British Columbia School District 67 Selects AppSense to Optimize Security and Productivity for Citrix Servers, Desktop and Notebook Environments.

AppSense Optimized Citrix Servers, also Eliminated Inside-the-Firewall Security Breaches and Improved End-User Productivity

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- AppSense, a leader in endpoint security for the enterprise, announced today at the Citrix iForum Conference that British Columbia's most technologically advanced School District has selected AppSense's security and performance solutions to eliminate the threat of malware while optimizing network performance and end-user productivity for its 8,300 students and staff.

A pioneer in applying advanced technologies, BC School District 67 (Okanagan Skaha), serving Penticon and Summerland, is using AppSense to protect and improve uptime. The School Districts environment consists of 2,000 desktops, 350 Citrix-based Terminal Servers and 300 laptops spread across three high schools, four middle schools and 10 elementary schools.

"Endpoint security is critical, but it can't be a one-size-fits-all solution where end-users are so restricted that they can't do their work, or so free that their actions impact others. It's a challenging balancing act. AppSense helps us achieve this balance through proactive protection, flexible policies and deep granularity," said Danny Francisco, IT Manager, BC School District 67. "For instance, with AppSense's device management capabilities we can let individuals use USB devices, but we also control what software they can execute. And with its user self-authorization feature we can give particular users more freedom to download applications. AppSense has transformed the way we manage IT security."

Today, School District 67 leverages the capabilities of AppSense Application Manager and Performance Manager to:

* Eliminate inside-the-firewall security breaches. AppSense enabled School District 67 to eliminate the chances of unintentionalCoand intentionalCobreaches, from both within and outside the firewall. Only authorized applications can run on the infrastructure. As a result, IT no longer has to re-image clients as often for security purposes. They now do so only once a year as part of their maintenance.

* Balance security with end-user productivity. With AppSense, BC School District 67 achieves the high levels of security it requires. It does not choke off end-user productivity; in fact, it enables users to work even more productively:

             -- USB device control. AppSense enables IT to restrict
                applications on USB drives, which is critical, as
                Francisco said, "because everyone uses them."

             -- Self-authorization aids teacher productivity. In the
                past, if a teacher wanted to run software that IT had
                not already authorized, it often took 2-3 weeks before
                they received the approved workorder to run the
                application. Now with AppSense's self-authorization
                capabilities, the system automatically notifies the
                teacher that they're about to run something that has
                not been approved, and asks them if they want to
                continue running that application. As a result,
                teachers no longer have to wait to get access to
                applications they need to do their jobs.

* Centralize management for Citrix servers, desktops and laptops. AppSense's ability to easily work across all client environments is a tremendous advantage for School District 67. AppSense intuitively utilizes rules and memberships, and deploys settings and security patches to all clients under one unified interface, making it highly scalable. In addition, AppSense is a perfect solution for the district's 300 laptops because AppSense security settings are cached locally, making them easier to enforce, and laptops always get the newest policies when they reconnect to the network.

* Enhance terminal services and desktop performance. School District 67 uses AppSense Performance Manager in its Citrix environment to increase user load/server and to clamp down the amount of CPU used by processor-intensive applications, resulting in a more stable and well-performing Citrix build.

The School District is also piloting AppSense Environment Manager, which will enable IT to manage and control what users can see and do on the School District's systems, such as which applications they see when they log in, their interactions with critical files like registry keys, or other processes or services, reducing the possibility of corruption even further. It will also enable the system to self-heal back to a pre-determined state if and when needed.

"We're thrilled the BC School District, which is renown for its use of innovative technologies, is relying on AppSense to ensure a much more secure and productive IT infrastructure," said Charles Sharland, CEO, AppSense.

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