The practices building the most durable security businesses right now are the ones that figured out how to deliver CISO-level outcomes without waiting for a CISO-level hire.
Cynomi has been named a Gold Stevie Award winner for Technical Innovation of the Year, recognized for building CISO Intelligence, the intelligence layer that embeds the decision-making logic of an experienced security leader directly into the workflows MSPs, MSSPs, and vCISO practices use every day.
The recognition matters because the judges weren’t evaluating marketing language. They were evaluating outcomes. From the feedback: “The numbers back it up: 319% year-over-year growth in vCISO adoption among partners, 4x capacity improvement, and the DeepSeas case study (100+ clients, 50% faster onboarding, 75% improvement in executive engagement effectiveness) is the kind of concrete evidence that moves a nomination from interesting to compelling.”
Several judges highlighted what distinguishes Cynomi from the compliance and audit tools the broader market tends to compare it against. While competitive GRC platforms focus on audit readiness or risk assessments, Cynomi is built as a force multiplier for the entire service delivery operation: turning security delivery from a headcount problem into a platform problem, and giving every team member access to the contextual judgment that used to live exclusively with senior consultants.
The judges also singled out the partner-driven development model. Cynomi’s 20-member Partner Advisory Council provides direct input into the product roadmap, and a dedicated feedback portal lets partners comment on, suggest, and upvote features in real time. Many of the platform’s recent enhancements shipped directly in response to that feedback, including the expanded vulnerability management integrations, the new Cynomi Packages, and the AI Coworkers now available across Policy, Risk Management, Findings, and Remediation workflows.
Those AI Coworkers represent the most recent evolution of CISO Intelligence, and the clearest expression of what the award recognizes. They don’t assist with security work in the way a generic AI tool might. They produce it: client-specific policies, prioritized remediation roadmaps, risk management outputs, and findings reports, all grounded in each client’s actual posture data and ready to review and ship. Partners using them are seeing up to 4x capacity gains and a payback period of one to three months measured in new revenue generated and labor capacity freed.
The platform that makes this possible now supports more than 500 partners globally across North America, Europe, and the UK. If you’re building or scaling a security practice and want to see what CISO Intelligence looks like in your workflows, the platform page is the right place to start. And if you want to hear how partners like DeepSeas, ECI, Net Friends, and CA2 Security are putting it to work, the partner stories are there too.
A Gold Stevie is a meaningful external signal. The work that earned it is available to any service provider ready to use it. Book a Security Growth Session to see it in action.
