EC-Council Announces CISO Award Winners at Black Tie Gala
The finalists for four award categories in the CISO Awards program attended a black-tie gala in their honor in Atlanta, GA on September 13th ahead of the Hacker Halted and Global CISO Forum conferences.
ATLANTA, Sept. 24, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- In a black-tie ceremony, EC-Council honored leaders in information security by recognizing finalists and winners in seven categories. The CISO Awards precedes both Hacker Halted (https://www.hackerhalted.com/), EC-Council's largest annual cybersecurity conference, and the Global CISO Forum (https://ciso.eccouncil.org/ciso-events/) EC-Council's premier executive-level event. EC-Council's CISO Awards recognize leaders making an impact by implementing security programs and security awareness programs that break the mold and address the root problems of modern breaches. These awards are decided by a committee in an anonymous voting process.
The first award given was the Presidential Award for Excellence to Fal Ghancha, the Business Information Security Officer for Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management Limited. The award was given based on Mr. Ghancha's success in enterprise mobility management and his role in managing the risk involved in providing mobility to business users and more flexibility to clients.
The next category was the Most Promising New CISO of the Year, an award given based on the strength of the nomination narrative, but all those considered for the award had to meet three basic criteria:
- Work for one of the largest 500 companies in the world
- Be younger than 40 years old.
- Hold the role of CISO or be the budget controller for company-wide security program
The finalists for the award were Jared Carstensen, CISO of CRH; Abbas Sabuwala, Head of Information Security and Support systems at United Arab Shipping Ltd.; and Meetali Sharma, Head of Risk, Compliance, & Information Security at SDB Corporation.
The winner, Jared Carstensen, is tasked with creating and delivering information and cybersecurity strategy and practices for a $32 billion company, operating in 32 countries across more than 3,500 locations, with a workforce of more than 87,000. On top of this, he finds time to do some outreach. He has taught nearly 500 students in information security (up to a master's degree level), has volunteered and led a local security chapter which has provided support and training services to more than 2,000 school children, and mentors his own team daily.
The next award is the CISO of the Year award. This award, one EC-Council has been giving since the start of the CISO program, is designed to honor a CISO who is going above and beyond the already formidable duties of a CISO and making a difference in the industry with groundbreaking projects and outreach beyond his or her own organization. The finalists included Zachary Mitchem, Chief Information Security and Compliance Officer of North Carolina Central University; Irshad Mohammed, CISO of VPS Healthcare; Shashank Bajpai, CISO of ACKO GENERAL INSURANCE LTD.; Debojit Maitra, CISO of Aditya birla Retail Ltd; Majed Al Ali, Information Security Assurance Manager, National Commercial Bank; Anil Chiplunkar, Associate Director – Information Security of Sciformix Technologies Pvt Ltd; and Sourabh Tiwari, CIO and CISO at Overseas Infrastructure Alliance.
The winner, Zachary Mitchem, was chosen first because of his incredible longevity in the industry. He's had a career of over 37 years that has included experience with strategic planning and policy development, disaster recovery and business continuity, risk management and assessments, compliance with federal, state and local mandates, information security awareness presentations and training, liaising with legal counsel and law enforcement for electronic discovery support, and cyber-criminal investigations with Federal, State and Private industry.
The last CISO award is for the Certified CISO (https://ciso.eccouncil.org/cciso-certification/) , or CCISO, of the year. The CCISO program has been an integral part of EC-Council and the security industry since 2011. It is a program specifically for information security leaders – those already in and those with the right experience and expertise to fill the role of CISO. By recognizing the best of this group of leaders, EC-Council highlights the elite members of information security leadership.
There were two finalists for this award: Ahmed Nabil Mahmoud, CISO of PGESCo. And Anthony Dupree, CISO and CIO of Career Builder. The winner, Anthony Dupree, was chosen because he is a top innovator in cybersecurity with a career spanning more than two decades. He's known for taking a holistic approach and creating a security culture within organizations. He has been the driving force behind global enterprise IT security, network infrastructure and risk and compliance strategies for Fortune 500 organizations.
About EC-Council
EC-Council has been the world's leading information security certification body since the launch of their flagship program, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), which created the ethical hacking industry in 2002. Since the launch of CEH, EC-Council has added industry-leading programs to their portfolio to cover all aspects of information security including EC-Council Certified Security Analyst (ECSA), Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator (CHFI), Certified Chief Information Security Officer (CCISO), among others. EC-Council Foundation, the non-profit branch of EC-Council, created Global CyberLympics, the world's first global hacking competition. EC-Council Foundation also hosts a suite of conferences across the US and around the world including Hacker Halted, Global CISO Forum, TakeDownCon, and CISO Summit. For more information about EC-Council, please see http://www.eccouncil.org.
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