Nominations are open for Information Security magazine and SearchSecurity.com's fifth annual Security Seven Award. The award, to be announced this fall in the pages of Information Security magazine and online at SearchSecurity.com, honors innovative security practitioners in seven vertical markets. The awards recognize the efforts, achievements and contributions of practitioners in the financial services/banking, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, government/public sector/non-profit, education and healthcare/pharmaceutical industries.
While vendor executives are not eligible, we're inviting you to nominate the industry's most innovative practitioners. Nominees must have made a noteworthy contribution to their organization or the security community in areas such as, but not limited to, research, policy and process development, product development, standards work and community contributions. Individuals must have made an impact on the advancement of, research of, application of and management of information security technologies, policies and practices.
Last year's winners were: Guardian Life Insurance's Mark Sokol; Stanford Hospital's Michael Mucha; Purdue University's Gene Spafford; Rogers Communications' Martin Valloud; the California Office of Information Security and Privacy Protection's Mark Weatherford; Gaylord Entertainment's Mark Burnette; and Motorola's Bill Boni.
A panel of judges will review all nominations and select the winners based on their contributions to the community and their organizations.
Download the nomination form at: searchsecurity.com/securityseven.
All fields must be filled out and e-mailed to: securityseven@infosecuritymag.com
Deadline is July 25, 2009.
This was first published in July 2009