(ALISO VIEJO, CA) January 27, 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 solution, the most powerful and comprehensive endpoint security software introduced to date, was selected as a Network World 2005 Best of the Tests Finalist. Blink is the first endpoint security software to take a multi-layered approach incorporating firewall, intrusion prevention and vulnerability assessment technology to ensure business continuity across the enterprise.
A compilation of the very best of the 260 products reviewed by the industry's leading enterprise networking publication, Network World has selected Blink as a finalist on the strength of its Clear Choice designation in the magazine’s competitive test of end-point security products earlier this year. In the test, Blink beat out other end-point security products from Check Point/Zone Labs (NASDAQ: CHKP), F-Secure, InfoExpress, Sygate and Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC). The test, published on September 20, 2004, can be viewed at http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/0920rev.html.
"This industry recognition is a confirmation of Blink's unique approach to delivering complete security for Windows-based devices," stated Firas Raouf, eEye's Chief Operating Officer. "The feedback from our enterprise customers has shown that the primary value of Blink is the absolute security of devices in lieu of security patches, ensuring business continuity. Although endpoint security remains a fragmented market, we've found that ensuring business continuity in highly complex networks has allowed Blink to break away from the competition both in terms of performance and market acceptance."
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.
About Network World's 2005 Best of the Tests Finalist designation
The 2005 "Best of the Tests" Finalist designation has been awarded by Network World to 42 products that registered the best performances in its hands-on testing program last year. In all, Network World tested and reported on a total of 260 enterprise products in that time frame.
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 taps into its 13-member Network World Lab Alliance, a group of the most qualified industry testing experts, network integrators and universities, to set methodology, conduct testing and produce the articles.
Network World's sixth annual Signature Series Best Products Issue, published in February, highlights the best new products, services and practices in networking and the best new ideas on buying, building and managing networks. The Best Products Issue is also highlighted in a special section on our Web site at www.nwfusion.com/best/2005/.
About Network World
Network World, Inc., the Leader in Network Knowledge, empowers Network IT Executives through education, information and community. Network World, and IDG company, is the leading provider of news, analysis, reviews, events and education on information technology. Network World publishes the leading newsweekly, Network World, hosts the most active online community (www.nwfusion.com), and produces educational seminars and events worldwide. Network World's portfolio of strategic marketing programs provides marketing and agency professionals with the tools to generate high-quality leads, optimize marketing campaigns, and create new revenue opportunities.
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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