CA`s eTrust Antivirus named Best Security Solution at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo

Computer Associates International, Inc (CA) today announced that eTrust Antivirus won Best Security Solution at the Open Source Product Excellence Awards Ceremony at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in New York City.

eTrust Antivirus was selected over security offerings from IBM Tivoli, Astaro and Cylant. More than 30 companies submitted products for consideration in the Best Security Solution category, which was introduced this year.

"As Linux continues its rapid adoption in the corporate enterprise, security has become a high priority," said Robert William, UniForum`s expert for certification and security issues and one of six judges for the LinuxWorld Open Source Product Excellence Awards. "CA continues to lead the industry by providing customers with secure, easily managed, cost-effective, solutions that meet the increasing demand for the power of Linux."

eTrust Antivirus is part of CA`s award-winning family of enterprise security solutions. Providing extensive platform coverage, eTrust Antivirus reduces virus infections, simplifies and automates updating, eases administration, and enforces security polices through dual virus-scanning engines, superior manageability, free signatures and one-step "Virus Block" to lock down suspicious files. It is certified by ICSA Labs for detecting 100% of "in the wild" viruses.

"Once again, the Linux community has recognised the exceptional quality and business value that CA is delivering in the Linux environment," said Sam Greenblatt, senior vice-president and chief architect of CA`s Linux Technology Group. "This award demonstrates CA`s commitment to the success of Linux in the enterprise."

CA offers more than 60 distributed and mainframe solutions that enable customers to manage, secure, preserve, integrate and leverage Linux technology in the heterogeneous enterprise.

Sponsored by OSDN and presented in conjunction with the UniForum Association, the Open Source Product Excellence Awards at LinuxWorld recognise open source product and service innovations by LinuxWorld exhibitors.