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Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize hybrid mesh firewall platforms. The category covers platforms that run firewalls in data centers, branches and clouds from one console with one policy.
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 Hybrid Mesh Firewall (HMF) category covers platforms that bring many kinds of firewall under one console: hardware at the data center and branches, virtual firewalls, cloud-native firewalls in public clouds and firewall as a service. Typical entries apply one policy across all of them, share threat information between them and give one view of the whole estate.
A single firewall product fits Next Generation Firewall (NGFW); a vendor that sells both single firewalls and a platform to run them together can enter both. Multi-vendor rule management without the firewalls themselves fits Network Security Policy Management (NSPM). Hybrid mesh firewalls also qualify for the broad Network Security category.
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