Nominations are open • Enter by February 27, 2027 • Early-bird extended to Nov 30: • Start a nomination
Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize security awareness training. The category covers training products and programs that teach all employees to recognize and report threats, including phishing simulations.
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 Security Awareness Training category covers training for everyone in an organization, not only its security staff. Typical entries deliver short lessons and videos, run phishing simulations, teach people to spot social engineering and report it, cover privacy and compliance topics, and track progress by team.
Training that builds skills for security professionals fits Cybersecurity Training, degree, school and public education programs fit Security Education, and programs that bring people into security jobs fit Cyber Workforce Development. Products that measure risk from behavior and act on it beyond training fit Human Risk Management. An organization's own awareness campaign can enter Best Cybersecurity Awareness Program, and the training company itself Best Cybersecurity Education Provider.
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.