Codie Awards Select the Industry's Most Powerful & Comprehensive Endpoint Security Product as a Finalist for Best Enterprise Security Solution
(ALISO VIEJO, CA) January 19, 2005 — eEye Digital Security, a leading network security software company enabling businesses to manage and protect their network infrastructure, today announced that the company's Blink, the most powerful and comprehensive endpoint security software introduced to date, was selected as a finalist for the Best Enterprise Security Solution Category in the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 20th Annual Codie Awards.
"Our inclusion as a finalist for the Codie awards is a testament to the innovative approach we took with Blink," stated Firas Raouf, eEye's Chief Operating Officer. "Blink's ability to block unknown vulnerabilities right out of the box, as opposed to 'learning' correct system behavior, immediately has placed it ahead of the competition. Blink's instant acceptance within the market has exceeded our expectations, allowing eEye to clearly distance itself from the competitors in this fragmented market."
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. 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 and CodeRed worms, the Sapphire worm and 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.
"The 20th annual Codie Awards continue the tradition of honoring the best of the software, content and education technology industries," said Ken Wasch, SIIA President. "When one considers the number of outstanding companies that competed this year, being named a Codie Awards finalist is a significant achievement."
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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