Altiris, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRS), a pioneer of service-oriented management solutions, today announced the new Altiris® Endpoint Security Solution™ software to help IT organizations provide an effective balance between security and business productivity. Endpoint Security Solution provides easy to manage protection of a company’s vulnerable computers and valuable data.
Data theft and loss, hackers, vulnerable wireless usage, harmful applications and compromised security systems are costing businesses and their customers millions of dollars in damages every year. Until now, the industry has lacked client security solutions that are integrated, easy to manage and easy to use.
According to Forrester Research*, “Firms’ current approach to client security isn’t working — and they know it. Why? Because their users are increasingly mobile and can easily bypass the network perimeter, which exposes the core to malicious code and information theft. Consequently, organizations must lock down their devices and data. However, companies can’t operate efficiently with computing environments that resemble data prisons. Therefore, security managers need to shed the old processes that are based purely on protection from malicious code.”**
Dwain Kinghorn, Altiris CTO, said, “Large scale data theft and loss is very common in today's information intensive society. Numerous businesses and government agencies have suffered security breaches resulting in data theft that might have been prevented if endpoint security protocols were in place. Typical perimeter defenses are no longer enough to protect businesses from new threats, making a layered approach to security necessary. Altiris Endpoint Security Solution will be integrated with the Altiris architecture and configuration management database to provide a cohesive, multi-faceted solution to help protect data and enhance business security and productivity.”
Altiris is engaged in a strategic relationship with Senforce Technologies* to provide Endpoint Security Solution with the Altiris service-oriented management architecture. Senforce has integrated its location-aware endpoint security capabilities to be natively manageable from the Altiris console.
“Senforce has worked closely with Altiris during the past year to provide Altiris customers with vital endpoint security capabilities,” said Nolan Rosen, Senforce VP of marketing and business development. “Configuration management and security practices within IT organizations are naturally converging. The integration of Altiris and Senforce technologies will help customers strike the right balance between security and business productivity through an integrated, easy-to-manage approach to endpoint security.”
Endpoint Security Solution automates the enforcement of security policies that adjust to unique user environments, shields PCs from malware and hackers, and maintains and supports established security policies and technologies. Endpoint Security Solution delivers extended protection to the PC that is not available from typical VPN, antivirus, anti-spyware, and patch management products.
Endpoint Security Solution offers control of network connectivity, wireless communications and removable storage devices. The solution also delivers improved application integrity and a personal firewall while helping to protect against:
- data theft and loss
- insecure wireless usage
- malicious code and harmful applications executing on a system
- unauthorized port scans, denial-of-service and other protocol-based attacks
Endpoint Security Solution features will be managed through the Altiris management console and integrated with the Altiris agent. These new capabilities are a significant addition to existing Altiris audit-ready security capabilities for security configuration policy compliance, vulnerability assessment and remediation, and network quarantine.
Licensing and availability
Altiris Endpoint Security Solution will be available in Q3 2006 and is offered at an MSRP of $70 per node with volume discounts available. For more information or to contact your local Altiris sales representative, please visit www.altiris.com/sales.
About Altiris
Altiris, Inc. is a leading provider of service-oriented management software that enables IT organizations to easily manage, secure and service heterogeneous IT assets. Flexible solutions from Altiris help IT align services to drive business objectives, deliver audit-ready security, automate tasks, and reduce the cost and complexity of management. For more information, visit www.altiris.com.
Note on Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, including statements regarding the future availability and expected functionality of the Altiris Endpoint Security Solution offering and its anticipated benefits to customers and the associated market opportunity for Altiris. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, including but not limited to, delays or difficulties in product development and in bringing the solution to market, product bugs or errors, the inaccurate assessment of or changes to the market opportunity; any deterioration of Altiris’ strategic relationship with Senforce; and such other risks as identified in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2006, and from time to time in other reports filed by Altiris with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Altiris is a registered trademark of Altiris, Inc. in the U.S. and in other countries. Endpoint Security Solution is a trademark of Altiris, Inc.
* Other company names or products mentioned are or may be trademarks of their respective owners.
** Forrester Research, “Client Security: A Framework for Protection,” Natalie Lambert, June 19, 2006. |