Nominations are open • Enter by February 27, 2027 • Time left: Start a nomination
Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize OT security products. The category covers products that protect operational technology (the systems that run physical processes in industry, utilities and buildings), spanning several OT areas or fitting no narrower one.
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 OT Security category covers products that protect the control systems, sensors and machines behind factories, power grids, water plants, pipelines and buildings. Typical entries find and list OT assets without disrupting them, monitor industrial network traffic for threats, control remote access for staff and vendors, separate OT networks from IT, and protect the computers that operators use. Products for building management systems also fit here.
This is the broad OT category. A specialist product starts in its own category, such as ICS / SCADA Security for industrial control systems or OT Cyber Risk Management for OT risk, and can enter OT Security as well. Products built for critical infrastructure operators can also enter Critical Infrastructure Security, and connected devices outside industry fit Internet of Things (IoT) Security.
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.