The inaugural Australian SC Magazine awards have been announced.
Held at the AusCERT 2009 Conference on Australia's Gold Coast, the evening was hosted by comedienne Corinne Grant and a total of six awards were presented.
The results are as follows:
Vendor of the Year
Winner - Fortinet
Highly Commended - Sophos
Finalist - Websense
Security Product of the Year
Winner - MessageLabs Email Services
Highly Commended - Websense Web Security Gateway
Finalists - Qualysguard; MailMarshal Exchange; Symantec Endpoint Protection
Innovation Award
Winner - Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls
Highly Commended- ATO Vulnerability Management and Research team
Finalist - McAfee Artemis Technology
AusCERT Director's Award for Individual Excellence in Information Security
Winner - Paul Ducklin, Sophos Pty
Finalists: - Boaz Fischer, CommsNet Group; Shaun Vlassis, Shadowserver/Honeynet Project; Ben Reardon, National Australia Bank; Brian Hay, fraud and corporate crime group, state crime, operations command, Queensland Police Service; Bruce van der Graaf, fraud squad, NSW Police Service
AusCERT's Annual Award for Organisational Excellence in Information Security
Winner - NAB-CERT (National Australia Bank CERT Australia)
Finalists - DMZGlobal (TelstraClear), New Zealand; Stratsec, Australia; E-Security and DNCR team, ACMA
AusCERT's Award for Law Enforcement
Winner - Computer Crime Investigation Unit, fraud and corporate crime group, state crime operations command, Queensland Police Service
Finalists - Computer Crime Investigation Unit, commercial crime agency, fraud squad, NSW Police Service