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READERS’ CHOICE AWARDS

2010

WHICH PRODUCTS MADE THE WINNERS’ CIRCLE?

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READERS’ CHOICE AWARDS

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Business-grade desktop and server antivirus and antispyware, using signature-, behavior- and anomaly-based detection, whitelisting. Includes suites bundled with host-based intrusion prevention and client firewalls.

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Information Security

GOLD

Kaspersky Open Space Security

SILVER

Cisco Security Agent

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BRONZE

Symantec Endpoint Protection

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Kaspersky Lab’s Kaspersky Open Space Security took top honors, winning high marks for effectively detecting, blocking and cleaning malware, and in the speed and frequency of signature updates. Readers also liked the product’s reporting and alerting capabilities. Kaspersky Open Space Security is a suite of antimalware protection for the gateway and endpoint. It includes: Business Space, which provides file server protection and was designed for servers that operate under heavy loads; Enterprise Space, which adds mail server security and components for the protection of workstations; and Total Space, which adds gateway protection to the previous offerings.

Cisco Systems’ Cisco Security Agent was designed to protect servers and desktops. It provides signaturebased antivirus and data loss prevention in a single agent. Content scanning capabilities detect credit card numbers, Social Security numbers and can be customized to detect local files. The software protects against both user actions and targeted malware and has a predefined compliance and acceptable use policy engine that can be used for reporting and auditing activities. It...