On the 22nd of April, the 2008 SC Awards Europe took place at the illustrious Hurlingham Club in West London. To a crowd of 600, the evening was hosted by Hugh Dennis who presented for the very first time the winners and high commendations in all 16 categories.

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And the results are...

Best Anti-malware Solution

Winner
MessageLabs for MessageLabs Email Protect

Highly Commended
Websense for Web Security Suite

Finalists
AVG Technologies for AVG Internet Security
McAfee for McAfee Secure Internet Gateway
Secure Computing for Webwasher
Trend Micro for Trend Micro InterScan Gateway Security Appliance (IGSA)

Best Content Security

Winner
ScanSafe for Web Security-as-a-Service

Highly Commended
MessageLabs for Email Content Control Services
SafeBoot for McAfee Endpoint Encryption for Files and Folders

Finalists
Secure Computing for IronMail
SoftScan for Email Security Service
Websense for Hosted Email & Web Security

Best Identity Management

Winner
VeriSignf or VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP)

Highly Commended
Imprivata for OneSign
Novell for Access Manager

Finalists
ActivIdentity for Smart Employee ID Solution
RSA, The Security Division of EMC for RSA Access Manager

Best Network Security

Winner
Sourcefire for SNORT

Highly Commended
Lancope for StealthWatch

Finalists
Astaro Internet Security for Astaro Security Gateway
Bradford Networks for NAC Director
Radware for DefensePro
SOPHOS for NAC ADVANCED
Webscreen Systems for WS Series DDoS mitigation technology

Best Remote Access

Winner
RSA, The Security Division of EMC for RSA SecurID

Highly Commended
SafeBoot for McAfee Encrypted USB wSmart Card

Finalists
Check Point Software Technologies for VPN Connectra
Juniper Networks for Secure Access (SA) 2000
SonicWALL for Aventail E-Class SSL VPN

Best Security Management

Winner
Intellitactics for Security Manager

Highly Commended
BT for BT Counterpane
Kaspersky Lab for Kaspersky Open Space Security

Finalists
Juniper Networks for NSMXpress
SafeBoot for SafeBoot Management Center
Sourcefire for Sourcefire 3D System

Best Security Solution for Financial Services

Winner
Skybox for Skybox ViewSecurity Risk Management

Highly Commended
Orchestria for Orchestria v5.0

Finalists
Imperva for SecureSphere
RSA, The Security Division of EMC for Consumer Identity Protection Suite
Websense for Data Security Suite

Best Security Solution for Government

Winner
SafeBoot for McAfee Endpoint Encryption for Devices

Finalist
Fortinet for FortiGate-5000 series

Best Security Solution for Healthcare

Winner
Imprivata for OneSign

Finalist
AEP Networks for Netilla SSL VPN

Best SME Security Solution

Winner
MessageLabs for MessageLabs Small Business Solution

Highly Commended
DrayTek for DrayTek VigorPro

Finalists
Dekart for Dekart Private Disk 2.10
McAfee for McAfee Total Protection for Small Business
Netintelligence for Ni Enterprsie Manager
QualysQualys for QualysGuard Express

Best Vulnerability Assessment

Winner
Veracode for Veracode SecurityReview

Highly Commended
GFI Software for GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner

Finalists
McAfee for McAfee Foundstone
Qualys for QualysGuard
Shavlik Technologies for Shavlik NetChk Protect

Innovation Award

Winner
Veracode for Veracode SecurityReview

Highly Commended
Beyond Encryption Technologies Limited for Beyond Encryption

Finalists
AdaptiveMobile for Policy Control Framework
Cyber Security Technologies Corporation for OnLine Digital Forensic Suite

CEO of the Year

Winner
Shlomo Kramer, Imperva

Finalists
Philippe Courtot, Qualys
David Litchfield, NGSSoftware
Jim Kent, Vistorm

PR Company of the Year

Winner
Johnson King

Finalists
Carrot Communications
Peter Rennison Public Relations (PRPR)
Racepoint Group UK
Weber Shandwick Technology

Security Product of the Year

Winner
SafeBoot for McAfee Endpoint Encryption for Devices

Highly Commended
Lumension Security for Sanctuary Device and Application Control

Finalists
Juniper Networks for Unified Access Control (UAC) 2.1
Kaspersky Lab for Kaspersky Open Space Security
Orchestria for Orchestria v5.0
Qualys for QualysGuard
VeriSign for VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP)

SC Magazine Security Company of the Year

Winner
NGSSoftware

Highly Commended
MessageLabs

Finalists
RSA, The Security Division of EMC
PGP Corporation
Sourcefire

Congratulations to all of our Winners, and watch this space for entry details to the 2009 Awards!

• SC Awards Europe 2006
• SC Awards Europe 2005
• SC Awards Europe 2004
• SC Awards Europe 2007