AlertEnterprise Recognized for Innovation, Vision and Leadership in IT Security, Identity Intelligence and Enterprise Access Management

Included as Cool Vendor in the Gartner 2010 Cool Vendor Report for Identity and Access Management

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AlertEnterprise, Inc., today announced that it was recognized by Gartner as one of five impactful and intriguing companies pushing the envelope of innovation in Identity and Access Management. Gartner, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, named AlertEnterprise a “Cool Vendor” in the April 14, 2010 research report, “Cool Vendors in Identity and Access Management, 2010.” AlertEnterprise is making the report available to view at their web site www.alertenterprise.com for a limited time.

“Cool Vendors in Identity and Access Management, 2010.”

AlertEnterprise delivers true prevention of fraud, theft and acts of sabotage while hiding the complexity of integration across ERP, GRC, IAM and Security applications. AlertEnterprise uncovers blended threats that exist across IT applications, Physical Access Control Systems and Industrial Controls systems. The Gartner report suggests that organizations requiring granular access and visibility to both systems and facilities, and integration with other security technologies, such as video surveillance systems, SCADA and environmental sensors, are prospects for solutions of this type. In addition to utilities, power generation, transmission and distribution, these include R&D labs, government facilities, nuclear plants, mass transportation and food and pharmaceutical processing facilities.

Most industry security experts concur that IT security, physical access security, and critical infrastructure security, all reside in silos. This is a huge challenge for timely detection of terrorist events, malicious behavior and fraudulent activity. Jasvir Gill, founder and CEO of AlertEnterprise takes this mission to heart. His previous security and compliance software company, Virsa Systems, was one of the most successful acquisitions by SAP to date and has become the SAP GRC Access and Process Controls offering, delivering application level security. “The most insidious risks are simple acts that slip between physical and logical security systems. They may not individually trigger an alert in any one system, but in combination they reveal a risk that may defy detection unless physical and logical security systems talk to each other. AlertEnterprise is focused on true prevention of any potential threat, malicious behavior, sabotage, theft, espionage and acts of terrorism,” says Jasvir.

AlertEnterprise continues to push the boundaries between Identity and Access Management (IAM) and its own roots in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC). Jasvir Gill goes on to add that, “Extending the concepts of GRC and IAM beyond just IT, into the physical access domain has allowed us to address real-world security problems including insider threat and incident management. While we continue to solve business application security problems for our enterprise customers, they also want us to secure their most critical assets as well.”

About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties or merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); and Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About AlertEnterprise

AlertEnterprise delivers next generation GRC, Identity Intelligence and Access Management software to manage security, risk and compliance for business applications; eliminate insider threat and protect from theft and sabotage. Powerful visualization enhances security and reduces access risk from complex processes like onboarding and offboarding while ensuring continuous compliance. Additionally AlertEnterprise delivers command and control dashboards for decision support to respond to incidents by requesting live surveillance video and geo-spatial mapping so that seemingly innocent events when correlated across IT, physical access control and industrial control systems can be uncovered and dealt with.