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Belgium’s Cyber Security Awards

To apply, we invite you to submit the online form below. You will receive a copy of your response to the email address provided in the form. If you prefer, you can also download the form in Word format and send it to awards@cybersecuritycoalition.be.

Cyber Security Personality

ENFRNL

Apply to become

Cyber Security Personality of the Year 2023

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    Outline your contributions in one of the following areas

    We recommend being concise and to the point and to limit your input per field to maximum one A4 or about 5,000 characters.

    1. Contribution to cyber resilience of the Belgian and European economy

    Describe any technological or procedural contributions you have made to increase cyber resilience in the Belgian and European economy. If your organization is successful all over Europe, but boasts only a small market share in Belgium, you should not hesitate to apply for this award.

    Describe your initiative(s) or project(s) that have sustainably improved cyber security for individuals, businesses or public administrations.

    Describe the impact of your activities. Where possible, please detail and quantify their outcomes. Compare the actual outcomes to the objectives established at the start of the initiative.

    2. Contribution to awareness of the public

    In general, what is your strategic vision in terms of raising the public’s awareness of cyber security?

    Describe any initiatives or strategic involvements on you part that have either helped raise awareness among the public or helped promote best practices to specific audiences or to the public.

    Describe the impact of your activities. Where possible, please detail and quantify their outcomes. Compare the actual outcomes to the objectives established at the start of the initiative.

    3. Contribution to the skills and diversity gap

    In general, what is your strategic vision in terms of how to sustainably close the skills and/or diversity gap?

    Describe any initiatives or strategic involvements on your part that have helped reduce the skills and/or diversity gap.

    Describe the impact of your activities. Where possible, please detail and quantify their outcomes. Compare the actual outcomes to the objectives established at the start of the initiative.

    4. Contribution to the cyber security ecosystem

    How have you contributed or made an impact on the Belgian and European cyber security ecosystem? How have you advanced the cyber security ecosystem?

    Describe any initiatives or decisive involvement on your part in initiative(s) initiated by business, trade or professional organizations active in the cyber security ecosystem.

    Describe the impact of your activities. Where possible, please detail and quantify their outcomes. Compare the actual outcomes to the objectives established at the start of the initiative.

    Would you like to add anything?

    Please, include any additional information that might enhance your application or improve the jury’s understanding of your application.


    By submitting this form, you consent to the Cyber Security Coalition using your data to handle your request as outlined in our privacy policy.

    By submitting your application, you agree to the terms and conditions.


    CISO

    ENFRNL

    Apply to become

    Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of the Year 2023

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      Outline your contributions across the following areas

      We recommend being concise and to the point and to limit your input per field to maximum one A4 or about 5,000 characters.

      1. Contribution to the organization’s information security performance

      In general, what is your strategic vision in terms of improving your organization’s information security performance?

      Describe the governance programmes, which you use to measure the success of your organization’s information security strategy.

      Describe which strategic use you make of innovation, creativity and emerging technologies to enhance your organization’s information security.

      2. Accomplishment in the current professional role

      Describe any initiatives or projects that you have undertaken in the area of information security transformation during the past 24 months.

      Describe the impact or effect of this (these) initiative(s) and/or project(s) in improving cyber security posture of your organization. Where possible, please detail and quantify their outcomes. Compare the actual outcomes to the objectives established at the start of the initiative.

      Describe the impact on the performance of your department highlighting the specific leadership qualities that generated the benefits noted.

      3. Partnership with different stakeholders

      What are your other operational or functional responsibilities beyond information security? In which ways have you in your CISO role influenced wider business operations?

      Describe how you have led change in your organization including the cyber security impacts of any partnership approaches adopted with different stakeholders.

      Describe your initiatives to raise awareness of information security risks among C-level executives and the board.

      4. Contribution to foster a security culture

      What is your approach to improve the skills and capabilities of your team? How have you as a CISO driven cyber security performance?

      Describe any programmes which you have implemented to train staff and improve processes and systems.

      Describe your achievements to help raise awareness for cyber risks among employees and create a security culture in your organization.

      Would you like to add anything?

      Please, include any additional information that might enhance your application or improve the jury’s understanding of your application.


