SANS Best of Awards

Many companies avoid or minimize security breaches - in 2016, according to Identity Theft Resource Center, over 90% of the Fortune 10000 did not suffer a reportable security breach. What did the successful security teams do differently?

The SANS Best of Awards program was created to raise awareness of the solutions that organizations are using to successfully fend off attacks. By showcasing the solutions that are making a difference by reducing the business impact of cyberattacks in real world applications we believe we can help security professionals to reduce the number of successful intrusions.

Each year SANS surveys the SANS community for nominations for the SANS "Best of the Year" awards for products and services that have been successfully used to provide increases in both the effectiveness and efficiency of cybersecurity programs. In 2016 the products were voted on by security operations professionals and security managers from around the world, all of whom are actual users of these products.

The SANS Best of Awards are not driven by vendors, but by the people actually using these products. The Awards are an extension of the SANS WhatWorks Program which creates awareness of security programs and solutions that are actually being used to stop bad guys and improve security. The 2016 winners can be found below.

The Best of 2016 Award winners and Honorable Mentions

The Best of 2015 Award winners and Honorable Mentions

The Best of 2014 Winners

Despite the growing number of breaches spotlighted in headline news, there are many organizations that are successfully avoiding or preventing breaches, yet we never hear about these successes. The SANS Best of Awards program was created to raise awareness of the solutions that organizations are using to successfully fend off attacks. By showcasing the solutions that are making a difference by reducing the business impact of cyberattacks in real world applications we believe we can help security professionals to reduce the number of successful intrusions.

SANS surveys the SANS community for nominations for the yearly SANS "Best of the Year" awards for products and services that have been successfully used to provide increases in both the effectiveness and efficiency of cybersecurity programs. In 2014 the products were voted on by more than 650 security operations professionals and security managers from within the SANS community, all of whom are actual users of these products.

The SANS Best of Awards are not driven by vendors, but by the people actually using these products. The Awards are an extension of the SANS WhatWorks Program which creates awareness of security programs and solutions that are actually being used to stop bad guys and improve security. The Best of 2014 Award winners and honorable Mentions include: