CSO Hall of Fame Awards Recipients in Cybersecurity Leadership

Application Security

Aflac: Quack-Proof Code: Aflac’s Application Security Center of Excellence (Industry: Insurance)
Coalfire Systems, Inc.: Guardian AI Framework: Enabling Secure and Responsible AI Adoption (Industry: Business and Professional Services)
EXL: SARA – Security Architecture Review Automation Tool (Industry: IT services and Technologies)
PROS: Threat Modeling at the Speed of Innovation: PROS’ Clover Success Story (Industry: IT services and Technologies)

Compliance and Risk Management

California Housing Finance Agency: Information Security Programs Audit – Remediation (Industry: Government – State/Local)
CN Rail: GRC Modernization (Industry: Transportation and Logistics)
Casey’s: Cybersecurity Integration and Risk Mitigation in Mergers & Acquisitions (Industry: Retail)
Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc.: Compliance 365 (Industry: E-commerce/Internet)
Horizon BCBSNJ: CyberFortify (Industry: Health Insurance)
PDS Health: ISO 27001 Certification (Industry: Healthcare/Medical/Pharmaceutical/Bio-Tech)
Salesforce: Salesforce Compliance Agent (Industry: IT services and Technologies)
SAP SE: NextGen Audit Sessions – AI-Driven Audit Walkthroughs (Industry: IT services and Technologies)
SIGMA CORPORATON: Enterprise Cybersecurity Risk Reduction & Resilience Program (Industry: Wholesale)
Swimlane: Automated SaaS Audit Readiness (Industry: Business Services/Computer/Network Consultant)
TD Bank Group: Eliminating Data Risk and Strengthening Compliance with Secure Data Masking at TD Bank (Industry: Banking)
Town of Gilbert: Streamlined Security Governance: Customer-Centric Technology Review Process (Industry: Government – State/Local)
Uber Technologies, Inc.: Uber | Beyond the Check Box: Solving Human Risk with Behavior- (Industry: Transportation and Logistics)
US Med-Equip, LLC: USME Gotcha (Industry: Hospitals & Healthcare)
Xactly Corporation: Reducing Material Cyber Risk Through Business-Aligned Vulnerability Intelligence (Industry: IT services and Technologies)
Zions Bancorporation: Data Protection Acceleration – The Big Bang (Industry: Banking)

Critical Infrastructure Protection

K&N Engineering Inc: Code to Cloud Security Transformation (Industry: Healthcare/Medical/Pharmaceutical/Bio-Tech)
MultiCare Health System: From “Department of No” to “Culture of Yes”: Enabling Modern Healthcare Through Identity-Based Microsegmentation (Industry: Hospitals & Healthcare)
Postman: Darwinium (Industry: Enterprise Software)

Cybersecurity

AmeriHealth Caritas: Detection Engineering Fusion Cell (Industry: Hospitals & Healthcare)
Cornerstone OnDemand: Cybersecurity Agents – Autonomous Security at Scale (Industry: Software as a Service)
Hensel Phelps: Project SAM (Industry: Construction/Architecture/Engineering)
McDonald’s: Securing the Arches (Industry: Quick Service Restaurants (QSR))
Penn Medicine: Dark Web Identity Defense – Real-Time Identity Exposure Detection and Remediation (Industry: Hospitals & Healthcare)

Data Loss Prevention and Recovery

GENPACT: Data Security reAImagined (Industry: Business and Professional Services)

Identity and Access Management

Accenture: Unified Virtual Identity Discovery (Industry: Business and Professional Services)
CommonLit: From tickets to trust: CommonLit’s just-in-time production access program, (Industry: Non-profit/Charity/Religious)
DigiKey: DigiKey Workforce Passwordless Authentication (Industry: E-commerce/Internet)
Medtronic PLC: Medtronic I&O Privileged Access Management (Industry: Hospitals & Healthcare)

