Nominations are open • Enter by February 27, 2027 • Time left: Start a nomination
Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize cyber resilience products. The category covers products that help an organization keep operating through an attack and recover quickly, spanning several resilience areas or fitting no narrower one.
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 Cyber Resilience category covers products built around one outcome: keeping the business running when an attack gets through. Typical entries combine protection, detection and recovery, for example platforms that pair threat detection with backups attackers cannot change and automated recovery. Others run recovery tests and rehearsals, map critical business services to the systems they need, and restore those services in the right order. Breach protection products, whose own category was retired, can enter here or Threat Detection and Response.
This is the broad resilience category. A specialist product starts in its own category, such as Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery (BCDR) for backup and disaster recovery, Ransomware Protection for stopping ransomware or Ransomware Recovery for recovering from it. Any of these can also enter Cyber Resilience. Resilience delivered as advice and support fits Cyber Resilience Services, and exercises that test how people respond fit Cyber Readiness and Validation.
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.