"A pioneer in proactive protection against cyberthreats, ESET is the industry leader delivering instant, comprehensive security for a range of platforms. Our flagship product, ESET NOD32 Antivirus, holds the record number of 'VB100' awards from the prestigious Virus Bulletin testing organization and consistently ranks among top performers in comparative testing of anti-virus products.

"Founded in 1992, ESET has global headquarters in Bratislava (Slovakia) and regional distribution centres in San Diego (US), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Singapore. ESET operates malware research centres in Bratislava, Slovakia; San Diego, USA; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Prague, Czech Republic; Krakow, Poland; Montreal, Canada and Moscow, Russia. ESET also relies on an extensive partner network for 180 countries. Since 2002, when ESET was included in Deloitte Technology Fast 500, it consistently ranks among the fastest-growing companies in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and has been acknowledged for its exponential growth in North America.

"Long before cloud computing gained traction in the anti-virus industry, ESET had developed a cloud-based early warning system that protects against even never-before-seen forms of threats. This is achieved by a way of collecting threat-related information globally from more than 100 million users of ESET security solutions and subjecting it to detailed analysis. The data is then used to create regular updates of the detection algorithms to deliver round-the-clock protection to the end-users.

"With an emphasis on lightweight, yet powerful design, ESET continues to fine-tune its solutions by utilizing advanced technologies developed by a network of research and development centres. ESET solutions deliver the ideal combination of proactive protection and lightweight design, actively detecting and disabling even unknown strains of malware.

"Expanding its portfolio for the growing user base, in 2010, ESET unveiled security solutions for the Mac and Linux desktop solutions. ESET's latest product line provides a powerful shield against threats targeting these environments, as well as platform-independent malware. For clients running both Windows and Mac OS X in virtual environments, ESET offers fast, light and effective cross-platform detection capability.

"Designed for individual end-users, ESET NOD32 Antivirus runs only two processes - the scanning kernel and the graphical interface - which, when combined, use a mere 44MB of RAM (on average).

"For business networks, ESET NOD32 delivers comprehensive protection - working natively in Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Server editions, as well as in Linux / BSD / Solaris; Mail Server; Exchange and Mac OS X. ESET Remote Administrator, the one-stop centralized management tool, makes the business of protecting large-scale multiplatform environments simple and flexible. With push-install pre-configured installation packages, management of parametric groups with Active Directory and other advanced features, ESET Remote Admnistrator scales easily to networks of 10 machines to 100,000.

"For laptop users connecting to Wi-Fi hotspots and those who demand firewall and anti-spam protection, ESET Smart Security is the all-in-one security suite that ensures a fast and safe Internet experience. ESET Smart Security keeps users protected from email scams and hacker attacks while maintaining ESET's hallmark light footprint and precise malware detection. The fifth generation of ESET's flagship product ESET Smart Security and ESET NOD32 Antivirus is slated for release in 2011.

"ESET also protects smartphones with its ESET Mobile Security, now available for a range of mobile platforms: Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile."

"AVAST Software leads the security software industry - protecting more than 130 million active and over 165 million registered users around the globe - by distributing FREE antivirus software that makes no compromises in terms of protection. Dependable and fast, with a small resource footprint, it often outperforms competitors' paid-for antivirus suites.

Referrals from our avast! user community help maximize the 'free' user base, while some users opt to purchase avast! Pro Antivirus, avast! Internet Security, or avast! Business Protection. Nearly two-thirds of avast! users come to us via referrals.

AVAST business partners distribute avast! solutions and help provide tech support to avast! users in their native languages. Our loyal user community - from forum support to volunteer translators - helps sustain our business model.

Anchored by the CommunityIQ network of sensors and supported by multiple protective shields, avast! software has received many awards over the last 20 years, with performance certified by, among others, VB100, ICSA Labs, and West Coast Labs."

"comScore provides a leading digital marketing intelligence platform that helps our customers make better-informed business decisions and implement more effective digital business strategies. Our products and solutions offer our customers deep insights into consumer behaviour, including objective, detailed information regarding usage of their online properties and those of their competitors, coupled with information on consumer demographic characteristics, attitudes, lifestyles and offline behaviour.

