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2019 Bronze Medal Award

Leith, Mundy, Graham, Rickerds, Katzman, Franchois

Leith, Mundy, Graham, Rickerds, Katzman, Franchois

AWARD CITATION

This group is honored for leading security improvements to hundreds of NIST public websites and completing this technically challenging and widely distributed effort in a short period of time, well ahead of most other federal agencies. Over 250 NIST public websites, hosted on- and off-premise, are now only accessible using strong encryption protocols and ciphers. This effort also resulted in reducing the number of NIST public web servers, eliminating those that were no longer needed, and migrating the content of others to www.nist.gov.

GROUP AWARD

Paul Franchois

IT Specialist
Office of Information Systems Management

James Graham III

Computer Scientist
Office of Information Systems Management

Esther Katzman

IT Specialist (INFOSEC)
Office of Information Systems Management

Nicholas Kulick

IT Specialist (SYSADMIN)
Office of Information Systems Management

John Venable

Supervisory IT Specialist (APPSW)
Office of Information Systems Management

Ann Leith

Supervisory IT Specialist (SECURITY)
Material Measurement Laboratory

Andrew Mundy

IT Specialist (SYSANALYSIS)
Engineering Laboratory

Ann Rickerds

Information Specialist
Information Technology Laboratory
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