SC Awards 2025 About

2025 SC AWARDS — Nominations Open on December 3rd!

We’ve shifted the schedule to bring the SC Awards back to their original timing, and we’re celebrating in person! Nominations for the 2025 SC Awards will open on December 3 and run through February, with winners announced at an exclusive in-person awards reception. Stay tuned for more details!

As we enter our 28th year, the SC Awards remain cybersecurity’s most prestigious award program, honoring the best solutions, organizations, and leaders that are advancing the practice of information security. Entering the SC Awards offers unparalleled benefits for organizations seeking to showcase their achievements and gain widespread industry recognition.

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Important Dates:

Nominations Open	December 3
EXTENDED – Early Bird Deadline	January 13
Deadline to Become a Judge	February 3
Nominations Close	February 5
Judging Process	February 10 – March 7
Finalists Announced (virtually)	April 8
Winners Announced (in-person)	April 29

Judges

The SC Awards are judged by an esteemed panel of impartial experts from industry-leading organizations, members of SC Media and the CyberRisk Alliance community of CISOs and Women in Cyber. Our rigorous, transparent judging process ensures that every entry is evaluated fairly, giving both products and services the recognition they deserve.

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Meet the 2024 Judges here

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 $625 standard entry rate per entry.

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.