This month marked the opening of nominations for the first-ever (ISC)² EMEA ISLA, allowing you to nominate fellow information security and management professionals throughout the private and public sectors across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The nomination categories are: Senior Information Security Professional, Information Security Practitioner, Up-and-Coming Information Security and Woman Information Security Professional. Nominations must be put forward by a colleague, so we hope that many of you will feel inspired to put forward your professional peers. We do appreciate that nominating someone may seem like a daunting task, or you may be unsure whether who you have in mind even fits the bill altogether. So, by way of inspiration we have profiled past ISLA winners from the