SOURCE: GuardianEdge

 

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - October 1, 2008) - GuardianEdge, a leading provider of enterprise endpoint data protection, today announced it has been positioned by industry analyst firm Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the 2008 "Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection"(1) report. The report, authored by Gartner Vice President and Distinguished Analyst John Girard, and Gartner Managing Vice President Ray Wagner, discusses the overall market for mobile data protection for notebook computers and smaller handheld devices such as PDAs and smartphones. Vendors in the space are evaluated based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute.

"Protection schemes embedded in hardware or the operating system are incomplete," notes the report. "(This) leaves plenty of room for independent software vendors to compete for years to deliver policy management across platforms."

Organizations requiring the protection of sensitive, confidential or legally-protected information select GuardianEdge because of the company's strong, practical solutions that focus on the operational issues surrounding enterprise protection of mobile data. Over the last three years, GuardianEdge has seen more than 480 percent growth as a result of the demand across vertical markets for solutions that maximize use of existing infrastructure and training investments.

"We believe GuardianEdge's position in the leaders quadrant in the 2008 Gartner Mobile Data Protection Magic Quadrant further underscores our trajectory of continued growth and achievement," said Alan Fudge, CEO of GuardianEdge. "We are the only provider focused solely on endpoint data protection for the enterprise and have more than a ten-year track record of anticipating the endpoint security needs of the largest organizations. Because of this, thousands of corporations and government agencies worldwide have standardized on GuardianEdge to protect the information assets stored on the full range of mobile devices. They recognize that the complete GuardianEdge Data Protection platform is tailored to provide the highest level of functionality and value with the most practical implementation and ease of management available."

The complete GuardianEdge Data Protection Platform delivers strong encryption and granular, policy-based access controls, centrally managed administration, and ease of deployment and management. With the industry's only native Microsoft Active Directory integration and support for Novell eDirectory, the platform allows organizations to manage endpoint data protection for all PCs from the same console for the lowest total cost ownership. It also offers proven ease of operation and does not disrupt user productivity -- allowing workers to operate their systems as they have in the past while providing the protection required for their data.

Over the last year, the GuardianEdge Data Protection Platform has been selected by organizations in a wide range of sectors including government, aerospace, health care, and financial services. Increased adoption has been further supported by the company's OEM relationship with Symantec to license the GuardianEdge Hard Disk Encryption and GuardianEdge Removable Storage solutions for Symantec Endpoint Encryption. In addition, the company augmented its current solution set with the addition of GuardianEdge Smartphone Protection, for the safeguarding of sensitive information on smartphone devices, and the GuardianEdge Altiris Connector, which builds on the Symantec Altiris Asset Management Solution to make crucial data protection controls for deployment and monitoring available directly from the Altiris Notification Server.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About GuardianEdge

GuardianEdge, the leader in enterprise endpoint data protection, offers products that protect sensitive data on end-user devices with encryption, port, device and file type controls while solving the operational issues of deployment, management, scalability, reporting, auditing and user productivity at the lowest possible total cost. Millions of users worldwide depend on the complete GuardianEdge Data Protection Platform to safeguard confidential or proprietary information, to ensure compliance with regulations for maintaining consumer privacy and to enable secure enterprise mobility. GuardianEdge reduces the cost and complexity of enterprise data security by eliminating the need for multiple point solutions and providing a common platform for enterprise-wide endpoint data protection on laptops, desktops, removable media and smartphones.

The company's award-winning endpoint data protection solutions have been deployed by leading organizations including Lockheed Martin Corporation, Hertz Corporation, Lincoln Financial Group as well as numerous agencies in the U.S. departments of Veteran Affairs, Defense, Energy, State and Education and the California Department of Healthcare Services. For additional information, please visit: www.guardianedge.com.

(1) Gartner "Mobile Data Protection Magic Quadrant" by J. Girard, et al. September 23, 2008.