Wedge Networks announced that Network Products Guide, the industry's leading technology research and advisory guide, has named Wedge Networks WedgeOS platform and BeSecure Web Security Gateway as a finalist for the 7th Annual 2012 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards in the categories: Cloud Security; Data Center; IT Products and Services for Telecommunications; and Platform as a Service (PaaS). Winners will be announced in Las Vegas on May 8, 2012.

The Wedge Networks WedgeOS provides a new software platform for conducting full content inspection for network application traffic in real-time. Service modules, such as Anti-Malware, Anti-Spam, DLP, etc. can be applied to the network data traffic to enforce customized policies. Building a security infrastructure at the network layer, WedgeOS provides a cost effective platform for enterprises, ISPs, cloud service providers and content service providers to eliminate inbound and outbound harmful content. The WedgeOS platform is the industry's first solution to provide security from new HTML5 threats.

The Wedge Networks BeSecure Web Security Gateway is paving the way for the next generation of premium, global Web security appliances at the network layer for the data center. Utilizing the patented WedgeOS, Wedge BeSecure has complete visibility of the content carried by all applications. It is designed to maintain high performance and scalability while conducting real-time accurate policy enforcement. It can be stealthily deployed into existing networks with a minimum footprint.