SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 05/01/15 — PFU Systems Inc., a Fujitsu company and provider of network access control and security technology, took home three top awards at the recent 2015 Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Awards held in San Francisco during the security industry–s annual RSA Conference.
PFU Systems iNetSec SmartFinder won Gold for Best Security Products and Solutions for Canada, Gold for Best Security Products and Solutions for Healthcare, and Silver for Best Security Products and Solutions for Education.
iNetSec Smart Finder is the first comprehensive, easily-deployable endpoint visibility and network access solution integrating layer 7 application management and behavioral detection of advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks to automatically detect and immediately block malware spread and command-and-control driven attacks designed to steal data from today–s networks.
“It–s well known that intentional, as well as unintentional, internal network threats and APT targeted attacks represent the greatest threat to the security of networks and data security,” explained Carmine Clementelli, network security product evangelist for PFU Systems. “We–re honored to receive both the Global Excellence Award and the recognition for healthcare, and educational organizations — a particularly vulnerable BYOD environment where personal devices foster learning, making the potential for –bad clicks– and malware daily realities for IT departments.”
“We–re honored that the Global Excellence judges recognized the value our solution provides to organizations to not only protect against malware but to improve their network functionality and infrastructure,” said Clementelli.
iNetSec Smart Finder was recognized as the ideal solution for protecting Canadian business networks, supported by a strong distribution partner program to reach this growing market consisting of mainly small and medium-sized enterprises, ranging from all industries including healthcare, legal and education.
iNetSec Smart Finder is also one of the top solutions that is protecting leading healthcare institutions worldwide.
“In order to secure records and networks, providers need to activate in-network security measures. Relying solely on perimeter firewall security schemes is the pinnacle of outmoded thinking. Today, advanced attacks introduced via malware such as Remote Access Trojans can disguise themselves as normal web traffic, emails or other routine communications, and then after lying dormant, seize massive amounts of patient records in seconds,” noted Clementelli.
Education organizations, from K-12 to colleges and large universities, are especially vulnerable to hackers seeking student and employee personal information, passwords, ID photos and financial data, as well as sensitive medical and scientific research and other academic data.
“Almost every student and many employees bring their own devices online, resulting in a BYOD culture in which learning thrives, but that also creates a huge cybersecurity risk,” said Clementelli.
iNetSec Smart Finder provides full endpoint visibility and access control by discovering all wired and wireless devices on the network, including smartphones, tablets, Windows and Macintosh computers, printers, routers and other IP-based peripherals. This allows IT to easily control and manage network access while applying a preventative security approach by allowing only approved devices on the network.
More than 50 judges across a broad spectrum of industry voices, from around the world, participated, and their average scores determined the 2015 Global Excellence Awards Finalists and Winners.
PFU Limited, a Fujitsu company, is a leading technology solutions provider — empowering its clients to achieve greater success through superior quality hardware, innovative software and reliable customer service.
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with engineering, manufacturing and sales facilities in Plymouth, Minnesota, PFU Systems Inc. is the U.S. operations of Japan-based PFU Limited, a $1.2 billion global enterprise that designs, develops, manufactures, sells and maintains computer hardware, imaging scanners, peripheral products, enterprise software, systems and network security solutions.
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