"Our digital marketing intelligence platform is comprised of proprietary databases and a computational infrastructure that measures, analyses and reports on digital activity. The foundation of our platform is data collected from our comScore panel of more than two million Internet users worldwide who have granted us explicit permission to confidentially measure their Internet usage patterns, online and certain offline buying behaviour and other activities. By applying advanced statistical methodologies to our panel data, we project consumers' online behaviour for the total online population and a wide variety of user categories.

"We deliver our digital marketing intelligence through our comScore Media Metrix product family and through comScore Marketing Solutions. Media Metrix delivers digital media intelligence by providing an independent, third-party measurement of the size, behaviour and characteristics of website and online advertising network audiences among home, work and university Internet users as well as insights into the effectiveness of online advertising. Our Marketing Solutions products combine the proprietary information gathered from the comScore panel with the vertical industry expertise of comScore analysts to deliver digital marketing intelligence, including the measurement of online advertising effectiveness, customized for specific industries."

"Qihoo 360 (NYSE:QIHU) is the biggest Internet security company in China as measured by user base, with a user penetration rate of 85% as of March 2011.

"Recognizing security as a fundamental need of Internet and mobile users, we offer comprehensive high-quality Internet and mobile security products free of charge, including 360 SafeGuard, 360 Anti-Virus, 360 Secure Browser and 360 MobileSafe. The products under our well recognized '360' brand are trusted in the market and have captured a high penetration rate of Internet users.

"Our products and services are supported by our cloud-based security technology, which we believe is one of the most advanced and robust technologies in the Internet security industry. Our cloud-based technology is composed of three parts:

• A cloud-based database of blacklisted and whitelisted program files;
• The automatic scanning and analysis of potential malware and malicious websites;
• 360 security software installed on users' computers.

"Our scan engine compares the unique digital fingerprint of a program file with a blacklist (confirmed malware and malicious websites) and a whitelist (confirmed safe program files) stored on our servers. The blacklist and whitelist are updated by information our users submitted with our desktop product in real time. In January 2011, we scanned and analysed over 40 million suspicious samples per day on average. Our blacklist contains over 700 million malware samples, and our whitelist contains over 14 million safe files.

"Our cloud-based technology combines the strengths of large-scale parallel computing technology, mass data storage technology, high performance search engine technology and our QVM malware analysing technology. The cloud storage system is based on our unique segmentation redundancy technology, which enables us to store a file with limited redundant data and greatly improves the storage reliability and security for our users' data. We possess know-how to customize servers to store greater amounts of data with lower power consumption."

"Total Defense is a global leader in threat detection and prevention and a leading anti-crimeware solutions provider. With a track record of more than 15 years of success and a network of over 5,000 partners, Total Defense is a demonstrated leader in endpoint protection. The company's innovative solutions include anti-malware, anti-virus, intrusion prevention, parental controls, mobile security, online backup and PC optimization. More than 4 million consumers and 60,000 businesses of all sizes trust Total Defense to secure their most critical assets. Total Defense is a former division of CA Technologies, one of the largest software companies in the world, and is privately held with operations in New York, California, Europe and Asia."

"IKARUS Security Software GmbH is a software vendor from Austria. IKARUS focuses on anti-virus and content-security solutions. Since its establishment in 1986, IKARUS has successfully developed security solutions and was one of world's first anti-virus software providers.

"In the course of a management buyout in 1995, IKARUS was acquired by its employees and today operates all over Europe. Developing the Asian market will be one of the next major steps.

"More than two thirds of Austria's top 500 enterprises are IKARUS customers. IKARUS Security Software GmbH invests about 75% of its overall revenue into software-specific research and development and has concluded partnership and special agreements with security experts in many countries.

"Every day, IKARUS Security Software GmbH experts exchange virus-specific information with other research institutions from all over the world. The main focus of current research is on projects from various fields: technology (formal virus description), legislation (new concepts on the basis on special legislation), and society (closed and open data-security systems).

