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Shine a Spotlight on Your Cybersecurity Success.
CSO ASEAN is pleased to launch the CSO30 ASEAN Awards 2025, recognizing the top 30 senior cybersecurity leaders and teams across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. In today’s volatile digital landscape, every organization faces relentless cybersecurity challenges.
But some teams do not just respond – they lead, innovate, and set new benchmarks for resilience and impact. If your organization has delivered a cybersecurity project that has fundamentally changed how you operate, influenced your leadership team, or advanced national security through public-private collaboration, now is the time to step forward and claim the recognition you deserve
The CSO30 ASEAN Awards represent a recognition of the vision, courage, and execution that set you and your team apart from the rest. By nominating your project, you earn regional recognition for your leadership and innovation in cybersecurity while benchmarking your achievements against the region’s best practitioners. This validation attracts and retains top talent by showcasing your organization’s commitment to security excellence, while simultaneously strengthening your brand reputation among customers, partners, and industry influencers.
Award Categories: Where Does Your Impact Shine?
The CSO30 ASEAN Awards 2025 celebrate exceptional achievements across three distinct categories, each recognizing various aspects of cybersecurity excellence.
- Business Value (Individual): Recognizes individuals who have fundamentally changed how the organization or business is protected and operates.
- Leadership (Individual): Celebrates those who have influenced and collaborated with the leadership team to drive cybersecurity improvements.
- Public-Private Partnership (Team): Honours initiatives that advanced the national cybersecurity agenda through effective collaboration between sectors.
What Makes a Winning Nomination?
Successful nominations demonstrate clear, measurable impact that extends beyond technical implementation. Your project should demonstrate how it delivered tangible improvements – whether reducing organizational risks, enabling business agility, or supporting strategic business growth objectives. Leadership excellence manifests through your ability to influence stakeholders, foster a security-first culture across departments, or drive strategic change that resonates throughout the organization. Innovation and collaboration become evident when you highlight cross-functional teamwork, creative problem-solving approaches, or strategic partnerships that amplified your results beyond what any single team could achieve.
Nominations are open until: 12 September 2025
Awards winners will be unveiled at the CSO30 ASEAN Awards 2025 Gala Dinner held in-person on 20 November 2025, in Singapore.
Transform Recognition into Opportunity
Do not let your achievements remain in the shadows of your organization’s success stories. The CSO30 ASEAN Awards provide you with a platform to inspire the broader cybersecurity community, attract new business opportunities, and establish your organization as a standard-bearer for cybersecurity excellence across the region. Recognition serves not merely as validation of past achievements, but as a catalyst for future innovation and resilience building.
Act now by identifying your standout leader or project that aligns with the award categories, gathering compelling evidence through metrics, testimonials, and impact stories, then crafting a narrative that connects your achievements to broader business outcomes and regional cybersecurity priorities.
Estelle Quek, Editorial Director
CIO and CSO ASEAN
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