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United Kingdom : BT opens nominations for the Information Security Journalism awards 2014 [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Entries are now open for the eighth annual BT Information Security Journalism Awards. Created in 2005, the awards recognise and reward journalists working in the prominent field of information and cyber security. Following the success of last year s International Category, this year's awards will once again be open to journalists from outside of the UK, acknowledging both the growing popularity of the awards and the increased focus and importance of information security in the global market place. (See full instructions on how to enter below.) Celebrating the high quality of security journalism, the winners of the BT Information Security Journalism awards 2014 will be announced at an awards lunch to be held at a central London venue in November 2014. Awards will be presented in the following categories: Information Security Journalist of the Year - £2,000 prize BT Enigma Award - £1,000 prize Best Information Security News Story of the Year - £500 prize Best Security Broadcast Feature/News Story of the Year - £500 prize Best Overall Information Security Feature Article of the Year - £500 prize Best International Feature/News Story of the Year - £500 Individual Feature Article Awards for: Best Privacy Feature of the Year - £500 prize Best Cybercrime Feature of the Year - £500 prize Best Investigative Feature of the Year - £500 prize The deadline for submissions is 23 August, 2014. Shortlisted awards entries will be announced in September 2014. Last year, the expert judging panel commented that the quality of entries was outstanding. A broad range of entries were received from news outlets including The Guardian, BBC News and Channel 4. Mark Hughes, President of BT Security, said: We are delighted to announce the launch of the eighth year of the BT Information Security Journalism awards. Security has really entered the mainstream media in the last few years, emerging on the front pages of national newspapers and 24/7 coverage on broadcast news. Terms like hacktivism and firewall are no longer alien to the general public. High quality journalism has been intrinsic to the journey that the industry has come on and these awards will rightly reward those journalists who have played their part in this process over the past 12 months. This year the awards will again be judged by an expert panel, chaired by Ray Stanton, vice president, BT Advise, and made up of leading independent figures from the security industry including (in alphabetical order): Dr. Robert Coles Chief Information Security Officer, GlaxoSmithKline Ron Condon Freelance Journalist Graham Edwards Head of Group Information Risk, Centrica Plc Professor Dr. Hannes P. Lubich University of Applied Sciences, North-Western Switzerland Malcolm Marshall Global Leader, Information Protection Services, KPMG (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |