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Three Cutting Edge Companies Announced as Winners of the 2014 SIIA NextGen Awards in Security(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 -- The Software & Information Industry Association issued the following news release: The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal association representing the software and digital content industries, today announced that three cutting edge companies in the Security industries have been recognized with 2014 NextGen Awards. SIIA's NextGen program provides exposure to early-stage companies delivering game-changing solutions. The program aims to bring awareness to 6 verticals: Mobile, Social, Big Data, Security, Healthcare, and Financial Services. Nominating companies were judged by a group of industry experts who determined the Most Innovative, Most Disruptive and overall NexGen winner of the category. The 2014 NextGen Award Winners in Security are: * Most Disruptive& Overall Winner (tie): Mocana Mocana securely mobilizes enterprise data and protects millions of the smart connected devices that comprise the Internet of Things. The company's award-winning Atlas extended enterprise mobile app security platform provides organizations with an easy way to deliver business-critical mobile apps, with a high-quality end user experience, tap-and-go simplicity and strong security for internal and external users. Mocana's customers include Fortune 500 enterprises, government agencies and the world's leading smart device manufacturers. * Overall Winner (tie): Sentinel One SentinelOne is reinventing endpoint security to protect organizations against advanced threats and nation state grade malware. The company uses a patent pending predictive execution inspection engine to detect and protect against targeted, zero day threats in real time. SentinelOne was formed by an elite team of cyber security and defense experts from Intel, McAfee, Checkpoint, IBM and the Israel Defense Forces. The company's investors include Accel Partners, Data Collective, Granite Hill Capital Partners, Tiger Global Management and The Westly Group. To learn more visit sentinelone.com or follow us at @SentinelSec * Most Innovative: Red Lambda Red Lambda delivers next generation Big Data security and analytics solutions that help organizations simplify and unify their complex, appliance-based IT environments. By fusing patented advances in supercomputing, relational stream processing and artificial intelligence into one integrated platform, MetaGriddz, the company's flagship offering, delivers unprecedented capabilities to preempt and prevent internal and external cyber attacks without rules, signatures or manual programming, as well as powerful analytics capabilities to help organizations derive maximum business value from their data. For more information visit the company website: www.redlambda.com. "Much of the discussion about market disruption has focused on large, brand name businesses, but there is tremendous innovation taking place at companies that get little attention," said Rhianna Collier, Vice President of the Software Division at SIIA. "NextGen companies-chosen by a Selection Committee comprised of M&A, VC and advisory executives-are young businesses that offer cutting-edge software and services." NextGen winners in mobile, social & collaboration, and BigData were announced earlier this year. NextGen winners in healthcare and financial services will be announced on a progressive basis throughout 2014. TNS 24HariCha-140925-30FurigayJane-4874591 30FurigayJane (c) 2014 Targeted News Service |