A standout field with hysterical puns about security policies, Meltdown, Amazon Web Services, and the right to be forgotten. And the winner is …

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Joe Stanganelliprincipal at Beacon Hill Law in Boston, took top honors and a $25 Amazon gift card for his apt caption poking fun at AWS cloud services vulnerabilities. The caption is penned below by cartoonist John Klossner.

Joe faced stiff competition from our runners up: "About that Meltdown patch ..." by ianrod and "I told him not to print out the security policies ..." from DavidRandolph, both of whom will receive a $10 Amazon gift card.

Many thanks to everyone who entered the contest and to our loyal readers who cheered on the contestants. Also a shout-out to our judges, John Klossner and the Dark Reading editorial team: Tim Wilson, Kelly Jackson Higgins, Sara Peters, Kelly Sheriden, Curt Franklin, Jim Donahue, and yours truly. If you haven't had a chance to read all the entries, be sure to check them out today.

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About the Author(s)

John Klossner, Cartoonist

John Klossner has been drawing technology cartoons for more than 15 years. His work regularly appears in Computerworld and Federal Computer Week. His illustrations and cartoons have also been published in The New Yorker, Barron's, and The Wall Street Journal.

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