Information Security announces IT Readers' Choice awards

It is not exactly the Miss America pageant — otherwise we would have tried to attend — but the winners of Information Security magazine and SearchSecurity.com’s jointly-produced Readers’ Choice Awards have something to smile about. More than 1,500 information security executives evaluated 340 IT products in fifteen distinct categories, and so it is fair to say that the forty-five selected for recognition are deserving of it. (To be eligible for award consideration, a product had to attain at least 25 percent of the number of responses garnered by the top vote receiver within its category.) A selection of the winners, organized by category, include:

BULLETS

Anti-malware:

Gold: McAfee’s VirusScan Enterprise/Anti-Spyware Enterprise

Silver (tie): Trend Micro Incorporated ‘s Trend Micro AntiVirus plus AntiSpyware

Silver (tie): Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN) — Websense Enterprise

Authentication:

Gold: RSA’s SecurID

Silver: VeriSign’s PKI

Bronze: ActivIdentity Corporation’s Enterprise Access Cards

Intrusion Detection/Prevention

Gold: TippingPoint’s Intrusion Prevention System

Silver: Symantec’s Network Security 7100 Series

Bronze: Juniper Networks’s NetScreen-IDP

Emerging Technology:

Gold: ForeScout Technologies’s CounterAct

Silver: Mu Security’s Mu-4000 Security Analyzer

Bronze: KoolSpan’s SecurityEdge