Nominations are open • Enter by February 27, 2027 • Time left: Start a nomination
Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize identity management delivered from or built for the cloud. The category covers cloud directories, identity-as-a-service and identity across several cloud providers.
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 Identity Management category covers identity products that run as a cloud service or that manage identities across cloud platforms. Typical entries include cloud directories, identity-as-a-service platforms that handle sign-in and provisioning for cloud applications, and products that bring identities from several cloud providers and on-premises directories under one set of controls.
The category is about where and how identity is delivered. A cloud identity platform can also enter Identity and Access Management (IAM), the broad identity category. Products that control administrative rights inside cloud consoles and infrastructure fit Cloud Privileged Access Management, and products that find risky identity settings across clouds fit Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM).
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.