Security Blogger Awards

The Social Security Blogger Awards are announced each year at the Bloggers Meet up at the US RSA show. Nominations are usually by a panel of blue collar judges made up of some of the leading security journalists in the media.  Voting for the actual winners is done by SBN members.

What sets the SSBA apart is it is not a popularity contest, but rather an award by security bloggers and podcasters for bloggers and podcasters. It is truly a guild or peer award. Any blog or podcast that is nominated to the finalists represents the best of the best in their category.

2012 Social Security Bloggers Awards

Best Corporate Security Blog:

Fortinet Security Blog http://blog.fortinet.com/

Denim Group http://blog.denimgroup.com/

Trend Micro Cloud Security Blog http://cloudsecurity.trendmicro.com/

Veracode Security Blog http://www.veracode.com/blog/

Kaspersky Lab Blog https://www.securelist.com/en/

Sophos Naked Security Blog http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/

 

Best Security Podcast

Threat Post http://threatpost.com/en_us/podcast The Network Security Podcast http://netsecpodcast.com/

Eurotrash Security Podcast http://www.eurotrashsecurity.eu/index.php/Main_Page

Pauldotcom http://pauldotcom.com/

Exotic Liability http://www.exoticliability.com/

The Southern Fried Security Podcast http://www.southernfriedsecurity.com/

 

The Most Educational Security Blog

Cognitive Dissidents http://blog.cognitivedissidents.com/

Tao Security http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/

F-Secure blog http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/

The New School Security Blog http://newschoolsecurity.com/

AppSecInc Blog http://blog.appsecinc.com/

Evil Bytes/John Sawyer http://www.darkreading.com/blog/archives/evil-bytes/index.html

 

The Most Entertaining Security Blog

Rational Survivability http://www.rationalsurvivability.com/blog/

Andrew Hay’s Blog http://www.andrewhay.ca/

Uncommon Sense Security/Jack Daniel http://blog.uncommonsensesecurity.com/

New School Of Information Security/Adam Shostack http://newschoolsecurity.com/

Naked Security http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/

Securosis Blog http://securosis.com/blog

 

The Blog That Best Represents The Security Industry

Krebs On Security http://krebsonsecurity.com/

Uncommon Sense Security http://blog.uncommonsensesecurity.com/

SANS Internet Storm Center http://isc.sans.org/

Securosis blog https://securosis.com/blog

 

The Single Best Blog Post or Podcast Of The Year

Martin McKeay, Curing the Credit Card Cancer http://www.mckeay.net/2011/11/28/curing-the-credit-card-cancer/

Veracode Blog http://www.veracode.com/blog/2011/08/musings-on-custers-last-stand/

Moxie Marlinspike’s ThoughtCrime Labs http://blog.thoughtcrime.org/authenticity-is-broken-in-ssl-but-your-app-ha

Idoneous Security http://idoneous-security.blogspot.com/2011/12/what-your-analyst-wishes-you-knew.html

 

The First Two Members Of The Security Bloggers Hall Of Fame (please pick 2)

Adam Shostack (Emergent Chaos, New School of Security)

Brian Krebs (Washington Post, Krebs on Security)

Rich Bejtlich, Tao Security Chris Hoff, Rational Survivability

Graham Cluley, Naked Security

Bruce Schneier, Schneier On Security

Stay tuned for the winners to be announced at the Bloggers Meet up at RSA this year!

Here are the finalists for the 2011 awards:

Before the finalists, special thanks to our all  star panel of celebrity judges:

1. Bill Brenner of CSOOnline

2. Ellen Messmer of Network World

3. Kelly Jackson-Higgins of Dark Reading

4. Larry Walsh of Channelnomics

Without further delay I am very pleased to announce the finalists for the 3rd  Annual Social Security Blogger Awards:

Best Corporate Security Blog

Best Security podcast

Most educational security blog

Most entertaining security blog

Security Blog that best represents the industry

The single best security blog post of the year

The Social Security Blogger Awards for 2010:

  • Best Technical Security Blog – The SANS Internet Storm Center Blog
  • Best Non-technical Security Blog - Krebs on Security by Brian Krebs
  • Best Podcast – Pauldotcom
  • Best Corporate Blog – Jeremiah Grossman, White Hat Security
  • Most Entertaining Security Blog – Rational Survivability by Chris Hoff

Security Blogger Awards – 2009

For 2009 PaulDotCom won the Best Podcast Award, the crew at the SANS Internet Storm Center won the best Technical Blog award, the best Non-Technical Blog went to Richard Bejtlich of the TaoSecurity Blog, Sunbelt Software won the Best Corporate Blog and Mike Rothman from Security Incite won the Most Entertaining blog. The awards committee wasn’t as clear as we should have been when describing our expectations of each of the categories, which is why you might be surprised at a couple of the winners.