HDFC Life, one of India’s leading life insurance companies has been awarded the CIO100 Award at the 7h annual CIO100 awards held in Hyderabad recently. The annual award program recognizes organizations that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology.

On receiving the award, Thomson Thomas, Senior Vice President – Business Systems and Technology, HDFC Life said, “Winning the CIO 100 award is a great recognition for the success of our efforts in ensuring data security as leakage of confidential customer and organizational information is a major threat and has regulatory and legal impact. It also has financial and reputational impact. With emphasis on Data protection, HDFC Life has come up with a Data protection framework that defines the visibility of data, compliance, data classification, vigilance over data & security training/awareness for an effective Data protection strategy. HDFC Life has also received the ISO 27001 certification from BSI for the same.”

This year’s award ceremony witnessed 491 companies file nominations out of which 200 Finalists assembled at the awards ceremony. A hundred CIOs and IT leaders from leading Indian organizations were recognized in a gala ceremony spread across 2 days, for using information technology in innovative ways to deliver business value, create competitive advantage, optimize business processes, enable growth or improve relationships with customers.