MAY 18-21, 2026 AT THE HILTON SAN FRANCISCO UNION SQUARE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA

47th IEEE Symposium on
Security and Privacy

Past IEEE Cybersecurity Awards for Practice

The IEEE Computer Society Cybersecurity Award for Practice is intended to recognize individuals and small teams who are generating transformative cybersecurity capabilities that have been realized. It is awarded for:

2025 Awardees

Steve Lipner
Foundational Contributions to Secure Software Development Practices
Josh Aas, Richard Barnes, Peter Eckersley, J. Alex Halderman, and Eric Rescorla
Democratizing the Availability of Encryption Certificates with Let’s Encrypt

(Committee)

2024 Awardees

Bryan Parno
Outstanding Contributions to Theory and Practice of End-to-End Secure System
Window Snyder
Outstanding Contributions to Threat Modeling, Secure Software Development Lifecycles, and User Privacy

(Committee)

2023 Awardees

John Abowd and Simson Garfinkel
Contributions to Privacy-Preserving Distribution of U.S. Census Data
Philip Stark, Michelle Blom, Vanessa Teague, and Mark Lindeman
Contributions to Election Integrity Using Risk-Limiting Audits

(Committee)

2022 Awardees

Shravan Narayan, Craig Disselkoen, Tal Garfinkel, Nathan Froyd, Eric Rahm, Sorin Lerner, Hovav Shacham, and Deian Stefan
for WebAssembly Sandboxing for Firefox

(Committee)

2021 Awardees

Dino Distefano, Manuel Fähndrich, Francesco Logozzo, and Peter O’Hearn (Facebook)
For Scaling Advanced Static Analyses to Engineering Practice
Srinivas Devadas (MIT)
For developing Physical Unclonable Functions for Device Authentication
Charles Reis, Nasko Oskov, Daniel Cheng, Alex Moshchuk, and Łukasz Anforowicz (Google)
For Work on Site Isolation for Chrome

(Committee)