News & Events: Xceedium Expands Its Global Reach
News & Events
Xceedium Expands Its Global Reach Through Partnership with Above Security
Partnership Expands Xceedium’s Reach to Over 20 Countries Across North America, Caribbean, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Jersey City, NJ – Oct. 28, 2008 – Xceedium, Inc., the premier provider of entitlement management solutions that control high-risk users, today announced that it has partnered with Above Security, a respected provider of information security solutions. Above Security will resell Xceedium products to their Fortune 500 customer base in support of the increasing demand for management and control of privileged users.
Founded in 1999, Above Security (www.abovesecurity.com) is one of the largest "Information Security Only" Canadian companies. Above Security’s mission is to help its customers improve their information security posture and governance with strategic consulting and a 24 x 7 Managed Security Monitoring Solution. Through this partnership, Above Security will expand its offerings and deliver Xceedium entitlement management solutions to a variety of industries, including the Financial, Banking, Pharmaceutical, Telecommunications, and Government sectors.
"After an extensive search we found Xceedium to be the most comprehensive and mature solution to manage this class of users," said Martin Dion, CTO of Above Security. "With Xceedium, we are able to help our customers address the challenges of managing privileged user access and entitlement and cost-effectively automate regulatory compliance."
The Xceedium GateKeeper is a hardened appliance that enables remote, centralized management of high-risk user activities anywhere in the heterogeneous IT infrastructure. The solution enables users from both inside and outside the organization to securely access critical IT resources by first compartmentalizing and containing them, and then monitoring, logging, alerting, recording and reporting on all of their activities. Recently, Xceedium announced its GateKeeper 620, which provides a cost-effective way for mid-market businesses and to meet audit and compliance requirements, and securely and efficiently manage remote IT infrastructure, such as branch and remote offices.
"We are happy to announce this partnership in order to support our rapid growth, add value to the Above Security portfolio and generate additional mutual opportunities," said Cheryl Traverse, president and CEO of Xceedium. "As we expand worldwide, it is important to establish relationships with the most successful channel professionals in the industry, and we are confident that Above Security will help us achieve the global reach and growth we strive for."
About Xceedium, Inc.
Xceedium is the premier provider of entitlement management solutions that reduce the complexity and cost of controlling high-risk users. Employing unique and patent-pending technologies, the Xceedium GateKeeper™ line of hardened appliances enables companies to actively manage high-risk users by automating compliance reporting, managing outsourcing risk, providing secure and efficient access to remote infrastructure and controlling vendor access.
Xceedium solutions have gained wide acceptance in both the private and public sector, due largely to leading technologies specifically developed to address increased outsourcing and strict compliance regulations. Xceedium GateKeeper is deployed in the largest enterprise and government IT environments, as well as in branch offices, SMBs, departments and managed service providers. An ever-expanding client base includes household names in financial services, retail, healthcare, managed IT services and other key verticals, as well as strong representation across a wide spectrum of U.S. government and military IT facilities.
Xceedium is headquartered in Jersey City, N.J. For more information, visit www.xceedium.com, or email to info@xceedium.com.
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