Integrated Solution to Provide IT Departments With Control Over Entire
Assessment and Remediation Lifecycle
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. and EMERYVILLE, Calif., June 14 /PRNewswire/ --
eEye(R) Digital Security and BigFix today announced a partnership to provide
the industry's first fully integrated vulnerability assessment and remediation
solution. eEye will integrate the BigFix Enterprise Suite with eEye's
Retina(R) Enterprise Suite. The resulting offering will represent a unique,
end-to-end vulnerability assessment and remediation management solution that
allows enterprises to quickly and easily identify and eliminate network
security threats regardless of operating system (OS), application type or
network architecture.
"Our customers have made it clear that vulnerability assessment and
remediation management capabilities must be integrated, as security and IT
operations converge within the enterprise," said Firas Raouf, chief operating
officer at eEye Digital Security. "We evaluated various remediation automation
technologies and found the BigFix architecture to be most effective at meeting
the scalability and flexibility requirements of the FORTUNE 1000 enterprises
that make up our customer base."
The partnership will deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end vulnerability
management workflow capability through eEye's Retina(R) Enterprise Suite,
which includes the Retina(R) Network Security Scanner and REM(TM) Security
Management Platform. The integration of BigFix's automation-assisted
remediation allows IT departments to significantly control and streamline the
most time-consuming and arduous aspects of configuration and patch
management, effectively eliminating the need to manually assign and then fix
network vulnerabilities. IT departments can now identify vulnerabilities in
real time, assign their remediation to specific individuals and/or groups and
automatically fix and receive immediate updates on the status of identified
vulnerabilities.
Streamlining the remediation process through effective prioritization of
vulnerabilities is becoming increasingly important in order to combat the
shrinking time period between the announcement of a vulnerability and the
emergence of a worm or other damaging attacks.
"eEye is a respected leader in the security industry and provides the
deepest vulnerability assessment services and expertise in the market," said
George Billman, vice president of business development at BigFix. "eEye's
selection of BigFix technology as a key part of its management solution is a
strong endorsement for the strength of our platform and will help customers
better manage vulnerabilities across their global networks."
About eEye Digital Security
eEye Digital Security is a leading developer of network security software
and an active contributor to network security research and education. eEye
offers a comprehensive range of award-winning vulnerability management
solutions, including vulnerability assessment, remediation management,
intrusion prevention and network forensics and vulnerability forensics. eEye
protects the networks and digital assets of more than 2,500 corporate and
government entities in over eighty countries, including AT&T Wireless, Avon,
Citigroup, Continental Airlines, Dow Jones, Ernst & Young, Farmers Insurance,
Prudential, Viacom, and Wyeth. Founded in 1998, eEye is a privately held,
venture-backed firm with headquarters in Orange County, Calif. For more
information, visit http://www.eeye.com.
About BigFix, Inc.
BigFix enterprise vulnerability management solutions help large
organizations maintain the health, performance and security of their systems.
The foundation for all BigFix solutions is a scalable, secure, agent-based
platform, the BigFix Enterprise Suite (BES), which gives IT departments
complete visibility into every computer running on a corporate network, with
the power and control to proactively identify, assess and remediate threats in
a timely manner. The BES platform provides the foundation for ready-to-deploy
solutions from BigFix for patch management, vulnerability identification and
remediation (VIR) and for configuration management. BigFix customers include
large organizations in a range of markets including energy, financial
services, government, manufacturing, and technology. For more information,
visit http://www.bigfix.com.
SOURCE BigFix, Inc.
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Related links:
http://www.eeye.com
http://www.bigfix.com
CONTACT:
Jason Throckmorton or Brett Weiner, both of
LaunchSquad, +1-415-625-8555, or thesquad@launchsquad.com, or Jay
Nichols of Sterling Communications, +1-408-395-5500, or
jnichols@sterlingpr.com, all for BigFix, Inc.; or Joe Repetti of
eEye Digital Security, +1-949-349-9062, ext. 243, or
press@eeye.com
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