Information Security Excellence Awards Winners Announced

Information Security Magazine announced this years’ winners of prestige Information Security Excellence Awards. Winners were chosen to represent 10 different thematic categories and ‘top product of the year’ and ‘best new product’ titles were given to the outstanding solutions. Andrew Briney, editor-in-chief of Information Security Magazine said: “Infosecurity professionals have literally thousands of technologies and products to choose from. Those selected by our readers for an Excellence Award represent the best of breed in real-world enterprise security environments,”

The awarded companies and the respective categories are:

Intrusion Detection Systems
Tripwire – Tripwire Inc.

Intrusion Prevention System
StormWatch – OKENA Inc.

Firewalls
Check Point FireWall-1-Check Point Software Technologies

Antivirus/Mobile Code Tools
Symantec Norton Antivirus – Symantec

VPNs
Nokia VPN – Nokia Internet Communications

Enterprise Security Management/Centralized Management
Network Security Manager – Intellitactics Inc.

Identity Management
RSA ClearTrust – RSA Security Inc.

Vulnerability Assessment/Security Monitoring
Retina – eEye Digital Security

Authentication – Soft Form Factor
SSH Secure Shell – SSH Communications Security

Authentication – Hard Form Factor
RSA SecurID – RSA Security

Horizon Award (Best New Product)
neuSECURE – GuardedNet

Foundation Award (Top Product of the Year)
RSA SecurID – RSA Security