SC Magazine Awards 2011

The Technology Awards are for individual products and systems from:

•    Information security vendors
•    Resellers
•    MSSPs
•    Consultants
•    Integrators who operate and trade in Europe (including Israel and Russia)

Areas of business can include private and public sectors and not-for-profit organisations. The awards are divided into individual product categories.

For each category you will need to have prepared answers to the following questions for entry**:

•    How does this product or service answer a specific market need or application? (100 words)
•    How does the product or service differ, significantly from its competitors? (100 words)
•    In less than 50 words describe what is the business advantage to enterprises or SME's investing in this product or service.
•    In less than 50 words describe what is the technical advantage to enterprises or SME's investing in this product.

**Innovation Award:
Additional entry requirement: Describe the unique process, application or technology that makes this product innovative. (200 words)

Best Anti-Malware Solution

Open to anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, anti-worm and all products designed to counter malicious software-based attacks. Point solutions as well as all-in-one solutions are eligible.

Best Content Security

Open to products primarily designed to counter attacks on web-based content in the enterprise, including that residing on endpoints and mobile devices and in transit.

Best Network Security

Open to products designed to protect enterprise networks from threats, including penetration, hacking and malware.

Best Integrated Security Solution

Open to products with a fully integrated or unified approach to anti-malware and data and content protection in one box - for example UTM devices or log management.

Best IAM Solution

Open to products that integrate identity and access management for enterprises and all products including federated tools that monitor and regulate users access.

Best Remote Access

Open to products that enable secure access to enterprises from remote locations and mobile devices.

Best Security Management

Open to products that provide high-level controls for risk assessment and risk analysis identify threats, rate enterprise vulnerabilities to threats and implement controls.

Best SME Security Solution

Open to any security product that has been designed uniquely for the SME market and/or has features that work well with SME security demands.

Best Enterprise Security Solution

Open to any security product that has been designed uniquely for the enterprise market and/or has features that work well with enterprise security demands.

Best Security Solution, Financial Services

Open to any product that has been designed, or has been found to be particularly suitable, for the unique and highly demanding needs of the financial services sector.

Innovation Award

Open to any product that is considered to have changed current thinking in its sector and delivered new solutions with performance and cost advantages.

**Additional entry requirement: Describe the unique process, application or technology that makes this product innovative. (200 words)

Best Secure Virtualisation Solution

Open to any product that has been designed to ensure security in virtualised and cloud-based environments.

Best Encryption Solution

Open to software- and hardware-based encryption products that protect data at rest and in transit.

Best DLP Solution

Open to any product that prevents data being lost or stolen at rest, in transit or in processing.

Best Secure Transaction Solution

Open to any product that enables secure transactions, including those for e-commerce and on-line financial services including banking and retail environments.

NEW - Best Mobile Device Management

Secure Mobile working is essential for any business. This category is open to any product or service designed to protect corporate data on mobile devices including smart phones, tablet devices (iPad, Playbook, Android etc) or services and services that provide mobile access management, mobile device management, VPN, encryption (hard disk and mobile).  IT IS ALSO OPEN TO CUSTOM SECURE APPLICATIONS developed in-house.

NEW - Best Forensics Tool

When bad things happen, companies need to find out why. This category is open to any product, service that provides forensic technologies to assist an enterprise in investigating data breaches or hacking attacks.