Emerging Vendors 2011: Security Vendors

Gaining A Foothold In The Security Market

The Emerging Vendors 2011 list comprises companies from every discipline and technology facet. Here we bring together the security vendors that made this year's list. Each of these companies brings something different to the table, and each has a fresh perspective. And some are already gaining a foothold in the bustling IT marketplace. They represent new partnership and go-to-market opportunities for solution providers looking to separate the wheat from the chaff in an IT market that is becoming increasingly more crowded and noisy.

AlertBoot

Location: Las Vegas

Category: Security

Product Line: AlertBoot Full Disk Encryption

Armorize Technologies

Location: Santa Clara, Calif.

Category: Security

Product Line: Armorize Appsec Suite Web app security

Avenda Systems

Location: Santa Clara, Calif.

Category: Security

Product Line: Avenda provides the channel with a complete network access security solution for wireless, wired and VPN networks

CertiVox

Location: San Francisco

Category: Security

Product Line: CertiVox Key Management Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Ciphertex Data Security

Location: Chatsworth, Calif.

Category: Security

Product Line: CX Ranger data security and network attached storage products

Covertix

Location: Even Yehuda, Israel

Category: Security

Product Line: Covertix's flagship product, SmartCipher, is a file-level information rights management (IRM) application that monitors and secures confidential documents and sensitive data

Delfigo

Location: Boston

Category: Security

Product Line: DS Gateway multifactor authentication, risk-based authentication and context-based authentication

Duo Security

Location: Ann Arbor, Mich.

Category: Security

Product Line: Duo Security: Two-Factor Authentication for the masses

eCert

Location: San Francisco

Category: Security

Product Line: eCert Email Domain Certification Service

IronKey

Location: Sunnyvale, Calif.

Category: Security

Product Line: Secure data and online access: IronKey Enterprise prevents data breaches with portable, encrypted USB storage; Trusted Access for Banking stops banking fraud with secure browser

LogRhythm

Location: Boulder, Colo.

Category: Security

Product Line: LogRhythm 5.0 Monitoring

Lookout Mobile Security

Location: San Francisco

Category: Security

Product Line: Lookout Mobile Security

NSFOCUS Information Technology

Location: Beijing

Category: Security

Product Line: Anti-DDoS Solution (ADS)

Palo Alto Networks

Location: Santa Clara, Calif.

Category: Security

Product Line: Next Generation Firewalls

PerspecSys

Location: Orangeville, Ontario

Category: Security

Product Line: Cloud Data Governance Solutions

Portcullis Systems

Location: Marlborough, Mass.

Category: Security

Product Line: Unified Access Gateway

SyferLock

Location: Southport, Conn.

Category: Security

Product Line: One-time passwords and multifactor authentication

Tufin Technologies

Location: Burlington, Mass.

Category: Security

Product Line: Security Lifecycle Management

Veracode

Location: Burlington, Mass.

Category: Security

Product Line: The Veracode cloud-based platform provides the fastest, most comprehensive solution to improve the security of internally developed, purchased or outsourced software applications

Wiresoft

Location: Cincinnati

Category: Security

Product Line: Firegate Security Platform firewall

Zscaler

Location: Sunnyvale, Calif.

Category: Security

Product Line: Zscaler provides policy-based secure Internet access for any employee, on any device, anywhere via a global cloud service. Zscaler offers a fully integrated Web and e-mail security platform