Zywave names 2026 Cyber Risk Award winners at New York gala
Zywave’s 13th Cyber Risk Awards drew 450 attendees to Gotham Hall and put 20 categories under peer vote. Seven individuals and 13 companies were recognized.
Zywave turned its 13th Cyber Risk Awards into a sharp read on where cyber insurance still sees value: Gotham Hall, 450 attendees, 20 categories, and a peer vote that recognized seven individuals and 13 companies. In a market where brokers and carriers keep looking for tools that help them price, place, and retain cyber business, the gala offered a view of the workflows the industry still rewards.
The company announced the winners the next day after the black-tie dinner in New York City on Thursday, June 11, 2026. Zywave said the awards have run since 2013 and that thousands of votes were cast, which gives the program a different weight than a simple trade-party trophy wall. It is framed as peer recognition, and in a specialty line as fast-moving as cyber, that peer signal still carries commercial value.
The bigger context matters too. Zywave’s broader insurance platform is aimed at carriers, MGAs, agencies, and brokers, with tools built around underwriting and pricing, client retention, Loss Insight, Commercial Analytics, and rating-quote-bind workflows. Zywave says that platform serves more than 150,000 insurance professionals worldwide, so the cyber awards sit inside a larger business that already sells technology into P&C distribution and risk operations. That makes the evening less about pageantry than about positioning: the company is aligning itself with the people shaping how cyber coverage is evaluated and sold.
The finalists page showed how broad that cyber ecosystem has become, with categories spanning US, London, Rest of World, Service Provider, Actuary/Modeler, and Attorney. Zywave also lined up sponsors including Abacus, Arete, The Beckage Firm, CFC, Epiq, Gordon Rees, Pondurance, S-RM, Terra Dygital, and Wood Smith Henning & Berman. The program’s scale has held up even as the format has shifted year to year: the 2025 event had 17 categories and nearly 500 attendees, while the 2024 gathering drew nearly 10,000 votes and 480 attendees.
That durability is the real story for brokers and insurers watching cyber software buying. The market is still organizing around technology that can improve exposure insight, support underwriting judgment, and strengthen client conversations, not just around standalone coverage language. The winners may get the spotlight, but the deeper message is that cyber risk remains one of the clearest places where insurance software can prove measurable value across P&C workflows.
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