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ArcSight: ArcSight Named Finalist for Reader Trust Award in 2009 SC Magazine Awards Program

^{Published on 2009-01-07 06:27:48, Last Modified on 2009-01-07 06:28:49 - Market Wire}
 

CUPERTINO, CA--(Marketwire - January 7, 2009) - ArcSight, Inc. (NASDAQ: [ ARST ]), a leading global provider of compliance and security management solutions that protect enterprises and government agencies, today announced it has been named a finalist in the 2009 SC Awards program for outstanding achievement in information technology (IT) security. The ArcSight SIEM Platform was named in the Best Security Incident/Event Management category of the Reader Trust Award competition, which honors best-in-class security products and services. The SIEM Platform is designed to enable businesses to meet regulatory mandates and to mitigate the ever-evolving security threat landscape by collecting and correlating user activity and event data across the enterprise so that businesses can rapidly identify, prioritize and respond to compliance violations, policy breaches, cybersecurity attacks and insider threats. The SIEM Platform includes integrated, cost-effective, audit-quality log management and packaged real-time and historical content for regulations such as PCI, SOX and FISMA, and packaged solutions for insider threat mitigation, application fraud detection, user activity monitoring, and sensitive data protection.

Winners will be chosen by a panel of readers who represent the circulation of SC Magazine. The Reader Trust Voting Panel is comprised of a cross-section of SC Magazine readership, which is comprised of large, medium and small enterprises from all major vertical markets.

"We believe that the inclusion of our products among the elite group of finalists in the SC Magazine awards reflects the value our customers receive from the ArcSight SIEM platform in safeguarding critical assets, enforcing policies, and automating regulatory compliance," said Reed Henry, senior vice president of marketing at ArcSight. "This nomination reflects our focus in successfully enabling customers to protect their business while simultaneously eliminating the manual aspects of regulatory compliance and providing a cross-organizational log management foundation."

"The ArcSight SIEM Platform is among today's most highly respected security offerings as chosen by our panel. Security is a key challenge for IT organizations and businesses worldwide, and our readers recognize that companies such as ArcSight are helping them meet their security challenges," said SC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Illena Armstrong.

The annual SC Awards have recognized security's key contributors and outstanding products for more than a decade. The industry's eminent awards program shortlists individuals, brands and products that address not only the challenges prominent today, but also the emerging threat landscape of tomorrow.

Winners of this year's SC Awards will be announced at a gala dinner and award ceremony to be held in San Francisco on April 21, 2009.

About SC Magazine

SC Magazine provides IT security professionals with in-depth and unbiased information through timely news, comprehensive analysis, cutting-edge features, contributions from thought leaders and the best, most extensive collection of product reviews in the business. By offering a consolidated view of IT security through independent product tests and well-researched editorial content that provides the contextual backdrop for how these IT security tools will address larger demands put on businesses today, SC Magazine enables IT security pros to make the right security decisions for their companies. Besides the monthly print magazine and daily website, the brand's portfolio includes the SC Awards, SC Directory, SC Magazine Newswire and the SC World Congress.

About ArcSight

ArcSight is a leading global provider of compliance and security management solutions that protect enterprises and government agencies. ArcSight helps customers comply with corporate and regulatory policy, safeguard their assets and processes and control risk. The ArcSight platform collects and correlates user activity and event data across the enterprise so that businesses can rapidly identify, prioritize and respond to compliance violations, policy breaches, cybersecurity attacks and insider threats. For more information, visit [ www.arcsight.com ]. (ARST-IR)

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