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Sygate Wins Product Of The Year Award
SecurityProNews
Staff Writer
2004-12-14
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Sygate has continued its winning streak against competitors by being named the Gold winner in the Information Security "2004 Products of the Year" awards.
Sygate Secure Enterprise was selected through an evaluation process including interviews conducted for Information Security by TheInfoPro (TIP) with security managers from more than 270 companies evaluating 1,239 products.
Last week independent testing facility KeyLabs found Sygate's flagship product, Sygate Security Enterprise 4.0 (SSE), superior to competing products from Cisco, McAfee and Zone Labs.
"These recent endorsements amplify what the marketplace is saying about Sygate's endpoint security solution -- that it is 'best of breed' in protecting corporate data networks from rogue and compromised devices," said John De Santis, Sygate's CEO. "We are gratified that in both head-to-head competition conducted by KeyLabs and in marketplace opinion sampled by Information Security and TheInfoPro, Sygate has emerged as a clear winner."
Sygate's SSE combines a sophisticated security agent running on each client, one or more servers distributed across the enterprise and enforcement on servers in the network and on endpoints. Specifically designed to meet the needs of global organizations, SSE 4.0 allows for large-scale, rapid deployments and ensures that only computing devices with up-to-date anti-virus, firewall, intrusion detection, software patches and correct configurations can gain access to corporate networks and data. In addition, SSE 4.0 ensures that only approved software applications can run in a Sygate-secured environment.
"In a world of ubiquitous connectivity, danger lurks in semitrusted devices," noted Information Security in its December issue on the Products of the Year. "Sygate's Secure Enterprise performs a critical function by ensuring that the productivity gains of virtual computing aren't undermined by a 'default permit' access policy." Citing customer responses, the magazine said one called SSE "the most exciting product we've seen recently." It added: "One user was impressed with Sygate's 'multilayered personal machine defense strategy.'"
"We are particularly gratified to be included in the Information Security 'Products of the Year', since Information Security is universally respected within the IT security market as the definitive source of information on the network security market," said De Santis. "As was the case with KeyLabs, this award was given from an objective third party. Whereas KeyLabs utilized rigorous testing in its own facility, Information Security relied on interviews with the toughest judges we know -- the security managers working every day to protect corporate IT networks."
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