Introducing the Vanguard Awards

Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative announces the inaugural Vanguard Awards at Black Hat USA 2024, honoring researchers and vendors across categories such as Best Use of the RF enclosure (Synacktiv), Most Prolific Researcher (an anonymous contributor), Most Likely to Keep Incident Responders Awake (Mark Yason), Best Use of AI (Sina Kheirkhah), and Most In-Depth Submissions (Marcin Wiązowski), as well as vendor recognitions for security advisories (Adobe), transparency (SolarWinds), collaboration (Tesla), improvement (Ivanti), and fastest patching (Mozilla). The awards aim to highlight positive contributions to security research and coordinated disclosure, citing examples from Pwn2Own competitions and vendor responses, with the ceremony scheduled at Trend Micro’s booth and results shared on social platforms.