Take a look at Point secured for annual Security Serious cyber awards

Nominations are open for the 2024 Security Serious Unsung Heroes cyber security awards, recognising the outstanding skills in the UK security neighborhood, with dilapidated cyber security firm Take a look at Point joining a sponsor lineup that entails names corresponding to Hornet Security, KnowBe4, Pulse Conferences, ThinkCyber and The Zensory.

Now in its ninth year, the Security Serious awards programme – speed by specialist PR company Eskenzi PR – recognises frontline defenders, security leaders and educators, as smartly as these working to toughen issues by promoting diversity in the sphere or championing consciousness of psychological smartly being points among security specialists.

“In a rapidly evolving digital panorama, it’s the these who create the incompatibility in making certain our security,” acknowledged Emilie Beneitez Lefebvre, Take a look at Point PR head for APAC, EMEA and LATAM. “The Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards are a testament to the resilience and skills of these who give protection to our cyber infrastructure.

“Take a look at Point is thrilled to be a sponsor this year, as we deem in the significance of recognising and celebrating the unsung heroes who create the UK a safer attach for all.”

Yvonne Eskenzi, co-founder and director at Eskenzi PR, added: “People are, and continuously contain been, at the coronary heart of the cyber security change. On the different hand, with so many threats and so grand technological vogue, it will also be straightforward to lose seek of the mountainous of us in the assist of the scenes holding us all safe.

“The cyber security neighborhood is stuffed with these who’re holding firms and the final public safe from the specter of cyber crime, at any trace, and it’s crucial that we contain an very unprejudiced appropriate time them as the heroes that they are,” she acknowledged.

“The Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards are a vivid approach for us to present assist to and contain an very unprejudiced appropriate time the efforts of the cyber security neighborhood.”

Nominations are open except 5pm BST on Friday 6 September, earlier than the winners are introduced at a London match in October. This year’s judging panel entails previous winners in conjunction with DocPlanner Community chief details security officer (CISO) Shan Lee and Secureworks threat intelligence knowledge manager Rebecca Taylor, as smartly as sponsor representatives, and author and educator Jenny Radcliffe, veritably is known as The People Hacker.

Taylor, who used to be recognised for her work as a diversity imply in her organisation final year, acknowledged: “Winning Differ Champion in 2023 used to be a game changer for me, no longer fully opening doorways to unique opportunities and relationships, but giving me the self belief to care for pushing laborious in my occupation, and for diversity, fairness and inclusion all over cyber security. I am livid to pass this – and the enjoyment that incorporates the awards – on.

“I will have the ability to’t wait to eye the wonderful pool of nominees, and I am obvious this will also be no straightforward activity whittling them all the manner down to the finalists! Please attain nominate, whether or no longer or no longer it is an wonderful individual, an organisation, or a self-nomination! All these making a incompatibility in cyber deserve to be viewed, heard, preferred and notorious.”

This year’s categories embrace:

• Cyber Writer
• Godparent of Security
• Recordsdata Guardian
• CISO Supremo (backed by Hornet Security)
• Security Avengers – Finest Team
• Finest Educator
• Finest Ethical Hacker/Pentester
• Rising Superstar
• Security Mentor
• Finest Security Consciousness Marketing campaign (backed by KnowBe4)
• Differ Champion
• Cyber Security Wellbeing Advocate (backed by The Zensory)

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