Waspy Awards

Awarded for Event Person of the Year Izar Tarandach is the Principal Security Engineer at Squarespace, a published author and presenter on Threat Modeling. With past tenures in leadership security positions at Autodesk, in a major hedge fund, DellEMC, RSA, IBM and others, he was a core contributor to SAFECode and a founding contributor to the IEEE Center for Security Design. He holds a masters degree in Computer Science/Security from Boston University and has served as an instructor in Digital Forensics and in Secure Development in grad-level courses. He co-leads the development of pytm, a threat-modeling-with-code OWASP Incubator project.

Awarded for Project Person of the Year Nancy is a Senior Developer Advocate for the GitHub Security Lab, where she helps security researchers and developers collaborate and communicate better. In her spare time co-leads the OWASP DevSlop Project and is a member of the AWS Community Builder group. Nancy was named one of the Top 20 Women Leaders in Cyber in Canada, 2021.

Awarded for Chapter Person of the Year Thomas has been developing secure software since graduating with a master’s degree in computer science from Aarhus University in 2006. He has created and tested software, tools and processes in and for large corporations in the finance, energy, and military sectors. Thomas currently runs his independent security consulting firm, WelcomeSecurity based in Silkeborg, Denmark, where he helps people and businesses view security as a business enabler and a value improvement instead of a cost and a pain – To welcome security in software development! Since 2019, Thomas has been an active volunteer with the OWASP Aarhus, Denmark, chapter as co-chapter lead trying to make people aware of the excellent free resources from OWASP and providing a meeting place for people to talk about it-security and to network.

Awarded for Outstanding Innovator

Awarded for Best Educator Awarded for Outsanding Community Supporter You can watch both of Tanya's interviews here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVDVcLyrnr40 or here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVDVcLyrnr4

Awarded for Outstanding Project Simon Bennetts, Ricardo Pereira, and Rick Mitchell were jointly awarded Waspy Awards for their work on the OWASP Zap project

Awarded for Best Community Supporter

Awarded for Best Community Supporter

Awarded for Best Mission Outreach

Awarded for Best Community Supporter

Awarded for Best Innovator