2011 SC Magazine Awards Europe - Winners Announced

The 2011 SC Magazine Awards Europe winners were announced Tuesday evening, April 19. The awards gala took place at the London Hilton on Park Lane. Sophos and McAfee were both double winners on Tuesday evening. McAfee was also a double winner in the SC Awards US 2011 event held in San Francisco in February during (but not part of) the RSA security show. It remains to be seen whether representatives of the winning organizations will be given invitations to the upcoming royal wedding.

Best anti-malware solution

Sophos - Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition

Best content security

Websense - Triton

Best network security

McAfee - Network Security Platform

Best integrated security solution

ArcSight - Logger 5

Best DLP solution

Safend - Data Protection Suite

Best encryption solution

PGP by Symantec - Remote Disable and Destroy (RDD)

Best IAM solution

CA Technologies - Identity Manager

Best remote access

Becrypt - Trusted Client

Best security management

McAfee - ePolicy Orchestrator

Best SME security solution

Qualys - QualysGuard Express

Best security solution, financial services

Actiance - Vantage

Best enterprise security solution

Good Technology - Good for Enterprise

Best secure transaction solution

Thales - payShield 9000

Best secure virtualization solution

Check Point - Check Point Security Gateway Virtual Edition

Innovation award

ActiveBase - ActiveBase Security

Information security consultancy of the year

KPMG

IT security value added reseller of the year

Brookcourt Solutions

MSSP of the year

Dell SecureWorks

Information security product of the year

Actiance - Unified Security Gateway

Information security project of the year

British Gas - Keep Mum

Information security team of the year

Barclaycard - Barclaycard Payment Security team

Rising star award

Ross Leaning, executive advisor, KPMG

CEO of the year

Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO, Qualys

Information security person of the year

Mark Brown, chief information security officer, SABMiller

Information security vendor of the year

Sophos


The short list for SC Awards Europe 2011 finalists is at http://www.scmagazineuk.com/awards-shortlist/section/348/

Judging

The judges for the Technology and Industry Awards are drawn from the senior ranks of the information security profession. The Professional Awards are judged by a separate panel drawn from the SC editorial team

What the SC Magazine Awards Europe 2011 Mean for the Vendors

• Third party validation by a leading dedicated security publication
• Third party validation by peers
• Marketing/promotional rights for a year, subject to licensing
• A number of potential marketing/branding/lead generation opportunities for the recipients

Symantec was a winner in four categories for the awards in the US. McAfee was nominated in fourteen categories and won in two of these.

A listing of the SC Awards 2011 US winners is at

http://kensek.blogspot.com/2011/02/sc-awards-2011-us-announced.html

SC Awards Europe 2011 - Finalists Announced

The SC Awards Europe 2011 finalists were announced February 23. The awards gala will take place at the London Hilton on Park Lane on Tuesday April 19. Symantec, McAfee, Sophos, Websense, and Webroot are finalists in multiple product categories (McAfee was a finalist in about 14 categories in the SC Awards US 2011). Below is a detailed listing of finalists for the product awards.

Best Anti-Malware Solution
• Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky Open Space Security (KOSS) 2010
• M86 Security M86 Secure Web Gateway 10.0
• McAfee McAfee Endpoint Protection Suite
• Sophos Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition
• Symantec Symantec Endpoint Protection

Best Content Security
• Clearswift Clearswift Secure Web and Email Gateway
• LANDesk LANDesk Security Suite
• McAfee McAfee Web Gateway
• Symantec Symantec Web Gateway
• Websense TRITON
• Webroot Webroot Web Security Service

Best Network Security
• GFI Software GFI LANguard 9.6
• McAfee McAfee Network Security Platform
• Sourcefire Sourcefire IPS

Best Integrated Security Solution
• ArcSight ArcSight Logger 5
• LogRhythm LogRhythm

