More Than 80,000 Visits From Readers Determined Award Winners
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualys(TM), Inc., the
leading provider of on demand vulnerability management solutions, today
announced that its QualysGuard service has won the SC Magazine Global Reader
Trust Award for Best Network Security Solution in 2005. The award was
announced during the RSA Conference in San Francisco on February 16, 2005.
Qualys was also selected as a finalist for the prestigious Best Security
Company Blue Riband award.
SC Magazine readers voted on the best security products and selected
QualysGuard to receive the Reader Trust Award in the network security
category. SC Magazine's Global Awards recognize the technical excellence of
products throughout the information security industry. The program received
over 1,000 product and service nominations across more than 30
security-related categories. The SC Awards website (http://www.scawards.com) received
more than 80,000 individual visits during the judging and voting period.
"We are extremely proud to win this award because it is the customers who
have selected us for it. That is the best kind of award any company can
receive," said Philippe Courtot, Chairman & CEO of Qualys, Inc. "Our sincere
thanks to the readers and QualysGuard users who voted for us and continually
help us build and deliver world class vulnerability management and policy
compliance solutions."
The SC Awards Program, the only global awards program known as the leading
award recognizing technical and professional excellence in the infosecurity
industry, is now in its ninth year. For more information on the SC Magazine
Global Awards, visit http://www.scawards.com .
About QualysGuard
QualysGuard is an on demand vulnerability management solution that enables
organizations to assess and manage business risk. QualysGuard automates the
network security auditing process across the enterprise both inside and
outside the firewall, and across distributed networking environments.
QualysGuard provides network discovery and mapping, asset prioritization,
centralized reporting, and remediation workflow and verification.
Executive-level reports allow security professionals to demonstrate effective
security practices and verify compliance with data protection laws and
regulations. QualysGuard's on demand technology is far more accurate, cost
effective, and easier to deploy than software-based alternatives.
About Qualys
Qualys is the leader in on demand vulnerability management. The company
allows organizations of all sizes to effectively secure their networks,
conduct automated security audits, and ensure compliance. Qualys automates the
process of proactively identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities,
and provides the quickest route to neutralize worms and other emerging threats
according to their relative business impact. Qualys' on demand technology
offers customers significant economic advantages, requiring no capital outlay
or infrastructure to deploy and manage. Its distributed scanning capabilities
and unprecedented scalability make it ideal for large, distributed
organizations. Thousands of customers rely on Qualys, including DuPont,
Hershey Foods, Hewlett-Packard, Standard Chartered Bank and many others.
Qualys is headquartered in Redwood Shores, Calif., with European offices in
France, Germany and the U.K., and Asian offices in Japan, Singapore,
Australia, Korea and the Republic of China. For more information, please visit
http://www.qualys.com.
NOTE: Qualys, the Qualys logo, and QualysGuard are trademarks of Qualys,
Inc. All other products or names may be trademarks of their respective
companies.
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CONTACT:
Sonya Hotaling Boralv of Qualys, Inc.,
+1-650-801-6100; or Megan Lamb of Merritt Group, +1-703-390-1535,
for Qualys, Inc.
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