The CISO Choice Awards program is designed to help security and business leaders cut through the maze of offerings, and point them to the solutions that really stand out.

“A truly great solution is one that can anticipate, rather than react to, the next challenges threat actors will present,” said Board member Jake Martens, SVP and CISO of Aristocrat. “It is our mission to showcase top-tier innovation so it is front and center when CISOs are choosing solutions to keep our organizations and governments safe.”

The judges on the transparent board secure major organizations across industries and have unmatched knowledge and insights from years of designing and maintaining their own programs. The selection process was uniquely transparent and based on clear-cut criteria.

“Our decades of combined experience at some of the country’s biggest corporations put us in an excellent position to distinguish the great from the very good,” said Bradley Schaufenbuel, VP and CISO of Paychex. “Because the award is so highly regarded in the industry, we attracted some amazing candidates, and we are delighted to put them before you now.”

The 2023 winners are:
VISIONARY COMPANY: Black Kite
PREMIER SECURITY COMPANY: Proofpoint
START-UP SECURITY COMPANY: CyberConvoy
PARTNER IN SUCCESS: TruOps
BEST USE OF AI: Rescana
API SECURITY: Salt
APPLICATION SECURITY: Seal Security
BREACH & ATTACK SIMULATION: SafeBreach
CLOUD SECURITY SOLUTION: Astrix Security
CLOUD WORKLOAD PROTECTION PLATFORM: Aqua Security
DATA SECURITY:  Next DLP
EMAIL SECURITY: SlashNext
ENDPOINT SECURITY: Tanium
IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT: Grip Security
IOT SECURITY: Phosphorus Cybersecurity
MSSP: CyberConvoy
NETWORK SECURITY: Zero Networks
RISK MANAGEMENT: TruOps
SECURITY ANALYTICS: Forescout Technologies
SECURITY OPERATIONS: Swimlane
SECURITY AWARENESS TRAINING: Proofpoint
SIEM: CyberConvoy
THIRD PARTY RISK MANAGEMENT: Black Kite
THREAT INTELLIGENCE: Cybersixgill
VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT: RapidFort

“My peers, the esteemed Board of CISO Judges, were astonished by the level of creative entrepreneurship the awards attracted,” said David Cass, GSR CISO and CISOs Connect President. “Having our judges validate these solutions lends them even greater cachet, because of the judges’ renown in the industry. I’d like to congratulate the winners and thank our distinguished judges for giving so much of their time to our awards program and its contribution to our industry’s success.”

The following CISOs served on the CISO Choice Awards 2023 Board of Judges:

Aaron Hughes, Albertsons Companies
Angela Williams, UL Solutions
Bradley Schaufenbuel, Paychex
Jake Martens, Aristocrat
James Blair, Todd Corporation
Kevin McKenzie, CISOs Connect
Michael Calderin, YAGEO Group
Neda Pitt, Belk
Ran Tenenbaum, Aroundtown SA
Sai Iyer, Ziff Davis
Shlomi Avivi, First Digital Bank

Esteemed author and industry analyst Richard Stiennon also served on the board. His Security Yearbook 2023 includes a directory of some 3,269 companies and an interactive vendor dashboard that has proved an invaluable tool for CISOs.

“Working with leading CISOs is such an honor, all the more so as part of the CISO Choice Awards,” Stiennon said. “Solution providers form the core of my research, and by participating in these awards, I gain crucial insights into what makes an industry trendsetter, and why the top solutions leave others in the dust.”

“Security is not a job, but a mission, so the vendors chosen for the CISO Choice Awards needed to display a devotion to partnership as well as technological distinction,” said Angela Williams, SVP and CISO of UL Solutions.

“The importance of finding a trusted partner cannot be overestimated,” said Neda Pitt, VP of Information Security and CISO of Belk. “We are in this fight against malicious actors together. So it is critical to identify that rare mix of exceptional technology and a willingness to work closely with customers to customize solutions to their needs.”

“Staying ahead of the curve is what it’s all about,” added Kevin McKenzie, the CISO in Residence at CISOs Connect

“We need to ensure proactive defense if we don’t want to play catch-up all the time,” said Sai Iyer, CISO of Ziff Davis. “In an environment that is constantly changing, we want to recognize those vendors who exemplify innovation and a forward-thinking mindset. Congratulations to the 2023 winners.”

