Every day, it seems, there's another story about a data breach,leaked personal information or a cyber threat. Senior management isjustifiably concerned, and boards of directors are pushing their ITdepartments to mitigate risks.

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Related: New York launches proactive cybersecurity rules forinsurers

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As a result, businesses are developing benchmarks and bestpractices, and they're requiring employees to adhere to those bestpractices, too. Risk managers, IT professionals and otherstakeholders, are creating successful programs to keep theirorganizations safe from cyber threats, meeting their criticalresponsibility. Just one cyber event can wreak havoc with acompany's data, compromise customer and employee personalinformation — and ruin one's business reputation.

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That's why we're looking for the best cyber security riskmanagers in any industry.

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The award proudly recognizes those with outstanding risk controlprograms designed to continually protect an organization'ssensitive data against cyber attacks. If you have a unique riskmanagement approach or success story in how to counter cyberexposures, we'd like to hear about it — and so would our readers.Enter your company in the NationalUnderwriter Excellence in Cyber Security Risk Management Awardprogram today!

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The honor will be bestowed upon one risk manager/informationsecurity lead whose program has displayed effective, notablemitigation techniques that are proven to keep cyber risks atbay.

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Related: Equifax hack teaches hard lessons about data regulation andincident response

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What do you have to do?

To nominate your company for an award, you must be a riskmanager or someone who works in the risk management department of aU.S. company, responsible at least in part for the organization'scyber security program. You also must fill out an application, including a company profile,which will be kept confidential. There is no fee for entering yoursubmission for this award.

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Submissions must be received by Oct. 9, 2017,to be considered.

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If your cyber security risk management program is selected,you'll receive:

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        • An exclusive feature profile in the November 2017 issue ofNational Underwriter Property & Casualty and onPropertyCasualty360.com.
        • The opportunity to discuss your award-winning program during aspecial webinar (with highlights appearing onPropertyCasualty360.com).

The deadline is getting closer so get your applications inno later than Oct. 9, 2017!

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Questions? Contact Shawn Moynihan at [email protected].

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Related: The cyber liability insurance market rises

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