SANS Honors Information Security Products that are Making a Difference by Protecting Businesses and Consumers from Cyber Attacks

BETHESDA, Md., March 30, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SANS Institute, the global leader in information security training, today announced the winners of the SANS Best of 2014 Awards which celebrates security products that make a difference. The products were voted on by more than 650 security operations professionals and security managers from within the SANS community, all of whom are actual users of these products.

"Despite the growing number of breaches spotlighted in headline news, there are many organizations that are successfully avoiding or preventing breaches yet we never hear about these successes," said John Pescatore, director of Emerging Trends, SANS Institute. "The SANS Best of Awards was created to raise awareness of the solutions that organizations are using to successfully fend off attacks. By showcasing the solutions that are making a difference by reducing the business impact of cyberattacks in real world applications we believe we can help security professionals to reduce the number of successful intrusions."

The SANS Best of Awards are not driven by vendors, but by the people actually using these products. The Awards are an extension of the SANS WhatWorks Program which creates awareness of security programs and solutions that are actually being used to stop bad guys and improve security. The Best of 2014 Award winners and honorable mentions, which will be recognized at the SANS 2015 (Orlando) training event, include:

Vulnerability Assessment
Winner: Rapid7
Honorable Mention:
Tenable
Qualys

Next Generation Firewall
Winner: Palo Alto Networks
Honorable mention:
Cisco
Fortinet

Advanced Threat Detection
Winner: FireEye
Honorable mention:
Lancope
Cisco/Sourcefire

End Point Protection
Winner: Bit9
Honorable mention:
Symantec
Sophos

Application Security
Winner: Qualys
Honorable mention:
Whitehat Security
IBM Appscan

SIEM
Winner: LogRhythm
Honorable mention:
Splunk
HP ArcSight

Threat Intelligence
Winner: FireEye Mandiant
Honorable mention:
LookingGlass
Crowdstrike

Forensic Software
Winner: Norse
Honorable mention:
Guidance Software
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WhatWorks is an integrated user-to-user program that enables organizations that have implemented effective security technologies to tell the story of why they deployed it, how it works, how they know it actually improves security, what problems they faced and what lessons they learned. To learn more about the products that have demonstrated actual success in improving security, please visit: www.sans.org/u/2LJ

About SANS Institute
The SANS Institute was established in 1989 as a cooperative research and education organization. SANS is the most trusted and, by far, the largest provider of training and certification to professionals at governments and commercial institutions world-wide. Renowned SANS instructors teach over 50 different courses at more than 200 live cyber security training events as well as online. GIAC, an affiliate of the SANS Institute, validates employee qualifications via 27 hands-on, technical certifications in information security. The SANS Technology Institute, a regionally accredited independent subsidiary, offers master's degrees in cyber security. SANS offers a myriad of free resources to the InfoSec community including consensus projects, research reports, and newsletters; it also operates the Internet's early warning system--the Internet Storm Center. At the heart of SANS are the many security practitioners, representing varied global organizations from corporations to universities, working together to help the entire information security community. (www.SANS.org)

SOURCE SANS Institute

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