Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026: Winners Announced Across 95 Categories

Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026: Winners Announced Across 95 Categories The Hacker NewsJun 11, 2026Cybersecurity Innovations and Excellence Most good security work is invisible by design. Today is the exception. The 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards winners are announced across 95 subcategories in four main award categories. The reason is simple. Cybersecurity is full of work that deserves recognition and rarely gets it. Products that quietly close real gaps. Teams that stop incidents nobody reads about. Companies that raise the baseline for everyone else. The Cybersecurity Stars Awards put names on that work, once a year, through independent judging. Every nomination was reviewed by an independent panel of judges and scored against three criteria: innovation, impact, and technical excellence. Entries were not ranked by popularity, brand size, or campaign reach. They were judged on the work itself. Some subcategories have more than one winner. The awards recognize every entry that meets the standard, not just one per category. By design, the winners span four main categories and 97 subcategories, including agentic AI security, AI SecOps, AI security testing, post-quantum cryptography, continuous threat exposure management, extended detection and response, software supply chain security, identity threat detection and response, secure access service edge, and zero trust security, among many others. With 95 subcategories, the full list is the story. The complete 2026 winners list is live now at awards.thehackernews.com/winners/2026/. Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to every company, team, and practitioner who entered. Nominations for the 2027 awards open later this year. Join this waiting list to be the first to know when they do. Security work is usually noticed only when something breaks. This is one day for the work that made sure it didn't. Found this article interesting? This article is a contributed piece from one of our valued partners. Follow us on Google News, Twitter and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post. SHARE     Tweet Share Share SHARE  2026 Cybersecurity Awards, AI Security, cryptography, Cybersecurity Excellence, Cybersecurity Stars Awards, Cybersecurity Winners, SASE, SecOps, Supply Chain Security, XDR, Zero Trust ⚡ Top Stories This Week Microsoft 365 Android Apps Let Any App Steal Account Tokens via Leftover Debug Flag Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI Chrome V8 Zero-Day CVE-2026-11645 Exploited in the Wild - Patch Now New HTTP/2 Bomb Vulnerability Allows Remote DoS on NGINX, Apache, IIS, Envoy and Cloudflare New ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Limits Tools That Could Enable Data Exfiltration New FROST Attack Lets Websites Track What Sites and Apps You Open via SSD Timing ⚡ Weekly Recap: Instagram Account Hacks, Android Zero-Day, GitHub Worm and More One-Character Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Local Root Access, Exploits Now Public Autonomous AI Tool Finds 2-Year-Old RCE Flaw in Redis (CVE-2026-23479) Microsoft Fixes One-Click GitHub Dev Attack That Let Attackers Steal OAuth Tokens Unpatched Windows Search URI Vulnerability Lets Attackers Steal NTLMv2 Hashes Cisco Patches CVE-2026-20230 in Unified CM as Exploit Code Goes Public Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories in Major Supply Chain Attack ThreatsDay Bulletin: AI Agents Gone Wrong, Sketchy C2 Tools, ClickFix Tricks, JS Backdoors + 20 New Stories Claude Code GitHub Action Flaw Let One Malicious Issue Hijack Repositories AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs Load More ▼ ⭐ Featured Resources Get the 2026 Guide to Govern and Secure Enterprise AI Agents at Scale See How Agentic AI Cuts Your SOC Triage Time in Half [Get a Demo] Catch 88% of Malware Threats in Under 60 Seconds with Live Sandbox Analysis [Guide] Transform Network Operations with Intelligent Workflows