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Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize bot management products. The category covers products that tell good bots from bad ones and stop automated attacks on websites, apps and APIs.
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 Bot Management category covers products that separate humans, helpful bots such as search crawlers, and harmful automation. Typical entries detect and stop credential stuffing, account creation by bots, scraping of content and prices, inventory hoarding and buying up tickets for resale (scalping), using device and behavior signals rather than puzzles that slow real users down.
Abuse of API logic by clients that look legitimate fits API Abuse Prevention, and floods meant to take a service offline fit DDoS Protection. Bot defense bundled into a web protection platform fits Web Application and API Protection (WAAP). Bot management products that mainly stop account takeover and fake accounts can also enter Fraud Prevention.
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.