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 data loss prevention products. The category covers products that stop sensitive data from leaving an organization through email, endpoints, web, cloud apps or AI tools.
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 Data Loss Prevention (DLP) category covers products that spot sensitive data as it moves and stop it from going where it should not. Typical entries inspect email, endpoints, USB drives, web uploads, cloud apps and prompts sent to AI tools, recognize regulated and confidential data, and block, encrypt, warn the user or log the event according to policy.
Finding and ranking sensitive data where it is stored fits Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), and watching for risky behavior by individual employees fits Insider Risk Management. Controls built for prompts and AI apps can also enter AI Usage Control. A DLP product may also enter Data Security, and a platform that includes DLP alongside other data security functions can enter Data Security Platform.
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.