Best IAM Solution
• Aveksa Aveksa 4.0
• CA Technologies CA Identity Manager
• Courion Courion Access Assurance Suite
• Lieberman Software Enterprise Random Password Manager (ERPM)
• Symantec (VeriSign) VeriSign Identity Protection Access for Mobile

Best Remote Access
• Becrypt Becrypt Trusted Client
• Check Point Software Technologies Check Point Abra
• Tectia Tectia MobileID
• Websense TRITON

Best Security Management
• McAfee McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO)
• Symantec Symantec Control Compliance Suite
• Venafi Venafi Encryption Director

Best SME Security Solution
• ArcSight ArcSight Express
• Egress Software Technologies Egress Switch
• Qualys QualysGuard Express
• SafeNet SafeWord 2008
• Secunia Secunia Corporate Software Inspector
• WatchGuard WatchGuard XTM 5 Series

Best Enterprise Security Solution
• Absolute Software Absolute Manage
• Good Technology Good for Enterprise
• nCircle nCircle Suite360
• Qualys QualysGuard IT Security and Compliance Suite
• Sourcefire Sourcefire IPS
• Trustwave Trustwave SIEM OE

Best Security Solution, Financial Services
• ArcSight ArcSight FraudView
• Egress Software Technologies Egress Switch
• nCircle nCircle Configuration Compliance Manager
• Skybox Security Skybox View 5.0
• Actiance Vantage

Innovation Award
• ActiveBase Security ActiveBase
• ArcSight ArcSight Logger 5
• SunFive (represented by SecureGrade) Boole Server
• M86 Security M86 Secure Web Gateway 10.0
• Oval Oval Data Loss Protection Risk and Insurance Solutions
• Cyber Security Technologies P2P Marshal

Best Secure Virtualisation Solution
• Check Point Software Technologies Check Point Security Gateway Virtual Edition
• AEP Networks CloudProtect
• Sourcefire Sourcefire IPS
• Symantec Symantec Protection Suite for Servers

Best Encryption Solution
• Becrypt Becrypt DISK Protect
• Symantec PGP Remote Disable and Destroy (RDD)

Best DLP Solution
• Lumension Lumension Device Control
• McAfee McAfee Data Loss Prevention
• Safend Safend Data Protection Suite
• Symantec Symantec DLP v11
• Trustwave Trustwave Data Loss Prevention

Best Secure Transaction Solution
• SafeNet Luna SA
• Thales payShield 9000
• Symantec (VeriSign) SSL Certificates
• Voltage Security Voltage SecureData Payments

Information Security Product of the Year
• SunFive (represented by SecureGrade) Boole Server
• Cyber-Ark Software Cyber-Ark PIM Suite
• Qualys QualysGuard IT Security and Compliance Suite
• Actiance Unified Security Gateway
• Varonis Systems Varonis Data Governance Suite
• Veracode Veracode SecurityReview

Information Security Vendor of the Year
• Absolute Software
• Kaspersky Lab
• Qualys
• Sophos
• Webroot

Professional Awards To Be Given Out At SC Awards 2011


• Information Security Person of the Year
• Information Security Project of the Year
• Information Security Team of the Year
• The Rising Star Award
• Information Security Consultancy of the Year
• IT Security VAR of the Year
• MSSP of the Year
• CEO of the Year

Finalists in these categories as well as the product categories can be viewed at
http://www.scmagazineuk.com/awards-shortlist/section/348/

The judges for the Technology and Industry Awards are drawn from the senior ranks of the information security profession. The Professional Awards are judged by a separate panel drawn from the SC editorial team

What the SC Magazine Awards 2011 Mean for the Vendors

• Third party validation by a leading dedicated security publication
• Third party validation by peers
• Marketing/promotional rights for a year, subject to licensing
• A number of potential marketing/branding/lead generation opportunities for the recipients

A listing of the SC Awards 2011 US winners is at http://kensek.blogspot.com/2011/02/sc-awards-2011-us-announced.html

For more information and to book tickets for the event, go to www.scawardseurope.com

Observations From RSA Conference 2011 – Wednesday February 16

Much of the messaging at RSA Conference 2011 is around some combination of the words cloud, compliance, and VM. Presentations in the booths not working in those phrases are less well attended, except for the tchotchkes collectors.

