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 cloud access security brokers. The category covers products that sit between users and cloud services to see and control their use and protect the data in them.
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 Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) category covers products that give an organization control over the cloud services its people use. Typical entries discover sanctioned and unsanctioned apps (shadow IT), rate their risk, control what users can do in them, apply data loss prevention to uploads and sharing, and detect risky activity, working inline on traffic, through the services' APIs, or both.
A CASB bundled with a secure web gateway and zero trust network access fits Security Service Edge (SSE). Finding and fixing risky settings inside SaaS applications fits SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM), and controlling the use of AI tools fits AI Usage Control. Every CASB may also be entered in Cloud 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.