing business logic, fits API Abuse Prevention. API protection bundled with a web application firewall and bot defense fits Web Application and API Protection (WAAP). APIs that connect AI agents to tools through the Model Context Protocol fit MCP Security. Every API security product is also open to Application Security.
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.