Acton, Mass. – Oct. 26, 2010 – eIQnetworks, Inc., the leader in unified situational awareness solutions, announced today the company has appointed Rhonda MacLean to its Board of Directors. Ms. MacLean is the founder and CEO of MacLean Risk Partners LLC, a consulting firm providing strategic security and risk advisory services. A 30-year veteran of the information technology industry, Ms. MacLean brings extensive customer experience in the financial and government sectors, areas particularly targeted for cyber attacks, cyber espionage and warfare and ID/IP theft.

“The network security landscape particularly in the financial and government sectors continues to evolve as security demands proliferate,” commented Vijay Basani, president and CEO for eIQnetworks. “The addition of Rhonda to the Board exemplifies our commitment to helping customers protect, detect and remediate an ever increasing range of threats, particularly in critical markets like government and financial services, and we are delighted to have her guidance and counsel.”

Ms. MacLean served as a global leader of information security for Barclays PLC in London and Bank of America, headquartered in Charlotte, NC. While there, she was responsible for security policies, compliance reporting, security and risk technology implementations, cyber forensics and e-discovery. She served The Boeing Company in information security and previously served on the Board of Directors for the Vontu Corporation and PGP Corporation prior to their respective acquisitions by Symantec. In 2002, she was appointed by the U.S. Treasury Secretary as the financial services sector coordinator for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security. She is the recipient of numerous awards including Network World’s one of the 50 most powerful people in technology in both 2003 and 2004, and most recently, the Executive Women’s Forum’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.

“My career experience over the last 20 years has involved managing and building complex, scalable security and compliance programs at leading financial institutions as well as the government sector,” commented Ms. MacLean. “This hands on experience has taught me how critical it is to detect security incidences early on and obtain full contextual information on any violation in a timely fashion. eIQ’s unified situational awareness platform, SecureVue®, is highly innovative technology that allows organizations to protect their IT assets more efficiently by moving from reactive to proactive security management. I look forward to helping eIQ position this game-changing platform in these critical market areas.”

Situational awareness is a quickly evolving state for any large company or government agency concerned with obtaining a complete picture of its IT security and compliance. eIQ is the first to provide a unified situational awareness approach, allowing IT staff to monitor, correlate, detect and manage security in real-time. Industry leaders like Ms. MacLean see unified situational awareness as the most aggressive way to protect the information assets of an organization.

About eIQnetworks

eIQnetworks 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. The company’s flagship solution, 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, SecureVue provides a single unified solution for many of the world’s largest enterprises in a variety of industries, such as government, financial services, energy, healthcare, utilities and retail. eIQnetworks is a privately held company headquartered in Acton, Mass. For more information, visit: http://www.eiqnetworks.com