Acton, Mass. – November 29, 2005 – eIQnetworks™, Inc. (www.eIQnetworks.com), a global provider of comprehensive Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Operations Management (SOM) solutions for the enterprise, today announced that RKON Technologies, a specialist in information security, business continuity, and risk management solutions, has standardized on eIQ Enterprise Security Analyzer and has achieved Platinum Partner status in the Company’s “eIQ Advantage MSSP Partner Program.” As a result of this partnership, RKON Technologies will deploy tailored, comprehensive Security Operations Management solutions for its clients based on eIQnetworks Enterprise Security Analyzer (ESA). RKON will deliver cost effective outsourced SIEM and security operations services to customers of all sizes and industries.

RKON Technologies has earned a reputation for delivering practical security solutions that are business driven and cost effective, with a philosophy to advise business leaders on the threats facing their organization, the likelihood and consequences of those threats, and the costs and effectiveness of possible remedies. eIQnetworks’ ESA is built on a distributed enterprise class architecture that effectively scales to thousands of networked devices and hosts, and supports both a stand-alone deployment for smaller networks and a distributed deployment for large enterprise installations. Additionally, ESA delivers an industry-unique approach to topology and threat visualization, monitoring and correlated alerting, extensive reporting, log management, forensic analysis and performance / asset management – all in a single platform. These attributes enable RKON to effectively deliver on their philosophy.

“eIQnetworks commands an impressive understanding of the MSSP business model, from attention to our requirements throughout the organization to the impressive, unique approach to security operations management technology innovations,” said John McCreary, vice president of Managed Services for RKON Technologies. “It is our mission to provide our clients with sage advice and powerful solutions to fend off the threats they face everyday to the enterprise IT infrastructure. eIQnetworks has proven itself as a valuable partner, providing us with the caliber of security operations management solutions and services to exceed our clients’ expectations.”

“RKON Technologies has a very compelling value proposition, combining high caliber consulting services with gold-standard technologies to identify risk and provide comprehensive security management services to help their customers protect their valuable IT assets. Enterprise Security Analyzer was designed with leaders like RKON in mind,” said Vijay Basani, chief executive officer of eIQnetworks. “Our solutions help our customers get ahead of the security threat curve, enabling them to build a proactive, pre-emptive enterprise wide security intelligence layer across multiple regions. RKON shares that vision and is partnering with us to ensure that businesses of all sizes, in all markets move beyond the security status quo and achieve a firm grasp on their enterprise security posture.”

Enterprise Security Analyzer: Delivers essential ‘Security Intelligence Layer’
With ESA enterprise customers, outsourced security services providers and MSSPs can seamlessly build a comprehensive security intelligence layers across large networked environments to get a clear and precise understanding of their overall IT security posture. ESA introduces a portfolio of advanced security intelligence capabilities, including:

• Security Topology and Threat Visualization: Comprehensive security topology visualization provides immediate insight into overall IT security posture by mapping security events & threats on a network topology;

• Real-time Heterogeneous Monitoring: Monitors security event data across the entire network of security devices and hosts in real-time allowing for corrective action before it becomes a system wide problem;

• Correlated Alerting: Template-driven alert correlation allows creation and definition of any number of rules and alerts to reduce false positives, identify blended attacks and security breaches or identify patterns and anomalies;

• Monitoring and Reporting Portals: Out-of-the-box monitoring and reporting portals allow MSSPs to provide access to customers based on their role or SLA:

• Vulnerability Reporting: MSSPs can deliver periodic vulnerability reports to their customers;

• Forensics and Investigative Analysis: Provides the ability search through hundreds of gigabytes of archived and current log data to find root cause of security breaches and intrusions.
  

About RKON Technologies
RKON Technologies specializes in information security, business continuity, and risk management solutions. RKON aligns its clients’ security spending with their customer’s level of risk to protect their enterprises and help them seize new business opportunities. RKON delivers practical security solutions that are business driven and cost effective. RKON advises business leaders on the threats facing their organization, the likelihood and consequences of those threats, and the costs and effectiveness of possible remedies, empowering them to make decisions based on acceptable risk. RKON transforms these decisions into an actionable security framework that comprises design, implementation, support and monitoring services. Since RKON’s inception in 1998, passion and integrity have characterized its customer relationships. This has earned RKON client loyalty, consistent profitability and a significant competitive advantage. RKON is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and retains several of the Fortune 500 companies as clients. For additional information, visit www.rkon.com or call 312-654-0300.

About eIQnetworks
Founded in 2001, eIQnetworks is an award-winning provider of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions. eIQnetworks delivers the industry’s most comprehensive and cost-effective solutions for security professionals who require real-time security intelligence for identifying, understanding and pre-empting hacker and virus behavior and security threats, all while meeting stringent federal compliance requirements. The Company’s products are used in more than 50 countries around the world and are currently deployed in over 1000 companies and government agencies, including Casio, Hess, Sprint, Avaya, MCI, Malaysia Telecom, Fujitsu, Unisys, Fiberlink, Boston.com, FCC, US Army, US Navy, Wachovia, Citibank, HP, ADP, Bertelsmann, UBS, KPMG and many more. eIQnetworks’ solutions are available worldwide through an extensive, global distributor network. For additional information, visit  www.eIQnetworks.com or call 1-877-LOGS R US.

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