Expert Insights Announces Winners of the Cybersecurity Community Awards 2026 

Recognizing outstanding leadership, influence, and impact across the cybersecurity industry.
Winner:

• • ESET – Protects businesses with solutions for awareness training, intelligence, identity security, and threat detection and response.

Top Performers:

• • Proofpoint – Secures email, data, and identities with advanced threat protection.

• • Wiz – Provides cloud security with risk detection, vulnerability management, and workload protection for cloud environments.

Honoring a company that has delivered measurable value to customers and the wider cybersecurity community.

Winner:

• • JumpCloud – Offers a cloud-based platform for managing user identities, devices, and access from a single directory.

Top Performers: 

• • Keeper Security – Provides password and secrets management tools used to secure credentials across organizations.

• • Huntress – Delivers managed detection and response services focused on supporting small and mid-sized organizations.

Recognizing excellence and leadership in cloud security innovation and delivery.

Winner:

• • JumpCloud – Enables secure identity and device management across cloud-based IT infrastructures.

Top Performer:

• • Wiz – Provides agentless cloud security monitoring across cloud infrastructure, workloads, and services.

• • Heimdal Security – Provides a unified security platform covering endpoint, network, and cloud-based protection.

Celebrating organizations leading the industry in data protection, privacy, and governance.

Winner: 

• • Kiteworks – Enables secure file sharing and governed data exchange for sensitive business information.

Top Performer:

• • Syskit – Provides governance, security, and reporting tools for Microsoft 365 and cloud collaboration environments.

• • CrashPlan – Provides endpoint and cloud backup solutions to support data protection and recovery requirements.

Recognizing leadership in securing AI systems and advancing intelligent cyber defense.

Winner: 

• • Wiz – Supports security visibility and risk management across AI-enabled cloud environments.

Top Performer:

• • IRONSCALES – Uses machine learning to detect and respond to phishing and email-based threats.

• • Aurascape– Develops security tools designed to protect AI systems and AI-enabled workloads

• • RAD Security – Applies behavioural analytics and AI techniques to detect threats in cloud-native environments.