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Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize guardian agents: AI agents whose job is to oversee other AI agents. The category covers agents that review what other agents do, enforce policy and stop unsafe actions.
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 Guardian Agents category is about securing AI, with AI agents as the supervisors. As organizations run more agents than people can supervise, some products use agents of their own to watch those agents. Typical entries review other agents' plans and outputs, check actions against policy before they run, detect when an agent has been manipulated or is drifting from its task, and stop unsafe actions, reversing them where possible, escalating to a person when needed.
What defines this category is that an AI agent does the supervising. Products that monitor and restrict agents through a control layer, without a supervising agent, fit Agentic AI Security, and organization-wide agent policy fits Agentic AI Governance. A guardian agent product can be entered a second time in Security for AI.
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.