And the winners are …..

It is that time of year again! Starting today voting is open for the 3rd annual Social Security Blogger Awards.  You can vote at http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22BQFS9A3BN/. Be warned that you must leave a verifiable email and blog address in order for your vote to count. Of course the winners will be announced at the Security Bloggers Meet up at the RSA Conference next month.

Before I announce the finalists, I want to give a 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

• Veracode ZeroDay Labs (http://www.veracode.com/blog/)
• Fortinet - http://blog.fortinet.com/
• Symantec Connect (http://www.symantec.com/connect/)
• Gunter Ollmann/Damballa Research http://blog.damballa.com/ 
• Arbor Networks http://asert.arbornetworks.com/

Best Security podcast 

• Pauldotcom http://www.pauldotcom.com/ 
• Southern Fried Security http://www.southernfriedsecurity.com/ 
• CERTS Podcast Series http://www.cert.org/podcast/ 
• The Silver Bullet Security Podcast http://www.cigital.com/silverbullet/

Most educational security blog

• Jeremiah Grossman (http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/)
• Chris Hoff – Rational Survivability (http://www.rationalsurvivability.com/blog/)
• Jon Oltsik, Enterprise Strategy Group http://www.enterprisestrategygroup.com/category/our-team/analysts/jon-oltsik/ 
• Naked Security/Sophos http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/ 
• Evil Bytes /John Sawyer http://www.darkreading.com/blog/archives/evil-bytes/index.html

Most entertaining security blog 

• Naked Security  http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/
• View from the Bunker  http://viewfromthebunker.com/
• Uncommon Sense Security/Jack Daniels http://blog.uncommonsensesecurity.com/
• Securosis Blog/Insights/ Mike Rothman http://securosis.com/blog

Security Blog that best represents the industry

• Threat Post http://www.threatpost.com
• Krebs on Security http://www.krebsonsecurity.com
• CSO Online Blog http://blogs.csoonline.com/
• Threat Level (Wired) http://blogs.csoonline.com/ 
• Schneier On Security http://www.schneier.com/

The single best security blog post of the year

• The Death of Security as We Know It (http://techbuddha.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/2011-the-death-of-security-as-we-know-it-or-operationalizing-security/)
• CyberSecurity and National Policy by Dan Geer (http://www.harvardnsj.com/2010/04/cybersecurity-and-national-policy/)
• Ralph Langner, Langner Communications series on Stuxnet http://www.langner.com/en/2010/12/09/our-stuxnet-timeline/ 
• “SecurityBSides Turned Me into an Adult” by Michelle Klinger, from her Fear Not the Assessor blog http://topheavysecurity.com/2010/12/13/securitybsides-turned-me-into-an-adult/ 
• Brian Krebs (krebsonsecurity) Sept. 30, 2010 “U.S. charges 37 alleged money mules” http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/09/u-s-charges-37-alleged-money-mules/ 
• “How to Become an Information Security Thought Leader by Chris Eng  http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7897173)

Every single one of these blogs is already a winner having been selected by our blue ribbon panel of judges. Voting closes at the end of the month, so please don’t wait to vote!