The Security Awards

The Cloud Security Awards program promotes leaders in cybersecurity worldwide. 

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The Cloud Security Awards

Identifying and celebrating innovations in cybersecurity

The Cloud Security Awards program from The Cloud Awards is a cybersecurity awards program celebrating the leading technologies that keep the cloud secure and safe from digital attacks. Beyond the firewall and password protections, this field has never been more critical in the age of AI-driven threats and IoT devices.

Any cybersecurity solution is eligible: The Cloud Security Awards promotes security solutions across public clouds, private, single-tenant solutions, off-premise or on-premise.

Whatever the size of your organization, and wherever you are based in the world, if you have a proven or innovative cybersecurity solution our judging team would love to hear about it.

This awards program closes at the end of March.

We are proud to have been named Best in Information Security by the 2025 Security Awards. At AuditBoard, we are dedicated to providing our customers with solutions to streamline their workflows while still maintaining rigorous data security. Thank you to The Cloud Awards for this honor and recognition!

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The Cloud Security Awards categories

New cybersecurity awards categories year-on-year

The Cloud Security Awards identifies and promotes the best cybersecurity solutions from across the globe. We accept entries from organizations of any size, from anywhere in the world. As part of The Cloud Awards, a cybersecurity awards win at the Cloud Security Awards is a significant international indicator of trust.

We accept applications throughout the year. If your sector is not represented in the list of cybersecurity awards categories, please contact us and we will determine whether to include your industry sector in the next awards cycle.

General Security Excellence

All sectors have been forced to tighten the security of their networks and strengthen their online protection due to the increase in cyberattacks. This category seeks to give recognition to those outstanding solutions that can face the modern world’s cybersecurity issues.

This category requires an innovative approach to security for any cloud solution. Solutions should be aimed at the Enterprise, B2B market. Awarded for a genuinely innovative approach to cloud security. This may be in the form of a commercial product, or in-house architecture.

This category celebreates groundbreaking initiatives that leverage AI to enhance and revolutionize cloud security.

Security is a major problem for SaaS companies due to the constantly changing needs and specifications that must be met for SaaS in any industry sector or as a separate security concern. Any SaaS solution in this category needs to take an inventive approach to security.

The category is specialized in the field of alarm systems and security cameras in the workplace or home. Also included are a wide range of home automation, access control systems and safes. The fundamental scope of this category is to recognize the security system that makes your customers feel safe with the latest and most innovative security methods.

Enterprise Security

Expected of this category is the practice of defending key systems and assets against both physical and digital threats. End-user devices, data center resources, networking infrastructure, and cloud resources are examples of the hardware and software assets that are often included in this. This award will go to the best security infrastructure for large, enterprise-level businesses, across a broad gamut of possible applications.

Applicants must ensure compliance with applicable regulations or any type of legislation. This can be highlighted through testimonials and case studies. This award will go to the best security compliance for large, enterprise-level businesses, across a broad gamut of possible applications.

Since COVID-19, the banking and finance sectors have offered an increasing level of services online, and banking security has never been more crucial. Ransomware attacks, the rise of contactless payments, mobile malware attacks, and even data breaches of significant banking and finance apps are some of the dangers for which applicants in this category should offer security solutions.

This award will go to the best security solution with more than 1,000 licensed users. For a truly novel approach to cloud security, consideration will be made to delivering the necessary levels of functionality throughout the user population.

This refers to desktop virtualization services that include applications in the cloud. There are numerous strategies for this category, however they are frequently combined to enhance user experience and streamline management.

Core Security Technologies

If you are a cybersecurity expert, you will understand that scanning for vulnerabilities is one of the most effective ways to prevent a data breach. This category is aimed at applicants who identify security flaws in a system or software. We seek the tools needed to identify all vulnerabilities in a system. Successful solutions should not only detect weaknesses but seek to remediate and alter procedures, ensuring vulnerabilities are prioritized and addressed after they’ve been discovered. Assessment solutions should evaluate numerous solutions to determine the best course of action to take. Testimonials and case studies are expected in order to reflect the success of the solution.

