FRAMINGHAM, MA — (Marketwire) — 01/15/13 — IDG-s — the premier security media brand providing insight into business risk leadership — announces the 2013 CSO40 Award honorees. This award program recognizes 40 security projects and initiatives that have delivered groundbreaking business value through the innovative application of risk and security concepts and technologies. Honorees will be recognized at an awards dinner and ceremony at the conference, being held April 2-3, 2013 at Chateau Elan outside of Atlanta, Georgia.
“We would like to congratulate this inaugural class of CSO40 Award honorees,” said Derek Slater, editor in chief, CSO. “This year-s honorees have created outstanding security projects and initiatives that have truly resulted in positive long-lasting outcomes for their organizations. We are pleased to have these organizations as our first class of CSO40 Award honorees.”
In addition to recognizing the 2013 CSO40 Award honorees, the conference will focus on “Defining the Future of Security and Risk” by leveraging a unique combination of keynote sessions and rapid-fire, short-format presentations designed to deliver a range of thought leadership ideas, concepts and trends. Phil Agcaoili, chief information security officer, Cox Communications, Inc., will kick off the conference by discussing the Cyber Security Act The full conference agenda can be viewed here: .
“For the past 10 years, security leaders have disclosed case studies and best practices with their peers at CSO national events,” said Bob Bragdon, vice president and publisher, CSO. “We are thrilled to continue this tradition, as well as honor organizations that are using security in innovative ways. The CSO40 Security Confab + Awards conference will provide the perfect atmosphere for open dialogue and to discover new security solutions from our sponsoring companies: Accellion, AsTech, LogRhythm, nCircle, Qualys, Inc., Quantum Secure, RSA, Solutionary, Inc., TITUS, Tripwire, Vormetric, WatchDox and Wombat Security Technologies, Inc.”
ADP (receiving awards for two projects)
Aetna
Akamai
Argonne National Laboratory
Atlantic Health System
BCBS Michigan
Becton, Dickinson and Company
Blackstone
Carolinas Healthcare System
Citicorp
City of Columbus, Ohio
Coca-Cola Refreshments
Comcast (receiving awards for two projects)
FedEx
First Horizon National Corporation
General Electric Aviation
HMS
Humana
Intel
Kennesaw State University
Kiewit
Los Angeles World Airports
Massachusetts Port Authority
MasterCard Worldwide
MetLife
OfficeMax
OhioHealth
Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
PayPal
Procter & Gamble
Quintiles Transnational
Sharp Electronics Corporation
Stanley Black & Decker
TD Bank Financial Group
Texas Health Resources
The MITRE Corporation
University of Pennsylvania Health System
USAA
To attend the CSO40 Security Confab + Awards, please call 800.883.9090 or visit to register online.
For information about the CSO40 Security Confab + Awards, please visit . For sponsorship opportunities, please contact Per Melker at 508.935.4729 or .
Starting in 2013, the CSO40 Awards recognizes 40 organizations for security projects and initiatives that demonstrate outstanding business value. The are scored according to a uniform set of criteria by a panel of judges that includes security leaders, industry experts, and academics. Awards will be presented at the conference.
CSO is the premier content and community resource for security decision-makers leading “business risk management” efforts within their organization. For more than a decade, CSO-s award-winning Web site (), publication, executive conferences, custom solutions and research have equipped security decision-makers to mitigate both IT and corporate/physical risk for their organizations and provided opportunities for security vendors looking to reach this audience. To assist CSOs in educating their organizations- employees on corporate and personal security practices, CSO also produces the quarterly newsletter Security Smart. CSO is published by IDG Enterprise, a subsidiary of International Data Group (), the world-s leading media, events and research company. Company information is available at .
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