Security Innovation’s CMD+CTRL suite offers one location for combined traditional and groundbreaking cybersecurity training. The origins of the suite sits in CMD+CTRL courses, the industry’s largest collection of Computer Based Training with a focus on easily consumable, focused training across a variety of learning paths. With over 200 courses ranging from Executive Awareness to deeply specific secure coding and penetration testing education, the catalog has materials to meet your team’s cybersecurity education needs.
In addition to the traditional courses, CMD+CTRL Cyber Range shifts the cybersecurity learning experience to a hands-on, life-like environment. With 8 individual Cyber Ranges and over 500 auto-scored challenges, the CMD+CTRL suite provides an engaging platform for improving education and accurately measuring practical team skills. Through a combination of automated dashboards, pairing with courses, interactive learning components and a dedicated Customer Success team, CMD+CTRL provides the critical reporting and guidance needed to train teams at the individual and group levels.
With turn-key cloud-based deployments and a wide focus on Web, Mobile and Cloud systems, the Security Innovation offering provides critical education needed throughout any organization. By attacking banks, ecommerce, fitness tracking, and a variety of other use cases, the CMD+CTRL Cyber Range allows participants to attack software with the same level of sophistication and determination as hackers. This experience allows a better understanding of the techniques and technologies most must defend against on a routine basis.
How we are different
* Security Innovation’s CMD+CTRL suite of offerings provides a holistic approach to solve this challenge. With a focus on blended learning, the Courses and Cyber Range components complement traditional learning with modern technologies to benefit all learners.
* Where other organizations focus on one approach, whether it be deeply focused Instructor Lead Training or feature focused efforts like Find-The-Fix, Security Innovation focuses on a broader, more complimentary package. By bundling the industry’s largest cybersecurity computer based training offerings with hands-on, guided Cyber Range events, the CMD+CTRL learning experience provides a baseline education followed by hands-on training. The automated platform combined with Customer Success team members then provide immediate and actionable guidance - providing advanced users to further perfect their skills while positively steering new learners through a set of topics that can be intimidating and difficult to grasp. The blended learning approach enables improved knowledge retention and greater cybersecurity knowledge throughout a team.
* Introducing new solutions to educational challenges can be difficult! While many organizations realize a “check the box” approach to security education is not sufficient, few can justify the investment to adopt a new approach. Luckily for the SI team, dozens of forward thinking, early adopters understand the benefits of cybersecurity education - and the risks of settling for traditional approaches. These forward thinking organizations not only adopt the CMD+CTRL offerings aggressively, but provide the guidance and feedback needed to improve training throughout other industries for years to come. Additionally, growing a product set at the rate needed by technical leaders across industries is an exhausting task! Whether it’s shifting to a micro-learning approach for Computer Based Training, adding new cloud-focused Cyber Ranges or building out functions such as Find-The-Fix, keeping up with the demands of optimistically aggressive customers is as productive as it is difficult.
About this category: Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV)
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize adversarial exposure validation products. The category covers products that prove whether exposures can be exploited by running safe, automated attacks, such as breach and attack simulation and automated penetration testing.
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. Entry packages, sponsorship and public votes do not affect the jury's scores.
Community Choice voting for the 2021 season closed on July 10, 2021.
What is the Community Choice Award?
A separate award decided by public vote, independent of the jury awards. Each completed share of a profile on LinkedIn, Facebook or X counted as one vote.
2027 award season
Nominations closeFebruary 27, 2027
Jury winners announcedWeek of March 22
Community Choice voting closesJuly 10, 2027
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Community Choice is a separate award track from the jury-selected Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. Jury winners are chosen by expert judges, while Community Choice winners are determined by public voting. A nominee may be honored by the jury, the community, or both.
2021 winners in Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV)
To keep judging fair, each entry is judged against peers in its segment, so a category can have more than one Gold winner.
