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Aberdeen Compliance Benchmark Report Further Validates eIQnetworks' Strategy for Comprehensive IT Risk Management

(Oct 04, 2007)-- eIQnetworks, provider of next-generation security information management (SIM) solutions, announced that a newly released benchmark report from independent industry analyst firm Aberdeen Group supports the company's strategy for comprehensive IT risk management. eIQ's flagship SecureVue
solution provides end-to-end security, risk and compliance management and improves operational efficiencies through a unified platform, an approach that is increasingly being adopted by leading companies, according to Aberdeen.

The October 2007 report, Sustaining Compliance -- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Security Audit, by Derek Brink, Aberdeen's vice president and research director, IT Security, is an analysis of
best-in-class organizations' security and compliance policies, practices and results. A key finding states: "Leading vendors and solutions providers are beginning to look beyond the point product mentality, to extend their solutions as part of a higher-level "platform" or ecosystem that will contribute to operational and management efficiencies, better security, and continuous compliance."

eIQ's SecureVue platform extends beyond traditional SIM to collect, archive, correlate and report on log, vulnerability, configuration, asset, performance and NetFlow data. This consolidation provides a broad picture
of enterprise-wide risk that enables IT teams to detect potential security threats faster, support CoBIT, ISO 17799 and NIST best practices and meet a complete range of compliance mandates, including Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry (PCI) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).

"Compliance has become a strategic business initiative for best-in-class organizations across all industries," said Brink. "More broadly integrated systems, such as eIQ's SecureVue, can help to more effectively sustain internal and external compliance, while reducing security risk and driving down operational costs."

The Aberdeen report concludes: "Forward-looking vendors and solution providers are building out a "platform" or "ecosystem" approach, starting with a consistent architecture to facilitate integration and interoperability for collection, archival, correlation, analysis, monitoring, auditing and reporting on security -- and compliance-related data. This vision is consistent with the Best-in-Class view of compliance as a strategic, sustainable program."

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