Symark International’s PowerBroker® Wins Network Products Guide 2008 Readers Trust Award

AGOURA HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Symark International, developer of the PowerSeries™ information security solutions for managing privileged account access, today announced that PowerBroker, the industry’s most comprehensive solution for authorization and access control within heterogeneous UNIX/Linux IT environments, was named the winner in the Best in Policy Management category as part of the 2008 Best Products and Services Readers Trust Awards. This respected annual award honors products and services that represent the rapidly changing needs and interests of the end-users of technology worldwide. Symark's PowerKeeper, the industry’s leading appliance for the secure creation, control, storage and retrieval of privileged administrative account passwords, was also named a winner in the Best in Privileged Access Management category.

“It is an honor to have PowerBroker named the winner in the Best in Policy Management category,” said Bob Farber, CEO of Symark International. “Creating robust policies is an essential component to a sound security posture, and it is important that organizations also implement the right technologies to enforce these policies and log user activity for security and compliance purposes. This award further validates PowerBroker’s proven ability to help organizations maintain their growing lists of security policies as they relate to managing privileged account access, something that is particularly challenging as insider threat continues to plague enterprises in all industries.”

Symark PowerBroker is the industry’s most comprehensive solution for authorization and access control within heterogeneous UNIX/Linux data centers. It protects the root or “superuser” account from internal exploitation by rogue employees or hackers that have obtained the root account password. PowerBroker allows organizations to comply with PCI DSS, SOX, HIPAA and other regulations by enabling security managers to adhere to separation of duties and the doctrine of least privilege by granting selective access based on user defined criteria and monitoring that access, while safeguarding the root account and controlling access to applications/commands, directories/files and permissions.

“Increased end-user awareness and ongoing advances in technology are helping shape better products and services,” said Rake Narang, editor-in-chief, Network Products Guide. “Symark’s PowerBroker not only bolsters an organization’s security and compliance efforts by cost-effectively managing administrator access, but it promotes operational efficiency by automating policy enforcement across large heterogeneous IT environments. This combination is very appealing to IT and security managers, making PowerBroker a logical choice for the winner of the Best in Policy Management category.”

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About Symark International

Symark International is the leading provider of systems access management solutions for heterogeneous IT environments. Symark PowerBroker® enables granular delegation of administrative privileges while restricting UNIX/Linux root account access. Symark PowerPassword® provides UNIX/Linux user account management along with login and password security policies. Symark PowerKeeper® controls access to shared administrative accounts for servers, applications, and network devices for multiple platforms. Symark PowerADvantage® extends Microsoft® Active Directory’s centralized authentication, authorization, account access, policy enforcement and infrastructure management functionality to UNIX and Linux systems. All products offer a non-intrusive architecture, central administration, accountability at the systems level and detailed audit logs. Symark offers extensive expertise in enterprise computing security, and its products are backed by unmatched technical support. For more information, visit us at www.symark.com.