Catholic Charities Selects Shavlik Technologies to Improve IT Service Levels.

Search for Improved Patch Management Uncovers a Simpler, More Affordable Way to Provide Enterprise Level Service to User Community

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Shavlik Technologies, LLC, a leading automated vulnerability and security configuration management provider, today announced that Catholic Charities Brooklyn & Queens, providing quality social services to the neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens, NY for over 100 years, recently selected Shavlik NetChk([R]) Protect to simplify and automate the deployment of critical patches to over 1,000 systems distributed across 116 different locations.

As a non-profit with limited budget, Catholic Charities was relying on free tools to perform security assessments and to apply patches and updates to its servers and PCs. But with only 7 IT support specialists and the number of vendor patches and updates on the rise, Catholic Charities was finding it increasingly difficult to maintain proper IT service levels around security and availability across all of its systems. They determined that a more comprehensive security solution was required to improve service to users and keep their systems up and running and secure.

"Our needs were not being met through the use of WSUS and other free security tools. Not only were our users experiencing downtime, but after recently conducting a full system assessment we discovered that 80% of required patches and updates had not been applied to our systems," stated Frank Paterno, Chief Information Officer for Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens. "The Shavlik solution provides us with the a simpler, more streamlined way to fully assess, remediate and manage our widely distributed network with the ease of use, accuracy and completeness required to maintain full system health and availability. And it's extremely valuable to our efforts when we can call Shavlik support and immediately talk to a live person with solid security expertise."

"We are pleased that Catholic Charities Brooklyn Queens selected Shavlik NetChk Protect to reduce overall risk and support their new requirements for IT efficiency and system up time," said Chris Schwartzbauer, vice president of sales and marketing for Shavlik Technologies. "We are definitely seeing a strong growth in demand from our customers for a single solution that supports the full vulnerability management lifecycle and reduces time, cost and organizational risk through ongoing assessment, remediation and management of not only vulnerabilities but also system configurations, unapproved software, and mandated security policies."

About Shavlik NetChk Protect

Shavlik NetChk Protect provides integrated patch management and application control. The solution offers a simpler more automated approach to enterprise vulnerability management, while at the same time addressing the needs of the larger enterprise with features such as support for highly distributed environments, flexible deployment options, rich reporting capability, and up to the minute assessment data.

About Shavlik Technologies

Shavlik Technologies, LLC is the market leader in the simplification of complex enterprise network configuration, compliance and security. Shavlik's solutions support an organization's need for Active Vulnerability Management([R]) - the automated and continual process for preventing, detecting, and removing critical security threats from corporate networks while maintaining policy-driven security configurations.

Founded in 1993, Shavlik Technologies is the de facto industry standard for patch management solutions. With more than 10,000 customers worldwide, Shavlik is trusted to provide the most up-to-date security patch data and the most comprehensive discovery capability to maintain a customer's overall network security integrity. Company CEO Mark Shavlik is a founder of the patch management industry as he teamed with Microsoft in 1999 to create the patch engine for Microsoft Base Security Analyzer (MBSA). This technology is still used by an installed base of millions of users across the globe. Shavlik also licenses its technology to more than 20 leading security companies such as IBM, BMC, Symantec and iPass. Shavlik's products have won multiple awards from leading industry trade journals. For more information, contact Shavlik at www.shavlik.com or call 1-800-690-6911 or [phone].

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