Peiter Zatko
Mudge — sometimes called Peiter Zatko, the L0pht hacker who grew up to work for DARPA, Google, Stripe, and, most notoriously, Twitter (before accepting his current role at Rapid7) — deserves to win this award at least twice. This is a lifetime achievement award for everything you’ve done to create the industry and put it into a place where it exists and it’s real. So, thank you.