IDC had a full room at their breakfast briefing on “Corporate & Consumer Security in the Next Decade: Peace, Love, & Happiness?” About a dozen of their analysts took part in a panel discussion with the attendees.

It was a (personal) day attending booth presentations from web security, firewall, and endpoint security vendors. Some bullet point observations:

• Trend Micro - Filled the theatre room within the exhibition hall with their talk on what they were doing with VM, among other topics.

• Symantec - Presentations, sneak peeks of Version 12 of the consumer internet security product. Talking about “Insight” as part of the product, and recruiting beta customers. They also have protection for Droid now. Double winner on Tuesday night from SC Awards 2011.

• Kaspersky – Has protection for Droid.

• Sophos – Interesting presentation on deconstructing a virus.

• McAfee - Naming names. One of their slides showed how their endpoint product has tested against a dozen of the usual suspects. Also prominently displayed their 12 Finalist and 2 Winner awards from SC Magazine 2011, awarded the previous night.

• ESET - Spoke about their performance, history of testing well with Virus Bulletin, and had a naming names slide showing how they perform versus some of their competitors.

Other endpoint companies with a presence on the exhibition floor included BitDefender, Bit9, Comodo, and GFI. If you don't have a presence on the floor...

A “What were they thinking?” question has to go to Barracuda for having an evening reception at the Gold Club, near Moscone Center and RSA. No dancers during the reception, but still. Supposedly, Barracuda's 2011 Tour Bus was owned by or leased from the Dave Mathews band.

Thursday on the exhibition floor is usually relatively quiet. Thursday evening is the Conference Codebreakers Bash at San Francisco City Hall. Bill Clinton will be giving the Friday keynote.

SC Awards 2011 US Winners

The SC Awards 2011 US Winners were announced at a ceremony on February 15 in San Francisco. These, the Excellence Awards, and the Professional Awards can also be viewed at http://www.scmagazineus.com/scawards2011-winners/section/2075/

For car racing fans, the best Security Team award went to Go Daddy.

SC Magazine Awards 2011, US Winners in the Reader Trust Category

Symantec was a winner in four categories. McAfee was nominated in fourteen categories and won in two of these.

Best Anti-Malware Gateway
• Winner: Cisco Systems for Cisco Web Security

Best AntiMalware Management
• Winner: McAfee for McAfee Endpoint Protection Suite

Best Computer Forensics Tool
• Winner: Guidance Software for EnCase Forensic

Best Data Leakage Prevention
• Winner: Symantec for Symantec Data Loss Prevention

Best Email Content Management
• Winner: Symantec for Symantec Brightmail Gateway

Best Email Security
• Winner: Sophos for Sophos Email Security Appliance

Best Endpoint/UTM Security
• Winner: Symantec for Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0

Best Enterprise Firewall
• Winner: Cisco Systems for Cisco ASA 5585-X

Best Identity Management Application
• Winner: IBM for IBM Tivoli Identity and Access Assurance

Best Integrated Security-UTM
• Winner: SonicWALL for SonicWALL NSA 2400MX

Best IDS/IPS
• Winner: Sourcefire for Sourcefire IPS (based on Snort)

Best IPsec/SSL VPN
• Winner: Cisco Systems for Cisco ASA Secure Remote Access solution

Best Managed Security Service
• Winner: SecureWorks Managed Security Services

Best Mobile/Portable Device Security
• Winner: Symantec for Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile Edition

Best Multifactor
• Winner: RSA, the security division of EMC, for RSA SecurID Authentication

