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AlertEnterprise Wins Most Innovative Company Award at RSA Conference 2009
Company vision of physical, logical and control system security validated by top spot in competition

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 20, 2009 - AlertEnterprise™a pioneer in the area of security convergence for physical and logical security, won the hotly contested RSA Conference 2009 Innovation Sandbox and secured the top spot as Most Innovative Company at the RSA Conference 2009 being held in San Francisco. Nine other startup security companies presented to a panel of judges made up of security industry experts selected by the conference.

AlertEnterprise is bridging the single most overlooked gap in enterprise security - the true prevention and detection of cross-enterprise threats by linking physical access and IT security to ensure compliance with regulations and standards. AlertEnterprise delivers unprecedented capabilities to visualize previously undetectable threats and assists managers in remediating security risk across the enterprise.

The RSA Innovation Sandbox started out with fifty contestants being evaluated by an online community. The top 10 finalists got to demonstrate their products in an open forum and then make a three minute pitch to the judges in order, describing the business value, the problem they were solving and articulating the impact they would make in the market. AlertEnterprise led on all counts.

Most industry security experts are generally aware that physical access security, IT 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 startup Virsa Systems was one of the most successful acquisitions by SAP to date and has became the heart of the SAP GRC 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 create a risk that may defy detection unless your physical and logical security systems talk to each other," says Jasvir.

The AlertEnterprise software products work with existing enterprise systems and physical access control systems delivering incremental return on investments in applications like ERP systems, IT security automation solutions and critical infrastructure management solutions for energy management, oil and gas, chemicals processing and mass transport. Jasvir goes on to add, "Today's win validates our belief that customers are ready to evolve to the next stage of security - the convergence of physical and logical security". Furthermore, "AlertEnterprise delivers unique and innovative solutions that discover blended threat patterns already present in existing systems. It stitches together a fabric that completes the picture on risks that were previously undetectable and automates the process of remediating those risks. This puts us way ahead of solutions just looking at conventional security."

About AlertEnterprise

AlertEnterprise provides the only complete solution for role-based, rules-driven access enforcement. AlertEnterprise addresses blended risk assessment and security across all logical systems, IT applications, databases, and physical systems from a single analytic dashboard, complete with auto-remediation capabilities. Additionally, AlertEnterprise delivers visual risk and event monitoring, alerting, mitigation, and analytics displayed on a geospatial map. AlertEnterprise is headquartered in Fremont, CA and on the web at www.alertenterprise.com