About the Cybersecurity Posture Management category
What belongs in this category
The Cybersecurity Posture Management category covers products that pull data from the security tools an organization runs, such as endpoint, identity, email, cloud and network controls, and show in one place whether those tools are deployed, configured well and covering everything they should. Typical entries score posture by area, compare it with a chosen framework and recommend the changes that improve it most.
Posture for one domain has its own category, such as Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) for identity, Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) for cloud, SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) for SaaS or Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for data. Continuous testing that controls work, with evidence for audits, fits Continuous Controls Monitoring, and measuring the security program for leaders fits Cybersecurity Performance Management.
Related categories to enter
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.
How entries are judged
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.
Strong entries in this category show:
- Leadership — the reach of the view: tools and controls connected, environments covered, and customers that use it to manage posture across their security stack.
- Innovation — a posture problem solved in a new way, such as finding controls that are bought but not switched on, one score that teams trust, or fixes applied from the same console.
- Impact — results for customers: posture score improved, misconfigured controls fixed, value recovered from tools already owned. Give before-and-after figures.
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.
How to enter
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.
