IoT Security Product of the Year

About this award

The IoT Security Product of the Year Award recognizes the solution that best safeguards IoT devices, networks, data, and users from emerging threats. This award celebrates products that deliver strong, verifiable protection while enabling IoT systems to scale and operate with confidence.

As IoT adoption accelerates, security is no longer optional. It is foundational. Attack surfaces expand with every connected device, gateway, platform, and data stream, and vulnerabilities in one area can ripple across entire systems. Winning entries demonstrate technical rigor, usability, and real-world validation, proving that effective security can work alongside performance, scalability, and ease of deployment.

This category highlights solutions that anticipate evolving risks, enforce best practices, and help organizations maintain trust in their connected systems. From embedded device protection and identity management to network security, monitoring, threat detection, and cloud security platforms, this award honors innovations that raise the standard for safe and reliable IoT.

What this award recognizes

• Products that prevent, detect, or mitigate IoT-specific vulnerabilities and threats
• Solutions verified through real-world deployments, independent testing, certifications, or customer outcomes
• Security products that balance strong protection with usability, performance, and operational scalability
• Tools that improve device, network, data, cloud, or user-layer security across connected environments

Who should enter

Entries are welcome from organizations delivering IoT-focused security products, platforms, hardware, software, or services that protect connected systems and reduce risk across real-world deployments.

Judging criteria

• Protection: Effectiveness at addressing IoT-specific risks, vulnerabilities, attack surfaces, and operational threats
• Validation: Certifications, third-party tests, customer results, deployment evidence, or measurable threat reduction
• Scalability: Ability to support large, diverse, distributed, or high-growth IoT environments
• Usability: Simplicity of integration, management, monitoring, policy enforcement, and updates
• Adaptability: Responsiveness to evolving threats, changing device fleets, and emerging security requirements
• Operational value: Ability to improve trust, reduce risk, support compliance, or strengthen long-term IoT resilience

Eligibility

• Open worldwide to companies, organizations, teams, and individuals operating in the Internet of Things
• The product must be launched, updated, adopted, validated, or materially enhanced within the applicable award year
• Entries should include evidence of security performance, customer adoption, certifications, testing, threat reduction, or deployment outcomes
• Confidential or sensitive details may be summarized or redacted for judging

What to submit

• Summary describing the security product, the risks it addresses, and the outcomes it delivers
• Evidence of impact, such as test results, certifications, adoption data, case studies, customer outcomes, or threat reduction metrics
• Supporting materials, including product documentation, architecture overviews, screenshots, reports, deployment examples, or customer references
• Optional demo, technical brief, security validation document, or reference contact

Best of 2026 schedule

• Entries Open: Tuesday, December 1, 2026
• Early Bird Deadline: Friday, January 15, 2027
• Final Entry Deadline: Friday, February 12, 2027
• Winners Announced: Tuesday, March 9, 2027