RSA Conference announced the top 10 finalists for its "Most Innovative Company at RSA Conference 2011" contest, part of its half-day Innovation Sandbox program.

This year’s program will also feature interactive white boarding sessions, a “Trailbreaker Innovators” panel and the all-new “Start-up Speed Dating” session, aimed to match up venture capital professionals with early stage start-up companies.


The winner will also be announced to all Conference attendees on Tuesday morning, February 15, during the RSA Conference 2011 opening session.

The finalists for RSA Conference 2011 Most Innovative Company in alphabetical order include:

CipherCloud – CipherCloud Cloud Gateway
CipherCloud Cloud Gateway anonymizes data and captures user activities in the cloud. It uses functionality-preserving encryption and tokenization techniques in real-time prior to sending data to the cloud while retaining all cloud app features such as search, report and data-integration.

ENTERSECT – Interactive Transaction Authentication (ITA)
ENTERSECT's ITA module provides additional-factor, out of band, interactive authentication for any form of digital action taking place.

Gazzang – ezNcrypt
ezNcrypt goes beyond unlimited encryption of MySQL databases, tables and files for large organizations with hundreds of database servers and those whose business foundation depends on the security of data, such as large healthcare and financial institutions.

HyTrust – HyTrust Appliance 2.1
HyTrust Appliance is a network-based policy management solution for virtual infrastructure that provides administrative access control, hypervisor hardening, and audit-quality logging.

Incapsula – Incapsula
Incapsula is a cloud-based service that makes websites safer, faster and more reliable. Incapsula provides websites of all sizes with capabilities that so far, have only been consumable by the very large Internet websites.

Invincea – Invincea Browser and Document Protection
Invincea Browser Protection virtual technology protects vulnerable computers against cyber malware.

Pawaa Software – pawaaFILE
pawaaFILE is a patented file format that wraps around a native file and carries the usage policy along with it.

Quaresso – Quaresso Protect On Q (POQ)
Protect On Q is a hardened, ephemeral browser that protects and controls browser operations and behavior to ensure that the web session and its content are protected from theft or data leakage from malware or end users.

Silver Tail Systems – Mitigation
Silver Tail Systems Mitigation gives the business owner the flexibility to adjust a website’s business flows to prevent bad actors without impacting legitimate users.

Symplified – Symplified Trust Cloud
The Symplified Trust Cloud is a unified access management and federation platform built on the Amazon EC2 cloud platform that uniquely integrates and secures SaaS, IaaS, EC2 and Web 2.0 apps.