Cyber professionals from around the world gathered today 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 said: ‘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.’ Gill further added ‘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 14th 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 14th December.
