The Future Now List

  • 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.

    September 1

The FutureNow List is Bank Technology News’ annual listing of the most interesting, most innovative and most mandatory information security projects, products and vendors serving the financial services industry.

Now in its fourth year, The FutureNow list considers entrants from all areas of financial services IT security—along with the occasional physical security player. Honorees have included vendors that specialize in authentication, compliance, risk management, Web security, application security, database security, and MSSPs serving financial services, among other categories.

Banks may nominate their own security projects, vendors may nominate their own products or bank implementations of their products.

Deadline is July 23, 2010

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