Call for Nominations: IEEE Cybersecurity Award 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. They will be awarded for:

Game-changing ideas that have substantially advanced, or have the potential to substantially advance, the practice of cybersecurity.
Approaches for designing or building novel cybersecurity systems whose impact can be quantified in terms of cost, time, and/or effectiveness.
Authorship of widely used policies, educational material, and/or best practices in implementation or engineering.
Work accelerating tech transfer of cybersecurity products, toward the enabling of cost-aware, secure solutions.

Previous Awardees

Important Dates

All deadlines are 23:59:59 AoE (UTC-12).

Nominations due

TBD

Submission Details

Submit your nomination (max 1000 words, optional appended document, see below) to secdev-awards@ieee.org.

Eligibility and Selection Criteria

The IEEE Cybersecurity Award is intended for individuals, but may also be awarded to a team of no more than five people for collaborative work.

Criteria for the awards shall include: impact on the cybersecurity profession and/or society, significant technical or other contributions, leadership in accomplishing worthwhile goal(s), and other achievements as evidenced by publications, patents, or other evidence.

Recipients of the awards may, but are not required to, attend the associated conference. A short presentation by the winner or a member of the winning team, highlighting the winning work, is expected. The presentation may be submitted as a recording in lieu of in-person attendance.

The IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice will be awarded annually for significant practical advancement in cybersecurity. Nominators must describe a specific cybersecurity practice advanced by the nominee(s), and address the following points:

What cybersecurity issue does this practice help resolve, and why is solving this problem important?
Describe the implementation of the practice. How did its implementation lead to concrete improvements in the domain in which it was deployed?
Describe why the practice has led to, or could lead to, transformative impact in the cybersecurity discipline.
Brief biographies and/or summaries of other notable work by the nominee(s).

Nominations may not exceed 1,000 words. In addition, nominators may optionally include a single document authored by the nominee(s) (e.g., a whitepaper or peer-reviewed publication) to provide additional details.

Award Committee

Award Committee Chair

Committee Chair	Angelos Stavrou	Virginia Tech
Vice Chair	Mai Abdelhakim	University of Pittsburgh

Award Committee Members

Kevin Butler	University of Florida
Alex Gantman	Qualcomm
Joseph Kiniry	Galois
Sean Peisert	Lawrence Berkeley National Lab / University of California, Davis
Riana Pfefferkorn	Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
Greg Shannon	Idaho National Laboratory
Mary Ellen Zurko	MIT Lincoln Laboratory