Mayfield, a global venture capital firm, has partnered with CISOs Connect to make the CISO Choice Awards possible, as a fundamental part of its mission to support CISOs and the cybersecurity solution ecosystem safeguarding enterprises and organizations worldwide.

About CISOs Connect
CISOs Connect is an exclusive membership-only interactive community of trusted cyber peers and subject matter experts. Connected by common interests, this community allows cyber experts to share knowledge and expertise through proprietary content, research and analysis, while exchanging ideas and collaborating with trusted colleagues to make informed business and technology decisions.

CISOs Connect™ is part of Security Current™, known for its Security Shark Tank^® and lauded for its CISO-driven content, knowledge sharing and community. It is purpose-built and led by the top CISOs in North America.

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BUSINESS CATEGORIES

TECHNOLOGY CATEGORIES

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Congratulations to the finalists of the 2023 CISO Choice Awards!

Thank you to the esteemed Board of Judges for selecting these impressive companies. Stay tuned for the announcement of the winners on Thursday, November 9th.

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Following are the categories and information on the submission fee.

You may submit to multiple categories, each with their own fee:

CISO CHOICE AWARDS FEES

BUSINESS CATEGORIES

Best Use of AI - NEW

Generative AI is having a dramatic impact on security products as they take the first steps to use large language models to improve the understanding of raw data from logs and telemetry. This category is for the vendors that have made the best use of generative AI in their products to reduce hunt time, find problems quicker, and create playbooks on the fly.

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Remit Application Fees

Visionary Vendor

Established vendor or start-up whose solutions are built on technologies that can evolve with the CISOs’ needs or solutions that are forward-looking, to address potential new threats.

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Remit Application Fees

Premier Security Company

Established vendor that is providing either overarching security solutions or solutions that help safeguard key security components in a CISO’s infrastructure.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Start-up Security Company

A company whose solution has been in beta or generally available for under 2 years.

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Remit Application Fees

Partner in Success

Providers who have working relationships with CISOs or their employees to meet their needs of today while being responsive to the CISOs’ enterprises’ changing needs.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

TECHNOLOGY CATEGORIES

API Security

These solutions offer standalone capabilities and are separate from application security. They touch on code but are not only about the code.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Application Security (included DevSecOps)

This includes DevSecOps as well as the tools for code analysis, putting apps in containers, and hardening apps, etc.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Breach and Attack Simulation

These solutions are part of a CISO’s fast-growing operations security program.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Cloud Security Solution

There are primarily two types of vendors in cloud security. Those that serve their solution from the cloud, or SaaS, instead of an on-premises license and those that offer protections for cloud workloads including firewalls, WAFs, and encryption.

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Remit Application Fees

Cloud Workload Protection Platform

These solutions are the modern endpoint security for the cloud and can be agent or agentless.

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Remit Application Fees

Data Security

Data security includes vendors from database protection to encryption as well as Digital Rights Management (DRM), Information Rights Management (IRM), Data Loss Protection (DLP) and data discovery and classification.

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Remit Application Fees

Email Security (Phishing)

Email is a separate category because it crosses the bounds of endpoint, network and data security. It includes email encryption as well as anti-phishing, anti-spam, blocking business email compromise, and outbound email security.

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Endpoint Security

Endpoint security includes the vendors that provide anti-malware solutions, endpoint monitoring or Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), configuration management, server monitoring and protection, and even vulnerability management and container security. This category includes mobile device security vendors.

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Remit Application Fees

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

IAM includes all of the authenticators, from 2FA to typing patterns and biometrics. It also includes the identity stores, and directory services.

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Remit Application Fees

IoT Security

Solutions that secure a myriad of verticals from medical to industrial to automotive to critical infrastructure to business systems and more. They can be solutions that are securing new IoT or solutions CISOs can use to secure existing infrastructure.

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Remit Application Fees

MSSP

The Managed Security Service Provider category are those that provide the front lines of defense for their customers. Their SOCs monitor network and endpoint activity and the SIEMs and TIPs that make sense of all the data. SOC teams will also assist in remediation and configuration.

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Network Security

From next-generation firewall hardware appliances to cloud-traffic analysis, network security is the biggest security vendor space and the first line of defense against attacks.

