WASPY Awards 2016

Web Application Security People of the Year Awards 2016

Timeline
June 7, 2016 - Call for Nominees Opens! CLOSED June 20, 2016 - Paid Membership Deadline. Not sure if you are a member? Check Here July 28, 2016 - Call for Nominees CLOSED July 29, 2016 - Announcement of Nominees per Category to the Community August 5, 2016 - Deadline for Nominee Profile Picture and Bio to be created and added to the nominees Citation August 10, 2016 - Voting Opens August 24, 2016 - Voting Closes August 25, 2016 - Winners are Notified August 25, 2016 - Announcement of Winners to the Community October 14, 2016 - Award Ceremony at AppSecUSA 2016 in Washington, DC on Friday, October 14, 2016. Awards presented by Frank Catucci and Dave Ferguson from Qualys

Purpose of the Awards
Each year there are many individuals who do amazing work, dedicating countless hours to share, improve, and strengthen the OWASP mission. Some of these individuals are well known to the community while others are not. '''The purpose of these awards is to bring recognition to those who "FLY UNDER THE RADAR". These are the individuals who are passionate about OWASP, who contribute hours of their own free time to the organization to help improve the cyber-security world, yet seem to go unrecognized.''' Community members are able to nominate 1 individual per category (see Categories below) who they feel best fits these descriptions so that, as a community, we can recognize these people for their contributions. We are tying in the WASPY Awards to help identify and recognize individuals who demonstrate our core values and annual report theme of Leading - Learning - Sharing - Growing. We value your input and consideration for nominations in the categories below.

Categories
1. Open/Leading - Everything at OWASP is radically transparent – from our finances to our code. This award goes to a member of the OWASP community who has supported the OWASP mission of transparency through their influence, management, and leadership in the community. This might be a chapter or project leader or may be someone who has worked within the community.

2. Integrity/Learning - OWASP is an honest and truthful, vendor neutral, global community. This award goes to an individual who recognizes the benefits of the power of the collective community within OWASP, who challenges the status quo, and generates an excitement in the learning community. 3. Innovation/Sharing - OWASP encourages and supports innovation and experiments for solutions to software security challenges. This award goes to an individual who has inspired and encouraged others in the arena of software security with innovative and cutting edge solutions to software security challenges. 4. Global/Growing - Around the world, OWASP encourages and supports innovation and experiments for solutions to software security challenges. This award goes to an individual who truly represents the OWASP Global scope and recognizes the importance of growth. The nominee reaches out beyond the OWASP circle to raise awareness of software security in locations outside of the OWASP comfort zone.

Rules
Remember the purpose of these awards is to recognize the UNSUNG HEROS out there, that are barely recognized for their contributions to the OWASP Foundation. 1. Board members may not be nominated 2. Employees & Contractors may not be nominated 3. You MUST be a Paid or Honorary member to vote and your membership needs to be on file by June 20, 2016 4. All nominees will remain anonymous until July 11, 2016 5. Anyone can nominate an "unsung hero" who has contributed in some way to OWASP who they feel best fits each category 6. You may only nominate one person per category

Eligible Voters
Individuals who were members as of June 20, 2016 are eligible and are listed here. Please take a minute to verify your name is on the list. If you are NOT on the list and believe you should be, then you should contact us immediately

Results
Cumulative Turnout: 309 (13.9%) of 2226 electors voted in this election. Average Turnout: 21.8 electors voted per day. Open/Leading Category

Congratulations to Jeremy Long “Jeremy wrote a tool, donated it to OWASP and in 2016 it became one of the OWASP Flagship projects. He is not noisy or gets a lot of attention, but every morning before work - Jeremy works on the OWASP Dependency Check.” Jeremy Long 71 (31.0%) Tony Clarke 60 (26.2%) Kathy Thaxton 48 (21.0%) Owen Pendlebury 22 (9.6%) John Patrick Lita 16 (7.0%) Dhiraj Mishra 12 (5.2%)

VOTER SUMMARY Total: 309 Abstain 80 (25.9%) Integrity/Learning Category

Congratulations to Eoin Keary “Eoin gives up his free time to run free security training sessions within the community in Dublin. He is dedicated to spreading the OWASP message within Dublin. He is working within the community for the good of OWASP. Eoin is a committee member and does not have any "board" level title. He is giving to the community and is demonstrating that he does not expect anything in return. Eoin is a role model within our Dublin Chapter.” Eoin Keary 78 (36.6%) Steve Kosten 37 (17.4%) John Patrick Lita 35 (16.4%) Owen Pendlebury 34 (16.0%) Dhiraj Mishra 29 (13.6%)

VOTER SUMMARY Total: 309 Abstain 96 (31.1%) Innovation/Sharing Category

Congratulations to Owen Pendlebury “Owen has been an active and dedicated chapter leader, who has organised regular activities for the OWASP Dublin chapter that benefit the local information security community greatly over the past 6.5 years. Some of the projects that Owen has been involved in include, AppSec EU 2016 Committee/ Training Committee, AppSec EU 2017 successful bid, DaggerCon, Cyber Startup Summit, Source Dublin, Advanced Threat Intelligence Seminars and numerous security workshops.”

'''Owen Pendlebury 54 (29.0%) Dhiraj Mishra 52 (28.0%) Mark Major 48 (25.8%) John Patrick Lita 32 (17.2%)

VOTER SUMMARY Total 309 Abstain 123 (39.8%) Global/Growing Category

Congratulations to Kathy Thaxton “Kathy Thaxton has been THE key leader for SnowFROC for many years. As with most regional conferences, everyone involved has a day job and nobody's got a lot of spare time to do what must be done.... Kathy Thaxton had done most of the "heavy lifting" within days of the initial planning meeting!...That is DEFINITELY reach OUTSIDE of the OWASP community, and again would not have happened without Kathy's stellar achievements"

Kathy Thaxton 85 (45.5%) Owen Pendlebury 45 (24.1%) John Patrick Lita 37 (19.8%) Dhiraj Mishra 20 (10.7%)

VOTER SUMMARY Total 309 Abstain 122 (39.5%)

Sponsorship Opportunities
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WASPY Sponsorship Opportunities

Thank you to Qualys for your support as a Platinum Sponsor!

Communication
June 7, 2016 Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, OWASP Blog.

Past WASPY Awards
2015 2014 2013 2012