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Actiance Named as Finalist in Seven Categories for Info Security’s 8th Annual Global Excellence Awards

Actiance (www.actiance.com), helping organizations benefit from new forms of communications and collaboration, today announced that their Socialite, Unified Security Gateway, and Vantage offerings have been named as finalists in seven categories, for Info Security’s Global Excellence Awards.

Belmont, CA -February 8 2012- Actiance (www.actiance.com), helping organizations benefit from new forms of communications and collaboration, today announced that their Socialite, Unified Security Gateway, and Vantage offerings have been named as finalists in seven categories, for Info Security's Global Excellence Awards.

Hosted by Info Security Products Guide, one of the leading titles for IT decision makers committed to staying informed of security threats and preventative measures they can take, the awards recognize and honor excellence in all areas of information security. Actiance solutions are named finalists in categories including: Innovation in Compliance, Most Innovative Security Product of the Year (Software), Security Products and Solutions for Enterprise Innovation in Compliance.

  • Socialite helps organizations protect their brand and ensure compliance while allowing employees to share relevant content, measure impact, and increase engagement. It provides granular control of not only websites and applications but also the content posted to blogs, wikis, webmail, and social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
  • 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 Web 2.0 applications. Thus, applications like instant messaging can be safely accessed via URL filtering, anti-malware, and Web anti-virus solutions.
  • Vantage is the leading solution for granular security, management, and compliance features for unified communications (UC) and collaboration applications. These applications include Microsoft Lync Server, Office Communications Server (OCS), IBM Sametime, IBM Connections, Cisco Unified Presence (CUP), public instant messaging (IM) platforms, and industry-focused networks such as Reuters and Bloomberg.

The Actiance platform allows organizations to gain visibility of applications in use, apply usage and content policies, ensure compliance, and gain valuable insights across communications and collaboration channels. Through monitoring, moderation, archiving, and content distribution features, Actiance enables organizations to fully maximize their social media initiatives, without compromising security and compliance requirements.

"Our vision at Actiance is to provide a single platform to manage and secure all your communications and collaboration solutions," says Sarah Carter, VP of Marketing.  "That three of the products making up the core of our platform are short-listed for a total of seven awards, shows not just the market-leading capabilities that we have, but how well recognized and utilized the platform is."

Carter explains that the security industry has changed, with organizations looking to consolidate their management of communications and collaboration into a single platform with respect to how communications mediums are evolving.

"Today's use of communications and collaboration technologies is vastly different to what it was even twelve months ago. Securing those communications is a daily challenge for most organizations.  The Actiance platform is designed with real-time in mind, taking care to address changing communications requirements, and ensuring that security and compliance are handled as a matter of course."

An independent panel of technology industry experts will be judging the finalist entries. Winners will be announced at the Awards Dinner, February 29, 2012 in San Francisco, CA.

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.

PR Contact Information:

Sarah Carter
VP, Actiance, Inc.
650-631-6452
scarter@actiance.com
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actiance@lewispr.com
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