**DEADLINE EXTENDED: ENTRIES ACCEPTED UNTIL FRIDAY, OCT. 9.**

Every day, another business in the U.S. becomes the victim of a cyber attack. In many cases, the organization has all the correct tools in place and the attack is defeated. In other cases, companies aren't aware that they've been hacked until their customers or vendors inform them. The costs can be enormous, and a small to mid-sized business may never recover.

In response to the heightened awareness of cyber risk, companies are developing benchmarks and establishing best practices. Risk managers, along with IT professionals and others, are creating successful programs to keep their organizations safe from cyber threats, meeting their critical responsibility.

To celebrate the successes of cyber security savvy risk managers, National Underwriter is searching for candidates whose programs are worthy of recognition with our inaugural Excellence in Cyber Security Risk Management Award.

The Excellence in Cyber Security Risk Management Award is sponsored by The Institutes.

Be recognized for your outstanding program

The award proudly recognizes those with outstanding risk control programs designed to continually protect an organization's sensitive data against cyber attacks. If you have a unique risk management approach or success story in how to counter cyber exposures, we'd like to hear about it — and so would our readers. Enter your company in the National Underwriter Excellence in Cyber Security Risk Management Award program today!

The honor will be bestowed upon the risk manager whose program has displayed effective, notable mitigation techniques that are proven to help keep cyber risks at bay.

There is no fee for entering your submission for this award.

How to nominate your cyber security program

To nominate your company or a colleague for the award, fill out the application here.

All information submitted will be kept confidential. Submissions must be received by Oct. 9, 2015, to be considered.

The three award winners will receive:

  • An exclusive feature profile in the December 2015 issue of National Underwriter Property & Casualty and on PropertyCasualty360.com.
  • Round-trip airfare to the leading event for Cyber Security professionals — ALM's CyberSecure conference, on Dec. 15–16 at the Sheraton Hotel in New York City, where we will present the awards — and two nights' hotel accommodations.
  • The opportunity to discuss your award-winning program during a panel held at the ALM CyberSecure conference (with highlights appearing on PropertyCasualty360.com).

The deadline is fast approaching, so get your applications in no later than Oct. 9, 2015.

Questions? Contact Shawn Moynihan at smoynihan@alm.com.

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