The world’s leading awards program for the information security industry, SC Magazine’s Global Trust Awards 2004, honors eIQnetworks’ FirewallAnalyzer? Enterprise

Acton, Mass. – April 29, 2004 – eIQnetworksO, Inc., a leading provider of security, applications and systems analytics solutions, today announced that SC Magazine, the leading publication covering the IT and computer security industry, has named FirewallAnalyzer? Enterprise the winner of the Reader Trust Award in the Best Network Security Solution category at its Global Awards 2004 ceremony. FirewallAnalyzer Enterprise, the only vendor-neutral, centralized security event management solution to deliver real-time auditing and investigative analysis of the effectiveness of network perimeter security strategies, was also named runner-up for the Reader Trust Award for Best Computer Forensics Solution category and received a certificate of commendation.

“We thank the readers of SC Magazine for choosing FirewallAnalyzer Enterprise for this prestigious award,” commented Vijay Basani, CEO of eIQnetworks. “Our victory in the Best Network Security Solution category and finalist nomination for the Best Computer Forensics Solution, cement FirewallAnalyzer Enterprise’s status as the industry’s leading security event management solution. It’s a great feeling – and an awesome responsibility – to know how much organizations are relying on FirewallAnalyzer Enterprise for valuable insight into improving their network perimeter defenses. We pledge to continue to address network administrators’ top of mind security concerns with comprehensive analysis and reporting solutions.”

With more than 900 nominations for the SC Magazine Global Awards 2004 and more than 300 individual companies participating, this is the world’s leading awards program for the information security industry. Recognizing achievement and technical excellence across 32 different product and service categories, the SC Magazine awards comprise a global program with participation from developers and users around the world. The winners in all categories were announced at a gala dinner held at the Grosvenor Hotel, Park Lane, London on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 with over 800 guests in attendance.

“The Reader Trust Awards represent the culmination of 8 months of nominations, voting, testing, reviewing and judging – the most comprehensive and stringent awards program in the industry,” commented Illena Armstrong, US editor for SC Magazine. “We congratulate eIQnetworks for this prestigious accomplishment.”

FirewallAnalyzer Enterprise automatically collects, normalizes, aggregates, correlates and analyzes the large amounts of event data generated by heterogeneous network devices, including firewalls, IDS/IPS, routers, web security appliances and proxy and anti-virus servers. With more than 400 useful reports, it provides a centralized and correlated view of attack and virus activity across the entire enterprise network and allows for easy investigative analysis to not only identify hacker activity, but also expose rogue employees violating corporate policies. The clear, consolidated view of the activity occurring across a network enables security personnel to react quickly to neutralize threats and minimize damage. If there is a security breach, administrators have the critical information they need to minimize response time and take corrective action.

For more information on the SC Magazine Global Awards, visit http://www.scawards.com/default.asp.