A100 — Emerging Cybersecurity Leaders.
The A100 — accelerated CISOs — recognizes the next generation of cybersecurity leadership. These are the senior practitioners moving fast through the field: people who are already operating at the cutting edge but whose names the broader profession may not yet know. The program is intentionally upstream of the C100 in the career arc.
The 2025 cohort included CISOs and equivalent leaders from financial services, healthcare, defense industrial base, and high-growth technology. Judging is conducted by the same standing-CISO panel discipline as the C100 — practitioner-reviewed, no vendor influence on selection.
A100 winner wall
Every A100 honoree, by year. Sourced from the program's public winner announcements.
One nominee. One form.
Self-nominations welcome. The judging panel reviews submissions on a rolling basis.