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3 Israeli Security Companies Votiro, Covertix & Seculert Win Global Excellence Awards In San Francisco

Israel security vendors won 11 awards at the Global Excellence Awards. 

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The RSA Conference is the world’s leading information security event held every year in San Francisco,  California for companies in the security industry to show their wares and talk to their customers and each other.The Global Excellence Awards take place parallel to the conference; these recognize security and IT companies who have developed the most advanced, path-finding new product introductions and software solutions for the industry. The competition behind the awards then helps to continue to raise the level higher for others in all areas of the security business.Israeli company Votiro, which provides a Secure Data Sanitization solution for protecting organizations against zero-day and other ongoing cyber-threats, announced today that it has just won won the Gold Award in the “Innovations in Next Generation Security” category of the Global Excellence Awards for 2014.

Whilst the precise details of how Votiro’s products work remain proprietary their solution claims to eliminate cyber-threats before they have the opportunity to penetrate an organization. After initially scanning all incoming files with a series of commercially available anti-virus programs Votiro then perform an active patent-pending process to each file’s structure and metadata. This process is said to detect and eliminate all kinds of exploit, whether known, unknown or zero-day.

“We are proud to receive this award recognition for our Secure Data Sanitization solution, ” said Itay Glick,  Founder and CEO of Votiro. “This award recognizes the value we are providing to our customers for uniquely eliminating malicious exploits that are still unknown and have not yet been identified.”

Covertix
Meanwhile another Israeli company Covertix also announced it has received the silver award in the “Database Security, Data Leakage Protection and Extrusion Prevention” category at the same Global Excellence Awards ceremony. Covertix is a leading company in transparent file security and compliance, Covertix took another prize as well, as their SmartCipher solution was also recognized with the bronze award in the “Awesome Product of the Year” category.Covertix provides seamless control and transparent protection of sensitive data found in any type of file,  inside or outside of an organization and on any type of device. Covertix products enable its customers to control and protect sensitive data, while continuing to use their preferred cloud storage, collaboration or data sharing platforms without changing existing business processes or user behaviors.

“We are very pleased to receive an additional award recognition for our patented SmartCipher solutions, ” said Yoran Sirkis, CEO of Covertix. “This award recognizes the value of our solutions in allowing organizations to monitor, control and protect their sensitive and confidential information anywhere and at any time without interrupting end users behaviors or the flow of existing business driven processes.”

seculert
Finally, a third Israeli company Seculert, a threat protection solution provider received the bronze award in the “Innovations in Enterprise Security” category at the Awards ceremony.Seculert protects distributed enterprises by analyzing botnetcommunications, traffic logs and suspicious files to identify known and unknown malware. By combining Big Data analytics,  machine learning technology and malware expertise, Seculert provides great threat insight for stronger protection. As a cloud-based solution, Seculert requires no hardware or software and provides full coverage for all sites and employees, including those working remotely and on personal mobile devices.Dudi Matot, co-founder and CEO of Seculert commented “Advanced malware and APTs are growing problem for today’s enterprises as they are capable of morphing, transmitting and remaining quiet for extended periods of time. Seculert’s comprehensive solution detects known and unknown malware for past,  current and future attacks. It is suitable for all devices and all users, ” adding “This award recognizes the innovation behind our solution, which is powered by a unique combination of technologies that work together in the cloud and over time to detect advanced threats that no onsite solution can possibly find.”

Israel security vendors won 11 awards at the Global Excellence Awards. The Global Excellence Award programme is organized by the Info Security Products Guide, the security industry’s leading information security research and advisory guide.

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