ACTON, Mass., September 15, 2010 – eIQnetworks, the pioneer in The Unified Situational Awareness Solutions that fully enable

situational awareness and risk management

(SARM) across the global enterprise, announced today that it has been selected as a finalist challenger in the 2010 American Security Challenge (ASC), a joint-venture-backed annual technology contest that brings innovators and investors from around the country together to collaborate and support the best security technologies devoted to long-term national security. eIQnetworks was selected for its Unified Situational Awareness Platform, SecureVue, which is enabling leading enterprises to proactively ensure the safety of critical IT assets, control risks associated with cyber theft, cyber fraud, cyber warfare and cyber espionage and comply with industry and government regulations.

eIQnetworks SecureVue solution will be showcased Sept. 23, 2010 in the exhibit hall of the Crystal Gateway Marriott hotel in Washington D.C.

“We’re quite honored to have made it to this finalist round of the American Security Challenge,” said Vijay Basani, president and CEO, eIQnetworks. “As the market for situational awareness and risk management solutions continues to evolve due to increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, a highly mobile and web-based workforce, and ever-growing compliance regulations, organizations will increasingly depend on Unified Situational Awareness solutions such as those offered by eIQnetworks to gain real time situational awareness and clarity.”

SecureVue from eIQnetworks is the only solution currently available to provide the complete visibility and insight to ensure unified, enterprise-wide situational awareness and risk management (SARM). SARM enables companies to not only gain visibility into the many different aspects of security information - from system configuration changes, to net flow patterns, to activity on servers, workstations, security and network devices, applications, and mobile devices - but also to understand how these different types of activity affect overall security and compliance posture. With SecureVue, enterprises gain awareness into activity across the global IT infrastructure to ensure real-time identification, prioritization, and response to policy breaches, data breaches, cyber attacks and insider threats. SecureVue also enables enterprises to comply with corporate and regulatory policy, including compliance with the plethora of new industry and government regulations.

About National Security Initiative (NSI)

The National Security Initiative is a non-profit organization devoted to promoting America's long-term national security interests by uniting the power of the market to the power of American ingenuity. The principle channel is the American Security Challenge, a joint venture annual technology contest that brings innovators and investors from around the country together to collaborate and support the best security technology devoted to our country's long-term national security. Learn more about NSI at www.NationalSecurityInitiative.com and about ASC at www.AmericanSecurityChallenge.com.

About American Security Challenge (ASC)

As the largest competition and matchmaking opportunity in the nation, the American Security Challenge is the center of gravity for the critical stakeholders in the security technology market. By quickly identifying solutions to mission critical and highly visible issues, the American Security Challenge public/private partnerships are working to secure our nation's citizens, our assets and our economy.

About eIQnetworks

eIQnetworks, Inc., is a pioneer in Unified Situational Awareness solutions that combine configuration audit, next-generation SIEM, file integrity monitoring, compliance automation and investigative analysis into a single platform. SecureVue is the only platform that leverages current technology investments to aggregate, correlate and analyze all data, providing complete clarity and deep visibility into security and compliance while dramatically reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) required to achieve true enterprise-wide Situational Awareness. The company’s flagship solution, SecureVue, is in use by many of the world’s largest enterprises in a variety of industries, such as government, financial services, energy, healthcare, utilities, retail that can benefit from a single unified, solution. eIQnetworks is a privately held company headquartered in Acton, Mass. More information can be found at www.eIQnetworks.com