About this category: Cybersecurity Professional of the Year
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize security professionals whose hands-on work or leadership delivered measurable results. The award is open to practitioners in any role and at any kind of organization, including engineers, analysts, consultants, researchers and architects.
An independent jury of security practitioners, analysts and CISOs scores each nomination on leadership, innovation and impact. Each nomination competes in its category against peers in a similar setting and region. Entry packages, sponsorship and public votes do not affect the jury's scores.
Related categories
- Cybersecurity Professional of the Year
- Chief Information Security Officer of the Year (CISO)
- Cybersecurity Executive of the Year
- Cybersecurity Architect of the Year
- Cybersecurity Consultant of the Year
- Application Security Leader of the Year
- Vulnerability Management Professional of the Year
- Junior Cybersecurity Professional of the Year
- Cybersecurity Woman of the Year
2027 award season
- Nominations closeFebruary 27, 2027
- Jury winners announcedWeek of March 22
- Community Choice voting closesJuly 10, 2027
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