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  • June 11, 2026
  • Gotham Hall, NYC
2026 Cyber Risk Awards Voting Instructions
  • Any person with a valid corporate email address may cast a vote.
  • You are not permitted to vote for your company or your employer or any affiliated companies.
  • Zywave asks for your contact details merely to verify this. Your name will not be published anywhere.
  • Voting will close on Friday, May 22, 2026.

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Cyber Risk Industry Person of the Year – US

This person has demonstrated the dedication, foresight, and leadership to enhance and develop the treatment of cyber risk through the past year.
Cyber Risk Industry Person of the Year – US

Cyber Risk Industry Person of the Year – London

This person has demonstrated the dedication, foresight, and leadership to enhance and develop the treatment of cyber risk through the past year.
Cyber Risk Industry Person of the Year – London

Cyber Risk Industry Person of the Year – Rest of the World (ROW)

This person has demonstrated the dedication, foresight, and leadership to enhance and develop the treatment of cyber risk through the past year.
Cyber Risk Industry Person of the Year – Rest of the World (ROW)

Cyber Risk Industry Person of the Year – Attorney

This attorney has demonstrated the dedication, foresight, and leadership to enhance and develop the treatment of cyber risk through the past year.
Cyber Risk Industry Person of the Year – Attorney

Cyber Risk Industry Person of the Year – Service Provider

This person has demonstrated the dedication, foresight, and leadership to enhance and develop the treatment of cyber risk through the past year.
Cyber Risk Industry Person of the Year – Service Provider

Cyber Risk Industry Person of the Year – Actuary/Modeler

This person has demonstrated the dedication, foresight, and leadership to enhance and develop the treatment of cyber risk through the past year.
Cyber Risk Industry Person of the Year – Actuary/Modeler

Cyber Visionary Award

As the cyber market expands, new ideas, products, teams, and technology for tackling the evolving risks crop up every day. When you think of the cyber risk and insurance sector yesterday, today, and tomorrow – what springs to mind as that cyber “defining moment” and who made it happen?
Cyber Visionary Award

Cyber Newcomer of the Year

This award is specifically designed to recognize a start-up operation or new market entrant in 2025. The winner will have made a mark on the industry and achieved widespread recognition for their efforts.
Cyber Newcomer of the Year

Cyber Law Firm of the Year

This award recognizes the law firm that has been unparalleled in its work within the cyber insurance space in 2025.
Cyber Law Firm of the Year

Cyber New Product or Innovation of the Year

This award recognizes a product launch or innovation in 2025 that was significant. This development made a real impact on how cyber threats are identified, quantified, or mitigated. The winner will be a refreshingly new way of doing business, a technological breakthrough or a particularly interesting partnership of skills to make a splash in 2025.
Cyber New Product or Innovation of the Year

Cyber Reinsurance Broking Team of the Year

This award will go to a reinsurance broking team that made major contributions to the market in 2025, navigating a rapidly evolving space, bridging the gaps between primary carriers and reinsurers, and helping build the future of cyber insurance.
Cyber Reinsurance Broking Team of the Year

Cyber Wholesale Broking Team of the Year

The winner of this award will have enhanced the cyber sector either by innovating a new sales technique or initiative, investing in teams of experts, or developing new products or services.
Cyber Wholesale Broking Team of the Year

Cyber Retail Broking Team of the Year

The winner of this award will have expanded the cyber sector either by a new sales technique or initiative, investing in teams of experts, or by having the best take-up rate in the market.
Cyber Retail Broking Team of the Year

Cyber Reinsurer of the Year

This award will recognize an outstanding reinsurer that has gone above-and-beyond in 2025 to partner with carriers to offer adequate limits for cyber clients.
Cyber Reinsurer of the Year

Cyber Loss Prevention & Risk Quantification Team of the Year (Service Provider)

The winner of this category will be a company or team that has excelled in their approach to assisting organizations to prevent cyber-related losses. Also known as our “pre-breach” or “Cyber Safety & Loss Control” team of the year, this award recognizes achievements in cyber risk mitigation and efforts to reduce cyber exposure.
Cyber Loss Prevention & Risk Quantification Team of the Year (Service Provider)

Cyber Incident Response Team of the Year

This award honors a cyber services team with forensics, investigations, PR/communications and/or notification expertise that has offered outstanding support in the face of a 2025 cyber breach.
Cyber Incident Response Team of the Year

Cyber MGA of the Year

The winner of this award will be a managing general agent that has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to cyber, demonstrating specialized expertise to underwrite policies, and working closely with clients to meet their needs.
Cyber MGA of the Year

Cyber Claims Team (Insurer or MGA) of the Year

This award honors those claims teams in the cyber-trenches dealing with an ever-expanding array of cyber events.
Cyber Claims Team (Insurer or MGA) of the Year

Cyber SME Insurer or MGA of the Year

The winner of this award will be an insurer or MGA that has demonstrated a unique ability to advance the cyber coverage take-up rate among small and medium enterprises. This insurer or MGA is a pioneer helping to expand the overall cyber insurance market.
Cyber SME Insurer or MGA of the Year

Cyber Insurer of the Year

The winner of this award will be an insurer that has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to cyber through investment and entrepreneurialism. They will have mastered the right blend of underwriting discipline while meeting the needs of brokers and buyers.
Cyber Insurer of the Year

Known as the leading networking event on the cyber social calendar, Zywave’s 13th annual Cyber Risk Awards gala dinner honors the cyber market’s top performers. The night features an outstanding lineup of emcees bringing their unique flair and keen insight into the industry to the program. The only truly democratic awards ceremony of its kind, the Cyber Risk Awards do not skew winners to represent advertisers or sponsors and instead rely upon Zywave’s vast database of insurance professionals who are passionate about cyber risk to honor the best of the best.

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