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Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize email security products. The category covers products that protect email from phishing, malware, business email compromise and account takeover.
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 Email Security category covers products that protect email, one of the most common ways attacks start. Typical entries are gateways that filter mail before it arrives and cloud products that connect to Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace through their APIs. They detect phishing, malware and fraudulent payment requests from impersonated executives or suppliers (business email compromise), spot compromised mailboxes and remove malicious messages after delivery. Many also encrypt outbound mail and use sender authentication (SPF, DKIM and DMARC) to stop others sending mail in the organization's name.
Phishing defense beyond the inbox, across web, messaging and mobile, fits Anti-Phishing, and an email product with that reach can enter both. Three retired categories can enter here. Content disarm and reconstruction, which rebuilds attachments without macros or scripts that could carry malware, can also enter Anti-Malware. Messaging security can also enter Secure Collaboration Platform, and phishing detection and response can also enter Anti-Phishing.
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.