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BigFix Wins 2007 eWEEK Excellence Award.


BigFix Platform Named Winner in Vulnerability Assessment A Department of Defense, command, or unit-level evaluation (assessment) to determine the vulnerability of a terrorist attack against an installation, unit, exercise, port, ship, residence, facility, or other site.  and Remediation Category

EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- BigFix[R] Inc., the only converged IT security and operations platform that enables real-time visibility and control of globally distributed desktop, mobile and server computers, today announced that eWEEK has selected BigFix as the winner of the 2007 eWEEK Excellence Award in vulnerability assessment and remediation. BigFix was recognized from a field of more than 800 entries for product excellence and industry-leading innovation.

"BigFix continues to win reviews, awards, and new customers because our technology is 180 degrees different from parts and pieces legacy solutions," said Dave Robbins, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  at BigFix. "Legacy point tools and frameworks can't solve the problems they need to solve for today's global enterprise because they were built to work in yesterday's static, predictable, client-server networks. BigFix rescues IT organizations from massive investments in new hardware, bloatware Software that is so overloaded with functionality that its performance suffers. At the very least, it takes a long time to load the program. Software vendors have the perception that more is always better, or at least more marketable. See software bloat.  software, and intrusive in·tru·sive  
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 endpoint agents. Only the BigFix Platform delivers real-time visibility and control of all your computers anywhere, any time, and this award provides further validation."

"The Excellence Awards program allows us to make recommendations about the strongest security products, such as BigFix, that respond to the complex and dynamic demands that eWEEK readers are facing," said eWEEK Editorial Director Eric Lundquist. "Opportunities are being created by new technology and by customers' interest in new ways of using that technology."

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 eWEEK, BigFix impressed the judges "...with its knack for enabling real-time visibility into and management of desktop, mobile and server computers within an organization via a single infrastructure and single-agent architecture under a single console. It provides automation and optimization optimization

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 of IT operations, IT security, and compliance and audit."

BigFix uniquely enables IT to master increasingly dangerous threat environments, as well as crucial compliance and operations initiatives. The BigFix Platform provides the framework for large-scale enterprises to automate and optimize computer security and management, and also enables IT departments to leverage existing investments in applications, operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , and point tools.

eWEEK added: "BigFix also enables real-time control Real-time control is a popular term for a certain class of digital controllers. For effective digital control, it is critical that sample time be constant. Real-time control achieves nearly constant sample time. See also
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 of IT resource compliance reporting, system configuration, desktop system power management, anti-spyware and anti-virus functionality, endpoint client management, inventory, and software license management. Network access control and quarantine quarantine (kwŏr`əntēn), isolation of persons, animals, places, and effects that carry or are suspected of harboring communicable disease. , asset discovery and inventory, security policy enforcement, patch management The installation of patches from a software vendor onto an organization's computers. Patching thousands of PCs and servers is a major issue. A patch should be applied to test machines first before deployment, and the testing environments must represent all the users' PCs with their unique , vulnerability management, and endpoint management over public network connections round out the feature set that BigFix has assembled."

The 2007 eWEEK Excellence Award article is in the June 25 print edition or available online: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2149556,00.asp

In addition to winning the 2007 eWEEK Excellence Award in vulnerability assessment and remediation, BigFix was named a finalist for the 2007 American Business Awards in unified security and systems management, and also garnered two 2007 SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association, Washington, DC, www.siia.net) A trade organization devoted to the health and welfare of the software and digital content industry by providing support in government relations, business development, education and intellectual property  Codie awards as best security solution and best distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing.

(2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system.
 solution. BigFix was also honored as Network World's 2007 "Best of the Tests" for remediation management, and received five stars and a "recommended" rating in SC Magazine's 2007 policy management review.

About BigFix

Founded in 1997, BigFix[R] Inc. offers the only real-time IT service delivery platform that automates and optimizes enterprise computer security and management. BigFix enables large-scale enterprises to continuously enforce IT security, IT policy compliance, and systems management on all computers, anytime, anywhere. Designed for highly distributed and complex IT infrastructures, BigFix delivers real-time endpoint visibility and control through its single-agent, multi-function, on-demand architecture. Its award-winning technology is proven in production at more than 600 companies, government agencies and public sector institutions worldwide, and currently manages over 7,000,000 desktop and mobile clients, workstations, and servers. More information can be found at www.bigfix.com.

About eWEEK

eWEEK is the essential technology information source for builders of enterprise infrastructure. eWEEK enables readers to successfully evaluate, deploy and leverage new technology solutions for competitive advantage. The publication delivers to its readers breaking news, technology evaluations, and strategic analysis on the technologies, platforms, and trends that impact enterprise-wide computing computing - computer . eWEEK reaches 400,100 enterprise technology buyers who are evaluating and purchasing technology solutions for their company. eWEEK delivers news, analysis and technology reviews in print weekly and on a daily basis on the Web.

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