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Outstanding contribution
Winner Dr Kevin Jones, Group CISO for Airbus.
He has defended a major international organisation from cyber threats and developed leading and specialist knowledge around Industrial Control system security also used to protect UK CNI. He has also co-founded “Cyber Wales” a cyber security ecosystem in Wales.

Diversity champion
Winner Emma Smith, Vodafone global cyber security director
A role model as a senior woman in cyber security, she has implemented a policy of Inclusion for all. Her achievements include 30% of women employed at all levels in her organisation and a target of over 40% by 2025.

Student of the year
Winner Sophia McCall
Currently studying a BSc Cyber Security Management degree at Bournemouth University, 21 year old, the 21-years-old lives, breathes, and sleeps security, honing her technical skills “outside of lecture hours. McCall has already won numerous national ethical hacking competitions.

Best vulnerability management
Winner Edgescan Fullstack Vulnerability Management
This was judged as a “Good all-rounder,” and “A highly scalable SaaS solution with good TCO, collaboration across other tools. This hybrid cloud-based solution covers both web and server security to provide real actionable risk intelligence, contextualised to the user’s organisation.

Best use of machine learning
Winner Barracuda Sentinel
This was described as an “Excellent use of ML”. Barracuda Sentinel is part of its Total Email Protection suite using AI to provide real-time defence against business email compromise, spear phishing, account takeover, social engineering attacks, impersonation, and other cyber fraud.

Best threat intelligence solution
Winner Recorded Future
Described as doing “loads that benefit the infosec community and our nation's infrastructure in general”, This product uses machine learning and natural language processing, combined with human analyst research to collect, and analyse data from 900,000 sources on the open and dark web.

Best SME solution
Winner Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection
Judges noted that this cloud-based product with an easy-to-use GUI, “is an asset to the SME security team, enabling improved detection and prevention of threats, whilst offering real time support and 'noise-free' operation” and a tool “worthy of consideration for any SME.”

Best SIEM solution
Winner LogRhythm NextGen SIEM
The SOAR capabilities, extensive data collectors and with no coding required, provides access to key investigations by non-technical personnel. Judges said the platform had, “good awareness of the rapidly emerging complexity we see” and “demonstrates why the platform is a leader in SIEM.”

Best Security Team
Winner William Hill
This security team runs, “a great improvement programme that works directly with end users to build both strategy and culture, this team leads from the front and invests in the training of the security staff to keep them ahead of the game”.

Best Security Company
Winner Sophos
Sophos was also described by our judges as a “well established security company with strong offerings.” Sophos protects around 400,000 organisations of all sizes and over 100 million users in more than 150 countries using an impressive range of capabilities in its portfolio.

Best Risk Management
Winner Fusion
One judge said of Fusion’s entry, “great testimonials, succinct and solid responses with a concise and easy-to-relate to video”. In addition, the company has made strides to advance its risk management offering including product enhancements as well as a growing community of experts and users.

Best regulatory tools and compliance solutions
Winner Panaseer Continuous Controls Monitoring
This platform continuously and automatically monitors compliance across a range of technical security controls “giving CISO's continuous assurance of the effectiveness and consistency of controls. Using auto-data collection and inbuilt analytics, it is an asset to any security function”.

Best professional training programme or education programme
Winner Think Cyber Security Ltd Redflags Real-time security awareness
ThinkCyber says its Redflags product applies theory and evidence of behavioural science to deliver real-time, context aware-guidance – at the point the user is at risk. Short, actionable, and highly relevant content educates the user.

Best privileged access management solution
Winner BeyondTrust Universal Privilege Management
This integrated solution provides visibility and control over all privileged access for any account and for virtually any use case. It is available as an on-premise and virtual appliance, as well as a SaaS and PaaS hosted offering.

Best Mobile Security Solution
Winner OneSpan Mobile Security Suite
Our judges found this the “strongest in technical advantages and meeting client expectations.”  Bringing hyper-secure solutions within the reach of even non-security expert mobile app developers, it reduces the risk of fraud and is used by many top banking firms.

