Xceedium Recognized As A "Cool Vendor" By Leading Analyst Firm
Analyst Report Profiles Innovative, Impactful and Intriguing Vendors
Jersey City, NJ – April 1, 2009 – Xceedium, Inc., the premier provider of entitlement management solutions that control high-risk users, announced today that it has been included in the "Cool Vendors in Infrastructure Protection, 2009" report by Gartner, Inc. The Gartner report released on March 16, 2009 is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services.
"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," said John Pescatore, VP Distinguished Analyst at Gartner. "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."
Xceedium's entitlement management solution helps to reduce the complexity and cost of controlling and tracking high-risk users. The Xceedium GateKeeperª is a hardened appliance that balances high levels of security controls and accountability with the ability to improve operational efficiency. Xceedium uses unique and patent-pending technologies to deliver a cost-effective model for compartmentalizing, containing and tracking this hard-to-manage user group. The company's high growth rates and blue chip commercial and government customer base is a testament to the solution's effectiveness in managing the high-risk user.
"We are honored to be listed as a 'Cool Vendor' in this Gartner report because we believe that it validates our unique position in the security market," said Cheryl Traverse, CEO at Xceedium. "As the scale of outsourcing by companies and the threat of insider attacks continue to increase, our company is experiencing double digit growth. We feel that this recognition from Gartner highlights the importance and viability of our comprehensive entitlement management solution."
About the Gartner Cool Vendor Report
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
