WASPY Awards 2015

Web Application Security People of the Year Awards 2015

Timeline
June 19 - Call for Nominees Opens! Submit your Nominee. June 29 & July 13 - Email reminders will be sent July 26 - Paid Membership Deadline - Not Sure if You Are a Current Member? Click Here July 29 - Call for Nominees Closes Submit your Nominee. - CLOSED July 30 - Announcement of Nominees Per Category August 6- Deadline For Nominee Profile Picture and Bio to be Submitted Aug 11 - Voting Opens Aug 31 - Voting Closes Sept 1 - Winners are Notified Sept 1 - Announcement of Winners Sept 24-25 - Award Ceremony at AppSecUSA 2015 in San Francisco, CA

Rules
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. Your membership need to be on file by July 26, 2015. 4. All nominees will remain anonymous until July 30, 2015 5. Anyone can nominate an "unsung hero" who has contributed in some way to OWASP who they feel best fits each category description 6. Only one person per category may be nominated. Remember the purpose of these awards is to recognize the "unsung hero's" out there that are barely recognized for their contributions to the OWASP Foundation.

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.

Purpose of the Awards and the Nominees
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 work everyday to improve the cyber-security world, yet seem to go unrecognized.

This year, community members were able to nominate 1 individual per category (there are 4 categories) from each of our 7 regions. - who you feel best fits these descriptions so that, as a community, we can recognize them 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:


 * 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.


 * 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.


 * 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.


 * 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.

Honorable Mention Although they do not qualify per the 2015 WASPY Rules, Kate Hartmann and Josh Sokol were also nominated.

Kate was nominated in the Open/Leading category. "Kate is always the person I look to for advice. She is always obliging and happy to help with all queries relationship my to OWASP and its members. The Dublin-Ireland chapter has succeeded based on the large amount of knowledge she possesses."

Josh was nominated in the Global/Growing category. "Josh has dedicated much of his time to seeing OWASP and OWASP projects grow. From serving as a local Chapter leader, to founding LASCON, to serving on international OWASP Boards, Josh has proven worthy of such an honor."

Results
Open/Leading Category for the European Region Eoin Keary	146 (45.1%) Ian Williams	62 (19.1%) Seba Deleersnyder	60 (18.5%) Konstantinos Papapanagiotou	56 (17.3%) VOTER SUMMARY Total	425 Abstain	101 (23.8%) Open/Leading Category for the United States Region Jeremiah Grossman	140 (45.5%) Kyle Smith	95 (30.8%) Richard Greenberg	73 (23.7%) VOTER SUMMARY Total	425 Abstain	117 (27.5%) Open/Leading Category for the Latin American Region Mateo Martinez	260 (100.0%) VOTER SUMMARY Total	425 Abstain	165 (38.8%) Open/Leading Category for the Caribbean Region Johanna Curiel	254 (100.0%) VOTER SUMMARY Total	425 Abstain	171 (40.2%) Integrity/Learning Category for the European Region OWASP Student Chapters Program Leaders (Antonis Manaras & Mateo Martinez) 177 (64.8%) Spyros Gasteratos	96 (35.2%) VOTER SUMMARY Total	425 Abstain	152 (35.8%) Integrity/Learning Category for the United States Region Pedro Peralta	233 (100.0%) VOTER SUMMARY Total	425 Abstain	192 (45.2%) Integrity/Learning Category for the Asia/Pacific/Middle East Region John Patrick Lita	232 (100.0%) VOTER SUMMARY Total	425 Abstain	193 (45.4%) Integrity/Learning Category for the Caribbean Region Johanna Curiel	235 (100.0%) VOTER SUMMARY Total	425 Abstain	190 (44.7%) Innovation/Sharing Category for the Africa Region Munir Njiru	215 (100.0%) VOTER SUMMARY Total	425 Abstain	210 (49.4%) Innovation/Sharing Category for the European Region Fiona Collins	110 (37.9%) Glenn & Riccardo ten Cate	62 (21.4%) Mario Heiderich	60 (20.7%) Abraham Aranguren	29 (10.0%) Mark Denihan	29 (10.0%) VOTER SUMMARY Total	425 Abstain	135 (31.8%) Innovation/Sharing Category for the Latin American Region Diego Ademir	212 (100.0%) VOTER SUMMARY Total	425 Abstain	213 (50.1%) Innovation/Sharing Category for the United States Region Jeremy Long	245 (100.0%) VOTER SUMMARY Total	425 Abstain	180 (42.4%) Global/Growing for the African Region Munir Njiru	209 (100.0%) VOTER SUMMARY Total	425 Abstain	216 (50.8%) Global/Growing for the Asia/Pacific/Middle East Region John Patrick Lita	121 (52.4%) Mohd Fazil Azran	110 (47.6%) VOTER SUMMARY Total	425 Abstain	194 (45.6%) Global/Growing for the European Region Jason Alexander	108 (41.7%) Seba Deleersnyder	87 (33.6%) Mark Denihan	64 (24.7%) VOTER SUMMARY Total	425 Abstain	166 (39.1%) Global/Growing for the Latin American Region John Vargas	216 (100.0%) VOTER SUMMARY Total	425 Abstain	209 (49.2%) Global/Growing for the United States Region Jerry Hoff	105 (38.2%) Jeff Kowlaski	101 (36.7%) Pedro Peralta	69 (25.1%) VOTER SUMMARY Total	425 Abstain	150 (35.3%)

Eligible Voters
Individuals who were members as of July 26, 2015 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 need to contact us immediately

Sponsorship Opportunities
The support from our sponsors, is what makes these awards truly successful! To learn more about how you can support these awards please see our WASPY Sponsorship Opportunities

Communication

 * June 23 - OWASP Blog, Leaders & Community email list, Leaders list, Twitter, Facebook, Google+
 * June 26 - Email to the Community, Board and Leaders lists, Twitter, Google+, OWASP Blog Facebook
 * July 24 Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Leaders, Community & Board List. OWASP Blog.
 * July 27 Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Leaders, Community & Board List OWASP Blog.
 * July 29 OWSP Blog, Email to the Leaders, Community & Board List, Facebook, Google+, Twitter