The third year of
SecTor, billed as Canada’s premiere IT security event kicked off Tuesday morning in Canada with the first-ever Canadian
IT Security Awards, honouring Canadian businesses for major security solutions or implementations.
Awards were handed out in the categories: best commercial product; best non-commercial product and best overall solution.
Toronto’s Sentry Metrics took home the best overall solution category, while eSentire took home best non-commercial product, and Scorpion Software earned the nod for best commercial product.
Sentry Metrics was recognized for its Sentry dashboard offering that offers enterprise clients a view into their security position, both from a technology standpoint and a business standpoint. Dave Miller, CEO of Sentry Metrics, said the company was actually nominated for the award by a customer, a large mining company that uses Sentry’s products to monitor the outsourcing of its IT infrastructure to a third-party partner, and to provide third-party service level agreement auditing.
“It’s a huge validation for us,” Miller said of the award. “We’re a small company that’s seven years old and relatively small on the security landscape, and this shows that the model works.”
Cambridge, ON-based security consultant and managed service provider
eSentire earned best non-commercial product for its open source and freely available framework for testing security on Nortel IP phones. Built from an existing framework for testing Cisco IP telephony products, eSentire founding partner Eldon Sprickerhoff said the solution filled a need in the market – similar tools were available for Avaya and Cisco products, but nothing was available for Nortel-based systems. Plus, it gives the company “decent critical acclaim” and calls attention to its core business.
