The CYSEC AFRICA Awards 2026 celebrate excellence and innovation in the nation’s cybersecurity landscape. The awards honor visionary individuals and organizations that are strengthening cyber resilience, safeguarding critical infrastructure, and driving AFRICA’s digital future. Join us as we recognize the leaders shaping the next era of cybersecurity in AFRICA.
Honors an exceptional cybersecurity expert who has demonstrated visionary leadership. Recognizes their impact in advancing security strategies and defending organizational ecosystems.
Celebrates outstanding women who have made significant contributions to cybersecurity. Acknowledges leadership, innovation, and their role in shaping the future of the industry.
Rewards organizations that have successfully executed large-scale cybersecurity transformations. Highlights measurable improvements in security posture and digital resilience.
Recognizes excellence in implementing Zero-Trust frameworks across the enterprise. Celebrates strategic adoption that reduced risks and strengthened access control.
Honors organizations that excel in building strong cyber resilience and business continuity. Highlights effective preparedness, response, and recovery capabilities.
Acknowledges organizations that demonstrate top-tier governance and adherence to regulatory frameworks. Celebrates maturity in security processes, policies, and compliance.
Recognizes innovative researchers pushing the boundaries of cybersecurity knowledge. Honors impactful studies, discoveries, and contributions to the global security community.
Celebrates outstanding academic cybersecurity projects from graduating students. Highlights innovation, practical relevance, and problem-solving excellence.
Honors impactful open-source cybersecurity initiatives that empower the community. Acknowledges innovation, collaboration, and real-world security applications.
Recognizes organizations with exemplary cybersecurity operations and best practices. Highlights excellence in proactive defense, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement.
Honors the vendor delivering the most comprehensive, innovative, and impactful cybersecurity solutions. Recognizes excellence in technology, service quality, and customer success.
Celebrates a standout product that has set new standards in security performance. Acknowledges innovation, effectiveness, and measurable real-world impact.
Recognizes an AI-driven solution that significantly enhances threat detection and defense capabilities. Highlights advanced automation, intelligence, and predictive security outcomes.
Awards excellence in identifying, analyzing, and responding to cyber threats. Honors solutions that deliver rapid detection, deep visibility, and strong incident containment.
Recognizes best-in-class cloud security technologies protecting modern digital infrastructures. Highlights innovations that secure multi-cloud, hybrid, or cloud-native environments.
Honors solutions that deliver robust identity protection, access governance, and credential security. Celebrates advancements in safeguarding digital identities across organizations.
Acknowledges top solutions protecting industrial, operational, and critical infrastructure systems. Highlights capabilities in securing complex OT/ICS environments from evolving threats.
Recognizes an MSSP delivering outstanding managed detection, response, and security operations. Celebrates reliability, service quality, and proven customer protection.
Honors cutting-edge SOAR and automation platforms that streamline security workflows. Highlights efficiency gains, accelerated response, and improved operational resilience.
Recognizes providers that deliver robust, secure, and reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. Celebrates capabilities that ensure data integrity, availability, and business continuity.
Awards the value-added distributor demonstrating exemplary partner support and market leadership. Recognizes contribution to technology adoption, enablement, and innovation.
Honors leading IAM solutions that simplify and secure identity lifecycles. Highlights excellence in access control, authentication, and governance.
Celebrates emerging start-ups bringing breakthrough technologies to the cybersecurity landscape. Recognizes innovation, market impact, and future growth potential.
Review the categories and decide which is most suited to your organization. Read the category description, criteria for application, and who should apply details listed on the website.
Submit an enquiry on the website and the categories that you may wish to apply for. You may select more than one category that is of interest to you. An email will be sent to you with the application form and submission requirements for that entry.
Prepare all of the information to be included in the application form, noting the word limits, file formats, and deadlines for your submission. Complete all of the information.
Send your entry on the nomination forms above. The deadline for submitting the nominations will be available soon. Only information compliant with the category guidelines will be considered by our committee.
Once your completed submission is received you will receive an email confirmation confirming successful entry for that category. If any information is missing you will be advised of the missing requirements.
The awards committee will complete an initial review of all submissions and then a short list will be published.
The category winners will be announced in person at the awards ceremony. The winners will then be photographed, interviewed, and celebrated with the winners being published via media channels the following day.
Your submission will be reviewed by the CYSEC AFRICA and CYSEC GLOBAL team to ensure that your submission is compliant with the submission guidelines (length of copy, documents provided etc.)
The compliant submission will be shared with the committee who will then evaluate all category entries, to rate them based on the criteria defined for that category. A short list of the best entries for the category will be agreed upon by the committee and announced.
The committee will then meet to review and evaluate in detail the submissions with a discussion of their merits. Another round of ratings and scores will be allocated by the committee to define the winner.
