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Best of VMworld 2016 US Award winners

By

Nick Martin, Senior Director of Content Strategy and Member Engagement

4/11

Security 2016 winner

Source: sorbetto/iStock

Designer: Linda Koury

The Security category recognizes products that monitor and protect hypervisors, cloud workloads, guest operating systems, and virtual networks and enforce security best practices.

Winner: Shavlik; Shavlik Protect

What the judges said: "It allows patching on your schedule, and flexibility of attestation after patching."

Honorable mention: Thycotic; Secret Server

Honorable mention: GuardiCore; GuardiCore Centra Security Platform

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