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We use a consensus based Borda Count voting system where voters can make up to 5 choices per single vote in order of preference. The overall winner in each category is whoever gets the most total points in two rounds. Round 1 voting is open until November 23, 2012. Final round is scheduled on December 12, 2012 during UP 2012 conference.

Update: First round is used to select top 5 candidates to participate in the final and decisive round. Points collected in first round do not count towards final round. The entry that gets most votes in the final round will be the winner in category.

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Best Cloud Security Solution 2012

SealPath Technologies

34% (15247 points)

Tresorit Kft.

32% (14268 points)

PerspecSys, Inc.

8% (3623 points)

CloudFlare

5% (2380 points)

Gazzang Inc., Panda Security

2% (1099 points)

Spamina, IntraLinks, TrustSphere, EVault, Alert Logic, Dome9 Security, CloudPassage, NBrella

1% (494 points)

Global Learning Systems, CenterBeam, LonoCloud Inc., , CloudeAssurance Inc., SecureAuth Corporation

0% (259 points)

Total votes: 2375

Nominees

Alert Logic

Web Security Manager with ActiveWatch is the first Web application firewall (WAF) architected as an integrated Security-as-a-Service solution, delivering both critical web protection and cost-effective management. Web Security Manager with ActiveWatch offers customers state-of-the-art firewall protection, strong baseline protection, flexible deployment options, and a managed security service from Alert Logic’s Security Operations Center to ensure that the WAF is always on and performing optimally. Web Application Firewalls are notoriously difficult for internal IT to manage, as they need continuous monitoring and updating. With Web Security Manager with ActiveWatch, Alert Logic is providing a cost-effective solution with 24x7 monitoring and management. The solution helps businesses protect against costly Web Application Attacks which today are a top security enterprise threat.
CenterBeam

CenterBeam enables enterprises to “Bring Your Own Security” (BYOS) to the cloud. CenterBeam's patented technology for single sign-on and identity management allows enterprises to maintain their preferred security policies. The innovation focuses on separating access rights from security, eliminating the need for enterprises to rely on Active Directory® Federation Services (ADFS 2.0) infrastructure for basic single sign-on functionality and, at the same time, gives enterprises greater control over their security policies and services in the cloud. The technology enables CenterBeam to authenticate all of its hosted services with real single sign-on to the customer’s Active Directory without the need for ADFS. The customer, then, is able to control its own user accounts and policies, such as password strength, number of retries and unique passwords. This combination of features enables CenterBeam to deliver a solid security posture that is in line with exacting standards, such as SAS-70/SSAE-16 Type II and SOC2. All applications are tied into the customer’s Active Directory (AD) with a real single sign-on model that extends beyond simply providing single sign-on. Customers bring their own security into that environment because CenterBeam authenticates and authorizes every object against the customer’s AD, not CenterBeam’s AD. This means a user must have an account within the customer’s AD to gain access, so company data can’t be hacked from online. Customers implement their security once in their AD and extend it into their cloud services delivered by CenterBeam. This is unique to CenterBeam. Other providers use Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS 2.0) to allow users to have the same user name and password, but none of them deliver a single AD that extends the customer’s security model into the cloud.
CloudeAssurance, Inc.

With the global cloud services revenue projected to reach $148.8 billion by 2014 and $241 billion by 2020, Information Security will either become a nightmare or an enabler for cloud adoption.... CloudeAssurance platform is the industry’s first truly risk-intelligent rating and continuous monitoring system assuring cloud service provider’s cloud security and governance, risk and compliance. Customers can know which cloud providers have the best cloud assurance score and history, a measure of cloud trust they can depend on. This platform enables safe and secure adoption of Cloud Computing! CloudeAssurance is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that serves as a complete integrated range of services allowing consumers of cloud services to obtain on-going real-time assurance that a cloud service provider is effectively managing the customer’s security, risk and compliance expectations. CloudeAssurance platform protects customers by measuring cloud service providers’ ability to securely deliver cloud services in accordance with industry cloud best practices, standards and regulatory compliance.
CloudFlare

CloudFlare is a powerful new type of security service that protects and accelerates any website online. CloudFlare leverages the knowledge of a diverse community of websites to protect against a range of online threats ranging from nuisances like comment spam and excessive bot crawling to malicious attacks such as SQL injection and denial of service (DOS) attacks. CloudFlare can be used by anyone with a website and their own domain, regardless of choice in platform. From start to finish, setup takes most website owners less than 5 minutes. Adding a website requires only a simple change to a domain's DNS settings. There is no hardware or software to install or maintain and no need to change any of a site's existing code. Our core service is free and we offer enhanced services for websites that need additional features like real time reporting or SSL. Since our launch, CloudFlare has blocked more than 290 billion threats against our customers' websites. We have kept thousands of large and small business sites online, despite being under large DDoS attacks. Just this year, CloudFlare has seen an increase of more than 600 percent in DDoS attacks against websites—and because CloudFlare’s network is smarter with every attack, websites are more secure than ever before. Prior to CloudFlare, ensuring that your website was fast, secure, and always available worldwide required a heavy standalone security service like Akamai, significant technical skill, and often more than $10,000 per month. With plans starting at free, CloudFlare is bringing security services previously reserved for the Internet giants to the rest of the web.
CloudPassage

CloudPassage takes a provider agnostic approach to help their customers secure Linux & Windows systems in the cloud from a single console, no matter the size of your cloud. Their Ghostports solution is unique in that it uses two-factor authentication to open ports on your systems, adding another layer to securing ssh and other ports that are used to administer systems or applications. I wrote a review at cloudrant.com http://dreamvent.blogspot.com/2012/09/cloudpassage-cloud-security-product.html
Dome9 Security

With over 1,500 customers added since it's launch a year ago, Dome9 is the leading cloud firewall management service. Our patent-pending security automation creates a strong, front-line defense that stops zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits, secures remote access, and centralizes policy management. Available for the enterprise and hosting providers, Dome9 automates security policy management for cloud, dedicated, and Virtual Private Servers (VPS). Our sophisticated security management platform controls Amazon EC2 & VPC Security Groups, as well as any OpenStack, CloudStack, Eucalyptus, and VMware vCloud-based private and public clouds.
evault

EVault's products are secure, easy to use and secure. No need to worry about backing up or recovering your data, EVault has you covered!
EVault

A strong technology platform and a secure cloud infrastructure are absolutely essential when it comes to data protection you can count on. At EVault, we combine the best of on-premise software and offsite cloud services to back up and recover our customers’ data under every circumstance. We've been backup and data recovery experts since 1997, building best practices that have garnered us 35,000+ midmarket and enterprise customers. We cover our customers with five levels of service and are with them every step of the way, which is why every year we receive customer satisfaction ratings as high as 98 percent.
Gazzang, Inc.

As more data and applications move to the cloud, organizations need better ways to protect them using techniques such as encryption and tokenization. This means potentially thousands of encryption keys, tokens and certificates that an organization might need to manage and secure across highly distributed, hybrid IT environments – creating yet another costly and time consuming project. Gazzang zTrustee is a hardened virtual appliance that stores and manages all cryptographic keys, certificates, configuration files, tokens and any other “opaque objects” an enterprise maintains to secure its most sensitive data. The solution features robust, highly configurable, easy-to-implement access policies for object authorization, expiration, revocation, retrieval limits and more that ensure important business and IT information remains safe from unauthorized access by cloud or SaaS providers, and in compliance with regulatory mandates.
Global Learning Systems

For over 25 years Global Learning Systems has provided rapid development, deployment and roll out support for enterprise-level security awareness and compliance training, including web-based off-the-shelf or custom courses localized for diverse populations, tailored for each client, and provided in best-of learning and content management platform.
Hindustan University, India

It is proven that cloud computing is growing as a destiny of future enterprise business computing due to its catchy technical and financial benefits. Cloud computing is a new hype and a buzz word in today’s business computing world due to its pay-as-you-use model. Organizations are at the edge of a computing revolution which can change the way traditional enterprise IT is run currently. Even with all its benefits, medium to large businesses fear migrating to this computing paradigm because of the security nightmares associated with it. Organizations fear loss of control over their own data and are apprehensive about the cloud vendors’ security measures for the same. Considering the above facts, we have designed a new architecture eCloudIDS, a next-generation security system with innovative hybrid two-tier expert engines, namely uX-Engine (tier-1) and sX-Engine (tier-2), approach for secure cloud computing environment. eCloudIDS architecture uses both supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques from artificial intelligence cradle which can ease some of the contemporary urgent security threats present in today’s cloud computing environment. eCloudIDS architecture answers the top three State-of-the-art cloud computing security taxonomies such as logical storage segregation & multi-tenancy security issues (taxonomy #1), identity management issues (taxonomy #2), and insider attacks (taxonomy #3). This architecture can help build greater confidence in medium to large businesses in migrating their applications and databases into public cloud environment. For businesses that value security of information over all else, this system will give adequate reassurance that their data is safe and they can rely on CSPs with greater transparency. We made a research paper on this eCloudIDS architecture titled “eCloudIDS – Design Roadmap for the Architecture of Next-generation Hybrid Two-tier Expert Engine-based IDS for Cloud Computing Environment”. This paper has been accepted and published as chapter of a Research Text Book “Recent Trends in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Security”, by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, USA in Springer CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science) Series, Volume No. 335, 2012 with DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34135-9. The same is now available online in Springer Digital Library (http://www.springerlink.com/). Paper Link: http://www.springerlink.com/content/q077p44t656834m5/
IntraLinks

You have invested a significant amount in developing an internal collaboration capability around SharePoint, but your business needs to reach beyond the firewall to collaborate with a network of business partners and share content. To facilitate information sharing with outside parties, your team may be using consumer-grade tools not sanctioned by IT. Balancing the need to provide business users with flexible collaboration tools in a way that meets your information governance policies is a challenge. IntraLinks Connect(SM) gives business managers and IT professionals an out-of-the-box solution to easily share content across the firewall without compromising security or control, and with complete transparency. The platform provides flexibility to accommodate ad-hoc file sharing and ongoing content exchange all while complying with corporation information governance guidelines. IntraLinks Connect also enables users to share and access content using their Inbox, Web browser, mobile device, or via other enterprise applications in order to leverage investments in existing infrastructure.
LonoCloud, Inc.

LonoCloud delivers the only FULLY INTEGRATED Cloud PaaS+ offering. Our product offers a lightweight, integrated Cloud software stack to reduce dev-ops cycle time for development and deployment by up to 90%. The triple redundancy architecture enables high availability to approach the “Five 9’s” fault tolerance requirement found in mission-critical verticals. The LonoCloud Elastic Service Fabric with automated Policy enables integrated business control of all public and private cloud assets. Our offering includes out-of-box extensible integrated infrastructure and application services for faster application delivery, built in application quality, and lower cost of application maintenance. The LonoCloud PaaS+ enables performance load balancing for the cloud to expand beyond centralized data centers and to distributed cloud locations that are closer to the user for lower latency and improved response times. LonoCloud will enable part of the cloud fabric to be placed on every cell phone, remote medical sensor, and within the fabric of the telecom network to drive greater control of SLAs and the “end user experience” for cloud availability, end-to-end traceability and security.
NBrella®

A percieved lack of security is the number one concern of the vast majority who are scared to move their valuable assets to the cloud. Similarly, a lack of permanent record integrity can be a nightmare for compliance, legal issues, and accurate auditing. These difficulties prevent many businesses from even considering a move to the cloud. NBrella® ensures absolute and permanent data/record record integrity in the cloud, thereby mitigating many security concerns facing greater cloud adoption today. We believe the cloud industry cannot develop to its full potential without greater attention paid to data integrity. With NBrella technology, a Cloud Service Provider may confidently assure prospective clients that data in their cloud environment has significantly more integrity than in the clients' home offices. NBrella coverage helps align a Cloud Provider's brand name with safety and integrity, and may result in sales otherwise lost to those wary of moving their data and applications to the cloud. NBrella strives to transform the cloud environment with the promise of data integrity, making the cloud a safe and secure reality for every industry and business.
Panda Security

Panda Cloud Antivirus is light, secure, easy and... 100% FREE
PerspecSys, Inc.

The PerspecSys Cloud Data Protection Gateway should be recognized as Best Cloud Security Solution because it eliminates two of the biggest barriers that prevent companies from embracing cloud computing today: data security & data control. Many organizations want to move to the cloud for its multiple benefits -- increased productivity, scalability and cost-savings -- but, the vast majority are concerned about how to protect their mission critical data along the way. Add to that, concerns over how to stay compliant in the face of increasing industry regulations (e.g., PCI DSS, HIPPA) and international laws governing cross-border data transfer and you have some real challenges. PerspecSys’s Gateway was designed to remove those challenges. Using a unique, patented combination of tokenization and encryption technology we’ve created a comprehensive software platform that lets enterprise customers secure sensitive data, across multiple cloud applications, while ensuring full cloud-application usability and performance – a combination other cloud data security solutions can not match. How It Works PerspecSys’s Gateway blends easily into an enterprise’s existing SaaS software, such as Oracle CRM or Salesforce.com. The solution transparently sits between the SaaS application in the cloud and its corporate end-users, intercepting critical data before it leaves the enterprise. Corporate data is replaced with a random token (i.e. – a NAME data field like “Smith” is turned into random symbols like ^&@*%) or encryption value that is meaningless unless accessed via the gateway, so should anyone hack the data in transit or in the cloud, it is indecipherable. No data is shared in “the clear” outside of the enterprise’s network. This is a key differentiator as control is a critical hurdle. Increasingly, regulatory and compliance requirements are dictating that sensitive data cannot leave a corporation’s control. This makes it impossible to fully benefit from the cloud since it has no walls. Our solution removes this barrier. Why It’s Different Other cloud data protection solutions require enterprises to make trade-offs on the level of data protection they deploy in order to preserve cloud application functionality. There are no such trade-offs with PerspecSys. Due to the fact that PerspecSys uses a combination of industry validated tokenization and encryption technology, our solution gives users greater flexibility to customize their data protection solutions to meet their specific needs. PerspecSys’ Gateway gives large companies and organizations the strongest levels of data protection (e.g. The Federal Government’s strictest “FIPS 140-2 compliant” encryption modules) together with the ability to use all the functions (like Search) within popular cloud applications like Oracle CRM. In short, PerspecSys enables enterprises and government/public sector entities to enjoy the best of both worlds: all the benefits of the cloud without the data compliance, privacy and security risks. Results To-Date PerspecSys’s solution is proven and in production with a global customer base of medium-sized businesses, large enterprises and government/public sector entities. We support companies in the financial, healthcare, insurance, and retail markets, including some of the largest banking institutions in the world. And while we cannot share specifics (given that our clients are tight-lipped about the use of security products), we can report that PerspecSys customers credit our solution with helping them reduce their overall project costs by over 50% because the Gateway enabled them to move to the cloud and avoid a costly and complex traditional “on-premise” software deployment.
PerspecSys, Inc.

The PerspecSys Cloud Data Protection Gateway should be recognized as Best Cloud Security Solution because it eliminates two of the biggest barriers that prevent companies from embracing cloud computing today: data security & data control. Many organizations want to move to the cloud for its multiple benefits -- increased productivity, scalability and cost-savings -- but, the vast majority are concerned about how to protect their mission critical data along the way. Add to that, concerns over how to stay compliant in the face of increasing industry regulations (e.g., PCI DSS, HIPPA) and international laws governing cross-border data transfer and you have some real challenges. PerspecSys’s Gateway was designed to remove those challenges. Using a unique, patented combination of tokenization and encryption technology we’ve created a comprehensive software platform that lets enterprise customers secure sensitive data, across multiple cloud applications, while ensuring full cloud-application usability and performance – a combination other cloud data security solutions can not match. How It Works PerspecSys’s Gateway blends easily into an enterprise’s existing SaaS software, such as Oracle CRM or Salesforce.com. The solution transparently sits between the SaaS application in the cloud and its corporate end-users, intercepting critical data before it leaves the enterprise. Corporate data is replaced with a random token (i.e. – a NAME data field like “Smith” is turned into random symbols like ^&@*%) or encryption value that is meaningless unless accessed via the gateway, so should anyone hack the data in transit or in the cloud, it is indecipherable. No data is shared in “the clear” outside of the enterprise’s network. This is a key differentiator as control is a critical hurdle. Increasingly, regulatory and compliance requirements are dictating that sensitive data cannot leave a corporation’s control. This makes it impossible to fully benefit from the cloud since it has no walls. Our solution removes this barrier. Why It’s Different Other cloud data protection solutions require enterprises to make trade-offs on the level of data protection they deploy in order to preserve cloud application functionality. There are no such trade-offs with PerspecSys. Due to the fact that PerspecSys uses a combination of industry validated tokenization and encryption technology, our solution gives users greater flexibility to customize their data protection solutions to meet their specific needs. PerspecSys’ Gateway gives large companies and organizations the strongest levels of data protection (e.g. The Federal Government’s strictest “FIPS 140-2 compliant” encryption modules) together with the ability to use all the functions (like Search) within popular cloud applications like Oracle CRM. In short, PerspecSys enables enterprises and government/public sector entities to enjoy the best of both worlds: all the benefits of the cloud without the data compliance, privacy and security risks. Results To-Date PerspecSys’s solution is proven and in production with a global customer base of medium-sized businesses, large enterprises and government/public sector entities. We support companies in the financial, healthcare, insurance, and retail markets, including some of the largest banking institutions in the world. And while we cannot share specifics (given that our clients are tight-lipped about the use of security products), we can report that PerspecSys customers credit our solution with helping them reduce their overall project costs by over 50% because the Gateway enabled them to move to the cloud and avoid a costly and complex traditional “on-premise” software deployment.
SealPath Technologies

SealPath let you remain the owner of your documents wherever they are,even after they have been downloaded and are in others' devices. With data becoming more mobile and stored outside of your in-house infrastructure, the real border of the business is your own information. SealPath is the only cloud-based solution for everyday users that protects documents before they are uploaded to the cloud without requiring users to install costly server components, and that uses native applications (like Microsoft Office, Adobe Reader) instead of viewers.
SecureAuth Corporation

SecureAuth is for any enterprise standardizing user access to enforce identity governance for all cloud-based applications, mobile devices & virtual networks. Hundreds of customers, including Dish Networks, Unisys, Yamaha, Chevron, & GSA trust SecureAuth because it delivers a single, scalable, & cost-effective solution along with its relentless commitment to client success. Any company growing its digital initiatives by adopting cloud & mobile technologies must consider SecureAuth IdP.
Sonian, Inc.

Sonian has an app, CloudSecure, which provides single sign-on access that reaches across the entire infrastructure required to manage the cloud. This application portal ensures no risk to users and decreases access control complexity within the cloud. Within this single-sign on portal, users can receive data in real-time - allowing 24/7 accessibility of a user's entire archive. These emails, files, etc. are backed by 11 9's of data resiliency and encrypted using AES 256-bit, securing data in transit and at rest. With geographically dispersed data centers, once an email is created it is immediately replicated to 8 data centers and is securely archived, searchable and accessible forever. Using a grid computing infrastructure model, superior data privacy is ensured with no co-mingling of customer data. As the only provider to offer an archiving service built from the ground-up, Sonian delivers on-demand archiving to over 11,000 customers with industry leading security and performance. Our mission is to provide the most affordable, reliable and secure email archiving service available in the market.
Spamina

With Cloud Email Firewall we have made the most out our Cloud-based architecture by developing Email Continuity, 28 days Email Backup and Webmail access right in with our Email Filtering technology, those contingency options sit on the cloud as opposed to on-premises environments adding an innovative approach to Email Continuity and providing all those added benefits at no extra cost with our Email Filtering solution, Cloud Email Firewall.
Tresorit Kft.

The cloud has huge potential when it comes to storing, sharing and exchanging files, but the security provided by such services is questionable. Tresorit allows you to share files and collaborate with an easy to use, fast, end-to-end encryption. With Tresorit, you can synchronize folders, and all files are encrypted before they leave your computer. With this technology, you can share already encrypted content with your colleagues, and ONLY they will be able to decrypt the files – even Tresorit is not able to decrypt anything. You can also unshare a content, and those cannot decrypt your files any more.
TrustSphere

TrustSphere’s cloud-based TrustVault is the industry’s first Messaging Intelligence platform that minimizes the impact of email-based cyber threats to ensure business continuity. TrustVault accomplishes this by actually learning the communication patterns between an organization’s staff and their customers, partners and suppliers. TrustVault then uses this information to construct a ‘social graph’ that maps these messaging-based relationships to identify and authenticate trusted senders. This intelligence is used to make organizations’ existing security systems much more effective in combatting threats. TrustVault adds ‘context’ to key security solutions. Context is critical for security personnel and systems to better understand which traffic is trustworthy or otherwise. As advanced persistent threats (APT) become more sophisticated, context becomes increasingly important to discern. Context makes content filtering systems (e.g. DLP and anti-spam systems) and gateway security applications (e.g. SIEM and firewalls) more accurate and effective. TrustVault provides predictive analytics which allow a SOC to mitigate key issues such as spear-phishing attacks, DDoS attacks, socially-engineered DDoS attacks that target specific individuals and other APTs. Complementing the enhanced security it enables, TrustVault ensures that legitimate – often business critical – messages are delivered without delay. Many security systems impede the timely delivery of messages, often quarantining legitimate messages – a phenomenon known as ‘email false positives.’ Losing business-critical emails to quarantine isn’t just a nuisance; it can be the difference between closing a deal or losing a deal. Highly reputed Osterman Research estimates that false positives cost organizations as much as $230 per employee annually, meaning, false positives are costing organizations billions of dollars annually. ‘Born in the cloud,’ TrustVault is easily deployed and highly flexible for enterprises of any size. TrustVault was designed to be a simple and scalable solution compatible with existing network applications, messaging infrastructure, reporting tools, business intelligence tools - as well as other popular cloud based applications. With TrustSphere’s cloud-based business intelligence solutions, enterprises are able to better understand the context of relationships across their organizations and can apply this intelligence to enhancing security systems and/or improving management visibility over key, critical business processes.

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