Harrington Named Executive Of The Year

SAN DIEGO, May 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Business Awards (ABA) has named Ted Harrington "Executive of the Year." Mr. Harrington is co-owner and Executive Partner of Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), and runs their west coast office out of San Diego. This year's ABA class received more than 3,400 nominations from 44 US states and 3 countries across 2 continents. Other winners from the 2016 class include from companies such as Qualcomm, Intuit, AT&T, 1-800-Flowers, Aflac, ZipCar, and more. Mr. Harrington was one of five honorees named in the category of Computer Services. 

"This award is obviously a great honor," says Mr. Harrington, "but what is most humbling is how this accolade reflects the important contributions to security research that everyone in our company has made."  In particular, Mr. Harrington's award was based on ISE's research initiatives in healthcare and the Internet of Things (IoT).

On February 23, 2016, ISE published a groundbreaking piece of security research called "Hacking Hospitals" (https://www.securityevaluators.com/hospitalhack/), wherein they identified how hackers could deploy cyberattacks that could hurt or kill patients.  Over 24 months, the study investigated 12 hospitals, 2 healthcare data facilities, 2 healthcare technology platforms, and 2 medical devices.  According to Dr. Larry Ponemon, Chairman of the Ponemon Institute and a member of the research advisory board: "This study is laser-focused on protecting patients, by not just identifying the vast array of security challenges in healthcare, but also by articulating the path forward for the providers and business associates to provide better security."

ISE organizes IoT Village, which first debuted in August 2015 at esteemed security conference DEF CON.  Created to investigate security flaws in connected devices, IoT Village (https://www.iotvillage.org) hosts an onsite hacking contest, talks, workshops, live exploit demos, and press events.  In it's inaugural run, IoT Village served as a platform that delivered 66 critical security vulnerabilities across 27 different devices types and 18 different manufacturers.  Afflicted manufacturers include prominent brands such as Samsung, Bose, Philips, FitBit, DLink and more.   "IoT Village proved that security flaws are pervasive across connected devices in the current market," notes Steve Bono, ISE founder and fellow IoT Village organizer.

Award winners will be honored at a black-tie gala on June 20, 2016 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City.  For the full list of winners visit https://stevieawards.com/aba/2016-management-award-winners

About ABA 
The purpose of the ABA is to "honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and working professionals worldwide," according to the official ABA website.

About ISE 
Founded in 2005 out of the PhD program at the Johns Hopkins' Information Security Institute, ISE is a security consulting firm comprised of hackers, computer scientists, reverse engineers, and cryptographers who help companies defend against sophisticated adversaries through manual, white box security assessments.  ISE is widely recognized as being the first company to hack the iPhone.

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