RSA Conference Reveals Contest Finalists.(Conference news)

RSA Conference, an information security conference and exposition, announced the top ten finalists for its Most Innovative Company at RSA Conference 2011 contest, part of its half-day Innovation Sandbox program, held on Monday, Feb. 14.

According to a release, this year's program will also feature interactive white boarding sessions, a Trailbreaker Innovators panel and the all-new Start-up Speed Dating session, aimed to match up venture capital professionals with early stage start-up companies.

On Monday, Feb. 14, the Most Innovative Company at RSA Conference 2011 winner will be determined at the culmination of Innovation Sandbox, after a short presentation to a panel of judges that includes Asheem Chandna of Greylock Partners; Gerhard Eschelbeck of Webroot; Renee Guttmann of Time Warner; Paul Kocher of Cryptography Research, Ray Rothrock of Venrock and Hugh Thompson, Program Committee Chair for RSA Conference 2011. The winner will also be announced to all Conference attendees on Tuesday morning, Feb. 15, during the RSA Conference 2011 opening session.

"Innovation Sandbox honors early stage start-ups at the forefront of information security innovation," said Sandra Toms LaPedis, Area Vice President and General Manager of RSA Conference. "With new threats surfacing daily, those tasked with securing an organization must innovate in a rapidly changing environment. RSA Conference and Innovation Sandbox salute these 10 finalists as they represent the evolution of the security industry to meet and defeat the next wave of cyber attacks."

Finalists include:

-CipherCloud - CipherCloud Cloud GatewayCipherCloud Cloud Gateway anonymizes data and captures user activities in the cloud. It uses functionality-preserving encryption and tokenization techniques in real-time prior to sending data to the cloud while retaining all cloud app features such as search, report and data-integration.

-Entersect - Interactive Transaction Authentication (ITA) Entersect's ITA module provides additional-factor, out of band, interactive authentication for any form of digital action taking place.

-Gazzang - ezNcryptezNcrypt goes beyond unlimited encryption of MySQL databases, tables and files for organizations with hundreds of database servers and those whose business foundation depends on the security of data, such as healthcare and financial institutions.

-HyTrust - HyTrust Appliance 2.1HyTrust Appliance is a network-based policy management solution for virtual infrastructure that provides administrative access control, hypervisor hardening, and audit-quality logging

-Incapsula - IncapsulaIncapsula is a cloud-based service. Incapsula provides websites of all sizes with capabilities that so far, have only been consumable by the very large Internet websites.

-Invincea - Invincea Browser and Document ProtectionInvincea Browser Protection virtual technology protects vulnerable computers against cyber malware.

-Pawaa Software - pawaaFILEpawaaFILE is a patented file format that wraps around a native file and carries the usage policy along with it.

-Quaresso - Quaresso Protect On Q Protect On Q is a hardened, ephemeral browser that protects and controls browser operations and behavior to ensure that the web session and its content are protected from theft or data leakage from malware or end users.

-Silver Tail Systems - MitigationSilver Tail Systems Mitigation gives the business owner the flexibility to adjust a website's business flows to prevent bad actors without impacting legitimate users.

-Symplified - Symplified Trust CloudThe Symplified Trust Cloud is a unified access management and federation platform built on the Amazon EC2 cloud platform that integrates and secures SaaS, IaaS, EC2 and Web 2.0 apps.

RSA Conference is a conference for security professionals.

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