AXENT Premieres Its Secure Innovations Award to Recognize Customers' Innovative, Business-Savvy Security Deployments.Business/Technology Editors ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2000 Annual Award Enables AXENT Customers, Partners, and VARs to Gain Industry Recognition for their Information Security Implementations AXENT Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :AXNT), one of the world's leading e-security solutions providers for e-business, today announced that it has unveiled its Secure Innovations Award. The Award was created to identify and select customers that have deployed innovative, business-savvy information security solutions that have proven value to both their organization and their customers'. Winners of the AXENT(R) Secure Innovations Award will be honored hon·or n. 1. High respect, as that shown for special merit; esteem: the honor shown to a Nobel laureate. 2. a. Good name; reputation. b. at a special awards ceremony in Orlando, during SecureXchange(R) 2000, AXENT's user conference. "We know that our customers strive to utilize technology to its fullest - improving security in their companies, developing new and improved ways to deploy current technology, and raising the level of security awareness Security awareness is the knowledge and attitude members of an organization possess regarding the protection of the physical and, especially, information assets of that organization. in both their corporations and their customers'," said Greg Coticchia, vice president of marketing at AXENT. "With 45 of the Fortune 50, one-third of the Fortune e-50, and government agencies worldwide successfully deploying our e-security solutions, we felt that it was time to recognize those organizations that have implemented our solutions to solve their real-world problems." The criteria judges will be reviewing include: evaluation of the business challenge, implementation of secure e-business/e-commerce applications, benefits and ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). of the security solution, security policy assessment, and products used in the deployment. For more information on the Secure Innovations Program, Secure Innovations Award, or the AXENT Rewards Program, visit the company's Web site at http://www.axent.com/secureinnovations. About AXENT(R) AXENT Technologies, Inc., a global leader in information security, provides e-security solutions that maximize our customers' business advantage. AXENT delivers integrated products and expert services to assess, protect, enable and manage business processes and information assets. Through its unique Lifecycle Security(TM) methodology combined with Smart Security Architecture, AXENT delivers the "right" level of security for customers. Award-winning solutions offer assessment and policy compliance, firewall, intrusion detection See IDS and IPS. , authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. , VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. , Web-access, single sign-on An identification system that lets users log into multiple Web sites on the Internet with one username and password. Single sign-on systems are also used within an enterprise, enabling users to access all authorized resources in the local network using the same username and password. and user administration for the entire enterprise. Headquartered in Rockville, MD, AXENT's customer-proven information security solutions are used by 45 of the Fortune 50, one-third of the Fortune e-50, and governments worldwide. Contact AXENT via e-mail at info@axent.com, or visit AXENT's World Wide Web site at http://www.axent.com. AXENT, AXENT Technologies, the AXENT logo, and Lifecycle Security are trademarks or registered trademarks, in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and certain other countries, of AXENT Technologies, Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other company and product names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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