Stellar Cyber Honored as Finalist of the 2026 SC Awards

For Second Consecutive Year, AI-Native Security Operations Platform Recognized in the Best SME Security Solution Category

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stellar Cyber, the cybersecurity illumination company behind the industry’s leading human-augmented autonomous SOC platform, has been named a finalist in the prestigious 2026 SC Awards. For the second consecutive year, Stellar Cyber has been recognized in the Best SME Security Solution category, underscoring its commitment to cybersecurity excellence and leadership for small to midsized enterprises. The SC Awards, now in its 29th year, recognize the solutions, organizations, and individuals that have demonstrated outstanding achievement in advancing the security of information systems.

A complete list of 2026 SC Awards finalists is available on SC Media here: https://www.scworld.com/sc-awards-finalists

The 2026 SC Awards entries were evaluated across 33 specialty categories by a distinguished panel of judges, comprised of cybersecurity professionals, industry leaders, and members of the CyberRisk Alliance CISO community, representing sectors such as healthcare, financial services, education, and technology.

This year, all finalists are invited to the SC Awards Reception, where the 2026 winners will be announced on Tuesday, March 24, 2026, at RSAC in San Francisco. Stellar Cyber will showcase its award-winning, AI-driven SecOps platform at RSAC show booth #327 in South Hall at the Moscone Center. To set up a time to see the Stellar Cyber Human Augmented Autonomous SOC live at RSA, click here.

“The SC Awards celebrate excellence and innovation in cybersecurity, recognizing the people and technologies driving real progress,” said CyberRisk Alliance Chief Content Officer Kelley Damore. “Being named a finalist is a mark of credibility and trust — a powerful validation from peers and experts who understand what it takes to deliver real-world security impact.”

“Being named an SC Awards finalist for the second consecutive year in the Best SME Security Solution category is a powerful validation of our mission. At Stellar Cyber, we are deeply committed to ensuring that small and midsized enterprises have access to the same high-tier, AI-driven security capabilities as the world's largest organizations,” said Aimei Wei, CTO and Co-Founder of Stellar Cyber. “Our human-augmented autonomous SOC platform is designed specifically to simplify complex operations, allowing SMEs to achieve elite-level protection and resilience without the need for a costly army of analysts."

Throughout the month, SC Media’s editorial team will feature in-depth coverage of each finalist on SC Media’s website at www.scworld.com/sc-awards, along with promoting finalists across SC Media’s social media channels on LinkedIn and Twitter.

About CyberRisk Alliance (CRA)

CyberRisk Alliance provides business intelligence that helps the cybersecurity ecosystem connect, share knowledge, accelerate careers, and make smarter and faster decisions. Through its trusted information brands, network of experts, and more than 250 annual events, CRA delivers actionable insights and serves as a powerful extension of cybersecurity marketing teams. Its brands include SC World, the Official Cybersecurity Summits, Identiverse, InfoSec World, CyberRisk Collaborative, Security Weekly, ChannelPro, ChannelE2E, MSSP Alert, ExecWeb, LaunchTech Communications, and CyberRisk TV.

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About Stellar Cyber

Stellar Cyber is the only AI-driven SecOps platform purpose-built for MSSPs and lean enterprise security teams. Since 2015, we’ve been illuminating the darkest corners of cybersecurity to help organizations see every threat, know what matters most, and act with speed and confidence — always with the human in the loop.

By applying the right tool to the right problem, Stellar Cyber combines machine learning to uncover hidden anomalies, agentic AI to guide responses in real time, and human-augmented decision-making where expertise is essential. The result is real-world impact: analyst productivity improved by more than 80%, false positives reduced by over 90%, and security teams free to focus on what matters.

Our award-winning, open SecOps platform unifies SIEM, NDR / OT, ITDR / UEBA, detection, investigation, triage, response, and Multi-Layer AI™ under one platform. Stellar Cyber is trusted by one-third of the world’s top 250 MSSPs and over 14,000 organizations worldwide.