2015 Cybersecurity Canon Award Winners Inducted at Ignite 2015
Santa Clara, Calif., March 31, 2015 – Palo Alto Networks® (NYSE: PANW), the leader in enterprise security, today announced the 2015 Cybersecurity Canon award winners. The canon honors authors and works of literature that accurately depict the history, milestones, and culture of the modern cybersecurity industry.
Winning authors were inducted during the opening general session at the Palo Alto Networks Ignite 2015 conference, where IT security professionals come to get their toughest security challenges solved. Cybersecurity Canon awards and award winners include:
- Cyber Crime: Spam Nation by Brian Krebs
- Cyber Espionage: The Cuckoo’s Egg by Clifford Stoll
- Cyber History and Culture: Winning as a CISOby Rich Baich
- Cyber Warfare: Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter
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- “The Cybersecurity Canon continues to mature into a highly curated list of ‘must-read’ books in which the content is timeless, genuinely represents an aspect of our community that is true and precise, and, if not read, leaves a hole in a cybersecurity professional’s perspective. We are thrilled to induct four authors into the canon today, and we thank Rich Baich, Brian Krebs, Clifford Stoll and Kim Zetter for their contributions to this list of books every cybersecurity professional should read.”
- Rick Howard, CSO, Palo Alto Networks
About the Cybersecurity Canon
Launched in 2014 by Palo Alto Networks Chief Security Officer Rick Howard, the Cybersecurity Canon aims to promote the continued education of cybersecurity professionals by providing a curated list of both fiction and non-fiction works that advance the discussion of modern industry issues. A Cybersecurity Canon advisory board of tenured researchers, industry professionals and journalists who have devoted their careers to the field of cybersecurity meets during the year to vote on new inclusions and future honorees. Nominees for the canon awards are selected by the committee. Practitioners are also invited to vote for nominees as part of the selection process.
2015 Advisory Board Members:
- Robert Clark, Lawyer, Army Cyber Institute, United States Military Academy
- Rick Howard, CSO, Palo Alto Networks
- Parmy Olson, Journalist, Forbes & 2014 Cybersecurity Canon Award Winning Author
- Dr. Daniel Ragsdale, Program Manager, Defense Advance Research Project Agency
- Matt Richard, Security Researcher, Facebook
- Steve Winterfield, Information Security Officer, Nordstrom Bank
Additional Information:
- Learn more about the 2015 award winners
- Visit the Cybersecurity Canon website
- Learn more about Cybersecurity Canon advisory board members
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