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BeyondTrust Privileged Access Management Solution Wins 2014 GSN Homeland Security Award
[December 11, 2014]

BeyondTrust Privileged Access Management Solution Wins 2014 GSN Homeland Security Award


BeyondTrust®, the security industry's only provider of context-aware solutions for privilege and vulnerability management, today announced that the company's PowerBroker for Windows has been selected as a winner by the 2014 Government Security News Homeland Security Awards Program in the category of "Best Privileged Access Management Solution." The prestigious GSN awards program honors the most outstanding technologies and innovations of homeland security solutions providers, as well as the most notable programs, projects and initiatives of government agencies at federal, state, county and municipal levels.

"BeyondTrust strives to provide the public sector with the latest solutions to protect against insider threats and those who would do harm by abusing user privileges," said Marc Maiffret, chief technology officer, BeyondTrust. "GSN's recognition of our service and product quality is a testament to our commitment to our nation's well-being."

BeyondTrust's PowerBroker for Windows mitigates insider threats via an intuitive, fast and flexible solution for privilege management and application control on physical and virtual Microsoft (News - Alert) Windows desktops and servers. It enforces least-privilege policies and limits insider attack ectors by eliminating Windows admin privileges, maintaining application access control, and logging privileged activities. PowerBroker for Windows ensures optimal worker productivity by elevating application privileges as needed, without ever having to elevate user privileges.



"It's a changing and dangerous world," said GSN CEO Adrian Courtenay, "but the winning vendor companies and government agencies in the 2014 program have once again risen to the challenge with brilliant new technologies and strategies. The GSN awards program places a high value on innovation, but that's not enough. The products, services and initiatives have to be proven to work as intended in the real world before they can be recognized by GSN."

About Government Security News


The print and online editions of GSN are the standard of editorial quality in the homeland security field and a rich source of news, analysis, interviews, new products and technologies in all aspects of homeland security, from access control and airport security to biometrics, border protection, disaster recovery, emergency preparedness, IT security, maritime and port security, rail security, security services, state and local governments and urban security.

About BeyondTrust

BeyondTrust empowers security-conscious organizations with Context-Aware (News - Alert) Security Intelligence, delivering Privileged Account Management and Vulnerability Management solutions that reduce IT security risks and simplify compliance reporting across heterogeneous IT environments.

Our customers not only mitigate user-based risks arising from misuse of system or device privileges, but also identify and remediate asset vulnerabilities targeted by cyber-attacks. As a result, they address both internal and external threats, while making every device - physical, virtual, mobile and cloud - as secure as possible. BeyondTrust solutions are unified under the BeyondInsight IT Risk Management Platform, which provides IT and security teams a single, contextual lens through which to view user and asset risk.

More than half of the companies listed on the Dow Jones Industrial Average rely on BeyondTrust to secure their enterprises. Customers include 8 of the world's 10 largest banks, 8 of the world's 10 largest aerospace and defense firms, and 7 of the 10 largest U.S. pharmaceutical companies, as well as renowned universities across the globe.

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