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Intellitactics SAM Named Finalist in SC Magazine Global Awards for ‘Best New Security Solution’
Underscores Importance of Metrics to Organizations WorldwideReston, VA, April 7, 2006—Intellitactics today announced its Intellitactics SAM solution for characterizing security effectiveness has been named a finalist in the SC Magazine Global Awards in the category of Best New Security Solution.
The SC Magazine Awards program comprises three separate award programs for the US, UK and Asia Pacific regions and showcases the best products, services and professionals in the information security industry. The awards comprise the Reader Trust Awards, voted on by SC Magazine readers in each region, and the Excellence and Professional awards, which are judged by a global panel of the industry’s top talents. With over 1,300 product and service nominations from over 330 competing companies globally, the SC Awards are the world’s leading awards program for the information security industry. The SC Magazine European Awards will take place during the InfoSecurity Exhibition on April 25th at The Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London, United Kingdom. Complete information about the SC Awards can be found at (www.scawards.com)
“Both IT managers and executives are extremely interested in developing relevant, reliable metrics to communicate progress against goals and measure the value of information security investments, and this product fills a void by automating ongoing metrics delivery,” said Randall K. Davis, President and CEO of Intellitactics. “SAM, a security dashboard, puts diverse data from many information sources into an understandable business context. Being voted a finalist in SC Magazine’s Global Awards for Best New Security Solution validates what we have been learning from our customers and underscores the importance of these metrics to organizations worldwide.”
Intellitactics SAM is a component of the Intellitactics™ Security Manager suite, which combines security information and event management in one consolidated product. Security Manager features alert scoring to transform millions of events into a fewer number of more meaningful high-impact alerts and incidents. SAM displays, on a highly configurable dashboard, security assurance metrics™ that represent measures derived from information managed by Security Manager combined with user specific enterprise variables. Intellitactics delivers this organic library of metrics with the product and provides customers with unlimited access to new metrics that can be downloaded from the web-accessible Metrics Gallery. Using practical metrics, companies make better decisions and control costs related to governance and risk management.
About Intellitactics, Inc.
Headquartered in Reston, VA, Intellitactics provides the world’s leading enterprise security management solution used by security analysts, operations, and risk officers to achieve cost-effective regulatory compliance; mitigate risk by automating security operations; and accelerate incident resolution to ensure the availability of critical business services. Intellitactics' industry leading Security Manager empowers organizations to simplify the complex mandate to be secure and compliant with just one solution. Security Manager combines event, alert, and incident management to mitigate exposure to cybercrime, with extensive automated analysis and reporting. A strong complement to Security Manager is Intellitactics™ SAM, which measures security value and features security assurance metrics™ on a configurable dashboard. Intellitactics was awarded Common Criteria Certification in December 2004, making it the first software provider to earn this certification as a security information and event management solution. Founded in 1996, Intellitactics is backed by JMI Equity Fund LP and Lazard Technology Partners and is ranked by well-known industry analysts as a market leader known for innovative solutions and a commitment to customer success. Visit us at www.intellitactics.com.
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