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2009 Information Security magazine Readers' Choice Awards

This article is part of the Information Security magazine issue of September 2009
For the fourth consecutive year, Information Security and SearchSecurity.com readers voted to determine the market's best security products. A record 1721 voters participated in the 2009 Readers' Choice Awards, rating 380 products and services in 17 different categories. Respondents were asked to rate each product based on criteria specific to each category. For each criteria, respondents scored the product on a scale of one (poor) to five (excellent). In addition, each criteria was given a weighted percentage to reflect its importance in that category. Winners were based on the cumulative weighted responses for each product category criteria. Editors arrived at a product's overall score by calculating the average score it received for each criteria, applying the weighted percentage and adding the adjusted scores. 2009 READERS' CHOICE AWARDS WINNERS Introduction and Methodology Best Antimalware Products Readers vote on the best business-grade desktop and server antivirus and antispyware products. Best Application Security ...
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Features in this issue
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2009 Information Security magazine Readers' Choice Awards
For the fourth consecutive year, Information Security readers voted to determine the best security products. A record 1721 voters participated this year, rating products in 17 different categories.
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Security threats to virtual environments less theoretical, more practical
The demonstration of a hacking tool at Black Hat that allows attackers to escape from virtual machines to attack their guest OS elevates the seriousness of security threats to virtualization.
Columns in this issue
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Security best practices in hotels
Accountability for Internet security should be placed on users, not service providers such as hotels.
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Schneier-Ranum Face-Off: Is Perfect Access Control Possible?
Security experts Bruce Schneier and Marcus Ranum debate whether perfect access control is possible.