SANS Names 2015 Best of Award Winners

BETHESDA, Md., March 14, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SANS Institute, the global leader in information security training, today announced the winners of the SANS Best of 2015 Awards which celebrates security products that make a difference. The award winners were driven by the people actually using these products, not vendors. Security operations professionals and security managers from within the SANS community participated in the voting.

According to John Pescatore, Director of Emerging Security Trends at SANS, "Many survey respondents indicated that lack of skilled staff drove them to use external services or consultants rather than procure and use a product directly. This is consistent with the findings of the SANS CyberTalent program, which has been working to increase the size of the cybersecurity work force to enable companies to meet their staffing needs."

The SANS Best of Awards are an extension of the SANS WhatWorks Program which creates awareness of security programs and solutions that are actually being used to stop cybercrime and cyber espionage,  improve security and enable business. The Best of 2015 Award winners and honorable mentions will be recognized on Wednesday, March 16th at the SANS 2016 (Orlando) training event.  Award winners include:

Vulnerability Assessment Winner: Tenable Nessus Honorable Mention: Rapid7 NMAP

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

Advanced Threat Detection Winner: FireEye Intrusion NX Honorable mention: Snort Cisco/Sourcefire

End Point Protection Winner: Symantec Endpoint Protection Honorable mention: Intel McAfee CarbonBlack (Bit9)

Application Security Winner: Qualys WAS Honorable mention: Fortigate Fortiweb IBM Appscan

SIEM Winner: IBM Security QRadar Honorable mention: Splunk HP ArcSight

Threat Intelligence Winner: FireEye Threat Intelligence Honorable mention: Fortinet  Tie: iDefense (Verisign)/RSA

Forensic Software Winner: Guidance Software Encase Forensics Honorable mention: Access Data  Paraben

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/fbT  

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 cyber security 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 30 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).

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