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Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize human risk management products. The category covers products that measure and reduce security risk from people’s behavior, with targeted interventions beyond annual training.
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 Human Risk Management category covers products that find out which people and behaviors create the most security risk and act on it. Typical entries combine signals from email, identity, endpoint and training tools into a risk score for each person. They send timely nudges or targeted training when someone takes a risk, and show security teams and managers how human risk changes over time.
Courses and phishing simulations on their own fit Security Awareness Training; a product that does both starts in the category for its main job and can enter both. Detecting deliberate or careless misuse of data by insiders fits Insider Risk Management, and attacks that impersonate people by voice or video fit Social Engineering and Deepfake Defense.
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.