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ELEMENTAL COMPLIANCE SYSTEM NAMED EMERGING TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT OF THE YEAR BY INFORMATION SECURITY MAGAZINE
Elemental's Security Compliance Management Product Earns Gold Award Honors in the Emerging Technology Category for its Innovative, Comprehensive Approach to Security
SAN MATEO, Calif. – Feb. 2, 2006 – Elemental Security, Inc., the award-winning pioneer of new technology in enterprise information security, today announced that its security compliance management product has been named as the Product of the Year in the Emerging Technology category in Information Security magazine’s 2006 “Product of the Year” awards program.
Information Security magazine and SearchSecurity.com asked 890 information security executives and managers to assess the products they currently deploy. Based on their cumulative responses, Information Security magazine and SearchSecurity.com editors awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze medals to the industry’s best products in 13 categories. The Elemental Compliance System earned the Gold Award as the top product in the Emerging Technology category due to its rating in criteria such as overall quality, performance, features, security, documentation, and support.
To read Elemental’s Gold Award article, as well as a listing of all winning products, please see: http://www.searchsecurity.com/2006ProductsoftheYear
According to Information Security magazine, “In a year when regulatory compliance seems to dominate the infosecurity market, the integrated policy management, host configuration and network access control in a single offering earned the Elemental Compliance System (ECS) the gold medal in emerging technologies. Elemental’s innovative approach to a high-profile, enterprise-level security need made it the clear choice.”
“It is an honor to be named the Emerging Technology Product of the Year by Information Security, the leading source of comprehensive reports and analyses for security managers and executives charged with protecting information assets and reducing risk,” said Elemental CEO Peter Watkins. “Our growing customer traction and increasing number of industry accolades validates that our innovative host-level approach to policy and risk management is serving a critical security compliance need for enterprises that was previously unmet.”
Elemental’s award-winning product is the world’s first solution that unifies policy management, host configuration, inventory/discovery and network access control in one seamlessly integrated offering. For the first time, enterprises can easily express cross-platform security policies that affect individual computers and their behavior on the network, gather meaningful up-to-date information to compare to established metrics, and selectively enforce policies across a diverse, dynamic environment. Security compliance has become a top priority for enterprises due to the pressures from increasing frequency and severity of security breaches, and from regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
About Information Security magazine
Information Security is the enterprise security and risk managers’ leading source of critical, objective information on strategic and practical security issues. Information Security’s team of veteran security journalists and experts break down the toughest security problems challenging enterprises today to provide practical resolutions. Its in-depth, comprehensive reports and analyses provide the tools, knowledge and information needed to make informed decisions for securing enterprises and complying with regulations and standards. Information Security is an indispensable guide for any security manager and executive charged with protecting information assets and reducing risk.
About SearchSecurity.com
More then 400,000 IT security pros turn to SearchSecurity.com for the information they require to keep their corporate data and assets secure. It is the only online information resource that provides immediate access to breaking industry news, virus alerts, webcasts, white papers, security schools, a selection of highly focused security e-newsletters and more – all at no cost. Nowhere else will readers find such a highly targeted combination of online resources specifically dedicated to the success of today’s IT-security professional.
About Elemental
Elemental is an award-winning pioneer in the Security Compliance Management market. Elemental’s products address enterprises’ need to centrally manage the security compliance of all computers in their environments. Elemental provides unified visibility and control to manage dynamic computing environments, enabling enterprises to satisfy compliance requirements and measurably improve their security. Founded in December 2002, Elemental is a privately held company backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Mayfield, Sequoia Capital and Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. Red Herring and AlwaysOn awarded the company their Red Herring 100 and AlwaysOn 100 awards, respectively, which honor the top private companies of 2005. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., and has offices throughout the U.S. Go to http://www.elementalsecurity.com for more information.
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