At the 12th security blogger meet-up at RSA Conference in San Francisco on February 15, 2017, the security blogger award winners were announced. The following blogs were nominated by esteemed influencers: Ericka Chickowski, George Hulme, Kelly Jackson-Higgins and Don MacVittie.
The winning blogs were voted for by industry.
The 2017 Security Blogger Awards Nominees and Winners:
Most Entertaining Security Blog
· WINNER: Graham Cluley https://www.grahamcluley.com/
· Security Reactions https://securityreactions.tumblr.com
· Avast Blog https://blog.avast.com/
· Erratasec http://blog.erratasec.com/
· And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Bits https://blog.trailofbits.com
· Emergent Chaos http://www.emergentchaos.com/
Most Educational Security Blog
· Errata Security/Rob Graham
· Trend Micro Security Intelligence blog http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence
· Stack Overflow – Security http://security.blogoverflow.com/
· Tao Security https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/
· WINNER: Naked Security Blog by Sophos https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/
Best New Security Blog or Podcast
· Anomali https://anomali.com/blog
· E&T Cyber Security Hub https://cybersecurity.theiet.org
· Cymmetria http://blog.cymmetria.com
· Aqua Security Aqua Blog http://blog.aquasec.com/
· WINNER: Flashpoint Intelligence Corner https://www.flashpoint-intel.com/blog/
Best Blog Post of the Year
· Nick Selby: When Security Monitoring Provides Neither Security Nor Monitoring http://nselby.github.io/When-Security-Monitoring-Provides-Neither-Security-Nor-Monitoring/
· Jeremiah Grossman: What Keeps Me in the Security Industry http://blog.jeremiahgrossman.com/2016/10/what-keeps-me-in-security-industry.html
· Inside the Cunning, Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine’s Power Grid https://www.wired.com/2016/03/inside-cunning-unprecedented-hack-ukraines-power-grid/
· Securosis Tidal Forces: The Trends Tearing Apart Security As We Know It https://securosis.com/blog/tidal-forces-the-trends-tearing-apart-security-as-we-know-it
· WINNER: Troy Hunt: Security insanity: how we keep failing at the basics https://www.troyhunt.com/security-insanity-how-we-keep-failing-at-the-basics/
Best Corporate Security Blog
· WINNER: Bitdefender Business Insights http://businessinsights.bitdefender.com
· Tripwire Blog http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/
· Veracode Blog https://www.veracode.com/blog
· SC Magazine Threat Hunter Blog https://www.scmagazine.com/the-threat-hunter-blog/section/6822/
· Sentinel One https://sentinelone.com/blog/
Best Security Podcast
· Liquid Matrix https://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/category/podcasts/
· Down the Security Rabbithole #DtSR http//podcast.wh1t3rabbit.net/
· The Southern Fried Security Podcast http://www.southernfriedsecurity.com/
· SANS StormCast https://isc.sans.edu/podcast.html
· Risky Business http://risky.biz/netcasts/risky-business
· Winner: Security Weekly http://securityweekly.com/