Best Managed Security Solution
Winner GCI Managed Service
GCI says its core objective was to develop a highly efficient service, for the cost of one cyber-security employee. Through meticulous licencing agreements, automation, and building on its 24/7 ServiceDesk, GCI says it provides industry-leading security, at an inclusive price point.

Best IOT/IIOT Solution
Winner Sectigo IoT Identity
This gives “businesses and manufacturers the inherent advantages of device network transparency, compliance, and assurance that their devices and products are secure and legitimate using PKI,” according to judges. The platform is designed to remove the complexity of securing and authenticating devices.

Best incident Response Solution
Winner Mandiant Incident Response
This solution helps resolve all aspects of cyber-breaches with industry-leading threat intelligence as well as network and endpoint technology, from thorough investigation to containment and recovery. Judges said, “there can be no question that Mandiant/FireEye is at the forefront of the IR space”.

Best Identity Management Solution
Winner My1Login Enterprise AIM
My1login.com is a cloud based IAM, supporting very high-grade encryption options. An expanding suite of products including access controls, privileged access management, identity manager, and auditing options. The UI is simple and provides a good experience for both technicians and end-users.

Best Enterprise Security Solution
Winner Proofpoint P1 Advanced Email Security
This offers a fully featured anti-phishing solution including protection from malware and business email compromise, visibility into Very Attacked People (VAPs), automated response and phishing simulation and security awareness training. This subscription service has a 91% customer satisfaction rating.

Best Endpoint Technology
Winner FireEye Endpoint Security
“FireEye are market and opinion leaders in this space and their products/services are excellent,” said judges, adding, it is a “comprehensive product with multi-layered defence in depth”. This solution employs multi-level endpoint defence including endpoint protection, detection, and response in a single agent.

Best Emerging Technology
Winner SecuPi software
This platform delivers data-centric security and compliance, enabling organisations to discover, monitor in real-time, anonymise and logically delete access to sensitive data based on user attributes/roles and customer consent, or deletion requests. Judges said this was “a valuable product in a privacy-driven landscape”.

Best Email Security Solution
Winner Barracuda Total Email Protection
This provides all four layers of email protection: secure email gateway, inbox defence, security awareness training and automated incident response. “A very compelling entry here providing a great story as to why this is a top-notch product,” said our judges.

Best Data Leakage Protection Solution
Winner Forcepoint DLP
The Forcepoint DLP product delivers unified data and IP protection for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises with a focus on understanding the people who create, touch, and move data, in order to protect users and data across endpoints, networks and cloud applications.

Best Customer Service
Winner Vectra
Last year, Vectra achieved 100 percent positive customer satisfaction responses and replied to every single initial enquiry within one hour. A major contributor to this is that the company deliberately doesn't measure time to close. Instead, Customer Support Engineers are measured only on customer satisfaction.

Best Cloud Computing Security Solution
Winner Proofpoint CASB
This agentless solution from Proofpoint unifies DLP incident management across cloud apps, email, and on-premises repositories to simplify day-to-day operations. It is designed to deliver people-centric and high-efficacy security analytics that protect users from account compromise, malicious files, and data loss.

Best Behaviour Analytics/Enterprise Threat Detection
Winner Gurucul Risk Analytics (GRA)
This platform analyses massive amounts of data on user/entity behaviours from virtually any data source, including the network, IT systems, cloud platforms, applications, IoT, social media, etc. Judges said this is a “good UEBA solution with flexible deployment options”.

Best Authentication Technology
Winner iProov
Our judges said that “iProov presented some solid business benefits for its solution. The linked video was very good describing the innovative nature of iProov in particular bringing out the AI aspects.” This product provides facial biometric services to authenticate remote users.

Editor’s Choice Award
Winner Mandy Haeburn Little
Known throughout the cyber security space in Scotland, Haeburn Little was chief executive of the Scottish Business Resilience Centre for over nine years. She has also led cybersecurity initiatives and campaigns and is a strong advocate for making STEM careers accessible to young people.

CISO of the year
Winner Becky Pinkard – CISO at Aldermore Bank PLC
Pinkard is a cybersecurity influencer and role model for women in technology. She is an advocate for promoting diversity in business and co-founded WEDS to use,” the fresh opportunity start-ups present, to change industry culture for the better”.