Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a wrap, and the NitroPhone 5a has been drawn using a provably fair draw seeded by the drand public randomness beacon. We announce our grand prize, 2nd and 3rd place winners, and Submission of the Week champions, including Brad N.’s paper The Bamboo Fortress on how bureaucracy turns urgency into process. Then we look back at the month’s four themes and walk through “Black October”: AI-found PHP flaws, voice-clone scams, poisoned AI libraries, and a $6.3 billion crypto heist. The thread through all of it is that attackers break the process before the technology, and someone has to own the fix.
https://cyberaware.win/winners
https://cisoinsights.show/security-awareness-2026/
https://securitygadgets.shop/nitrokey
Grand prize draw results
| Place | Potential winner | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | William W., Virginia | NitroPhone 5a + USB-A and USB-C data blockers |
| 2nd | Allison J., Tennessee | Nitrokey Start + USB-A and USB-C data blockers (thank-you gift) |
| 3rd | Padmesh S., India | Nitrokey Passkey + USB-A and USB-C data blockers (thank-you gift) |
Submission of the Week
| Week | Winner | Type | Prize | Score (of 100) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 + 2 | William White Prize reveal on CISO Insights 🎙️ |
tabletop | Nitrokey Start + USB-A data blocker Nitrokey Passkey + USB-C data blocker 6 months of MicroSec.tools Starter |
90 (37 / 27 / 26) |
| 3 + 4 | Brad N (ANN) | guide | Nitrokey 3 + $50 CISO Marketplace credits Nitrokey 3 + $100 CISO Marketplace credits 6 months of MicroSec.tools Starter |
67 (22 / 20 / 25) |
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