Insular Life’s (InLife) chief information security officer Noel Andres M. Perdigon recently received the governance, risk, and compliance (GCR) Leader of the Year Award at the PhilSec Awards 2023.
Perdigon heads both InLife’s Information Security and Data Privacy (ISDP) Division and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Division and is also the company’s lead sustainability officer for InLife’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives.
According to the award organizers, the GRC Leader of the Year Award is given “to the most outstanding professional who displayed sheer magnificence in the field of governance, risk, and compliance and through his competence enabled the best-in-class security for his organization, while also keeping it on the right track for growth and scalability.”
GRC is defined as a blanket term describing the strategies and technologies used to manage an organization’s compliance with regulatory mandates and corporate governance standards.
Aside from the GRC Leader of the Year, four others in the field of cybersecurity were given the following awards: Cyber Woman of the Year, CISO of the Year, Digital Leader of the Year and Security Practitioner of the Year (Private Sector).
The Jury was composed of distinguished thought leaders in the cybersecurity space, among them, Armed Forces Of The Philippines Philippine Army Battalion Commander Lt. Col. Francel Margareth Taborlupa, National ICT Confederation of The Philippines President Mary Joy Abueg, Department Of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) advisor and former assistant secretary Allan S. Cabanlong, Philippine Army Signal Regiment deputy regiment commander Col. Joey Fontiveros, and Women In Security Alliance Philippines chairman and president Mel Migrino.
The PhilSec Awards 2023, the country’s foremost cybersecurity awards program, was held at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila in July this year.
