Put someone forward.
Most of the people who deserve this will never enter themselves. They are too busy doing the work. So the work falls to you. Tell us who has earned a place on stage, and why, and the panel will read it in full.
Nominations for the 2027 Awards open on 1 December 2026 and close on 28 February 2027.
Recognition is judged on merit, and never bought.
Put a name forward.
Three short steps: who they are, why they deserve it, and who you are. We'll contact the nominee and invite them to complete their entry for the 2027 Awards.
Dates for the 2027 Awards
Write the deadline down first. Everything else on the calendar follows from it.
- 01 Applications open
- 02 Application deadline
- 03 Shortlist announced
- 04 Judging period
- 05 Winners announced
What your nominee could win.
Winning opens doors across our network of partner conferences worldwide: a stage, a room of peers and, for some, the journey there.
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Global conference access
Invitations to selected partner conferences.
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Speaking opportunities
Suitable winners are put forward to conference organisers for panels and keynotes.
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International award presentations
Winners can collect their CyberAward on stage at selected partner events.
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VIP networking
Access to VIP receptions, executive dinners and introductions.
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Hosted opportunities
Where a conference partner agrees, flights and accommodation for selected winners.
Benefits are offered through our conference partners and depend on each partner event.
From a name in your head to a name in front of the panel
Judged on merit, always
An independent panel reads only the evidence, mapped to the published criteria. Recognition here is earned, not arranged, and it cannot be bought. The only currency the panel reads is the work itself.
Who you can put forward
A colleague, a peer, a mentor, a supplier, a team, a company, a product or a community you value. Self-nomination is welcome and judged on exactly the same terms as any other entry.
Choose the category
There are five individual and five organisation categories, each with its own published criteria. Pick the one that fits the work, and read the criteria before you write, so the nomination answers what the panel asks.
The evidence to include
Set out what the nominee did, over what period, and what changed because of it. Name the work, the outcome and the people who saw it. Where you can, point to something checkable: a public talk, a shipped fix, a measured result.
Submit before the deadline
Nominations close on the published date for the current edition. Send yours with time to spare, and the panel will read it in full alongside every other entry in the category.
What makes a nomination land
The panel reads a lot of entries, and the ones that go furthest share a habit. They make the nominee the active subject of every sentence. A SOC analyst caught the intrusion at two in the morning. A team rebuilt the response runbook after a hard week. A small vendor shipped the patch before the proof of concept went public. Say what the person did, and the panel can weigh it.
Keep the claim and the proof together. If you write that someone raised the standard for a whole team, follow it with the thing that shows it. The strongest nominations would survive a stranger checking them, because everything in them is real.
Why the result can't be bought
The programme is funded by sponsorship of the ceremony and the events around it. That funding pays for the night. It does not buy a place on a shortlist, and it never reaches the judging room. Sponsors see no entries and hold no vote. The point of this whole exercise is that the trophy means the work held up, not that someone had budget. An independent panel that reads only the evidence is how that stays true.
Each category publishes its own criteria. Match the nominee, then write.