Announcing the finalists for the Security Excellence Awards 2025

We are pleased announce the shortlist for this year's Security Excellence Awards

The finalists for the Computing Security Excellence Awards 2025 represent the very best of technology, innovation, projects, people and leadership in cybersecurity. A strong and diverse array of companies and individuals committed to advancing digital safety and protecting organizations from evolving cyber threats are represented in the shortlist.

We will be honouring the finalists' success at the awards ceremony on Thursday 1^st May, at One Moorgate Place in the City of London. Attendees will enjoy an evening of celebration and networking, with a drinks reception, live entertainment and of course the awards ceremony itself.

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After careful consideration and rigorous evaluation, our panel of judges has selected the following companies and individuals for their exemplary contributions:

Product Awards

**NEW!** AI Security Solution Award

• Periphery
• Veracity Trust Network
• Tanium
• BigID
• Darktrace

**NEW!** Endpoint Security Solution Award

• Arqit-SKA Platform
• Huntress Managed Endpoint Detection and Response
• Illumio Endpoint

**NEW!** Enterprise Security Solution Award

• Salt Communication
• Huntsman Security Enterprise SIEM
• Cato Networks - Cato SASE Cloud
• Quod Orbis, Continuous Controls Monitoring
• GTT Secure Connect and Managed Firewall Service
• Darktrace, ActiveAI Security Platform
• Extreme Networks, ExtremeCloud™ Universal Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
• JetPatch, Automated Vulnerability Remediation
• Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation

Backup, Recovery & DLP Award

• Hornetsecurity 365 Total Backup
• Zerto (a HPE Company)
• Veeam, Veeam Data Platform

Cloud Security Award

• EndaceProbe Cloud
• Darktrace / CLOUD
• Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM

Email Security Award

• Beyond Encryption, Mailock
• Darktrace / EMAIL

Managed Security Award

• DigitalXRAID
• Littefish
• Socura Managed Detection and Response
• Performanta
• GTT Managed Security Service
• Rapid7 Managed Threat Complete
• Wavenet
• C2 Risk Ltd. Proassure

Network Security Award

• EndaceProbe: Always-on Packet Capture
• GTT Envision Platform
• Arqit SKA-Platform
• Extreme Networks, ExtremeCloud™ Universal Zero Trust Network Access
• Nordlayer
• Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation

SME Security Solution Award

• Salt Communications
• Huntsman Security SmartCheck
• Active Cyber Insurance by Coalition
• Stripe OLT

Individual / Company Awards

CISO/CSO of the Year Award

• Steven Fry, Director of DDaT at Salford City Counci
• Justyna Larkowska, CISO at Ardonagh Advisory
• Leroy Stanford. Head of Infosec, Ocado Techology
• Polly Cameron – CISO/CSO at National Gas
• David Batho, CISO at Jisc

Rising Star of the Year Award

• Patrick Abdul-Ahad, Ardonagh Advisory
• Bisola Kayode, Deloitte
• Kiranjit Kaur Shergill, Barclays
• Kevin Hughes, FTI Consulting
• Sophia McCall, NCC Group
• Shobitha Shivakumar, IBM
• Harshitha Shivakumar, IBM

Security Team of the Year Award

• Ardonagh Advisory
• National Gas
• Kontent.ai
• North Sea Transition Authority
• Lloyds Banking Group, Digital Forensics & Incident Response Team
• Jisc Cybersecurity team
• NCC Group Project Clover (TikTok) team

Security Woman of the Year Award

• Ellise Birch, Motability Operations Limited
• Lisa Ventura, Cyber Security Unity Ltd.
• Felicity March, AccentureEmma Doyley, Head of Information Security, TT Electronics
• Shalu Madan, Lloyds Banking Group
• Joanne Loukes, National Gas
• Sadiat Jimo, Corero Network Security
• Marine Ruhamanya, Accenture
• Siân John MBE, NCC Group
• Sarah Cunningham, Wavenet
• Lucy Sharp. Wavenet
• Rachel Seagrove, Wavenet
• Laurie Gibbet, KPMG
• Shobitha Shivakuma, IBM

Security Vendor of the Year Award

• Salt Communications
• Blancco
• Accedia
• Cato Networks
• Quod Orbis
• Covert Swarm
• Pentest People
• Huntress
• C2 Risk Ltd.

Security Partner of the Year Award

• SharpEagle Techology
• Partner of the North Sea Transition Authority, OGEL IT
• Six Degrees

Project, Team and Innovation Awards

Security Project of the Year Award

• Monzo, Mandatory Security Awareness
• CymruSOC, Wales’ National Security Operations Centre
• Enhancing Mental Wellbeing in Cyber Security, Admiral Insurance Cyber Security
• Quantum Safe, Nationwide and IBM
• Admiral adopts JFrog's DevSecOps Platform

Security Training Programme of the Year Award

• Pentest People Academy
• ISC2 One Million Certified in Cybersecurity
• Trust4Futures/ASecuritySite, Edinburgh Napier University, Istanbul Blockchain Women and TAGES RD

Security Innovation of the Year Award

• Validato, Validato Security Validation
• National Gas – Cyber Operational Research Environment (CORE)
• Quod Orbis Continuous Controls Monitoring
• Performanta Safe XDR
• 1Kosmos Platform
• Arqit-SKA Platform
• Rapid7 Surface Command
• Searchlight Cyber Dark Web Intelligence
• POSSE, CyberGuardia

Join us as we honour these remarkable individuals and businesses and their contributions to technology by reserving your place at the event now.