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Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize security data pipeline platforms. The category covers products that collect, filter, enrich and route security data to the tools that need it, before it reaches a SIEM or data lake.
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 Data Pipeline Platform category covers products that sit between data sources and the tools that analyze them. Typical entries collect logs and telemetry, drop noise and duplicates, reshape records into common formats, add context such as asset owner or threat intelligence, and send each stream to the right destination, such as a SIEM, a data lake or low-cost storage. The goal is lower cost and better data quality.
Pipelines move and shape data; platforms that store it and detect threats fit Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), and those built to store and search it fit Log Management. Analytics over the data once it lands fit Security Analytics.
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.