NetIQ Sentinel Wins Homeland Security Award for Best Security Incident & Event Management Solution

Dec. 5, 2012 - PRLog -- NetIQ® today announced that NetIQ Sentinel™ received the “Best Security Incident & Event Management” award in Government Security News’ 4th Annual Homeland Security Awards competition. Winners were announced at an awards gala that drew hundreds of government officials and industry executives to the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. on November 29, 2012.

“Federal agencies face specific, significant data protection challenges and require solutions that provide them with the information and intelligence needed to respond to potential threats in a quick and efficient manner,” commented Eric Forseter, executive director, Federal at NetIQ. “We are delighted that GSN chose NetIQ Sentinel as its ‘Best Security Incident & Event Management’ solution this year, in recognition of the work NetIQ does to help agencies rise to the complex security challenges stemming from an increasingly complex and ever-changing threat landscape.”

"We received an outstanding group of entries and have handed winners’ plaques to an exceptional group of companies and government agencies," said Jacob Goodwin, editor-in-chief of Government Security News.

About NetIQ Sentinel
NetIQ Sentinel delivers full-featured SIEM (real-time event analysis and log management) while eliminating the complexity other SIEM toolkits introduce to help organizations proactively manage risk, achieve greater visibility into potential threats, better control their security posture, and simplify the task of regulatory compliance. NetIQ Sentinel helps agencies automate the process of monitoring for, identifying and responding to targeted attacks, as well as helping to deliver continuous compliance reporting to meet federal mandates.

About NetIQ
NetIQ is an enterprise software company with relentless focus on customer success. We help customers cost-effectively tackle complex information protection challenges such as FISMA, USGCB, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX and NERC CIP and securely deliver and manage computing services across physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. For information on how our solutions yield reduced cost, complexity and risk, contact us.