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Everything Channel's CRN Announces the 2010 Security Superstars

The comprehensive list created by Everything Channel editorial includes the leading thinkers, researchers and executives in the information security industry.

The 2010 CRN Security Superstars:

--  Ed Amoroso, SVP and Chief Security Officer, AT&T
--  Lane Bess, President, CEO, Palo Alto Networks
--  Jim Bidzos, Versign Founder, Chairman of the Board, Executive Chairman
--  Marvin Blough, Vice President, Worldwide, SonicWall
--  Eva Chen, CEO, Trend Micro
--  Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant, Sophos
--  Philippe Courtot, CEO, Qualys
--  Art Coviello, CEO, RSA
--  David DeWalt, CEO, McAfee
--  Phil Dunkelberger, CEO, PGP
--  Paul Ferguson: Advanced Threat Researcher, Trend Micro
--  Gary Fish, Founder, CEO, Fishnet Security
--  Ben Greenbaum, Senior Research Manager, Symantec
--  Dave Hansen, Corporate SVP, GM, Security & Compliance Business Unit, CA
--  Paul Henry, Security and Forensic Analyst, Lumension
--  Christofer Hoff, Director, Cloud and Virtualization Solutions, Data Center Solutions, Cisco
--  Tracy Hulver, Executive VP, netforensics
--  Matt Hynes, VP, Worldwide Channel Sales, Websense
--  Paul Judge, VP of Cloud Services & Chief Research Officer, Barracuda Networks
--  Wolfgang Kandek, CTO, Qualys
--  Eugene Kaspersky, Founder and CEO, Kaspersky Lab
--  Steve Lipner, Senior Director of Security Engineering, Microsoft
--  Derek Manky, Project Manager for Security and Threat Research, Fortinet
--  Steve Manzuik, Senior Manager of Security Research, Juniper Networks
--  David Marcus, Director, Security Research, Communications, McAfee Avert Labs
--  Matt Medeiros, CEO, SonicWall
--  Jason Miller, Data and Security Team Leader, Shavlik
--  Stephen Orenberg, President of Kaspersky Lab for the Americas
--  David Perry, Director of Global Education, Trend Micro
--  Fernando Quintero, Vice President of North American Channel, McAfee
--  Don Retallack, Lead Analyst, Directions on Microsoft
--  Nancy Reynolds, SVP, Sales, Kaspersky Lab Americas
--  Marty Roesch, CTO and Founder of SourceFire, creator of Snort IDS
--  Mark Romano, Director of Global Channel Marketing, WatchGuard
--  Enrique Salem, CEO, Symantec
--  Howard Schmidt, Federal Cybersecurity Czar
--  Roel Schouwenberg, Senior Antivirus Researcher, Kaspersky Lab
--  Gil Shwed, CEO, Check Point
--  David Sockol, President, eMagined Security
--  Richard Stiennon, Security Expert, Industry Analyst, IT-Harvest
--  Andrew Storms, Director of Security Operations, nCircle
--  Hugh Thompson, Application Security Expert
--  Roger Thompson, Chief Research Officer, AVG
--  Alex Thurber, VP of Worldwide Channel Operations, McAfee
--  Peter Tippett, VP, Research & Intelligence, Verizon Business Security Solutions
--  Steve Trilling, Senior VP of Security Technology Response, Symantec
--  Mike Valentine, VP, Americas Sales, Support, Fortinet
--  Vincent Weafer, Vice President, Symantec Security Response
--  Ken Xie, Founder, President, CEO, Fortinet
--  Michael Xie, Founder, CTO, VP, Engineering, Fortinet


The 2010 CRN Security Visionaries:

--  Steve Bellovin
--  Bill Cheswick
--  Dorothy Denning
--  Whitfield Diffie
--  Dan Geer
--  Peter G. Neumann
--  Marcus Ranum
--  Stephen Northcutt, Alan Paller, Marcus Sachs
--  Bruce Schneier
--  Eugene Spafford

The 2010 CRN Security Researchers:

--  Dino Dai Zovi
--  Kevin Finisterre
--  Landon Fuller
--  Robert Graham
--  Jeremiah Grossman
--  Larry Highsmith
--  Billy Hoffman
--  Mikko Hypponen
--  Dan Kaminsky
--  Paul Kocher
--  Nate Lawson
--  David Litchfield
--  Charles Miller
--  Jeff Moss
--  Jose Nazario
--  Joanna Rutkowska

"According to the 2010 CRN State of the Market survey, security was the No. 1
technology that solution providers were expected to add this year to grow their
bottom line," said Kelley Damore, VP, Editorial Director, Everything Channel.
"Protecting networks and data is an important business challenge for companies
large and small and a huge opportunity for the solution provider community. Our
list has been created as the definitive security guide for the solution provider
community. We congratulate all of the individuals included on the list."

For additional information on the CRN Security Superstars list, visit www.channelweb.com.

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