SC Awards Finalists

Market expansion and consolidation can have big implications for security companies as well as their customers. When handled well, they can drive efficiency and improve services. When handled badly, they can result in financial losses or even widespread discontent.

As first stated by The Economist, the world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.

Cybersecurity is a team sport, but superior leadership is critical to ensure strategies and priorities match the needs of the customer and the mission of the company.

Cybercrime is big business, and techniques of bad actors are growing increasingly sophisticated. That leaves security teams thirsting for near realtime intelligence about the threat landscape.

Realtime analysis of security alerts generated by applications and networks remains a critical component of any comprehensive security strategy. The tools to get that done are evolving.

The pool of security companies is constantly expanding. But a select few offer a track record of proven solutions and service that guide the market at large.

Industrial Control Systems/Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (ICS/SCADA) operational and information technologies reinforce critical infrastructure security. And with recent threats demonstrating the risk involved with the nation's most critical assets, a surge of new players are joining the fray with IoT/ IIoT-related solutions.

More and more employees are using smaller and smaller devices with loads of applications to access corporate data. That brings different security considerations.

The best ideas will wither on the vine without adequate funding to get them off the ground.

Protecting critical information, whether that be personal data or intellectual property or data tied to national security, is the number one priority for most organizations. An integral component of this is to secure the databases where that information resides.

Effective incident response requires evidence gathering – using investigation and analysis techniques with devices to piece together what happened and how best to proceed.

Managed detection and response offerings provide remotely delivered security operations center capabilities to detect, investigate and mitigate incidents.

Support as well as service of products are critical components of any contract. The aid delivered by information security vendors and service providers is crucial to the deployment, ongoing maintenance and successful running of technologies, and ultimately the overall security posture of the organization.

Businesses run on email. And they are often the most vulnerable access point for bad actors.

For the startup community, not all funding is created equal. And for those companies ready to scale, the funds themselves are often only one piece of what they're after.

As new technologies emerge onto the scene to address the latest information security needs facing organizations, honing of expertise becomes critical.

Companies and organizations that provide end-user awareness training programs for organizations looking to ensure that its employees are knowledgeable and supportive of the IT security and risk management plans are among the finalists in this category.

The pandemic redefined how businesses operate, with rapid adoption of technologies to enable employees to do their jobs. That also brought specific security risks.

Certain tools and services from all product sectors are designed to meet the requirements of large enterprises specifically: scale, hybrid environments, global regulatory compliance, to name only a few.

An increasingly sophisticated threat landscape requires ongoing efforts to track potential security gaps within networks and systems.