Cybersecurity Excellence Awards name 2026 Community Choice winners
Cybersecurity Insiders said the 2026 Community Choice Award winners were selected through 79,455 votes and that AI security was among the most popular categories.
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards announced its 2026 Community Choice Award winners on Aug. 4 in Las Vegas, saying the results were selected through 79,455 votes cast during the awards season.
Community Choice is the only recognition in the program determined directly by community voting, alongside the awards’ jury selections. Cybersecurity Insiders said the results point to security operations, exposure management and AI security as the categories that drew the strongest support.
The release said AI security has expanded as a category. In 2024, it was listed as a single award category. In 2026, it spans ten categories covering access, data protection, detection and response.
Cybersecurity Insiders said it has presented the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards for more than a decade and serves a global community of more than 600,000 cybersecurity professionals. The organization said the awards recognize companies, products and professionals.
Holger Schulze, founder and CEO of Cybersecurity Insiders, congratulated the winners and said the strongest voting support centered on security operations, exposure management and AI security. The release also said the announcement comes during Black Hat USA week, when AI risk is among the conference’s prominent themes.
The source text also includes a brief, unrelated reference to a June 10 Cloud Security Report from Cybersecurity Insiders produced with Fortinet, but the excerpt provided does not include the report’s full findings.
The release points readers to the winners list and says a photo accompanies the announcement.
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