Acton, Mass. – Jan. 19, 2011 – eIQnetworks, Inc., a leading provider of unified situational awareness solutions, today announced the availability of a new eIQnetworks-sponsored white paper, “Unified and Automated Situational Awareness” written by Charles J. Kolodgy, research vice president for IDC's Security Products Service. In the paper, IDC provides validation for why organizations need a more efficient way of gaining IT visibility across seemingly endless silos of security and compliance data and identifies key elements for building a sound situational awareness program. IDC is a leading provider of global IT research and advice.

The white paper addresses the following key points:

• Information security is becoming increasingly difficult to manage as cyber security targets are growing
• The impact of sanctions for noncompliance is rapidly increasing
• Organizations need real-time, broad-based visibility across all security and compliance data
• Traditional security point products cannot provide this required visibility

The paper highlights eIQ’s SecureVue^®, a leading unified situational awareness platform, to address these critical security and compliance issues. SecureVue analyzes, correlates and reports on all security data including a complete collection of logs, network flow, configuration data, asset data, performance metrics, vulnerabilities, file integrity information and more. The white paper concludes with the recommendation for enterprises to investigate eIQnetworks’ SecureVue for complete visibility into the IT environment and a clear understanding of security and compliance posture.

“[This white paper] highlights the growing IT challenges of collecting, correlating and reporting on the vast amounts of information required to improve cyber security and maintain compliance with various regulations and policies,” wrote Charles J.Kolodgy,research vice president at IDC. “By unifying the collection, normalization and analysis of all enterprise infrastructure systems into one comprehensive security and compliance solution,eIQnetworks has taken a huge step forward in providing enterprise IT with a comprehensive, real-time 360-degree view of its IT infrastructure,security and compliance state.”

For more information and to download the white paper, visit:
http://www.eiqnetworks.com/resources/Unified_Situational_Awareness.php

About eIQnetworks

eIQnetworks delivers unified situational awareness solutions for the largest enterprises around the world, including government, financial, telecommunications, retail and healthcare. The company’s flagship solution, SecureVue®, is the only platform to provide a more accurate, in-depth view of an organization’s security position via a single console through comprehensive, real-time security monitoring, compliance automation, configuration auditing and forensic analysis. Vital to the protection of an organization’s infrastructure, the company’s solutions proactively protect against cyber attacks, detect breaches and policy violations and respond to incidents and security controls. eIQnetworks is a privately held company headquartered in Acton, Mass. For more information, visit: http://www.eiqnetworks.com.