Awards

Back in 2011, Microsoft gave me the rather awesome (IMHO) Most Valuable Professional Award [https://www.troyhunt.com/accidental-mvp/] for the first time. This is Microsoft's award for community leadership within a technology discipline which for me at the time, was developer security. I'm confident that award came largely due to the work I did on the OWASP Top 10 for .NET Developers series [https://www.troyhunt.com/owasp-top-10-for-net-developers-part-1/], a 10-part epic blog series that set me...

I don't normally do back-to-back blog posts, but this was no normal week! I just posted about how I won the European Security Blogger Award Grand Prix Prize for the Best Overall Security Blog [https://www.troyhunt.com/i-just-won-the-european-security-blogger-award-grand-prix-prize-for-the-best-overall-security-blog] and per the title of this post, a couple of hours later Scott Helme and I backed it up with this at the SC Awards [http://www.scawardseurope.com/]: > To us! ? #SCAwards2018 [https:...

I'm not sure how I found myself in a European award program, maybe it's like Australians in Eurovision [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest]? But somehow, I wiggled my way into The European Security Blogger Awards [https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/EUBloggerAwards2018] and before even having a chance to come down off the high that was last week's Award for Information Security Excellence at the AusCERT conference in Australia [https://www.troyhunt.com/auscert-and...

I've been at the AusCERT conference [https://conference.auscert.org.au/] this week which has presented a rare opportunity to walk to a major event from my home rather than fly to the other side of the world. And what an awesome walk too, right on the turn into "winter", which means something quite different in this part of the world: > Off to #AusCERT2018 [https://twitter.com/hashtag/AusCERT2018?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]! It’s all blue outside today, what an awesome day for a short walk fro...