Next Generation Security

Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation: Innovation Unlocked: Pioneering AI Automation in Healthcare Security (Industry: Hospitals & Healthcare)
Prosper Marketplace, Inc.: The Paved Path (Industry: Financial Services)
The Friedkin Group: From Training to Real Time Defense: NextGen Risk-driven Phishing Security Program (Industry: Manufacturing – Automotive)

Security and IoT

Enpro: Resilient Ops (Industry: Manufacturing – Industrial)

Security and Machine Learning

Moelis & Company: The Security Knowledge Initiative: Scaling Threat Visibility (Industry: Financial Services)

Security and Privacy Vulnerability Management

Aaron’s LLC: Llamaware (Industry: Retail)
Ally Financial: Ally Cybersecurity “Ghosthunter” (Industry: Financial Services)

Security Awareness and Training

Copart: CoPart | Making cybersecurity as instinctual as buckling your seatbelt (Industry: Transportation and Logistics)
LyondellBasell Industries: LyondellBasell | Reducing Repeat Clickers and Increasing Engagement with Targeted, Gamified Security Training (Industry: Chemical Manufacturing)
National Cybersecurity Alliance: Kubikle: Part 2 Cybersecurity Series (Industry: Non-profit/Charity/Religious)
ReSource Pro: PhishAware Global (Industry: Insurance)

Security Intelligence

Avangrid: Third-Party Intelligence (Industry: Energy)
Docusign: From Internal Resilience to Customer Trust: Scaling Fraud Defense at DocuSign (Industry: IT Service and Technologies)

Security Organization, Management, and Leadership

4Wall Entertainment: Embedding Cybersecurity into the M&A Lifecycle to Enable Secure, Rapid Growth (Industry: Live Entertainment and Event Production Services)
Adobe: Security Workbench (Industry: IT Services and Technologies)
Genesys: Audit Once, Certify Many: A Scalable Assurance Model for Enterprise Security (Industry: IT Services and Technologies)
Monster Energy: Monster Energy | The “Get S#!T Done…RIGHT” Cyber Mindset Championship Belt (Industry: Food & Beverage)

Threat Mitigation and Recovery (Ransomware, etc.)

Cummins, Inc.: Recovery to Resiliency ((Industry: Manufacturing – Automotive)
Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO): STRIKE (Strategic Threat Reduction & Intelligence-Driven Knowledge Engine) (Industry: Energy)

Zero Trust

Cleveland Metropolitan School District: Building a Cybersecurity Ecosystem for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (Industry: Education)
HMSA: Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA) Zero Trust Data Governance Initiative (Industry: Hospitals & Healthcare)
New Albany Floyd County Schools: District-Wide Cybersecurity Modernization — Portnox Cloud NAC Deployment (Industry: Education)
United Airlines: FlyGate Nexus- Industry Leading Context-Aware Zero Trust for Pilot and Flight Attendant Devices Across Any Network. (Industry: Aerospace/Defense)

4Wall Entertainment
Aaron’s LLC
Accenture
Adobe
Aflac
Ally Financial
AmeriHealth Caritas
Avangrid
Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation
California Housing Finance Agency
Carvana
Casey’s
City of Scottsdale
Cleveland Metropolitan School District
Cloud Security Alliance
CN Rail
Coalfire Systems, Inc.
CommonLit
Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc.
Copart
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cummins, Inc.
Delta Dental Plans Association
DigiKey
Docusign
Elastic
Enpro
EXL
Gates Corporation
Genesys
GENPACT
Hensel Phelps

HMSA
Horizon BCBSNJ
K&N Engineering Inc
LyondellBasell Industries
McDonald’s
Medtronic PLC
Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO)
Moelis & Company
Monster Energy
MultiCare Health System
National Cybersecurity Alliance
New Albany Floyd County Schools
Newsmax
PDS Health
Penn Medicine
Postman
PROS
Prosper Marketplace
ReSource Pro
Salesforce
SAP SE
SIGMA CORPORATION
Swimlane
TD Bank Group
The Friedkin Group
TIAA
Town of Gilbert
Uber Technologies, Inc.
United Airlines
US Med-Equip, LLC
Xactly Corporation
Zions Bancorporation