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Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize products that automate particular SOC tasks. The category covers focused tools for alert enrichment, triage, case handling and reporting, rather than general orchestration platforms.
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 SOC Automation category covers products that handle specific, repetitive analyst chores, such as enriching alerts with context, grouping duplicates, routing cases to the right analyst, writing shift reports or filling in tickets. They are usually quick to deploy and focused on one or a few tasks, rather than a platform for building any workflow.
Platforms for building playbooks across many tools fit Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR). Products that close routine incidents end to end fit Automated Investigation and Response, and products where AI reaches the verdict on each alert fit AI SOC Platform; if the analyst still owns the decision, start here. Every SOC automation product is eligible for the broad categories too: Security Automation and Security Operations.
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.