Best Policy Management
• Winner: Cisco Systems for Cisco Network Admission Control Appliance

Best Security Information/Event Management (SIEM)
• Winner: ArcSight for ArcSight ESM

Best Vulnerability Management Tool
• Winner: Qualys for QualysGuard Vulnerability Management (VM)

Best Web Application Firewall
• Winner: SonicWALL for SonicWALL Web Application Firewall Service

Best Web Content Management
• Winner: Websense for Websense Web Security Gateway

SC Awards Europe 2011 Finalists

Go to http://kensek.blogspot.com/2011/02/sc-awards-europe-2011-finalists.html

Judging/Voting for the Reader Trust Awards

A panel of readers who represent the circulation of SC Magazine chooses winners. The Reader Trust Voting Panel is comprised of SC Magazine readers who have volunteered their time and experience to carefully consider each of the contenders in each category to cast votes

What These Awards Mean for the Recipients

• Third party validation by a leading dedicated security company
• Third party validation by peers
• Marketing/promotional rights for a year, subject to licensing
• A number of potential marketing/branding/lead generation opportunities for the recipients

SC Magazine Awards 2011 Finalists Announced

February addendum - go to the following url to view the winners http://kensek.blogspot.com/2011/02/sc-awards-2011-us-announced.html

SC Magazine has announced their SC Awards 2011 finalists (US). There are 20 categories for Reader Trust Awards, 5 for Excellence Awards and 5 for Professional Awards. Winners in the latter two categories are chosen by a panel selected by SC Magazine. The Reader Trust Awards are voted on by a panel of SC Magazine readers.

McAfee, Symantec, and Sophos all have multiple products up for Reader Trust awards. Some of the categories security products are finalists for are interesting. For example, in the below, companies up for awards in Best Anti-Malware Management and Best Endpoint Security could be interchangeable. Sophos’ Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection is in both categories.


Best Anti-Malware Management (client-based, typically software only)

• ESET for ESET NOD32 Anti-virus 4
• Kaspersky Lab Americas for Kaspersky Open Space Security
• McAfee for McAfee Endpoint Protection Suite
• Microsoft for Forefront Client Security
• Sophos for Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection

Best Endpoint/UTM Security

• Check Point Software Technologies for Check Point UTM-1
• McAfee for McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint, Enterprise Edition
• SonicWALL for SonicWALL E-Class Network Security Appliance (NSA) E8500
• Sophos for Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection
• Symantec for Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0

McAfee was recognized for products in 12 areas within the “Readers Trust” competition, which honors best-in-class security products and services. McAfee was also selected as a finalist for three “Excellence Awards." http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/news/2010/q4/20101111-01.aspx

None of the three companies best known for their free internet security software, AVG Technologies, Avast, and Avira are represented this year. AVG Technologies business AVG Internet Security product was a finalist last year in the Anti-Malware category (US Edition).

SC Magazine SC Awards 2011 - Reader Trust Categories

• Best Anti-Malware Solution Gateway
• Best Anti-Malware Management (client-based, typically software only)
• Best Endpoint Security Solution
• Best Computer Forensics Solution
• Best Encryption Solution
• Best Enterprise Firewall
• Best Identity Management Solution
• Best Integrated Security Solution
• Best Intrusion Detection/Prevention Solution
• Best IPsec/SSL VPN
• Best Managed Security Service
• Best Messaging Security Solution
• Best Mobile Device Security Solution
• Best Multi- and Second-factor Solution
• Best Policy Management Solution
• Best Security Information/Event Management (SIM/SEM) Solution
• Best Security Software Development Solution
• Best Vulnerability Management Solution
• Best Web Application Security Solution
• Best Web Filtering Solution

Winners will be announced on February 15 in San Francisco. This will coincide with when the RSA Conference takes place. For a complete listing of finalists in all categories, go to http://www.scmagazineus.com/2011-sc-awards-us-finalists/section/1908/