Wedge Networks is a Finalist in 3 Categories for Info Security Products Guide's Global Excellence Awards

Winners will be honored in San Francisco on February 24, 2014 during the annual awards dinner and presentation

Calgary, Alberta, Canada – 15 January 2014 – Wedge Networks announced today that info Security Products Guide, the industry's leading information security research and advisory guide, has named Wedge Networks, for WedgeOS Cloud Managed Security Platform version 2.1, a finalist for the 10th Annual 2014 Global Excellence Awards in 3 categories: Cloud Security, Innovation in Cloud Security and Cloud Managed Security Services.

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.

Wedge Networks is the leader in Cloud Managed Security solutions for enterprises and service providers. Wedge's core technology platform WedgeOS is based on a unique Software Defined Network Security approach (SDNS) which virtualizes all current and future security functions and weaves them into either the data plane or the control plane of a network. This technology ability allows connectivity providers, cloud providers and enterprises to provide clean (of security risks) network traffic to their customers. This enables better security for the customers and users of these organizations, and new revenues through a turnkey business model of offering security services to their subscribers based on the network bandwidth utilization.

Dr. Hongwen Zhang, CEO of Wedge Networks and Co-chair of the CloudEthernet Forum security group said: "Being recognized as a finalist in all 3 categories of Cloud Security for such a prestigious award is a great achievement for Wedge Networks and recognition of the value that Cloud managed security based on SDN can and is delivering to our Service Provider customers. We believe that securing the cloud layer is the only viable way of ensuring safe computing for the many billions of connected digital devices."

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 Cloud Managed Security solutions for enterprises and service providers. The company's 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. Hardware appliances and Software systems 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 Sunnyvale, USA; Beijing, China; and Manama, Bahrain.