Winners 2026
Excellence Awards: Threat Solutions
Best AI solution
WINNER: Picus Exposure Validation Platform
Picus Security
The Picus Security Validation Platform addresses a critical gap in modern cybersecurity: organizations struggle to determine which vulnerabilities and exposures actually pose a real risk in their specific environments. Picus solves this challenge with the industry’s first AI-powered continuous validation platform, designed to operation...
Best Authentication Technology
WINNER: Biometric Solution Suite
iProov
In 2026, iProov stands as the definitive anchor for digital trust in an era where generative AI has rendered human perception obsolete. As deepfakes and synthetic identities become primary vectors for breaching national security and enterprise perimeters, iProov provides the only science-based defence capable of distinguishing a real p...
Best Behaviour Analytics/ Enterprise Threat Detection
WINNER: Abnormal Behaviour Platform
Abnormal AI
Organisations are experiencing a sharp rise in attacks that exploit human behaviour, trusted relationships and cloud identities rather than technical vulnerabilities. Targeted social engineering, account takeovers, and supplier fraud increasingly contain no malware, links, or known indicators of compromise, allowing them to bypass trad...
Best Cloud Security Solution
WINNER: CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security
CrowdStrike
AI innovation is accelerating in the cloud, expanding the attack surface faster than traditional cloud security tools can adapt. Every new model, dataset, and AI agent introduces risks that legacy CSPM and CNAPP solutions were not designed to secure. Organizations need cloud security that protects the full AI lifecycle, where models ar...
Best Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) Solution
WINNER: Mimecast Incydr
Mimecast
Mimecast Incydr redefines data leakage prevention for the modern workplace, where sensitive information flows across cloud platforms, collaboration tools, generative AI applications and distributed endpoints. While 99% of organisations have DLP solutions in place, 78% still experience data breaches, exposing the limitations of legacy a...
Best Email Security Solution
WINNER: Mimecast Advanced Email Security
Mimecast
Email remains the most common entry point for cyberattacks, with phishing, business email compromise and impersonation continuing to rise across organisations globally. Mimecast Advanced Email Security is designed to address this persistent risk with a layered, AI-powered platform that protects modern email environments including Micro...
Best Endpoint Security
WINNER: Bitdefender GravityZone
Bitdefender
Bitdefender GravityZone is a prevention-first security platform built to help organizations address expanding attack surfaces, AI-augmented threats, and stealthy intrusions like the abuse of legitimate operating system tools. It delivers complete attack-lifecycle coverage across endpoints and workloads while simplifying security operat...
Best Identity and Access Management Solution
WINNER: CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security
CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen Identity Security protects human, non-human, and AI agent identities across hybrid environments. Adversaries increasingly log in rather than break in, making identity the front line of modern attacks. Credential theft, session hijacking, privilege escalation, and Active Directory abuse drive the majority of...
Best Incident Response Solution
WINNER: Orange CERT 24/7: Protecting the Global Digital Frontier
Orange Cyberdefense
Orange Cyberdefense’s (OCD) Cyber Security Incident Response (IR) service blends world-class expertise with existing resources, empowering organisations to respond to and from malicious cyber threats quickly and effectively. This can include on-the-ground support, with an on-site OCD presence to help manage the situation, when required...
Best IOT/IIOT Security Solution
WINNER: Forescout 4D PlatformTM
Forescout
The Forescout 4D Platform is designed for organisations that must manage cyber risk continuously across highly complex, interconnected environments. Enterprises, government agencies and critical infrastructure operators increasingly rely on a mix of IT, OT, IoT and IoMT systems, many of which are unmanaged or unagentable and therefore ...
Best Managed Security Service
WINNER: Huntress Managed Security Platform
Huntress
Huntress delivers managed security for organizations of ALL sizes, with a core focus on mid-market businesses and the MSPs who protect small and midsize companies—the essential services, schools, and local employers that keep our communities running. These teams often lack in-house security expertise, yet face the same targeted attacks...
Best SaaS Solution
WINNER: CrowdStrike Falcon® Shield
Best SIEM Solution
WINNER: Log360
ManageEngine
Log360 is a unified security analytics platform built to address the operational realities of modern Security Operations Centers. SOC teams face overwhelming alert volumes, fragmented telemetry, and increasing compliance pressure, all of which slow investigations and increase risk. Log360 centralizes log collection, correlation, invest...
Best Threat Intelligence Technology
WINNER: CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations
CrowdStrike
Adversaries leverage AI to compress attack timelines from months to seconds, collapsing defenders’ windows to respond. CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations (CAO) addresses a critical market segment: security teams under pressure to counter AI-driven threats across the enterprise through intelligence-led detection, hunting, and resp...
