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Award categoryCybersecurity Product / Service
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize website security products. The category covers products that protect websites and their visitors, such as malware scanning, monitoring of scripts in visitors’ browsers and defacement prevention.
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 Website Security category covers products that keep websites and the people who visit them safe. Typical entries scan sites for malware, backdoors and vulnerable plugins, watch the third-party scripts that run in visitors' browsers for code that steals card data (skimming) or tampering, detect defacement and listing on browser or search-engine blocklists, and clean up after a compromise. Many serve small businesses and site owners as well as large organizations.
Protecting web applications and APIs from attacks on the server side fits Web Application and API Protection (WAAP), and stopping automated traffic fits Bot Management. Script monitoring on payment pages can also enter Payment Security. A website security product can be entered in Application Security, the broad application category, as well.
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.