(ISC)2 Announces Winners of 14th Annual U.S. Government Information Security Leadership Awards

WASHINGTON, May 11, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- (ISC)^2® ("ISC-squared") today announced the winners of its 14^th annual U.S. Government Information Security Leadership Awards (GISLA^®) program during a gathering of government cybersecurity executives at the GISLA Gala in Washington, D.C.

A judging committee of senior cybersecurity experts from (ISC)²'s U.S. Government Advisory Council (USGAC) and industry assessed individual and team achievements of a select group of nominees and awarded GISLAs in seven distinct categories. The 2017 GISLA recipients are as follows:

Technology Improvement – Individual Category: Daniel Holmes, senior information technician operations engineer, U.S. Army

Process/Policy Improvement – Individual Category: Matt Shabat, director of performance management, Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Workforce Improvement – Individual Category: Barbara Smith, information security director, Pacific District, Department of Veterans Affairs

Up-and-Coming Information Security Professional – Individual Category: Michael Rocha, IT specialist, DHS

Community Awareness – Team Category: Hemant Baidwan, branch chief, Executive Business Management, DHS

Most Valuable Industry Partner (MVIP) – Team Category: Parham Eftekhari and James Scott, co-founders and senior fellows, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

F. Lynn McNulty Tribute Award - Brig. Gen. (ret.) Gregory Touhill, CISSP, former Federal Chief Information Security Officer

For more information on the GISLA program, please visit www.isc2.org/gisla.

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