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Information Security 2004 Product Of The Year Award Winners
SecurityProNews
Staff Writer
2004-12-13
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The editors of TechTarget's Information Security and TheInfoPro announced the winners of the Information Security 2004 "Products of the Year" Awards.
Thirty providers of security products and services, from large companies like Cisco, Symantec and Microsoft, to smaller security providers like Sophos and Tipping Point are represented in the awards.
Unlike other award programs, Information Security's "Products of the Year" are judged by the infosecurity managers who have used the products in their organizations. To develop the ratings for the Awards, Information Security and TIP conducted in-depth interviews of 416 security managers working in 273 companies, evaluating a total of 1,239 products. The resulting gold, silver and bronze winners were selected based on composite scores, using the following criteria: Vendor brand or reputation, Quality of product, Delivery of product as promised, Quality of technical support, Technical innovation, Strategic vision, Competitive positioning of product, Quality of the sales team, Interoperability, and Ease of doing business with the vendor.
"The true test of a product is how well it performs once the shrink-wrap is removed," said Larry Walsh, editor, Information Security. "For that reason, the Information Security 'Products of the Year' Awards rely on the evaluations of the infosecurity managers actually using these products in their organizations. Each of the products and companies represented by the winners of the 2004 'Products of the Year' Awards were rated as delivering superior performance, functionality, usability, and customer service. The Information Security 2004 'Products of the Year Awards' honor products that are in place, working as advertised to protect enterprise network infrastructures, instead of collecting dust on a shelf."
"Unlike other awards, the Information Security 2004 'Products of the Year' relies on the toughest critics--infosecurity managers on the front lines of their organizations," said David Taylor, Chief Research Officer, TheInfoPro. "TheInfoPro's exhaustive interview process enables us to gather comprehensive data on the performance and quality of a diverse selection of infosecurity products under real-world conditions. We congratulate the winners of the 2004 'Products of the Year' for performance that has earned them customer loyalty and praise."
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