A firewall represents the first line of defense because it can prevent a malicious program or attacker from accessing your network and information before any potential damage is done. Proxy, UTM, NGFW, Stateful Inspection firewalls, among others, are expected to enter this category.

This category contains rules and procedures put in place to guard against and keep an eye on unlawful usage of a computer network and its available resources. The Network Security category focuses on various public and private computer networks that are utilized in daily tasks and facilitate transactions and interactions between businesses, governmental organizations, and people. There are networks that are private, like those inside of businesses, and others that are public. Organizations, companies, and other forms of institutions all use network security.

Web security consists of each action or tool adopted to prevent information from being exposed or prone to attack by cybercriminals. Those measures also serve to protect users, such as ecommerce customers and blog readers, and even the host. This category is seeking solutions that allows users to monitor web usage, even for on-premises gateways. A simplified interface to manage centralized and unified policies for both cloud-based and on-premises deployment instances.

If you need to protect your IP address or even what you search or visit on the Internet, a VPN can become the ideal tool, especially when connecting from, for example, a public Wi-Fi network, where anyone could have access to the navigation and personal data. A good solution should demonstrate features, such as hide the IP address, encrypt data, encapsulate internet traffic usage, etc.

Awarded to those who can give users better access to their applications’ open source inventories. This entails, among other things, looking at components using their binary fingerprints, using expertly curated and proprietary research, comparing precise scans to that private intelligence, and showing developers this intelligence from inside their preferred tools.

The candidates of this category must show how their solution helps protect from most viruses, and other unwanted invaders that may infect devices. We expect to see cutting-edge solutions for this category, as an antivirus is the first line of defense to protect the internal network – crucial for any business.

Specialized Security Solutions

The solution for this category aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the various components of data protection infrastructure and a solid understanding of data protection technologies, preparing users for advanced concepts, technologies, and processes.

This category takes into consideration all the measures to identify and manage security opportunities and dangers, which arise from business actions that can have both a negative and a positive effect on the success of the company. The objective of risk management is not to eliminate all risks; that is practically impossible. Rather, the idea is to strike an optimal balance between opportunities and risks.

This category includes a variety of topics related to data and information defense primarily, but not limited to, a professional corporate environment. To excel in this category, candidates must show ongoing involvement and dedicated staff to run and keep them up-to-date and compliant with the latest policies. This can be demonstrated through testimonials.

The most cutting-edge solutions in this area ought to assist businesses in setting up a security framework that enables them to recognize network users and manage their duties and access permissions. The category also aims to recognize authentication and authorisation tools like single sign-on (SSO). A truly innovative solution should make users be able to access several services and resources by just logging in once and using a single set of credentials in a streamlined and future-proof way.

This solution should be responsible for preventing any unauthorized entity that intercepts the communication from being able to access information in an intelligible way. Efficiency, streamlining, and compliance should be key.

This category encompasses a wide range of occupations, from common call center agents to engineers with extensive technical understanding. The solution should respond to issues as they occur, taking the required steps to restore service and return the firm to normalcy as quickly as feasible. We anticipate that candidates will be responsible for providing computer system support, including incident response.

This category will look at data extractions from electronic evidence, translations to operationally useful information, and the presentation of the data. This includes identifying, recording, analyzing and finally documenting digital evidence. The judges will seek to identify the best digital forensics solutions: this will encompass solutions which assist with the identification of, and presentation of evidence to identify criminal activity, but applications are not limited to this area.

Now accepting entries for 2027

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ENTRY BENEFITS

Recognition

We help promote your success every step of the way with Shortlist, Finalist and ultimate Winner stages

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Make your way through each stage and unlock access to marketing materials highlighting your success

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Join in the buzz at Shortlist, Finalist and Winner stages on our website and international press releases

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This recognition underscores our leadership in redefining SaaS security and helping organizations overcome risks from shadow IT, misconfigurations, and identity threats. Thank you to The Cloud Awards for recognizing our team’s hard work and innovation.

Valence, 2025 Winner