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Your Security Story

Why should you consider nominating your CISO or Information Security Program for an award? EC-Council makes it easy to tell your Security Story through our awards program!

Each finalist will be interviewed on the Global CISO Forum Podcast and featured in an article posted on the CISO website.

The Award Packages

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Finalists

Top 10 in each category
$700 value

  • Hotel room covered for three nights
  • One guest ticket for the Awards Gala dinner
  • Global CISO Forum ticket
  • Website Feature

    Your picture, bio, and company information will be featured on the Awards website

  • Podcast Episode

    You will be interviewed about your career success, nomination, outlook on the industry, and advice you have for up and coming CISOs on the Global CISO Forum Podcast!

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Top 3 Finalists
Top 3 in each category,
Over $1,200 value

  • Everything from the first package
  • Three tickets to the Awards Gala dinner
  • Press release announcing finalist status
  • One company webinar

    on the EC-Council webinar platform (potential audience of 100,000)

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Winners
Announced at the ceremony
Over $10,000 value

  • Everything from the first two packages
  • EC-Council customized training package for staff including:

    • CEH training package including iLabs and iLearn (exam not included)
    • CND training package including iLabs and iLearn (exam not included)
    • Up to 50 CSCU licenses for end user staff – a great addition to a security awareness program!
  • Press release announcing winners
  • Email to member base of 170,000 members announcing winners

The Award Categories

CISO of the Year

Nominate

This award, available only to Information Security Executives (VP, CISO, etc.), recognizes an individual’s outstanding work in information security. We will be honoring one executive who has contributed to the information security industry, shown tremendous professional growth and achievement, and has promoted strong, innovative security practices. When submitting your nomination package for this award, please be sure to include a summary of your work and career advancement over the last year and how you have positively impacted the information security industry. Your entry will be evaluated by a panel of highly qualified information security executives, so make sure that what you present will impress your audience.

Innovative Security Project of the Year

Nominate

This award is intended to recognize the most innovative security project of the year. The nomination must include the following details:
  • Brief description of the project and its goals
  • How the project supported the business/organization by being:
    • Cost effective
    • Impactful to the business or security operations
    • Creative in its use or creation of new models
    • Groundbreaking
    • Measurable – please include statistics on how the project impacted budget, time, or other measurable indicators.

Most Improved Information Security Program of the Year

Nominate

This award is intended to recognize improvements in information security programs that have made use of innovative strategies to bring value quickly to a security program and the overall business/organization’s goals. The nomination must include the following:
  • A baseline of the security program before improvements including measurable indicators
  • The methods used to improve the program
  • Challenges encountered and the solutions implemented to overcome them A thorough analysis of the program after improvements were implemented including measurable indicators

The EC-Council CISO Awards were created to identify and celebrate the amazing work being done around the world by executives dedicated to improving the information security of their respective companies, governments, and organizations. The award finalists and winners are selected and voted on by two committees integral to the success of EC-Council’s CISO program – the CCISO Advisory Board and the CISO Events Board.

Finalists and winners are selected via an anonymous judging process without input by EC-Council staff. Finalists for the 2017 awards will be announced every month starting in January 2017 leading up to the announcement of the winners at the CISO Awards Gala in Atlanta, GA on the night of October 8th, 2017.