Independent Research Firm Names Xceedium A "Hot Company To Watch"
Analyst Report Profiles Emerging Companies And Technology Trends
Jersey City, NJ – Jan. 13, 2009 – Xceedium, Inc., the premier provider of entitlement management solutions that control high-risk users, announced today that it has been named on the Forrester Research "Hot Companies to Watch in 2008: Q4 Update" series. The Forrester report released on December 19, 2008 features interesting new vendors and important technology trends that represent the future of the technology marketplace. Companies are selected for inclusion based on comparative technological advantage, ease of implementation and size of the potential market.
According to Forrester, "In an environment where the regulatory and compliance requirements are difficult to manage, solutions like Xceedium's give security and risk management groups peace of mind that high-risk user activities are being controlled, monitored and recorded, and IT operations professionals can still efficiently meet operational goals."
The report recognizes the Xceedium GateKeeper™, a hardened appliance that centralizes and extends control of high-risk users beyond the application layer to all critical IT resources, enabling enforcement of policy, monitoring, logging, recording and comprehensive reporting of all user events for auditors. Enterprise and government clients rely on the Xceedium GateKeeper to balance implementation and validation of compliance controls with the need for operational efficiency.
"High-risk users represent 20 percent of the population but account for 80 percent of the risk, as they are highly skilled and access highly critical infrastructure," said Cheryl Traverse, CEO at Xceedium. "With increased outsourcing and the ever-growing number of reported insider attacks, auditors are demanding that companies implement and validate controls. We are honored to be recognized as a Ôhot company to watch' by Forrester Research as we continue to innovate based on our clients' needs."
