| Prof | Ahmed | Hassen | Agricultural Research Councl | South Africa | Others | Applied Microbiology | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Desiree | Hamman-Fisher | University of the Western Cape | South Africa | Cybersecurity and Cryptography Policies and Regulations | Education and Industrial Psychology | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Teboho | Pitso | Vaal University of Technology | South Africa | Cybersecurity Education and Training | Technology-assisted education | Excellence in Research |
| Dr | Michael | Humbani | University of Pretoria | South Africa | Cybersecurity and Cryptography Policies and Regulations | Mobile payments | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Pfuurai | Chimbunde | University of the Free State | South Africa | Cryptography for Emerging Technologies (e.g., blockchain, IoT) | key Infrastructure Development | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Oliver | Dzobo | University of Johannesburg | South Africa | Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure and Industrial Control Systems | Energy sector | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof Dr | Borka | Jerman Blazic | Jozef Stefan Institute, International post graduate school, Ljubljana, Slovenia | Slovenia | Cybersecurity Education and Training | Forensic, Privacy, eID, Secure Cross-Border data transfer | Women Researcher Award |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Tibor | Krenicky | Technical University of Košice | Slovakia | Others | safety | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Muhammad | Nawaz | National University of Singapore | Singapore | Incident Response and Digital Forensics | Assessing community resilience | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof. Dr | Ousmane | THIARE | Université Gaston Berger | Senegal | Others | IoT | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Ala | Alluhaidan | Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University | Saudi Arabia | Cybersecurity and Cryptography Policies and Regulations | Cybersecurity and Cryptography | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist. Prof. Dr | Amjad | Qashlan | University of Jeddah | Saudi Arabia | Cloud Security and Virtualization | Differential Privacy Model for Blockchain based Smart Home Architecture | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Munirah Sarhan | AlQahtani | Imam Mohammed bin Saud university | Saudi Arabia | Human Factors in Cybersecurity and Cryptography. | Management | Women Researcher Award |
| Dr | Sultan | Al Ghamdi | Technical and Vocational Training Corporation | Saudi Arabia | Cybersecurity Risk Management and Governance | Information Security Governance | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Mohammed | Abuhussain | Najran University | Saudi Arabia | Others | Architectural Engineering | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Sabeena | Kazi | College of Computers and Information Sciences, Majmaah University | Saudi Arabia | Others | Chemical Graph Theory | Best Researcher Award |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | ali | alshahrani | taif university | Saudi Arabia | Human Factors in Cybersecurity and Cryptography. | health economic and outcome research | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Tanzeel | Ur Rehman | Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences | Saudi Arabia | Cybersecurity Risk Management and Governance | Bibliometric Analysis | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof. Dr | Fairouz | Tchier | King Saud University | Saudi Arabia | Public Key Infrastructure and Key Management | Cryptography | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Mohamed | Benghanem | Islamic University of Madinah, Faculty of Science | Saudi Arabia | Intrusion Detection and Prevention | fault diagnosis of photovoltaic systems | Best Researcher Award |