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Sector Award · Frontier technologies · 2026

Cybersecurity and Digital Trust: the winner and finalists

7 finalist partnerships, chosen from 9 eligible university and company partnerships in the open record. The winner is listed first; the other finalists follow in alphabetical order of university. The winner in each category is the finalist with the highest partnership score (volume of joint work 40%, years active 30%, field-weighted citation impact 30%) in the frozen Edition 1 record. No panel, nomination or payment plays any part. Winners were announced with the index at 05:30 BST, Thursday 15 October 2026, after the corrections and opt-out window closed at 17:00 BST on Tuesday 13 October.

All award categoriesThe Cybersecurity and Digital Trust sector index
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Winner · partnership score 80.4, the highest in the category

Concordia University×Ericsson

Canada · company based in Sweden · 15 joint works in the sector · active 5 of 5 years · field-weighted citation impact 1.47
MD
Mourad DebbabiAcademic co-author · Concordia University · 7 joint works in the partnership · ORCID
MP
Makan PourzandiIndustry co-author · Ericsson · 11 joint works in the partnership · ORCID
“A Survey on Threat Hunting in Enterprise Networks” (2023, 80 citations)
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Korea University×Samsung

South Korea · company based in South Korea · 7 joint works in the sector · active 4 of 5 years · field-weighted citation impact 0.85
JH
Junbeom HurAcademic co-author · Korea University · 2 joint works in the partnership · ORCID
HK
Hyunsoo KwonIndustry co-author · Samsung · 2 joint works in the partnership · ORCID
“Certificate Transparency With Enhanced Privacy” (2022, 8 citations)
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Southern University of Science and Technology×Cybernetica

China · company based in Estonia · 5 joint works in the sector · active 2 of 5 years · field-weighted citation impact 2.03
AA
Adeel AnjumAcademic co-author · Southern University of Science and Technology · 5 joint works in the partnership · ORCID
SM
Saif Ur Rehman MalikIndustry co-author · Cybernetica · 4 joint works in the partnership · ORCID
“A Deep Learning-Based Privacy-Preserving Model for Smart Healthcare in Internet of Medical Things Using Fog Computing” (2022, 62 citations)
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University of Electro-Communications×Mitsubishi Electric

Japan · company based in Japan · 7 joint works in the sector · active 4 of 5 years · field-weighted citation impact 0.89
AO
Akihiko OhsugaAcademic co-author · University of Electro-Communications · 3 joint works in the partnership · ORCID
HO
Hiroshi OkumuraIndustry co-author · Mitsubishi Electric · 3 joint works in the partnership · ORCID
“Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Data Collection and Analysis with Many Missing Values” (2022, 19 citations)
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University of Tartu×Cybernetica

Estonia · company based in Estonia · 10 joint works in the sector · active 4 of 5 years · field-weighted citation impact 2.03
RM
Raimundas MatulevičiusAcademic co-author · University of Tartu · 4 joint works in the partnership · ORCID
PL
Peeter LaudIndustry co-author · Cybernetica · 4 joint works in the partnership · ORCID
“Multi-level privacy analysis of business processes: the Pleak toolset” (2021, 7 citations)
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University of Washington×Microsoft

United States · company based in United States · 7 joint works in the sector · active 3 of 5 years · field-weighted citation impact 1.27
BH
Bill HoweAcademic co-author · University of Washington · 2 joint works in the partnership · ORCID
EM
Elizabeth McKinnieIndustry co-author · Microsoft · 2 joint works in the partnership · ORCID
“Epistemic Parity: Reproducibility as an Evaluation Metric for Differential Privacy” (2023, 5 citations)
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University of Waterloo×Orange

Canada · company based in France · 5 joint works in the sector · active 3 of 5 years · field-weighted citation impact 1.81
RB
Raouf BoutabaAcademic co-author · University of Waterloo · 5 joint works in the partnership · ORCID
BM
Bertrand MathieuIndustry co-author · Orange · 5 joint works in the partnership · ORCID
“A Look Behind the Curtain: Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web” (2021, 70 citations)

Partnership score: volume of joint work 40%, years active 30%, field-weighted citation impact 30% (shrunk toward 1.0 when evidence is thin). Joint works count half where the only company author also holds a post at the university. The named researchers co-wrote the cited paper and represent a wider team. Full rules.