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Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize public key infrastructure products and services that issue and manage digital certificates. The category covers certificate authorities, private PKI and PKI-as-a-service.
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 Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) category covers the systems that issue digital certificates and make them trustworthy. Typical entries are public and private certificate authorities, PKI delivered as a cloud service, root keys protected in hardware, and certificate services for users, devices, code signing and documents.
Finding and renewing certificates across an organization fits Certificate Lifecycle Management, and a PKI that also tracks and renews certificates can enter there too. Broader machine identity platforms fit Machine Identity Security, and a PKI that supports quantum-resistant algorithms can also enter Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC).
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.