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Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize products that secure an organization’s use of AI. The category covers protection for AI models, applications, agents and data, and control over how staff use AI tools.
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 Security for AI category is about securing AI, not about AI used to do security work. It covers products that protect the models an organization trains or runs, the AI applications and agents it builds, the data those systems use, and staff use of public AI tools. Typical entries are platforms that combine several of these protections, and AI security products that fit no narrower category.
This is the broad category for securing AI. A specialist product starts in the category for its main job, such as AI Application and Runtime Security for protecting AI applications in use, Agentic AI Security for agents, AI Usage Control for staff use of AI tools or AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) for finding AI assets and their risks. It can then enter this category as well. Products that use AI to do security work belong in AI-Powered Security Solution and the other AI-for-security categories.
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.