ACTON, Mass. – October 04, 2007 – eIQnetworks^®, Inc., a global provider of next-generation security information management (SIM) solutions, today announced that a newly released benchmark report from independent industry analyst firm Aberdeen Group supports the company’s strategy for comprehensive IT risk management. eIQ’s flagship SecureVue^® solution provides end-to-end security, risk and compliance management and improves operational efficiencies through a unified platform, an approach that is increasingly being adopted by leading companies, according to Aberdeen.

The October 2007 report, Sustaining Compliance – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Security Audit, by Derek Brink, Aberdeen’s vice president and research director, IT Security, is an analysis of best-in-class organizations’ security and compliance policies, practices and results. A key finding states: “Leading vendors and solutions providers are beginning to look beyond the point product mentality, to extend their solutions as part of a higher-level “platform” or ecosystem that will contribute to operational and management efficiencies, better security, and continuous compliance.”

eIQ’s SecureVue platform extends beyond traditional SIM to collect, archive, correlate and report on log, vulnerability, configuration, asset, performance and NetFlow data. This consolidation provides a broad picture of enterprise-wide risk that enables IT teams to detect potential security threats faster, support CoBIT, ISO 17799 and NIST best practices and meet a complete range of compliance mandates, including Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry (PCI) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).

“Compliance has become a strategic business initiative for best-in-class organizations across all industries,” said Brink. “More broadly integrated systems, such as eIQ’s SecureVue, can help to more effectively sustain internal and external compliance, while reducing security risk and driving down operational costs.”

“Traditional networks consisting of multiple point solutions perpetuate the lack of collaboration between NOC, SOC and compliance groups, making it more difficult for organizations to identify overall security and compliance posture,” says Tracy Courtemanche, director of marketing at eIQnetworks. “By unifying previously disparate security and compliance information, eIQ’s SecureVue platform enables companies to shift from reactive to proactive IT risk management.”

Since launching SecureVue, eIQ has gained significant global customer traction across the U.S., Europe and Asia, including one of the world’s leading newspaper publishers, a leading U.S. stock exchange, numerous MSSP partners and over 1,000 automotive dealerships nationwide.

The Aberdeen report concludes: “Forward-looking vendors and solution providers are building out a “platform” or “ecosystem” approach, starting with a consistent architecture to facilitate integration and interoperability for collection, archival, correlation, analysis, monitoring, auditing and reporting on security- and compliance-related data. This vision is consistent with the Best-in-Class view of compliance as a strategic, sustainable program.”

The full research benchmark report, which is underwritten in part by eIQnetworks and Cisco Systems, is available for complimentary download at: www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30410941&cid=4263