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Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize detection engineering products. The category covers tools that help teams build, test, measure and maintain detection rules and their coverage of attacker techniques.
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 Detection Engineering category covers products that treat detections like software: writing rules, testing them against real and simulated attacks, managing versions, deploying them to SIEM and XDR tools and measuring coverage against common catalogs of attacker techniques. Typical entries show gaps in coverage, flag noisy or broken rules and track changes over time.
Detection engineering where AI writes and tunes rules fits AI Threat Hunting and Detection Engineering. Products whose main job is running simulated attacks across the whole security stack fit Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV), and the platforms that run the rules fit Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). Libraries of ready-made detection content also belong here, and a detection engineering product can also enter Security Operations, the broad SOC category.
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.