AppSense Presents New Endpoint Security Approach at Gartner IT Security Symposium.

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- AppSense CTO to Discuss New Approaches for Solving Problems Inherent in Traditional Anti-Malware Solutions

AppSense, a leader in endpoint security for the enterprise, announced today that its CTO, Mark Austin, will be a featured speaker at Gartner IT Security Symposium on June 6, 2006. Based on AppSense's successes with more than 2,000 global organizations, Austin will provide insights into how corporations can balance endpoint security with employee productivity for highly secure, flexible environments.

"It is becoming increasingly apparent that traditional anti-virus, anti-spyware and hardening solutions alone are inadequate for protecting systems against unknown threats. This inadequacy leads organizations to move towards a locked-down, 'zero-tolerance' environment, which restricts end-user productivity," said Austin. "Our customers are finding that a proactive approach that stops or contains unknown and unsanctioned applications, provides high security with the necessary flexibility required in today's business environment. Our Gartner session will explore how application containment using virtualization technology is the next step in securing the endpoint."

Desktop applications and Internet-facing applications, such as web browsers, present numerous vulnerabilities that can be easily exploited to compromise endpoint integrity. Until recently, managing this risk has been very difficult. As industry analyst Robin Bloor notes, "Signature-based AV products offer inadequate protection to their users...Software products from vendors such as AppSense can and do make computers virus-proof--and in the right way." (a)

Austin will discuss this new approach to endpoint security in his session at the Gartner IT Security Summit, "Containing Endpoint Threats - Keeping It Virtual!" He will explore how, by running unknown and unsanctioned applications in a secure sandbox and containing malicious behavior within a virtual environment, organizations will be able to ensure highly secure and productive endpoint environments.

The AppSense session at Gartner IT Security Symposium takes place on Tuesday, June 6th, 4:00-4:45 pm at the Virginia Suite at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.

About AppSense

AppSense is the leading provider of application-level endpoint security solutions for the enterprise - proactively protecting desktops, laptops, servers, virtual systems and embedded devices against all forms of malicious software and preserving end point environments in their optimal state to ensure system integrity. AppSense software secures thousands of organizations and is installed on hundreds of thousands of desktops and servers across the world in mid-to-large organizations and across many industries such as Public Sector, Finance, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare. AppSense solutions have been designed for desktops and servers which are based upon the Microsoft Windows platform and are ideal for Windows, Terminal Servers, Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Servers, Web Services and other critical business systems. AppSense operates through a world-wide channel of certified partners with offices in the US, UK, Germany, The Netherlands and Australia. For more information visit: www.appsense.com

(a) ITAnalysis.com, AVID: Shame Again, May 17, 2006