At the 2010 RSA Conference in March, 10 companies will compete in the Innovation Sandbox, a competition among products less than a year old made by a private company with less than $5 million in revenues and with leaders who have delivered products successfully before. The winner will be declared the most likely to make a significant impact on information security. Here are this year's 10 finalists.
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