Introduced this year to reflect the demands of today’s evolving threat landscape, this new category acknowledges how the CISO role has fundamentally changed.Expectations have intensified. Risk has become enterprise-wide and cybersecurity leadership now shapes business strategy, resilience, and trust.SC Awards:
The Resilient CISO Award will honor five outstanding leaders whose vision, adaptability, and influence embody this transformation.Here are the finalists:
- Vince Aimutis, VP - Director of Information Services / CISO, Federated Mutual Insurance Company
- Andres Andreu, CISO, Constella Intelligence
- Krista Arndt, Associate CISO, Semperis
- Srinivasan Balraj, VP - Information security and compliance (CISO), Muthoot Fincorp LTD
- Gary Brickhouse, CISO, GuidePoint Security
- David B. Cross, Chief Information Security Officer, Atlassian
- Auston Davis, CISO, City of San Jose
- Dr. Darren Death, Chief Information Security Officer - Chief Privacy Officer - Deputy Chief AI Officer, Export–Import Bank of the United States (EXIM)
- Dara Gibson, CEO/vCISO, Cybersecurity Readiness Advisors LLC
- Abhishek Jha, CISO, Tata Technologies
- Sharon Kelley, Executive Director for Information Security & Chief Information Security Office, NJIT
- Marcel Lehner, CSO, Wiener Stadtwerke GmbH,
- Nidhi Luthra, CISO, Baxter Healthcare
- Saikat Maiti, CISO, nfactor
- Diego Neuber, CISO, Disatech IT Solutions
- Allen Ohanian, CISO, LA County DCFS
- Hugh Percy, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Northside Hospital
- Rinki Sethi, CISO, CSO, Upwind
- Vathsavai Venkata SubbaRaju, CISO, iBASIS
- Glen Vickers, Head of IT and CISO, ABS Wavesight
