SC Awards 2024 About

2024 SC AWARDS

Entries for the 2024 SC Awards are open!

The SC Awards are renowned for identifying and celebrating the best in cybersecurity, from groundbreaking technologies to exceptional organizational achievements and individual leadership. Competition for SC Awards is spread across 34 specialty categories, many updated to reflect trends in artificial intelligence, cloud security, and continuous threat exposure management.

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.

March 26	SC Awards Open
April 22	Extended Early Bird Rate Deadline
May 31	Final Deadline Date
June 10 – July 8	Judging of the 2024 SC Awards
August 13	Finalists Announced
September 17	Winners Announced

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.

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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.