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Risk Management

Risk management in cybersecurity is at the core of many organizations’ approach to maintaining a strong security posture. Products help highlight the most important risks and funnel resources towards reducing those risks.

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Security Analytics

Threat hunting, correlation, visualization, graph analysis are all included in this category. All are used to help the SOC engineer do their job.

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Remit Application Fees

Security Awareness Training

These solutions provide training exercises (i.e. anti-phishing simulations), educational videos, and information security awareness training.

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Remit Application Fees

Security Operations

Security Operations includes SOAR, Orchestration, and tools to enable the SOC.

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Remit Application Fees

SSE

Secure Service Edge is the name given to distributed security control technology that is pushed out closer to the assets being protected. This could be the home office, remote locations, even vehicles.

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SIEM

Security information and event management is at the center of SOC operations. All alerts and logs are centralized, deduped, and prioritized in the SIEM.

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Third Party Risk Management (TPRM)

These solutions help CISOs extend their policies to their supply chain.

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Remit Application Fees

Threat Intelligence

Solutions include those that gather activity on threat actors. It includes platforms that combine and rationalize feeds as well as those vendors that use open source intelligence, Dark Web monitoring and Domain Name System (DNS) to create those feeds.

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Remit Application Fees

Vulnerability Management

The plethora of scanning tools that identify when a vulnerable application or Operating System (OS) is deployed.

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Remit Application Fees

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Distinguished Board of CISO Judges Select Winners Based on Real-World Experience

NEW YORK, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — CISOs Connect™ today announced the winners of the 2022 CISO Choice Awards, a recognition of industry vendors by a distinguished board of leading CISOs.

“As CISOs facing an onslaught of security challenges on a daily basis, we live and know what distinguishes a truly great solution,” said Board member Sue Lapierre Prologis VP, IT Governance, Information Security Officer.

“This year was extremely gratifying as we saw innovative approaches across threat types to safeguard our organizations,” Lapierre said. “The CISO Choice Awards are a valuable recognition, and all of us who belong to the exclusive CISOs Connect Community want to recognize and congratulate this year’s winners.”

The judges on the transparent board hail from organizations across industries, and their choices were rooted in firsthand knowledge and insights from building and maintaining their own programs. Criteria for selecting the winners were clear and based on the real-world experiences and perspectives of end-user executives.

The 2022 winners are:

VISIONARY VENDOR: NONAME SECURITY
PREMIER SECURITY COMPANY: JUPITERONE
START-UP SECURITY COMPANY: GRIP SECURITY
PARTNER IN SUCCESS: BLACK KITE
PRODUCT INNOVATION: ZERO NETWORKS
API SECURITY: NONAME SECURITY
APPLICATION SECURITY: VERACODE
BREACH & ATTACK SIMULATION SERVICE PROVIDER: COVERTSWARM
BREACH & ATTACK SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY PROVIDER: SAFEBREACH
CLOUD SECURITY POSTURE MANAGEMENT: JUPITERONE
CLOUD SECURITY SOLUTION: JUPITERONE
CLOUD WORKLOAD PROTECTION PLATFORM: TRUEFORT
DATA SECURITY: CYERA
EMAIL SECURITY: SLASHNEXT
ENDPOINT SECURITY: TANIUM
FRAUD PREVENTION: DEDUCE
GOVERNANCE, RISK AND COMPLIANCE: PROOFPOINT
IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT: SECUREAUTH
IOT SECURITY: ASIMILY
MSSP: DEEPWATCH
NETWORK SECURITY: ZERO NETWORKS
PASSWORDLESS: OWNID
RISK MANAGEMENT: SAFE SECURITY
SASE: AXIS SECURITY
SECURITY ANALYTICS: EXABEAM
SECURITY OPERATIONS: EXPEL
SECURITY AWARENESS TRAINING (FOR THE EVERYDAY EMPLOYEE): PROOFPOINT
SECURITY EDUCATION/TRAINING (SECURITY CERTIFICATIONS): RANGEFORCE
THIRD PARTY RISK MANAGEMENT: BLACK KITE
THREAT INTELLIGENCE: CYBERSIXGILL
VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT: FORTIFYDATA

“It is rewarding to hear from my peers, the esteemed Board of CISO Judges, who were impressed by the wealth of innovative technologies on the market,” said David Cass, CISOs Connect and Security Current President. “Their real-word experience and insights are the reason the CISO Choice Awards are bar-none the most valuable to security professionals. I’d like to thank them and congratulate the winners.”

