The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
After another hard year for cyber defences, the cream of the UK's IT security industry came to celebrate and blow off some steam Computing's Security Excellence Awards last week. We have a separate article if you only want to see the winners, but here are some of the photos that our photographer snapped on the night.
The immaculate presentation of the Marriott Hotel greeted guests as they arrived.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
Then followed the flurry of activity as attendees arrived, greeted friends and found their seats (and champagne) - as well as weighed their chances against the competition.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
Once everyone had taken their seats, Delta Editor Tom Allen welcomed guests, wished them good luck and introduced our charity partner, Place2Be.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
After dinner, host Angela Barnes took to the stage to tell the audience about her proud working class roots: "You can always tell a working class person in one way: if you compliment something they're wearing, they'll instantly tell you where it's from and how much it cost."
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
Finally, it was time for the awards to begin. Our first prize, for Edge Computing Security, went to Radius Payment Solutions.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
Zaizi took the DevSecOps Award.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
Congratulations to Proofpoint for winning the Email Security Award.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
Qualys won the Enterprise Security Award category.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
Well done to Infoblox for winning the Enterprise Threat Detection Award.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
CyberArk won the IAM Award, and later scooped up the Cloud Security Award, too.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
Fidelis Cybersecurity won the Managed Security Award for its managed SOC.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
One of the night's big winners was iboss, which secured top marks in the Mobile Security Award and CISO/CSO of the Year, for Paul Martini (who could not attend - the award was collected on his behalf).
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
Our judges chose Vectra's Vectra Cognito as the Most Innovative AI/ML Solution in security today.
Sorry, Angela.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
Endace secured (sorry) the Network Security Award, building on its long history of network monitoring.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
The Risk Management Award went to OneTrust, for reducing both risk and the amount of work involved in securing the partner network.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
DFLabs' impressive solution, which automates detection, response and support remediation, helped the company to win the Security Automation Award.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
Winning both Security Project of the Year and Security Educator of the Year, dressCode had reason to celebrate!
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
Censornet won the SME Security Solution Award for its single pane of glass tool.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
The Security Innovation - Mobile Award went to Mobileiron, which tackles multiple vulnerabilities at once with its zero-trust approach.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
Egress won Security Innovation of the Year, for developing secure communications comparable to email, without the risk of data loss.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
Next up was CybSafe, our Security Training Provider of the Year, with its personalised training scheme.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
Allstate won Security Team of the Year, with some great examples of the initiatives performed both within and outside the organisation.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
Cath Goulding of Nominet was the Security Woman of the Year - an outstanding role model and cyber expert.
The Security Excellence Awards 2019 - in pictures
The best photos from the big night
Finally, our Darktrace was named as our Security Vendor of the Year (award collected on their behalf).