Nominations are open • Enter by February 27, 2027 • Early-bird extended to Nov 30: • Start a nomination
Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize cybersecurity products for user experience. The category covers products that are easy to deploy, run and use, for security teams or end users.
Nominations are open
Enter this category by November 30, 2026. Anyone can submit an entry: the company, the nominee, a colleague or an agency.
The Cybersecurity User Experience (UX) category covers products that make security easier for the people who use it. Typical entries cut deployment from weeks to hours, give analysts clear consoles and workflows, explain findings in plain language, or protect end users without getting in their way, for example with sign-in that needs no password. Accessibility for users with disabilities and support for several languages count too.
Any product can enter, alongside the category for what it does. A product built on a new approach can also enter the open innovation award, Most Innovative Cybersecurity Product. Sign-in that removes friction for users can also enter Passwordless Authentication, and the product leader behind the design can be recognized in Cybersecurity Product Leader of the Year.
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.