(ALISO VIEJO, CA) February 11, 2002 — eEye Digital Security (www.eEye.com) is pleased to announce that Retina wins the Blue Ribbon Award for network security scanners from Network World.
Network World, in its February, 4th, 2002 issue, stated: "In our testing, we reviewed products from eEye Digital Security, Nessus, Symantec, Internet Security Systems, NetIQ, Network Associates, PatchLink and Harris.
"We evaluated how each identified our network vulnerabilities; what resources it required to run and then scale to a larger network; its reporting tools; what it offered as security recommendations and autofix features; and installation and ease of use.
"eEye Digital Security's Retina is the Blue Ribbon Award Winner."
The full report can be found here: http://www.eeye.com/html/Products/Retina/Reviews/RV20020104.html
Retina has also received recognition from Information Security Magazine as a "Best of Breed" vulnerability scanner, and it is now a finalist for the Information Security 2002 Excellence Award.
"Deploying effective security technologies is a critical part of any enterprise risk management program," said Andy Briney, editor-in-chief of Information Security. "The products voted as finalists were selected by IT/security professionals who build, deploy and manage these solutions. They are the best-of-breed solutions in the mind's of those who use them every day.
"Award finalists in each category were selected based on two criteria: (1) industry-wide deployment base and (2) overall quality within enterprise environments."
More information about this award can be found here: www.infosecuritymag.com/awards2002
About Retina
Retina is a proactive network audit tool that helps organizations uncover vulnerabilities on their networks before hackers can leverage them with remote attacks. Acknowledged as the fastest vulnerability assessment scanner on the market today, Retina is designed to scan any machine on an internet, intranet, or extranet network in order to identify existing vulnerabilities and check adherence of established security policies. Retina provides help on fixing identified vulnerabilities, and produces a comprehensive report of each scan.
Retina is a best-of-breed scanner supported by eEye Digital Security, one of the leading network security research and software development companies in the world.
About eEye Digital Security
eEye Digital Security® is pioneering a new class of security products:integrated threat management. This next-generation of security detects vulnerabilities and threats, prevents intrusions, protects all of an enterprise’s key computing resources, from endpoints to network assets to web sites and web applications, all while providing a centralized point of security management and network visibility.eEye’s research team is consistently the first to identify new threats in the wild, and our products leverage that research to deliver on the goal of making network security as easy to use and reliable as networking itself. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Orange County, California, eEye Digital Security protects more than 9,000 corporate and government organizations worldwide, including half of the Fortune 100. For more information, please visit www.eeye.com
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