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McAfee Foundstone Wins Well-Connected Award
SecurityProNews
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2005-05-04
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McAfee Foundstone Enterprise 4.0 vulnerability management solution has won the CMP Media LLC's Network Computing Well-Connected Award in the security category.
Network Computing announced the winners at a gala awards ceremony on Tuesday, May 3 held at Body English at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
CMP Media LLC's Network Computing's Well-Connected Awards honor exceptional technology products and services, and represent the finest products and services the technology industry has to offer in networking. Winners of the Well-Connected Award were selected by Network Computing's technology editors from products that were tested and evaluated in their real-world labs in the previous year from May 2004 to May 2005.
"The Well-Connected Awards are the only industry awards given by technologists based on real-world product testing and evaluation. These awards take the pulse of the technology industry and reflect the best of what IT has to offer," said Fritz Nelson, vice president and group publisher of the Network Computing Enterprise Architecture Group. "This is an important distinction from any other award program -- the products selected in the Well Connected Awards are unique because they have been graded with the same criteria IT professionals use to make purchasing decisions -- truly the most outstanding products and services available."
McAfee Foundstone Enterprise 4.0 received the 'Tester's Choice' award in a competitive review of vulnerability lifecycle management systems that published in the December 2004 and was tested against products from Qualys, Tenable Network Security, StillSecure, nCircle, Lockdown Networks and eEye Digital Security. McAfee Foundstone Enterprise 4.0 dominated the competition, receiving high rankings in all key testing areas, with a near-perfect score in the areas of profile management and user management.
"We are honored that Network Computing has recognized McAfee and the McAfee Foundstone product with a Well-Connected Award," said George Kurtz, senior vice president of risk management at McAfee, Inc. "Only McAfee has the comprehensive and proven security solutions and services that customers around the world require to secure their systems and networks. Receiving this prestigious award further validates McAfee's position as the leader in delivering risk management solutions."
McAfee Foundstone Enterprise 4.0 is a priority-based vulnerability management system that mitigates business risks associated with vulnerabilities by carefully balancing asset value, vulnerability severity, and threat criticality The appliance-based solution is the most accurate, flexible and scalable vulnerability management system available today and offers network infrastructure protection through asset discovery, inventory, and prioritization; threat intelligence and correlation; and remediation tracking and reporting. Foundstone Enterprise is an enterprise-class security solution that scales to handle the largest, most complex, and globally distributed networks.
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