2026 IEEE Internet Award

David Clark
– For groundbreaking contributions and steadfast advocacy in promoting and integrated perspective on the Internet's technical, policy, legal, and economic development.

2026 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award

Moti Yung
– For pioneering research and deploying cryptographic technologies providing security for scalable internet and mobile computing.

IEEE Cybersecurity Awards for Practice

The MITRA ATT&CK framework
Blake Strom, Adam Pennington, Katie Nickels, Jamie Williams
– For contributions to the development and success of MITRE ATT&CK and its contribution to the global cybersecurity community

Secure Coding in C and C++
Robert C. Seacord
– For transformative, widely adopted secure-coding practices for the C/C++ programming, and standards leadership