BELMONT, Calif. - 20 February 2012 - Actiance
(www.actiance.com), helping organizations benefit from new forms of
communications and collaboration, today announced that it has been
shortlisted as a finalist for two categories --the Innovation
Award, and Best Security Solution, Financial Services - at the SC
Awards Europe.
Recognized as the most coveted and prestigious awards for the
European information security industry, the SC Awards Europe honors
professionals working to secure enterprises, and the vendor and
channel communities that deliver innovative security
technologies.
Actiance's Socialite platform has been voted a finalist in the
Innovation Award category, which recognizes products that have
changed current thinking in its sector and delivered new solutions
with performance and cost advantages. For the financial services
industry, Socialite has enabled organizations to empower their
users to leverage the benefits of social media while meeting their
compliance obligations.
The award for the Best Security Solution, Financial Services is
given to a product that is particularly suitable, for the unique
and highly demanding needs of the financial services sector.
Actiance's Vantage, which has been voted a finalist in the
category, delivers granular security, management, and compliance
features for unified communications (UC) and collaboration
applications, alongside industry-focused networks such as Reuters
and Bloomberg.
"Social media and collaborative tools are powerful
communications mediums that are bringing business, especially the
financial services industry, up to speed with what's happening in
our online-centric culture. We don't feel it's practical to forbid
the use of social media, and it's not possible to stem its flow, so
it's imperative that organizations are able to control features,
functionality and content posted in order to ensure security and
compliance," says David Oates, VP EMEA of Actiance. "Both of the
products named as finalists by SC Awards help the financial
services industry achieve this and we're delighted once again to be
recognized."
Actiance hopes to follow its success from last year, where the
company won both Information Security Product of the Year with
Unified Security Gateway (USG) and Best Security Solution in
Financial Services with Vantage. The winners will be announced at a
gala dinner on 24 April hosted by SC Magazine at the London Hilton,
Park Lane.
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: