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• • 2011 Information Security magazine Readers' Choice Awards by Information Security Staff

    Readers pick the best security products.

  • Best authentication products 2011 by Information Security Staff

    Readers choose the best authentication products.

  • Best intrusion detection/prevention products 2011 by Information Security Staff

    Readers choose the best intrusion detection/prevention products.

  • Best network access control products 2011 by Information Security Staff

    ISM readers choose the best network access control products of 2011. See who won the gold.

  • Best secure remote access products 2011 by Information Security Staff

    Readers choose the best secure remote access products.

  • Best unified threat management products 2011 by Information Security Staff

    Readers choose the best unified threat management products.

  • Best Web application firewalls 2011 by Information Security Staff

    Our readers selected their favorite Web application firewalls. See which product took the top spot.

  • Framework for building a vulnerability management lifecycle, program by Diana Kelley

    A robust vulnerability management program requires the integration of inventory, change and configuration management.

• • Best antimalware products 2011 by Information Security Staff

    Readers rank the best antimalware products.

  • Best identity and access management products 2011 by Information Security Staff

    Readers choose the best identity and access management products.

  • Best messaging security products 2011 by Information Security Staff

    ISM readers choose the best messaging security products of 2011. See which one took home the gold.

  • Best policy and risk management products 2011 by Information Security Staff

    Readers choose the best policy and risk management products 2011.

  • Best security information and event management products 2011 by Information Security Staff

    Readers choose the best security information and event management products.

  • Best vulnerability management products 2011 by Information Security Staff

    Readers choose the best vulnerability management products.

  • Best Web security products 2011 by Information Security Staff

    Readers choose the best Web security products

  • Microsoft BlueHat prize wins over Black Hat Crowd by Robert Westervelt

    Security pros say Microsoft’s contest to encourage development of new security technologies for its products is promising.

• Columns

  • Ranum chat: Enterprise information security architecture by Marcus J. Ranum, Contributor

    Security expert and Information Security magazine columnist Marcus Ranum continues a new bimonthly feature where he goes one-on-one with a fellow security industry insider. This month, Marcus talks to Gunnar Peterson, managing principal at Arctec Group, where he focuses on distributed systems security for large enterprise systems.

  • Organizations need a new data security model to combat today’s threats by Phil Gardner and Chris Silva

    Modern threats require a fundamental shift in information security away from the fortress mentality.

  • Bring back the lulz by changing up your information security model by Michael S. Mimoso, Editorial Director

    Security needs more lulz, but it’s not happening until we change our protection models, understand how our respective businesses work and concentrate on current threats and adversaries.

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