Calgary, Alberta, Canada – January 2013 – Wedge Networks Inc., the leader in real-time Content Security and Compliance solutions for enterprises and service providers, announced today that Info Security Products Guide, the industry's leading information security research and advisory guide, has named the Wedge BeSecure Anti-Malware Gateway and the WedgeOS Content Security Platform, as finalists for the 2013 Global Excellence Awards in the categories of Anti-Malware, Anti-Spam or Anti-Virus and Innovation in Next Generation Security respectively. These prestigious global awards recognize security and IT vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products and solutions that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of security and technologies. Winners will be announced on February 27th, 2013 in San Francisco, California, USA.
The Wedge Networks BeSecure Anti-Malware Gateway is paving the way for the next generation of high accuracy, high performance network content security appliances for networks from ISPs to SMEs. Running on the patented WedgeOS, the Wedge Anti-Malware Gateway has complete visibility of the content carried by all applications and was designed to maintain high performance and scalability while conducting real-time, accurate policy enforcement while allowing it to be stealthily deployed into existing networks with a minimal footprint.
Wedge Networks’ WedgeOS provides a new software platform for conducting full content inspection for network application traffic in real-time. Network Security Applications such as Anti-Malware, Anti-Spam, DLP, Mobile Security, etc. can be applied to the network data traffic to enforce customized policies. By building a security infrastructure platform at the network layer, WedgeOS provides a cost effective platform for enterprises, ISPs, cloud service providers and content service providers, allowing them to eliminate both inbound and outbound harmful content.
About Info Security Products Guide Awards
SVUS Awards organized by Silicon Valley Communications are conferred in four annual award programs: The Info Security’s Global Excellence Awards, The IT Industry’s Hot Companies and Best Products Awards, The Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards, and Consumer Products Guide’s Best Choice Awards. These premier awards honor organizations of all types and sizes from all over the world including people behind them, the products, performance, PR and marketing. To learn more, visit www.svusawards.com
About Wedge Networks
Wedge Networks is the leader in real-time Content Security and Compliance solutions for enterprises and service providers. Our patented WedgeOS platform provides the next generation security infrastructure to detect, protect against, and control threats, information leaks, and allows future security functions to run on the network. At its core is our Deep Content Inspection technology, which moves beyond the application layer to allow full access to all content passing through the network in real time. It uniquely provides the most depth in scanning without compromising performance, loading clients, and remaining completely transparent to network traffic. Software systems and hardware appliances running on WedgeOS are deployed globally, delivering security protection for tens of millions of users in Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, internet service providers, and across all industry verticals. Wedge Networks is headquartered in Calgary, Canada and has international offices in Santa Clara, USA and Beijing, China.