Secure Data, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group, and the African distributor for TippingPoint Technologies, today announced that eWEEK, a Ziff Davis Media publication and one of the IT industry's leading enterprise IT magazines, had named TippingPoint's UnityOne Intrusion Prevention Systems a winner in eWEEK's Fourth Annual Excellence Awards program in the enterprise resource protection category.
The awards honour the most innovative and relevant enterprise hardware, software and services announced in 2003 and available by the end of the first quarter of 2004. The winners have been announced in a special report that ran in the April 5 issue of eWEEK and at www.eweek.com. The winners will be honoured at a special ceremony in New York City on May 26.
"We are honoured to accept this award," commented TippingPoint CEO Kip McClanahan. "It is especially significant when coupled with last week's eWEEK Labs' Analyst's Choice award for UnityOne's powerful security and performance capabilities in a hands-on product review performed by eWEEK Labs using in-house testing equipment and Counterpane's penetration testing services." The March 29 eWEEK review of UnityOne read: "The TippingPoint UnityOne-1200 Intrusion Prevention System is a top-notch network security device that sits inline with network traffic, dropping attack traffic and clearing the way for legitimate users...eWEEK Labs' tests showed that the device prevented a substantial number of attacks, including DoS attempts that would otherwise have caused severe disruptions to the network."
The Fourth Annual eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise IT professionals with a benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. Evaluating the entries was a panel of experts including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners, providing a unique mix of technical and real-world analysis.
"This year's Excellence Awards winners show that technology innovation is alive and well in the high-tech industry," added Eric Lundquist, editor-in-chief, eWEEK. "These winners from companies large and small have shown that by being attuned to the customer's needs, they can design, develop and distribute products that are setting new standards in the enterprise marketplace. In concert with our goal of providing enterprise IT decision makers with the most current and in-depth technology information, the eWEEK Excellence awards represent the most vital products to this community."
eWEEK is the essential technology information source for builders of enterprise infrastructure. eWEEK helps its readers successfully evaluate, deploy and leverage new technology solutions for competitive advantage. The publication delivers breaking news, technology evaluations and strategic analysis on the technologies, platforms and trends that impact enterprise-wide computing.
TippingPoint's UnityOne provides Application Protection, Performance Protection and Infrastructure Protection at gigabit speeds through total packet inspection. Application Protection capabilities provide fast, accurate, reliable protection from internal and external cyber attacks. Through its Infrastructure Protection capabilities, UnityOne protects routers, switches, DNS and other critical infrastructure from targeted attacks and traffic anomalies. UnityOne Performance Protection capabilities enable customers to throttle non-mission critical applications that hijack valuable bandwidth and IT resources, thereby aligning network resources and business-critical application performance.
For further information, please contact Dean Brazier at tel. (011) 257 8600; fax (011) 257 8699; e-mail deanb@sd.co.za.
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TippingPoint Technologies, based in Austin, Texas, USA, is the leading provider of network-based intrusion prevention systems that deliver in-depth protection and attach eradication for corporate enterprises, government agencies, service providers and academic institutions. Their innovative approach offers customers an effective network-based security solution with unrivalled economics, ultra-high performance, scalability and reliability.
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eWEEK, 'the enterprise newsweekly', is the essential technology information source for builders of enterprise infrastructure. eWEEK enables readers to successfully evaluate, deploy and leverage new technology solutions for competitive advantage. The publication delivers to its readers breaking news, technology evaluations and strategic analysis on the technologies, platforms and trends that impact enterprise-wide computing. eWEEK reaches 400,100 enterprise technology buyers who are evaluating and purchasing technology solutions for their company. eWEEK delivers news, analysis and technology reviews in print weekly and on a daily basis on the Web.
Secure Data
SecureData, an ERP.com company, is Africa's Premier IT Security Solution Provider. SecureData's solutions incorporate Antivirus and Content Security, Network Security, Intrusion Detection software, and Network Asset Management. SecureData's comprehensive "Managed Security Services" include design, audit, implementation, 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 and Trend Micro, SecureData is the Southern African distributor for USA-based BorderWare, UK-based Centennial. For more information, visit SecureData at www.sd.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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