The following CISOs served on the CISO Choice Awards 2022 Board of Judges:

CN CISO Vaughn Hazen
Covanta CISO Tammy Klotz
Customers Bank EVP Chief Operation & Technology Officer Endré Jarraux Walls
DC Department of Human Services (DHS) CISO Montae Brockett
Huawei Mobile Services CISO Matt Lemon
ICF International VP & CISO Joseph Dyer
IFF VP & CISO Lauren Dana Rosenblatt
One Main Financial CISO Tunde Oni-Daniel
Premise Health CISO Joey Johnson
Prologis VP, IT Governance, Information Security Officer Sue Lapierre
Radian CISO Donna Ross
Sunrun CISO Dave Ruedger
William Blair CISO Ralston Simmons

Well-known author and analyst Richard Stiennon also served on the board. His Security Yearbook 2022 includes a directory of some 3100 companies and an interactive vendor dashboard that has proved an invaluable tool for CISOs.

“It was an honor to be part of the CISO Choice Awards and work with leading CISOs,” Stiennon said. “As an analyst, I focus on the growing solution-provider market. Participating in these awards validates my research and yields critical insights into where the market is headed and the dynamic nature of security from all perspectives.”

Endré Jarraux Walls, EVP Chief Operation & Technology Officer Customers Bank, lauded the winners’ innovative spirit.

“The theme for this year’s awards was innovation,” Walls said. “Vendors that provide innovative ways to help organizations protect their data and manage risk help CISOs stay ahead of the curve, which is really the best way to ensure proactive defense. The winners were chosen because they contribute that kind of thinking to the industry.”

Joseph Dyer, ICF VP & CISO, praised the growing collaboration between the vendor and CISO communities.

“The 2022 CISO Choice Awards were extremely competitive and it was rewarding to see that solution providers are increasingly in sync with our needs,” Dyer said. “The awards provide an opportunity for a seasoned board of CISOs across industries to identify and recognize forward-looking solutions from companies that are not only maintaining innovation but working with my peers and myself to safeguard our organizations. Congratulations to the 2022 winners.”

Mayfield, a global venture capital firm, has partnered with CISOs Connect to make the CISO Choice Awards possible, as a fundamental part of its mission to support CISOs and the cybersecurity solution ecosystem in order to safeguard enterprises and organizations internationally.

About CISOs Connect
CISOs Connect is an exclusive membership-only interactive community of trusted cyber peers and subject matter experts. Connected by common interests, this community allows cyber experts to share knowledge and expertise through proprietary content, research, and analysis while exchanging information, ideas and collaborating with trusted colleagues to make informed business and technology decisions.

CISOs Connect™ is part of Security Current™, known for its Security Shark Tank® and lauded for its CISO-driven content, knowledge sharing, and community. It is purpose-built and led by the top CISOs in North America.

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Following are the categories and information on the submission fee.

You may submit to multiple categories, each with their own fee:

CISO CHOICE AWARDS FEES

BUSINESS CATEGORIES

Visionary Vendor

Established vendor or start-up whose solutions are built on technologies that can evolve with the CISOs needs or solutions that are forward-looking, to address potential new threats.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Premier Security Company

Established vendor that is providing either overarching security solutions or solutions that help safe-guard key security components in a CISOs’ infrastructure.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Start-up Security Company

A company whose solution has been in beta or generally available for under 2 years.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Partner in Success

Providers who have working relationships with CISOs or their employees to meet their needs of today while being responsive to the CISOs’ enterprises’ changing needs.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

TECHNOLOGY CATEGORIES

API Security - NEW

These solutions offer standalone capabilities and are separate from application security. They touch on code but are not only about the code.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Application Security (included DevSecOps)

This includes DevSecOps as well as the tools for code analysis, putting apps in containers, and hardening apps, etc.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Breach and Attack Simulation - NEW

These solutions are part of a CISOs’ fast-growing operations security program.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Cloud Security Posture Management - NEW

This is the fastest growing, most highly invested segment in security that includes solutions from CSPM in AWS, Azure, GCP, Google Cloud Platform, and OpenStack.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Cloud Security Solution

There are primarily two types of vendors in cloud security. Those that serve their solution from the cloud, or SaaS, instead of an on-premises license and those that offer protections for cloud workloads including firewalls, WAFs, and encryption.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Cloud Workload Protection Platform - NEW

These solutions are the modern endpoint security for the cloud and can be agent or agentless.

