Blink Receives Clear Choice Designation in Competitive Review with a Broad Array of End-Point Security Products
(ALISO VIEJO, CA) September 23, 2004 — eEye Digital Security, a leading developer of vulnerability management software solutions for enterprise security, today announced that the company's end-point security software Blink received the Clear Choice designation in Network World magazine's competitive review of end-point security products. In the review, Blink bested end-point security products from Check Point/Zone Labs (NASDAQ: CHKP), F-Secure, InfoExpress, Sygate and Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC).
All products were evaluated across four primary criteria: policy management; setup, deployment and documentation; reporting capabilities; and attack defense capabilities. Blink was singled out as the winner of this competitive review specifically " … because of its solid reporting and hybrid approach to client defense." eEye received a total score of 4.13 from Network World’s testers, while the next closest competitor scored a 3.5. Interested parties can view the entire review in the September 20, 2004 issue of Network World and on Network World Fusion, at www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/0920rev.html
"We are particularly excited to have received this validation of Blink's innovative approach to protecting enterprises," stated Firas Raouf, eEye's COO. "Blink is another example of how eEye’s vulnerability research prowess is being leveraged into enterprise-ready security solutions that benefit our growing customer base."
About Blink
Designed to be implemented on individual assets such as servers, PCs and laptops, Blink is the first end-point product to combine multiple layers of security technologies to protect enterprises from "zero-day" attacks that leverage yet unknown vulnerabilities within enterprise networks. This comprehensive security solution allows enterprises to defer patching vulnerable machines until regularly scheduled maintenance cycles, thereby saving millions of dollars in business disruption and the associated IT resource drain caused by "panic" patching. Additionally, Blink eliminates the problem of so-called "socially engineered" security threats in which hackers trick individuals into downloading malware or otherwise making their own machines vulnerable to attack. As a result, Blink uniquely protects assets from vulnerabilities, as opposed to only thwarting attacks.
Blink is the culmination of three years of development by the industry's most successful security vulnerability research team. Over the last five years, eEye has been recognized as the preeminent organization in the discovery of the most critical vulnerabilities in various platforms and applications, including the vulnerabilities subsequently leveraged by the Sasser, Witty, Code Red and Sapphire worms, as well as the Microsoft ASN vulnerability and hundreds of other important discoveries. This expertise gives eEye a distinct advantage in designing software solutions for the assessment, remediation and prevention of vulnerabilities and the attacks that leverage them.
For more information about Blink, visit www.eeye.com/blink.
About Network World's Clear Choice designation
The Network World Clear Choice honor is bestowed upon the highest scoring product in a comparative review when that product scores a 3.7 or higher out of a possible 5 points. Additionally, a product featured in a single-product review is given a Clear Choice designation if it achieves a minimum of a 4.5 score as determined by their testers.
Network World is the premier source of objective, authoritative testing-based articles in the network marketplace. Network World produces articles featuring both single-product and comparative product tests on a weekly basis. The publication partners with its 14-member Network World Lab Alliance, a group of the most qualified industry experts, network integrators and universities, to set methodology, conduct testing and produce the articles.
Test results are published each week in Network World, and on Network World Fusion at www.nwfusion.com/reviews
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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