Leading enterprise security vendor offers every piece of required security technology for the enterprise desktop in a single unified client security solution
(ALISO VIEJO, CA) January 29, 2007 — eEye Digital Security®, the leading developer of system security software and the foremost contributor to security research and innovation, today announced the latest version of Blink® Professional, its award-winning endpoint security technology. eEye is combining its own anti-virus dynamic heuristics technology with 'sandboxing' technology from leading antivirus vendor Norman Data Defense to complete Blink Professional 3.0 as a single, small-footprint agent, incorporating multi-layered security methods to protect against both known and unknown vulnerabilities in real-time, thus making it the last security product enterprises and SMBs will need to purchase to stop 100 percent of malware attacks, regardless of signatures or patch updates.
"The notion of standalone security products is dead," said Marc Maiffret, eEye's co-founder and CTO. "Customers don't want to be nickel-and-dimed to death and are frustrated over the pricing, lack of integration and added systems management costs of using multiple tools. Enterprises need integration in order to have a complete security solution and the addition of Norman's anti-virus technology pushes Blink Professional even further ahead as the industry's most comprehensive unified client security product."
Deployed as a software agent on a Windows-based server, desktop PC or laptop, Blink Professional leverages multiple layers of protection - more so than any other endpoint security product - to shield individual digital assets from attacks and keep systems up and running. Blink Professional delivers the industry's most comprehensive endpoint security for attacks that are affecting users today as an integrated, optimized single agent in order to reduce the memory and computing resources needed. Blink Professional also serves as a platform to which future security functionality can be added, effectively making it the last security agent that IT has to install and manage. In addition, Blink Professional can be deployed and managed from a central location, making it ideal for distributed network environments.
Blink Professional delivers the most comprehensive and non-intrusive endpoint protection offering available today, combining and integrating the following proven technologies:
- Anti-virus/anti-malware/anti-spyware
- Protocol-based, host intrusion prevention system (HIPS)
- Protection from application and service buffer overflow attempts
- Anti-phishing and identity theft protection
- Stateful system and application firewalls
- Location-aware and roll-based group policy management
- Policy-based control over access to applications, system resources, registry and removable storage devices
- Local vulnerability assessment based on eEye's Retina® Network Security Scanner
- Attack and event reporting through integration with eEye's REM® Security Management Console
"Blink Professional, as the industry's first unified client security product, demonstrates how eEye is rethinking the basic assumptions about endpoint security - how it's integrated, how it's sold and how it evolves over time. Blink Professional incorporates all of the technology an enterprise needs at a fraction of a company's annual renewal cost for their existing security agents, allowing a company to reallocate those funds to IT projects that are more core to their business," said Ross Brown, eEye's CEO. "Organizations who are only protecting themselves with bloated anti-virus and firewalls have held off long enough; now's the time to make the switch to utilize multiple layers of technology that provide a complete solution. For organizations who have realized some of the benefits of layered security, this is an opportunity to replace multiple vendors with one solution that allows IT departments to secure their networks more efficiently and cost-effectively."
The integrated layers of endpoint security in Blink Professional are designed and built to work hand-in-hand to provide the most comprehensive protection from targeted and propagated attacks. It protects network assets and endpoint devices from both known and undefined vulnerabilities through periodic vulnerability assessments and non-intrusive process activity monitoring, helping to eliminate zero-day attacks. Blink Professional stops viruses, spyware, malware, trojans, keystroke loggers, worms and remote exploits while assisting in the enforcement of IT and policy compliance.
A unique aspect of eEye's product policy is that customers receive new security functionality without being charged extra for those innovations. eEye's existing Blink 2.5 customers have been automatically upgraded to Blink 3.0, receiving virus and expanded malware protection at no extra cost. For those interested in replacing a multitude of point solutions and protecting their networks with Blink Professional for one integrated and complete solution, more information - including a demonstration and a free product trial - is available for download on eEye's website: http://www.eeye.com/html/products/blink/index.html.
eEye is using its own dynamic heuristics technology to detect virus-like behavior, as well as incorporating Norman's SandBox scanning technology, to provide a completely segregated, virtual environment for executables to run prior to being introduced to the client system. This provides the opportunity to detect new, unknown viruses and malware without the need for a signature, allowing time to analyze file behavior and look for suspicious actions.
"Working with eEye is a great opportunity for Norman to showcase its proactive anti-virus technology as a world-leading product," said Audun Lødemel, Norman's vice president, marketing and business development. "We found eEye's non-intrusive protection architecture to be the best complement to our technology in order to keep businesses up and running while ensuring their networks are secure."
Blink Professional integrates seamlessly with eEye's REM Security Management Console, which provides enterprise-class event and state analysis capabilities along with security and compliance reporting and executive dashboard capabilities. REM integrates attack-related information, local vulnerability assessment data and network vulnerability assessment data, providing organizations with a complete view of their enterprise security posture. For current REM customers, there is no additional cost to include their Blink Professional environment.
eEye's integrated family of vulnerability management solutions helps IT and security professionals confidently safeguard their valuable digital assets. Working in conjunction with popular tools such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems, eEye's product portfolio also includes Retina Network Security Scanner, Iris® Network Traffic Analyzer and SecureIIS™ Web Server Protection.
About Norman Data Defense
Norman ASA is one of the leading companies in the field of data security and develops and sells virus control, personal firewall, parental control and protection against spam and spyware. Through its Norman SandBox technology, Norman leads the way in the world of proactive anti-virus solutions. The company's main focus is small and medium-sized enterprises. For more information, please visit www.norman.com.
About eEye Digital Security
eEye Digital Security is a leading developer of system security software, and the foremost contributor to security research and innovation. eEye provides a complete platform that anticipates where systems are vulnerable and prevents attacks on these systems well in advance of actual threats appearing. eEye's customers, Citigroup and the U.S. Department of Defense, represent the largest deployments of vulnerability assessment and prevention technology in the private and public sectors. eEye protects the networks and digital assets of a growing network of more than 9,000 corporate and government deployments worldwide.
Founded in 1998, eEye Digital Security is a privately held, venture-backed firm with headquarters in Orange County, California. For more information, please visit www.eeye.com.
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