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Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize application security products. The category covers products that secure applications through development and in production, spanning several application security areas or fitting no narrower one.
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 Application Security category covers products that find and fix weaknesses in the software an organization builds and protect it once it runs. Typical entries test source code (static testing), running applications (dynamic and interactive testing) or both, protect applications from inside while they run (runtime application self-protection, or RASP), or combine several of these in one platform.
This is the broad application category. Code and application testing, including fuzzing, has no narrower category and enters here; testing built into developer pipelines can also enter DevSecOps. Runtime self-protection can enter here or Web Application and API Protection (WAAP). A specialist product starts in its own category, such as Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), Software Supply Chain Security, Open Source Security, SBOM Management, Threat Modeling, Mobile Application Security, API Security, API Abuse Prevention or Website Security, or AI Code Security and Remediation for AI that writes code fixes. Each of them can also enter 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.