2024 SC AWARDS
2024 SC Awards Winners Announced!
Congratulations 2024 SC Awards Winners! View the Trust Awards Winners here. View the Excellence Awards Winners here.
As the SC Awards enter their 27th year, they continue to serve as a beacon of excellence, recognizing the industry’s best solutions, organizations, and people that are advancing information security. Every year we invite cybersecurity companies and individuals to nominate innovators, leaders and the groundbreaking work of security teams and assert their position at the pinnacle of cybersecurity excellence.
The SC Awards recognize and celebrate information security products and services, organizations and leaders in Trust and Excellence across 33 categories. Entering the SC Awards offers a range of benefits that make them an exceptional opportunity for organizations seeking to showcase their outstanding achievements and gain widespread industry recognition.
Judging Process
The SC Award categories will be judged by our panel of esteemed industry judges comprised of cybersecurity professional end-users, members of SC Media, the CyberRisk Alliance community of CISOs and Women in Cyber. These judges are hand-selected by SC Media’s editorial team for their breadth of knowledge and experience in the information security industry. The SC Awards follow a thorough judging process to ensure that entries are evaluated fairly and objectively. This guarantees that information security products and services can be recognized and honored and meet the requirements of the end user community.
Frequently Asked Questions
The SC Awards are cybersecurity’s most prestigious award program, recognizing and honoring outstanding innovations, organizations, and leaders that are advancing the practice of information security. Our mission is to highlight the outstanding achievements of individuals, teams, and organizations, and unveil their success stories to our ecosystem of 2.4 Million cybersecurity professionals.
The SC Awards are open to all information security vendors, service providers and professionals with current operations in North America (U.S. and Canada). This includes vendors and service providers that offer a product and/or service for commercial, government, educational, nonprofit, and more. The awards are designed to celebrate outstanding innovations, organizations, and leaders advancing information security.
There is a fee for the SC Awards program, $400 (early bird rate) per entry or $595 standard entry rate per entry.
Every year, we introduce new categories and make modifications to existing ones to ensure they reflect the dynamic shifts in our industry. Competition for SC Awards is spread across 34 specialty categories, many updated to reflect trends in artificial intelligence, cloud security and attack surface management. This year we are pleased to introduce 4 new categories:
- Best AI / ML Data Analytics Security Solution
- Best Continuous Threat Exposure Management Solution
- Best Insider Threat Solution
- Best Supply Chain Security Solution
The SC Award nominations are reviewed by our panel of esteemed industry judges comprised of cybersecurity professional end-users, members of SC Media, the CyberRisk Alliance community of CISOs and Women in Cyber.
Being a finalist or winner in the SC Awards provides valuable marketing and promotional opportunities. SC Award coverage will be featured across SC Media’s website, media channels and in e-newsletters to amplify your organization. Coverage includes profiles of finalists and winners across all categories, deep-dive articles highlighting the accomplishments of this year’s winning people, companies, and solutions, as well as a series of Winner’s Circle video roundtables: Candid on-camera conversations between the SC Media editorial team and SC Award recipients.
Additionally, SC Award finalists and winners will gain access to valuable tools and resources to promote their achievements — we provide promotional licensing and commemorative products to help amplify your success and showcase your organizations accomplishments.
2023 SC Awards Winners Share Their Stories
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