"Facts and milestones:

• 2011: IKARUS celebrates its 25th anniversary
• 2010: IKARUS reaches Microsoft Gold Certified status and is ISV-Partner
• 2009: IKARUS expands its portfolio with the IKARUS security.proxy for Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server
• 2008: IKARUS wins the prestigious GTB Innovation Award for its Mobile Telephony Internet Security Solution - developed for mobilkom austria
• 2006: IKARUS celebrates its 20-year anniversary and develops aonVirenchecker and aonSpamfilter for Telekom Austria
• 2003: IKARUS founds CIRCA, an Austrian virus early warning system
• 2002: IKARUS ContentWall/CVP is certified by Check Point OPSEC-NG as the first anti-virus/anti-spam product
• 2001: First central anti-virus/anti-spam solution with user-based management: IKARUS Managed Security Services.
• 1997: The IKARUS management team acquires the company (management buyout)
• 1994: IKARUS moves to Vienna
• 1986: The founding of IKARUS Software GmbH; IKARUS is one of the first manufacturers of anti-virus software worldwide!"

"OPSWAT is the industry leader in software management SDKs, interoperability certification and multiple-engine malware scanning solutions.

"Our OPSWAT Certification Program ensures that 3rd party security applications are fully interoperable with leading technology solutions from Cisco, Juniper, Barracuda, SonicWALL and many others that employ our OESIS Framework SDK. OPSWAT Certified applications (including anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewalls, URL filtering, VPN clients and more) are verified compatible with all OESIS powered solutions to reduce connection issues.

"OPSWAT's Metascan multi-scanning technology enables easy integration of multiple anti-malware engines into proprietary solutions. Metascan combines anti-virus engines from CA, ESET, AVG and others to improve detection rates without decreasing solution performance.

"OPSWAT also offers AppRemover, a software utility and SDK that enables the complete, silent uninstallation of security applications from any computer. AppRemover is a perfect solution for cleanly removing old security applications before installing new products or versions. Try the free version of AppRemover at http://www.appremover.com/."

"ArcaBit is an IT security company and vendor of the ArcaVir security suite. In our home market we are identified as one of the leaders in anti-virus protection, valued for our efficiency and individual approach to every customer. Our team of specialists have worked for many years exposing IT threats. We have successfully introduced cutting-edge prevention mechanisms and new ideas for the dynamic analysis of network incidents - crucial towards setting the priority of preparing vaccines. Even though we receive, grade, analyse and process many gigabytes of malicious code each day, we always manage to respond to the latest changes in malware activity without delay. ArcaBit has experienced noticeable economic growth over recent months. Our results have helped us to raise the awareness of our brand in Poland and now we focus on building the strong ArcaVir brand abroad."

"TrustPort is a leading manufacturer of security software for personal computers, in both home and corporate environments. Its software is characterized by a comprehensive approach to information technology protection, eliminating known threats while effectively facing new dangers. TrustPort products excel in several security areas including anti-virus technology, anti-spam filtering, and encryption technology.

"The portfolio for personal computers includes three main products: TrustPort Antivirus is a compact essential solution for the computer protection against viruses and spyware. TrustPort Internet Security adds Internet protection and a personal firewall to the mix. TrustPort Total Protection is an extended security suite with data encryption, data shredding, and access management features.

"For permanent security of flash drives, memory cards and other removable media, TrustPort USB Antivirus is available. For the protection of a computer network at its entry point, TrustPort Net Gateway is a convenient choice. It provides a robust and effective way of eliminating malware and spam before they can reach endpoint computers."

"GFI's Advanced Technology Group (ATG) is a leading provider of critical security software and services to enterprises needing specialized tools for threat analysis and defense. ATG leverages the research and technology of GFI Labs, the engine behind GFI's award-winning security products such as VIPRE. The tools and data produced by our research are used by many of the Global2000, as well as leading web portals, telecoms and government defence agencies around the world. Consumer and Enterprise software and appliance vendors count on VIPRE technology as their front line of protection against malware. For additional information on GFI's Advanced Technology Group, please visit http://www.gfi.com/ATG."