 

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Data Security

Data security includes vendors from database protection to encryption as well as Digital Rights Management (DRM), Information Rights Management (IRM), Data Loss Protection (DLP) and data discovery and classification.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Email Security (Phishing)

Email is a separate category because it crosses the bounds of endpoint, network and data security. It includes email encryption as well as anti-phishing, anti-spam, blocking business email compromise, and outbound email security.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Endpoint Security

Endpoint security includes the vendors that provide anti-malware solutions, endpoint monitoring or Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), configuration management, server monitoring and protection, and even vulnerability management and container security. This category includes mobile device security vendors.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Fraud Prevention

Fraud prevention is of particular interest to financial services and ecommerce buyers. Customer behavior, reputation, authentication, and CAPTCHAs are included in this category.

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Remit Application Fees

Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC)

GRC is a broad category that includes measuring and reporting risk in ways that are compatible with various compliance regimes.

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Remit Application Fees

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

IAM includes all of the authenticators, from 2FA to typing patterns and biometrics. It also includes the identity stores, and directory services.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

IoT Security

Solutions that secure a myriad of verticals from medical to industrial to automotive to critical infrastructure to business systems and more. They can be solutions that are securing new IoT or solutions CISOs can use to secure existing infrastructure.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

MSSP

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Remit Application Fees

Network Security

From next-generation firewall hardware appliances to cloud-traffic analysis, network security is the biggest security vendor space and the first line of defense against attacks.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Passwordless - NEW

These solutions provide rapidly evolving ways to accomplish strong authentication.

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Remit Application Fees

Risk Management

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Remit Application Fees

SASE - NEW

These solutions are a complete replacement of the data center security stack.

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Remit Application Fees

Security Analytics

Threat hunting, correlation, visualization, graph analysis are all included in this category. All are used to help the SOC engineer do their job.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Security Awareness Training (for the Everyday Employee) - NEW

These solutions provide training exercises (i.e. anti-phishing simulations), educational videos, and information security awareness training.

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Remit Application Fees

Security Education/Training (Security Certifications)

Solutions in this category teach security skills for CISOs and their teams and provide certifications.

 

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Remit Application Fees

Security Operations

Security Operations includes SOAR, Orchestration, and tools to enable the SOC.

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Remit Application Fees

Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) - NEW

These solutions help CISOs extend their policies to their supply chain.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Threat Intelligence

Solutions include those that gather activity on threat actors. It includes platforms that combine and rationalize feeds as well as those vendors that use open source intelligence, Dark Web monitoring and Domain Name System (DNS) to create those feeds.

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

Vulnerability Management

The plethora of scanning tools that identify when a vulnerable application or Operating System (OS) is deployed.

 

 

Click Here to Submit and

Remit Application Fees

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Security Current is proud to announce a call for nominations for the CISO Choice Awards™ 2022, a first of its kind awards as a Board of CISO Judges select security companies based on real-world perspectives.

The CISO Choice Awards™ 2022 will recognize the leaders in key technology and business categories. The winning security companies will receive the industry’s first CISO Board validation.

Click here to view the CISO Choice Awards Questions (View Only)

Click here to view the CISO Choice Awards Categories and more information

Click here to submit

Extended Entry Deadlines: September 26, 2022

2022/09/27 23:59:59

FAQs

Who can submit?

Solution and service providers can submit directly or via their PR/marketing firms. VCs also can submit on behalf of their investments.

How do I submit my entry(ies)?

The Board of Judges’ questions can be found here: https://www.research.net/r/CISOChoiceAwards2022

Is there a fee to submit?

Yes. Your fees help fund the awards. Click here for the list of fees: /ciso-choice-awards-fees-and-costs/

Can I pay now and submit later?

Yes, you can submit your application now and remit payment at a later date. Note: the fees will increase if you remit closer to the final deadline. 

Can I submit to multiple categories?

Yes. You can submit to as many categories as are relevant.

For questions and clarifications, reach out to us!

Email us: cisochoiceawards@securitycurrent.com

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