Sourcefire Positioned in Leaders Quadrant for Intrusion Prevention System Appliance Magic Quadrant

April 22, 2009 - PRLog -- Open source innovator and Snort® creator, Sourcefire®, Inc. , a leader in Enterprise Threat Management, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned the company in the Leaders Quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Network Intrusion Prevention System Appliances"1 report. The Magic Quadrant evaluates vendors based on their vision and ability to execute and positions them in one of the following quadrants: Leaders, Visionaries, Challengers or Niche Players.

"Sourcefire is committed to providing our customers with network security solutions that protect them from today’s dynamic threats and address their real-world business requirements, and we are proud to be recognized in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner’s Network Intrusion Prevention Magic Quadrant Report,” said John Burris, CEO of Sourcefire. “Our team is driven to lead the industry with innovative and adaptive solutions that protect our customers virtual and physical systems.”

To access a copy of the full report, compliments of Sourcefire, please visit http://www.sourcefire.com/resources/gartner_MQ_acc....

Sourcefire is continually evolving its intrusion prevention system (http://www.sourcefire.com/solutions/etm/ips) offerings to address the real-world needs of small and large enterprises. For small enterprises, Sourcefire introduced the DC500 and for larger enterprises the company extended its offerings for securing 10G networks in the last 12 months. The company also introduced the Sourcefire 3D® System 4.8, enabling customers to improve the effectiveness and precision of their IPS, using knowledge of the assets they are protecting. The company also delivered the industry's first Adaptive IPS and provided customers with the ability to leverage Sourcefire 3D as a single solution for identifying and protecting both physical systems and virtual machines in real-time as they are added to the network. These innovations demonstrate Sourcefire's dedication to providing dynamic security technologies that uniquely address today's threats.

According to Gartner: “Leaders demonstrate balanced progress and effort on all execution and vision categories. Their actions raise the competitive bar for all products in the market, and they can change the course of the industry. To remain leaders, vendors must have demonstrated a track record of delivering successfully in enterprise IPS deployments and in winning competitive assessments. Leaders produce products that provide high signature quality and low latency, are innovating with or ahead of customer challenges (such as using endpoint intelligence to make more-efficient detection), and have a range of models. Leaders consistently win selections and are consistently visible on enterprise shortlists. However, a leading vendor is not a default choice for every buyer, and clients should not assume that they must buy only from vendors in the Leaders quadrant.”

Sourcefire is consistently recognized for its innovation and industry leadership with more than 40 awards and accolades to date. Most recently, Sourcefire was named to the Deloitte Fast 500 list, recognizing the company’s growth over the last five years. In addition, Martin Roesch was named one of eWeek’s Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, and Snort was named “Best Network Security” by the SC Magazine awards 2008 Europe. To view Sourcefire's awards, go to http://www.sourcefire.com/news/awards/

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted April 14, 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Sourcefire

Sourcefire, Inc. , Snort creator and open source innovator, is a world leader in Enterprise Threat Management (ETM) solutions. Sourcefire is transforming the way Global 2000 organizations and government agencies manage and minimize network security risks with its 3D Approach – Discover, Determine, Defend – to securing real networks. This ETM approach equips customers with an efficient and effective layered security defense – protecting network assets before, during and after an attack. Through the years, Sourcefire has been consistently recognized for its innovation and industry leadership by customers, media and industry analysts alike – with more than 40 awards and accolades. Today, the names Sourcefire and founder Martin Roesch have grown synonymous with innovation and network security intelligence. For more information about Sourcefire, please visit http://www.sourcefire.com.

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1 Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Network Intrusion Prevention System Appliances” by Greg Young and John Pescatore. April 14, 2009 (G00167303)