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2022 Gold Medal Award

2022 Gold Medal Awardees

AWARD CITATION

The group is recognized for enabling faster, more accurate, and more secure system deployments and updates with reduced operational costs through the automated assessment of security control implementation and effectiveness. The group developed and increased adoption of the Open Security Controls Assessment Language to facilitate a transition from manual to machine-driven, automated security assessments. The rapid international adoption demonstrates OSCAL’s groundbreaking transformation of systems security-assessment processes.

GROUP AWARD

Michaela Iorga

Computer Engineer
Information Technology Laboratory, Computer Security Division

David Waltermire

IT Specialist
Information Technology Laboratory, Computer Security Division

Dmitry Cousin

IT Specialist
Information Technology Laboratory, Computer Security Division

Alexander Stein

IT Specialist
Information Technology Laboratory, Computer Security Division

Stephen Banghart

Computer Scientist
Information Technology Laboratory, Computer Security Division

Nikita Wootten

Computer Scientist
Information Technology Laboratory, Computer Security Division

Wendell Piez

IT Specialist
Information Technology Laboratory, Computer Security Division