The Australian Cyber Awards, in conjunction with event stakeholders Cyber Daily, Momentum Media and a panel of leading cyber professionals, use a robust awards methodology to form the backbone for assessing and benchmarking Australia’s leading cyber professionals and businesses.
The judging criteria for award categories are both quantitative and qualitative, acknowledging growth, business development, diversity, leadership, innovation, business excellence and contribution to Australia’s cyber sector.
All businesses and professionals that meet eligibility criteria from across Australia’s cyber sector are encouraged to participate in the awards program.
To view all award categories, click here.
Criteria for all award categories, including questionnaire and required supporting information, can be downloaded here.
Australia’s cyber sector is given the opportunity to nominate a friend, colleague or peer for the Australian Cyber Awards.
The cyber sector is informed of the opening of the nominations for the events program via Cyber Daily, with additional marketing of the event circulated via social media, partners, stakeholders, online media and other channels for the cyber sector. The objective is to ensure inclusiveness and wide participation from across Australia’s cyber industry.
Nominations can be made directly by an individual or company. If you would like to nominate a business partner, colleague, sector participant, business, sub-contractor, university, association or any connected eligible entity for an award, click here.
Nominating is easy and will take less than a minute, and nominations across multiple categories can be done on one form.
NOTE: Self-nominating participants who meet eligibility criteria can move directly from stage one to stage three.
Nominees are offered the opportunity to provide a submission for those award categories they are nominated for or wish to participate in if self-nominating.
Nominees (businesses or individuals) can, where relevant, submit for multiple award categories where they meet the award’s criteria. To review all category details, click here.
Submissions do take time and effort. Expect each nomination to take up to three to four hours; some category submissions may take longer. Participants are encouraged to do fewer submissions but at a higher standard and quality to best ensure positive performance in the awards program.
All submissions are electronic and must be received through our secure awards platform by 5:30pm AEDT on 5 February 2025.
The awards platform is safe and secure. It’s ISO/IEC 27001 certified, compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), PCI DSS and more. No information received via the awards process or portal is used for any reason other than for assessing the submission and is only shared with those judges who are judging each specific award.
All submissions undergo a thorough audit process, checking demographic and other information against category-eligible criteria based on the information provided in the submission.
Those submissions deemed eligible against submission criteria are reviewed and assessed by a panel of Momentum Media events and editorial team members and executives, plus stakeholders where required to determine the finalists for each category.
The number of finalists varies for each award category.
Finalists are contacted directly by the Momentum Media team advising that they are finalists. Finalists are then announced publicly via Cyber Daily and the Australian Cyber Awards website. Finalists will be announced in March 2025.
All finalists will be emailed a finalist’s pack with seals and other collateral to support their marketing and other promotions associated with securing a finalist position at the Australian Cyber Awards.
Finalist submissions are delivered to a panel of respected professionals and business leaders who assess each submission against the criteria of each award category. The judging panel can be viewed here.
The judges score each part of the submission across the category’s criteria to reach an aggregated score. Several judges will individually assess each submission for each category, offering a blended score and assessment.
The combined judging scores for each submission for each category is tabulated, with the highest-scoring submission deemed the winner.
One winner will be announced per award category, with the awards presented at the black-tie Australian Cyber Awards gala dinner. For full details about the event click here.
For additional details on the methodology or any information regarding your submission, please contact our team here.
