SANS Announces 2016 Best of Award Winners

Winners and honorable mentions of the SANS Best of 2016 award (and previous 2 year comparison) below - for various cybersecurity areas:

Vulnerability Assessment
Winner again: Tenable Nessus (2 years in a row)
Honorable Mention: Rapid7, Qualys

Next Generation Firewall
Winner: Palo Alto Networks PA Series (2015 was Fortinet)
Honorable mention: Check Point Software, Fortinet

Advanced Threat Detection
Winner again: FireEye Network NX (3 years in a row)
Honorable mention: Snort, Cisco

End Point Protection
Winner: Cylance PROTECT (2015 was Symantec Endpoint Protection)
Honorable mention: Symantec, Trend Micro

Application Security
Winner again: Qualys Web Application Scanning (WAS) (3 years in a row)
Honorable mention: Rapid 7, Checkmarx (tie), Veracode (tie)

SIEM
Winner: LogRhythm Security Intelligence Platform (2015 was IBM Security QRadar)
Honorable mention: Splunk, IBM

Threat Intelligence
Winner: CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence (2015 was FireEye Threat Intelligence)
Honorable mention: FireEye Threat Intelligence, Cisco AMP Threat Grid

Endpoint Detection/Response
Winner: Carbon Black Platform
Honorable mention: Palo Alto Networks Traps, CounterTack Sentinel

https://www.sans.org/press/announcement/2017/03/27/