FAIR AWARDS

Honoring Excellence in Information and Operational Risk Management

The FAIR^TMAwards honor risk management leaders for their initiative, ingenuity and contributions to Information and Operational Risk Management. The awards recognize the deep impact that these professionals have on their organizations by enabling operational excellence and effective decision-making, and in balancing the need to protect their organizations while running the business.

Please read the criteria below and complete the form to nominate your FAIR^TMchampions. Award winners are announced at the annual FAIR Conference.

Business innovation and technology innovation are often connected. Innovative risk officers are disrupting the status quo by leveraging new analytic capabilities and by enabling the communication and management of information risk from the business perspective. This award recognizes those risk professionals who have successfully applied FAIR principles to drive innovation.

Successful nominees can demonstrate how they used FAIR principles to reach goals such as:

Transitioning from a compliance-based to a risk-based approach to information security and operational risk
Pioneering how to implement a FAIR program through novel and creative applications that expand FAIR usage into other domains
Communicating to the board and the business in financial terms to enable a business analysis of information risk and effective decision-making
Demonstrating the impact of security investments and other risk mitigations on enterprise loss exposure
Optimizing the information security budgets based on explicit, quantified risk targets
Integrating quantitative risk analysis in operational decision-making processes
Enabling strategic business decisions such as new projects, partnerships and acquisitions, by helping achieve the balance between the opportunity and the associated risk
Implementing key reporting mechanisms indicating an organization's loss exposure over time

Transitioning to a business-aligned and data-driven culture within information risk requires leadership: intellect to envision and explain, understanding to address fear, evangelism to motivate, and courage to manage through unknowns. This award recognizes leaders at the forefront of their organization’s FAIR^TMinitiative who get data owners on board, stakeholders to help improve analysis, and decision-makers to adopt the resulting analytics as an integral part of their strategies, decision-making processes and operating rhythms.

Successful FAIR Champions can demonstrate a track record of reaching goals such as:

Driving an explicit, data-driven culture for managing information risk
Making FAIR^TM reporting a core component of monthly or quarterly operational meetings, business reviews, strategy and planning and other decision-oriented meetings
Providing new insights that influence decision-makers Driving important, quantified improvements in source data quality
Integrating FAIR^TM data and analysis into existing decision-making processes
Educating IT and business executives about FAIR^TMand the importance of its adoption
Evangelizing FAIR^TMthrough community engagement, such as through the FAIR Institute

The FAIR Ambassador Award serves to recognize a specific member’s work in bringing FAIR^TMand the FAIR Institute to a new part of the world. The winner of this award is an individual that has helped spread the knowledge of FAIR^TMinto a new city, state, country, or continent, at both governmental and enterprise level.

Successful FAIR Ambassadors can demonstrate a track record of reaching goals such as:

Establishing leadership by creating and hosting a local chapter in their respective area
Making FAIR^TMeducation a core component of monthly or quarterly chapter meetings
Further promote FAIR^TMand spread awareness by speaking and presenting at different industry events and conference
Contribute to the FAIR Institute by providing thought leadership content
Providing new insights that influence decision-makers
Educating IT and business executives about FAIR^TMand the importance of its adoption

FAIR AWARDS

Honoring Excellence in Information and Operational Risk Management

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