News Media Alert: Absolute Security Congratulates Inaugural Resilient CISO Award and Trailblazer Award Honorees
With Cyber Incidents and Disruptions Driving $400 Billion in Global Economic Losses Annually, this Recognition of Visionary CISOs Advances the Cyber Resilience Movement
SEATTLE & SAN FRANCISO — March 26, 2026 — (RSAC) Absolute Security, an enterprise cyber resilience leader, today announced the first honorees for the inaugural Resilient CISO Award and winners of the Trailblazer Awards. The Resilient CISO Award was sponsored in partnership with CyberRisk Alliance/SC Media. The Trailblazer Awards are a category created by a special panel of industry security and risk leaders. Honorees, winners, and finalists were announced at special events during RSAC 2026.
Both distinctions recognize Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) whose vision has expanded the scope of cybersecurity beyond traditional detection and prevention to also include being a driving force for ensuring cyber resilience, protecting revenue, and stopping downtime in the modern business landscape.
The 2026 Inaugural Resilient CISO Award Honorees
Vince Aimutis, VP, Director of Information Services and CISO, Federated Mutual Insurance Company; Andres Andreu, CISO, Constella Intelligence; Sharon Kelley, Executive Director for Information Security and Chief Information Security Officer, NJIT; Allen Ohanian, CISO, LA County DCFS; Rinki Sethi, CISO and CSO, Upwind.
The 2026 Inaugural Trailblazer Award Winners
Andy Albrecht, VP, Chief Information Security Officer, Domino’s; Morgan Bjerke, Chief Information Security Officer, Thomson Reuters; Deneen DeFiore, Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer, United Airlines; Sebastian Goodwin, SVP, Chief Trust Officer, Autodesk; Abhishek Jha, Global Chief Information Security Officer, Tata Technologies; Barbara O'Neill, Global Chief Information Security Officer, Ernst & Young; Margarita Rivera, Global Chief Information Security Officer, Carnival Cruises; Brad Schaufenbuel, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, Paychex; Chris Tyberg, Chief Information Security Officer, Abbott.
The 2026 Inaugural Resilient CISO Award Finalists
Krista Arndt, Associate CISO, Semperis; Srinivasan Balraj, VP, Information Security and Compliance (CISO), Muthoot Fincorp LTD; Gary Brickhouse, CISO, GuidePoint Security; David B. Cross, Chief Information Security Officer, Atlassian; Auston Davis, CISO, City of San Jose; Dr. Darren Death, Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Privacy Officer, and Deputy Chief AI Officer, Export–Import Bank of the United States (EXIM); Dara Gibson, CEO and vCISO, Cybersecurity Readiness Advisors LLC; Abhishek Jha, CISO, Tata Technologies; Marcel Lehner, CSO, Wiener Stadtwerke GmbH; Nidhi Luthra, CISO, Baxter Healthcare; Saikat Maiti, CISO, nfactor; Diego Neuber, CISO, Disatech IT Solutions; Hugh Percy, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Northside Hospital; Vathsavai Venkata SubbaRaju, CISO, iBASIS; Glen Vickers, Head of IT and CISO, ABS Wavesight.
Security, risk, and business leaders in search of vital information and thought leadership that will help them stop downtime and quickly recover from cyber incidents and disruptions can follow Absolute Security on LinkedIn and join the members-only Resilient CISO Community.
About Absolute Security
Absolute Security, a global leader in Autonomous Cyber Resilience, provides the world's most advanced AI-native platform for defending against threats, reducing risk, and recovering immediately from cyber disruptions.
The Absolute Cyber Resilience Platform is powered by Absolute Persistence®, a patented innovation built into endpoint device firmware. The platform leverages trusted, real-time telemetry from across endpoint device fleets to autonomously detect risk, remediate disruptions, and recover and rehydrate devices and network connections to an operational, secure, and compliant state in minutes. Thousands of global enterprise customers rely on these capabilities to stop downtime before it becomes a costly financial loss.
Through partnerships with the world's leading device manufacturers, Absolute is embedded in the firmware of 600 million endpoints — giving customers instant, at-scale activation and fast time to value.
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