Cyber professionals from around the world gathered at International Cyber Expo for the revealing of the finalists of the inaugural Cyber Outstanding Security Performance Awards (Cyber OSPAs).
The awards were launched earlier this year to recognise the outstanding contribution organisations, people and technology are making to protect society from all areas of cybercrime globally.
Professor Martin Gill, Founder of the awards, remarked: “We were astounded from the response we received, especially in the first year; nominations were received from far-reaching countries including, Australia, Belgium, Egypt, Germany, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Romania, USA, UAE and UK.
“The judges had a difficult job in scoring the many entries as the competition was very high, and I am very grateful to every one of them who gave up their time. And those that have been selected as finalists should feel very proud.”
The finalists now go forward to the next phase of the competition and winners will be revealed at a free to attend virtual awards show which will be streamed live on 14 December 2021. The finalists are:
Outstanding Chief Information Security Officer
Ian Bishop-Laggett – Schroders Personal Wealth
Tony Clarke – Marken
Glen Hymers – Save The Children International
Chris Richards – AWE
Marc S. Sokol – Citi
Outstanding Cyber Security Professional
Adel Abdel Moneim – International Telecommunication Union
Daniel Berry – Claremont
Stuart Coppard – Kier Group
Alex Costinean – Reliance ACSN
Gary Gaskell – Infosec Services Pty Ltd
Shahul Hameed Rahamathullah – Department Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi
Anna B – AWE
Ashish Mehta – Genese Incubation Management
Lee Rendell – Kaspersky
Sameer Saxena – Inspira Enterprise India Pvt Ltd
Outstanding Cyber Security Team
AWE Active Cyber Defence Team
CyberQ Group Global Cyber Team
Cyber Security Center of Excellence – Government of West Bengal, India
Cyber Smart Defence Ethical Hackers Team – Cyber Smart Defence SRL
Marken Information Security Team
Schroders Personal Wealth Information Security Team
SecuriGroup Cyber Security Team
UTHSC Office of Cybersecurity Team
Outstanding Cyber Security Consultant
Sameep Agarwal – Mahindra Defence System Ltd
Madalin Dumitru – Cyber Smart Defence SRL
Vineet Love – Accenture Canada
Oscar O’Connor – Oscar O’Connor & Co
Cyber Security Center of Excellence – Government of West Bengal, India
Jose Viera – Reliance ACSN
Peter Yapp – Schillings
Outstanding Customer Service Initiative
Cyber Security Center of Excellence – Government of West Bengal, India
iSTORM® Privacy – Security – Pentesting Initiative
Outstanding Cyber Security Training/Awareness Initiative
Laura Cowie and Grahame Mace – Cyber Protect Unit – Devon and Cornwall Police
Fabian Cholewa – RWE AG
CAPSLOCK
Covea Insurance Training and Awareness Initiative
Cyber Security Center of Excellence, Government of West Bengal, India
Nick Harris – Oxford Nanopore Technologies
NPCC National Cybercrime Programme
Romanian Association for Information Security Assurance
SSE Security Culture Programme
Schroders Personal Wealth Cyber Security Awareness Programme
Outstanding Cyber Security Partnership
AWE & F-Secure
Cyber Security Center of Excellence – Government of West Bengal, India
North East Business Resilience Centre
Office for Nuclear Regulation Cyber Security and Information Assurance Specialism in partnership with Ascentor and Leonardo
Outstanding Police/Law Enforcement Initiative
Cyber Griffin – City of London Police
Cyber Security Center of Excellence – Government of West Bengal, India
NPCC National Cybercrime Programme
Police Scotland
Outstanding Young Cyber Security Professional
Joseph DeMars – Millennium Space Systems
Sarah Norman – Department for Transport
Promathes Mandal – Cyber Security Center of Excellence, Government of West Bengal, India
Praveen Nair – Carsome
Frank Plummer – Mayden
Callum Ring – Penguin Random House UK
Scott S – AWE
Vikram Sokhi – Thames Water
Joseph Wise – SASIG
Outstanding New Cyber Security Product
Battle Fortress – RangeForce
CodeSentry – GrammaTech
Deduce Customer Alerts – Deduce
eAccess – Accessium UK
Ermetic
GRAYPATH – Intelligent Waves LLC
Hypori Inc.
Maverics Identity Orchestration Platform™ – Strata Identity
NetAccess – NetAbstraction
TrueFort Fortress Microsegmentation for CrowdStrike – TrueFort
Lifetime Achievement to be awarded at the event on 14 December.
Sponsorship opportunities are available for the event and can be viewed here.