SpectorSoft Named 2009 Hot Companies Finalist - Network Products Guide Rates "Products, People, Performance, Potential"

SpectorSoft has been named a 2009 Hot Companies finalist by Network Products Guide. The 2009 Hot Companies award covers all areas of information technologies including security, wireless, storage, networking, software, and communications.

Vero Beach, FL (PRWEB) December 11, 2008 -- SpectorSoft Corporation (www.SpectorSoft.com), the worldwide leader in Internet Monitoring and Surveillance Software, announced it has been named a 2009 Hot Companies finalist by Network Products Guide.

Selected from a global list of information technology vendors including established large companies, mid-size organizations, and startups, SpectorSoft advanced to finalist stage based on Network Products Guide's "4Ps" selection criteria -- Products, People, Performance, and Potential. The 2009 Hot Companies award covers all areas of information technologies including security, wireless, storage, networking, software, and communications.

SpectorSoft's designation as a 2009 Hot Companies finalist comes on the heels of Spector 360 being named "Best Software Solution" at mid-November's Everything Channel Tech Innovators event in San Jose, California, and the same flagship employee monitoring product receiving a PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award in September. In addition, in late August SpectorSoft was named to the prestigious Inc. Magazine List of Fastest Growing Private Companies in the U.S. for the fourth time in five years.

"Reaching the 2009 Hot Company finalist stage is another mark of distinction in what has been an especially gratifying year for SpectorSoft," said President C. Douglas Fowler. "The Hot Company designation further validates our position as a company uniquely poised to help overcome the worldwide productivity and liability issues faced by businesses today."

The Hot Companies 2009 evaluation process assesses candidates for entrepreneurial spirit, seasoned executives with relevant experience, clear understanding of the segment of IT market in which they are currently active and plan to stay active in, products and solutions that are positioned to take advantage of emerging market opportunities, a well-developed revenue growth model, and clearly planned expansion strategies.

The 2009 Hot Companies winners will be announced and honored at the 2009 "World Executive Alliance Summit" scheduled for March 26-27, 2009 in San Francisco, California. Additional companies of note making the list of finalists include AppRiver LLC, Foundry Networks Inc., Red Hat Inc., VeriSign, and Webroot. For the complete list of finalists please visit http://www.networkproductsguide.com/hotcompanies/.

About SpectorSoft
SpectorSoft develops, markets and supports PC and Internet monitoring and surveillance products for education, business, government and home users, including Spector Pro, eBlaster, Spector Pro mac, Spector CNE Investigator, and Spector 360.

More than 50,000 companies and more than 500,000 consumers have purchased SpectorSoft solutions to crack down on Internet abuse in their business or home, and SpectorSoft has made the prestigious Inc. Magazine List of Fastest Growing Private Companies in the U.S. four times in the past five years. SpectorSoft monitoring technology is a THREE-TIME winner of the prestigious PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award.

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