In SC Magazine's annual year-end roundup, the U.S. editorial team - with insight from our Editorial Advisory Board members - revisits the marketplace's most inspiring and influential luminaries, leading industry happenings, notorious criminal minds, and top business developments. We also take a look at how the IT security landscape is looking in major vertical markets and unearth, based on recent research, just how the CISO's roll may evolve in the coming year. In short this is our reboot of the year, its major goings-on, and the pros who sign off another year's work done.