Belmont, Calif - April 20, 2011 - Actiance, enablers of the safe
and compliant use of unified communications, collaboration and Web
2.0 announced today that it scooped two awards at the 2011 SC
Magazine Awards Europe, including the top prize of the night -
Information Security Product of the Year.
In a ceremony held at Hilton Park Lane in London, in the company
of over five hundred of the industry's top enterprises, Actiance
first took honours with Best Security Solution in Financial
Services with Vantage and then followed up by winning Information
Security Product of the Year with Unified Security Gateway
(USG).
Now entering its third decade, the SC Awards Europe are
universally recognised as the most coveted and prestigious awards
for the European information security industry. The judges for the
awards are drawn from the senior ranks of the information security
profession and include major brands from investment and retail
banks, retail groups, airlines, insurance groups, and food groups,
as well as prestigious government departments.
"Wining in both the industry and the technology categories with
two different products demonstrates the strength and breadth of our
platform and the need by organizations for a solution that is able
to provide security, management and compliance for all
collaboration and communications tools, not just point solutions,"
says Kailash Ambwani, CEO of Actiance.
Newly crowned Information Security Product of the Year, Unified
Security Gateway (USG) is the only
Secure Web Gateway to combine feature and
content controls of social networks with the monitoring,
management and security of over 4500 Web 2.0 applications, such as
instant messaging (IM) and unified communications (UC). The
Socialite module within USG enables organisations to control over
150 activity and content features within Facebook, LinkedIn and
Twitter and can moderate and archive content.
Vantage, which won Best Security
Solution in Financial Services for the second consecutive year,
provides granular security,
policy controls and compliance features for real time and UC
applications. It supports the widest variety of platforms including
Microsoft Lync, IBM Lotus Sametime and Cisco Unified Presence;
public IM, such as Windows Live and Skype; and web conferencing and
industry focused networks including Reuters, Bloomberg and
YellowJacket.
About Actiance
Actiance helps organizations manage, secure and ensure compliance
across unified communications, collaboration and Web 2.0
applications such as blogs, wikis and social networks. Actiance's
award-winning platforms are used by 9 of the top 10 US banks and
284 FINRA regulated firms globally.
The Actiance platform allows organizations to gain visibility of
applications in use, apply usage and content policies, ensure
compliance and gain valuable insights across the communications and
collaboration channels. Actiance supports all leading social
networks, unified communications and collaboration providers and IM
platforms, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, Yahoo!,
AOL, Skype, Cisco, Microsoft, Jive, and IBM.
Actiance is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more
information visit or call 888-349-3223.
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