Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026: Winners Announced Across 95 Categories - The Hacker News

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 F5 Patches Two Critical NGINX Open Source Flaws Enabling Remote Code Execution Chrome Ad Blocker with 10M+ Installs Found with Dormant Script Injection Capability WhatsApp VBScript Campaign Uses Fake Documents to Install ManageEngine RMM Tool Amadey and StealC Malware Network Disrupted, 27M Stolen Credentials Recovered Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Zero-Day CVE-2026-20245 Exploited to Gain Root Access New Gaslight macOS Malware Uses Prompt Injection to Disrupt AI-Assisted Analysis AutoJack Attack Lets One Web Page Hijack AI Agent for Host Code Execution Google Sets Sept. 30 Deadline for Android Developer Verification in Four Countries Unpatchable 'usbliter8' Exploit Breaks Apple A12 and A13 SecureROM Boot Chain FortiBleed Targeted FortiGate Firewalls in 110 Million-Credential Harvesting Operation 29-Year-Old Squid Proxy Bug 'Squidbleed' Can Leak Cleartext HTTP Requests ⚡ Weekly Recap: Browser Bugs, EDR Killers, TV Botnet, OpenBSD Flaw, Android Trojan, and More CISA Warns Fortinet Customers as FortiBleed Hits 86,644 FortiGate Devices Salesforce Disables Klue App Integration After OAuth Token Abuse Exposes Customer Data Fake AI Agent Skill Passed Security Scans and Reportedly Reached 26,000 Agents The Gentlemen RaaS Uses GentleKiller EDR Framework Targeting 400 Security Processes Load More ▼ ⭐ Featured Resources Have You Outgrown Your MDR? 7 Warning Signs Every CISO Should Check [Watch Demo] See Which Security Gaps Attackers Could Exploit First Get the 2026 Guide to Govern and Secure Enterprise AI Agents at Scale AI Can’t Stop Every Attack. Learn How Zero Trust Can Block What’s Unknown