Network Products Guide Names Xceedium "Best Overall IT Company of the Year"

Xceedium was named an award finalist in multiple categories in the Network Products Guide 6th Annual 2011 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards Program including a winner for the 2011 Best Overall IT Company of the Year award and a finalist for the 2011 Hot Company award.

This is the third consecutive year that Xceedium has been honored as a Hot Company by Network Products Guide. This respected annual award recognizes Xceedium and its flagship solution – GateKeeper – for consistent achievements in the IT industry.

Xceedium Named to Everything Channel’s CRN “Need To Know” List for Security

Everything Channel’s CRN “Need To Know” list for the security market is a new monthly feature designed to highlight the key players in a growing market where Xceedium was featured among only 60 VARs and vendors.

“The Security “Need To Know” list is a comprehensive directory of the major players in the security market, making it easy for busy VARs to get in front of the right vendors and the right people in the IT security landscape,” said Kelley Damore, Vice President, Editorial Director, Everything Channel. “This list will help VARs navigate through the myriad new security companies and technologies and, ultimately, find the right opportunities to help them grow their business.”

GSN Magazine Names Xceedium "Best Network Security Product"

These awards were created by Government Security News (GSN) to salute dedicated officials and their agencies and departments at federal, state and local levels of government who have created effective and cost-efficient security programs.

They also recognize the outstanding vendors of IT and Physical Security products that have introduced innovative technologies and products that protect our nation and people 24/7.

Network Products Guide Names Xceedium “Hot Company” 

Companies that are honored with the “Hot Companies” recognition raise the bar higher for their competitors, achieve the highest customer satisfaction and strive to maintain the distinction each year.

The "Hot Companies" 2010 evaluation process assesses candidates for entrepreneurial spirit, seasoned executives with relevant experience, clear understanding of the segment of IT market they are currently active and plan to stay active, products and solutions that are positioned to take advantage of the emerging market opportunities, well developed revenue-growth model and clearly planned expansion strategies.

Network World Magazine:  “Best of Show -- RSA”

Richard Stiennon, Analyst and Contributor

“The Xceedium GateKeeper is an appliance for managing privileged users. As I point out in my insider threat tutorial administrators, DBA’s and even applications are often granted carte blanche access with little or no accountability. Tackling this problem is one of the best ways to tighten up security. As a proponent of simple security I rank Xceedium as must-have technology.”

Gartner:  “Cool Vendors In Infrastructure Protection”

John Pescatore, VP Distinguished Analyst, Gartner

"The increase in the outsourcing of IT system administration and management has created a growing demand for ways to limit and fully audit the actions of IT superusers.  OS functions and third-party, add-on software for controlling superusers' privileges have long been available, but these host-based approaches carry high costs, and aren't useful in managing control of devices such as routers and switches. The appliance-based approach to superuser privilege management works well for scenarios such as outsourcing, in which all access can be funneled through gateways."

Forrester: “Hot Companies to Watch : Q4 Update”

“With Xceedium’s product in place, companies can authenticate, compartmentalize, and contain any high-risk user — such as in-house administrators or outsourced contractors — without putting a footprint on the network, and then allow them authorized access to only selected parts of the IT infrastructure. Firms can remotely monitor the activities of high-risk users, and IT organizations can record user events and generate real-time reports to validate controls for compliance. The Xceedium GateKeeper solution is particularly valuable to IT organizations that must meet strict compliance requirements for internal IT employees or rely heavily on outsourced providers and vendors for infrastructure work.”

Red Herring: “Top 100 Global Company”

Alex Vieux, Publisher

“We were so pleased to announce Xceedium, Inc. as a Red Herring Top 100 Global Company. Xceedium has proven to be a company excelling in the IT security space, and its ripples have turned into waves. It was difficult for us to narrow down, but we are pleased to have included Xceedium in our list of promising companies. We look forward to the changes it makes to its industry in the future.

CRN: “Emerging Tech Vendor”

Robert C. Demarzo, Senior Vice President and Editorial Director at Everything Channel
"New and innovative vendor partners can help spur profitable new ideas that solution providers can use to build revenue and customer loyalty, and the CRN Emerging Tech list is where solution providers go to find these vendors.”