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Banks are the bread-and-butter of many security firms, and despite the theory that even in lean times security budgets survive, many small vendors are scrambling for crumbs. In a horizontal survey, 57 percent of C-level IT executives told RSA Conference that budgetary concerns were the top security challenge they'd face next year. Don't call it cutting though, the word is "optimize," which often means looking for enterprise plays.

This also means a dearth of small companies coming out with must-have security technologies. There have been a few, and we put them on this list. Instead, BTN found enterprise-scale innovation coming from large players, like IBM, SAS, and even JP Morgan Chase. And, finally, the year's biggest security invention was, to turn the phrase around, the child of necessity. Heartland Payment Systems takes the honor for its work to further secure its systems, and the rest of the payments chain, with end-to-end encryption.