News & Events: Klaus Sonnenleiter Appointed VP
News & Events
Xceedium Appoints Klaus Sonnenleiter as Vice President of Engineering
Jersey City, NJ – Aug. 20, 2008 – Xceedium, a premier provider of entitlement management solutions that control high-risk users, today announced that Klaus Sonnenleiter has been named vice president of engineering. In this role, Klaus will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of product development and quality assurance.
"Xceedium is fortunate to get an industry expert like Klaus Sonnenleiter who brings a wealth of experience in developing, deploying and managing mission-critical Internet infrastructure," said Cheryl Traverse, CEO at Xceedium. "Klaus will be instrumental in sustaining Xceedium’s technology advantage and helping to increase the efficiency of our service infrastructure."
Previously, Klaus served as vice president of engineering for Iptivia, Inc., a start-up company in the network management and service assurance space providing non-intrusive monitoring technology for the routing control plane. Prior to Iptivia, Klaus led the development group at Micromuse for six years, where under his management the Netcool/Impact product line generated close to $100 million. Micromuse was later acquired by IBM for $865 million.
"I see a tremendous opportunity for Xceedium to be the undisputed leader in the entitlement management space," said Sonnenleiter. "Xceedium is the best solution to help customers centralize and enforce entitlement policy for high-risk users while meeting compliance requirements with operational efficiency.'
About Xceedium, Inc.
Xceedium is the premier provider of entitlement management solutions that reduce the complexity and cost of controlling high-risk users.
The Xceedium Gatekeeper™ is a hardened appliance that enables companies to remotely manage the activities of high-risk users from a central point to anywhere in the heterogeneous IT infrastructure, without modification of legacy systems and with minimal implementation.
IT administrators, application developers, vendors and technical contractors can securely access critical IT resources, from both inside and outside the organization without leaving a footprint. Auditors can monitor all user events and view centralized reports for accountability and testing of controls. Enterprise and government clients rely on the Xceedium GateKeeper to balance audit and compliance requirements with the need for operational efficiency.
Using unique access methods and patent-pending technologies, Xceedium compartmentalizes and contains high-risk users, then monitors, alerts, logs, records, tracks and reports on all their activities inside the critical IT infrastructure. The GateKeeper is Citrix Ready and integrates seamlessly with existing control frameworks like Citrix, Active Directory, PKI/CAC etc. and supports PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA. GateKeeper has also achieved Common Criteria EAL3, FIPS 140-2, Level 2, and JITC PKI/CAC certifications.
Xceedium is headquartered in Jersey City, N.J. For more information, visit www.xceedium.com.
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