SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group and the southern African enterprise partner for eEye Digital Security, today announced that the latter's Blink, the most powerful and comprehensive endpoint security software introduced to date, was selected as a finalist for the Best Enterprise Security Solution Category in the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA's) 20th Annual Codie Awards.
"Our inclusion as a finalist for the Codie awards is a testament to the innovative approach we took with Blink," stated Firas Raouf, eEye's Chief Operating Officer.
"Blink's ability to block unknown vulnerabilities right out of the box, as opposed to 'learning' correct system behaviour, immediately has placed it ahead of the competition. Blink's instant acceptance within the market has exceeded our expectations, allowing eEye to clearly distance itself from the competitors in this fragmented market."
Blink
Designed to be implemented on individual assets such as servers, PCs and laptops, Blink is the first end-point product to combine multiple layers of security technologies to protect enterprises from 'zero-day' attacks that leverage yet unknown vulnerabilities within enterprise networks.
This comprehensive security solution allows enterprises to defer patching vulnerable machines until regularly scheduled maintenance cycles, thereby saving millions of dollars in business disruption and the associated IT resource drain caused by 'panic' patching. As a result, Blink uniquely protects assets from vulnerabilities, as opposed to only thwarting attacks.
Blink is the culmination of three years of development by the industry's most successful security vulnerability research team. Over the last five years, eEye has been recognised as the pre-eminent organisation in the discovery of the most critical vulnerabilities in various platforms and applications, including the vulnerabilities subsequently leveraged by the Sasser, Witty and CodeRed worms, the Sapphire worm and the Microsoft ASN vulnerability and hundreds of other important discoveries. This expertise gives eEye a distinct advantage in designing software solutions for the assessment, remediation and prevention of vulnerabilities and the attacks that leverage them.
"The 20th annual Codie Awards continue the tradition of honouring the best of the software, content and education technology industries," added Ken Wasch, SIIA President. "When one considers the number of outstanding companies that competed this year, being named a Codie Awards finalist is a significant achievement."
For further information, please contact Willem Barnard at telephone +27 11 257 8600; fax +27 11 257 8699; e-mail willemb@securedata.co.za
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eEye Digital Security provides enterprise security software that proactively protects networks from intrusion. USA eEye was founded in 1998, and its integrated family of security solutions include Retina Network Security Scanner, SecureIIS Web Server Protection, Iris Network Traffic Analyzer, Blink Intrusion Prevention System and REM Remote Enterprise Management.
SecureData
SecureData, an ERP.com company, is Africa's premier IT security solution provider. SecureData's solutions incorporate anti-virus and content security, network security, intrusion prevention software and network asset management.
SecureData's comprehensive "Managed Security Services" include design, audit, implementation, vulnerability assessment, outsourcing and hosting. SecureData distributes, sells and supports category leading IT security products to the public, corporate and SME sectors throughout Africa as well as products and services to the SOHO and consumer markets through partnerships with ISPs.
As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for Trend Micro, SecureData is the African distributor for US-based TippingPoint Technologies and the southern African distributor for US-based Application Security, eEye, Rocket Software and RSA Security and UK-based Centennial. For more information, visit SecureData at www.securedata.co.za.
ERP.com
ERP.com is a JSE-listed company focused on the implementation, integration and management of enterprise applications in an e-business environment. For more information, visit ERP.com at www.erpcom.co.za
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