SC Awards 2026 About

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 1.2 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.