The Top Cyber Security Journalists of 2014

BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eleven journalists were voted by their peers as the best cyber journalists of 2014. In this third bi-annual awards program, more than 100 journalists who wrote substantial numbers of cybersecurity stories were polled. They submitted 31 nominations for the best cybersecurity journalists awards. The nominees had the final votes –choosing the journalists who had consistently written the best stories. When asked why they voted for a particular person they wrote comments like these:

"She has remarkable reporting chops. I remember that just months into starting her position at a new publication — her first job covering cybersecurity, I think — she was already breaking stories of major breaches."

"He is quick, incisive and very often first to a story. His 'gets' are good, and he gets a lot of them."

"In just a year on the job, they have put together some serious features tracking the undercurrents in corporate approaches to cybersecurity."

"He is a true professional. His pieces are always well reported and he is one of the few really veteran security reporters out there who has been there since the beginning and understands the full context and the history of what he's reporting. His in-depth reporting on e-voting and tech policy issues provided readers with thorough and cogent analysis of complicated issues. Even more than this, however, he has great integrity. He won't burn other reporters to get a story, nor will he ever compromise his principles or ethics."

The winners were announced today in Washington, DC at the SANS Cyber Defense Initiative (CDI) training event.

The 2014 Top Cyber Security Journalist Award winners (along with their favorite stories of the year) include:

• Jim Finkle, Reuters: INSIGHT-U.S. government probes medical devices for possible cyber flaws
• Dan Goodin, Arstechnica.com: This thumbdrive hacks computers. "BadUSB" exploit makes devices turn "evil"
• Andrew Greenberg, Forbes & Wired: Waiting for Dark: Inside Two Anarchists' Quest for Untraceable Money
• Kelly Jackson Higgins, Dark Reading: Incident Response Now Shaping Security Operations
• Brian Krebs, KrebsOnSecurity.com: Peek Inside a Professional Carding Shop
• Robert Lemos, SearchCloudSecurity.com/TechTarget: Cloud attacks sneak past gap between enterprises and providers
• Joe Menn, Reuters: Exclusive: Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer
• Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post: U.S. rallied multinational response to 2012 cyberattack on American banks
• Nicole Perlroth, The New York Times: Reporting From the Web's Underbelly
• Danny Yadron, The Wall Street Journal: Home Depot Upped Defenses, But Hacker Moved Faster
• Kim Zetter, Wired: Countdown to Zero Day

The following journalists were awarded 2014 Honorable Mention for Top Cyber Security Journalism:

• Dennis Fischer, Threatpost: Edward Snowden and the Death of Nuance
• Lucian Constantin, IDG News Service & Romania Bureau: Users face serious threat as hackers take aim at routers, embedded devices
• Fahmida Y. Rashid, Freelance Journalist: Malware Mutation

About SANS Institute
The SANS Institute was established in 1989 as a cooperative research and education organization. SANS is the most trusted and, by far, the largest provider of training and certification to professionals at government and commercial institutions world-wide. Renowned SANS instructors teach over 50 different courses at more than 200 live cyber security training events as well as online. GIAC, an affiliate of the SANS Institute, validates employee qualifications via 27 hands-on, technical certifications in information security. The SANS Technology Institute, a regionally accredited independent subsidiary, offers master's degrees in cyber security. SANS offers a myriad of free resources to the InfoSec community including consensus projects, research reports, and newsletters; it also operates the Internet's early warning system--the Internet Storm Center. At the heart of SANS are the many security practitioners, representing varied global organizations from corporations to universities, working together to help the entire information security community. (www.SANS.org)

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