Best Vulnerability Management Solution
WINNER: XM Cyber Continuous Exposure Management Platform
XM Cyber
XM Cyber should be the top vulnerability management contender because it replaces the "endless list" with Attack Graph Analysis™. While legacy vendors focus on theoretical CVSS scores, XM Cyber validates risk by simulating how attackers pivot across hybrid environments to reach your critical assets Why We Win: Validated Priori...
Excellence Awards: Industry Leadership
Best Customer Service
WINNER: Illumio
Illumio's support offering is designed to proactively meet customer needs, fostering a dynamic and enduring relationship. Rather than limiting support to issue resolution, we work alongside our customers to ensure they get the most out of their investment, providing guidance and expertise throughout the lifecycle of their deployment. ...
Best Emerging Technology
WINNER: Nokod Security Platform
Nokod Security
The fastest-growing enterprise attack surface is no longer traditional code. It is now applications and AI agents built by business users (no-coders ) on platforms such as Microsoft Power Platform, Copilot Studio, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and UiPath. These assets generate logic, connect systems, and move sensitive data outside tradition...
Best Enterprise Security Solution
WINNER: Illumio Platform
Illumio
Modern enterprises are facing a cybersecurity reality that their existing tools were never designed for. As environments grow more hybrid, distributed, and dynamic, attackers exploit the gaps between cloud, data centre, and endpoint systems to move laterally at speed. Traditional prevention focused defences can no longer keep threats c...
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Wiz CNAPP
Wiz
Wiz is transforming how enterprises secure the cloud. As the world’s top-selling cloud security platform and fastest-growing cybersecurity company in history, Wiz surpassed $500M ARR in under five years, with over 50% of the Fortune 100 and leading European enterprises like BMW, Revolut, and Shell relying on its platform to protect eve...
Best Risk Management Solution
WINNER: Vanta Agentic Trust Platform
Vanta
The Vanta Agentic Trust Platform is a transformative, AI-powered risk and compliance solution that enables organisations to proactively manage enterprise risk and meet evolving regulatory demands with precision and scale. Designed for modern cybersecurity and GRC teams, the platform centralises risk visibility, automates evidence workf...
Best Security Company (Under 250 Employees)
WINNER: Intigriti for Best Security Company Under 250 Employees
Intigriti
Intigriti is the trusted leader in crowdsourced security. Since 2016, we have empowered the world's largest organizations to proactively identify and address vulnerabilities before they're exploited by cybercriminals. Harnessing the expertise of our 125,000+ researchers, businesses can detect vulnerabilities as soon as they surface, av...
Best Security Company (Over 250 Employees)
WINNER: CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike has one of the strongest and fastest-growing customer bases in cybersecurity. More than 74,000 organizations — including 62% of the Fortune 500, 8 of the top 10 healthcare and auto providers, and 42 U.S. states — rely on the Falcon platform. Customer momentum remains exceptional: Q3 FY26 delivered record net new ARR of $265...
Best SME Security Solution
WINNER: ESET PROTECT Managed Detection and Response
ESET
Professional Awards
Best Professional Training or Certification Programme
WINNER: Immersive One
Immersive
Immersive began operations in 2017 in Bristol with a clear mission to replace outdated cyber training models with a practical, measurable approach to building and validating cyber capability across organisations. From the outset, the focus has been on enabling teams to demonstrate real-world readiness rather than simply completing comp...
CISO/ CSO of the Year
WINNER: Russ Kirby
Ping Identity
As AI-driven synthetic identity attacks moved from theory to active nation-state tradecraft, Russ Kirby recognised a defining moment for enterprise security. Intelligence warnings confirmed that fraudulent actors were successfully securing employment inside critical technology firms to gain privileged access and fund sanctioned regimes...
Woman of Influence Award
WINNER: Gemma Ungoed-Thomas
IAG Transform
Gemma is a remarkable woman who joined the UK Civil Service at the bottom and worked her way to the top - currently Cabinet Office Director for State Threats, Cyber & Technology - after 15 years in pivotal cyber and national security roles, sadly their sensitivity kept her away from public view. As she leaves Government to become a sen...
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Vesta Matveeva
Group-IB
Vesta Matveeva is the Head of Strategic Cybercrime Investigations at Group-IB, operating from the company’s European Digital Crime Resistance Centre and serving as a globally recognised leader in the fight against cybercrime. With over 14 years of experience spanning digital forensics, threat intelligence, and complex international inv...
Rising Star
WINNER: Shanita Sojan
Darktrace
An IT engineer by background, now specialising in cybersecurity compliance and AI governance. 5+ years of total industry experience, including over 2 years dedicated to cybersecurity. Proven expertise in developing and implementing compliance frameworks, including ISO 42001, ISO 27001, ISO 27018, and SOC 2, complemented by skills in Cl...