      By submitting this form, you consent to the Cyber Security Coalition using your data to handle your request as outlined in our privacy policy.

      By submitting your application, you agree to the terms and conditions.


      Cyber Security Educator/Researcher

      ENFRNL

      Apply to become

      Cyber Security Educator or Researcher of the Year 2023

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        Outline your contributions in one of the following areas

        We acknowledge that Educator and Researcher are two distinct profiles. Eventually the jury will select either a Researcher or an Educator of the Year.

        We recommend being concise and to the point and to limit your input per field to maximum one A4 or about 5,000 characters.

        1. Contribution to industrial valorization activities

        In general, what is your strategic vision in terms of raising the state-of-the art in the cyber security field through industrial valorization activities?

        Describe any initiatives or decisive involvements on your part in industrial valorization activities (i.e., technology transfer, R&D, patents, etc.).

        Describe the impact of your activities. Where possible, please detail and quantify their outcomes. Compare the actual outcomes to the objectives established at the start of the initiative.

        2. Contribution to scientific valorization activities

        In general, what is your strategic vision in terms of raising the state-of-the art in the cyber security field through scientific valorization activities?

        Describe any initiatives or decisive involvements on your part in scientific valorization activities (i.a., papers, conferences, workshops, etc.).

        Describe the impact of your activities. Where possible, please detail and quantify their outcomes. Compare the actual outcomes to the objectives established at the start of the initiative.

        3. Contribution to educational activities

        In general, what is your strategic vision in terms of educating and empowering the next generation of cyber security “leaders”?

        Describe any initiatives or decisive involvements on your part in executive and academic educational activities in domains related to cyber security management, technology, risk and mitigation models.

        Describe the impact of your activities. Where possible, please detail and quantify their outcomes. Compare the actual outcomes to the objectives established at the start of the initiative.

        4. Skilling, reskilling, upskilling activities

        In general, what is your strategic vision in terms on how sustainably to reduce the skills gap?

        Describe any initiatives or decisive involvement on your part in initiative(s) contributing to a skills gap reduction.

        Describe the impact of your activities. Where possible, please detail and quantify their outcomes. Compare the actual outcomes to the objectives established at the start of the initiative.

        Would you like to add anything?

        Please, include any additional information that might enhance your application or improve the jury’s understanding of your application.


        By submitting this form, you consent to the Cyber Security Coalition using your data to handle your request as outlined in our privacy policy.

        By submitting your application, you agree to the terms and conditions.


        Young Cyber Security Professional

        ENFRNL

        Apply to become

        Young Cyber Security Professional of the Year 2023

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          Outline your contributions in one of the following areas

          We recommend being concise and to the point and to limit your input per field to maximum one A4 or about 5,000 characters.

          1. Cyber security career foundations

          In which way have you excelled in your role as cyber security professional? What will you do to sustain this high performance in the future?

          Describe how you are pursuing personal, professional, intellectual and continuing educational growth opportunities.

          Describe your leadership and teamwork skills.

          2. Accomplishment in the current professional role

          Describe any initiative(s) or project(s) that you have undertaken during the past 24 months that helped increase your organization’s cyber resilience.

          Describe the impact or effect of this (these) initiative(s) and/or project(s) in improving cyber security posture of your organization. Where possible, please detail and quantify their outcomes. Compare the actual outcomes to the objectives established at the start of the initiative.

          Describe which use you make of innovation, creativity and emerging technologies while contributing to improving your organization’s cyber resilience.

          3. Contribution to the cyber security ecosystem

          Describe the added value and the impact you have in a specific area or areas of cyber security (inside and/or outside the workplace) highlighting your qualities and skills.

          Describe any initiatives or decisive involvement on your part in initiative(s) initiated by business, trade or professional organizations active in the cyber security ecosystem.

          Describe the impact of your activities. Where possible, please detail and quantify their outcomes. Compare the actual outcomes to the objectives established at the start of the initiative.

          Would you like to add anything?

          Please, include any additional information that might enhance your application or improve the jury’s understanding of your application.


          By submitting this form, you consent to the Cyber Security Coalition using your data to handle your request as outlined in our privacy policy.

          By submitting your application, you agree to the terms and conditions.