ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced that Info Security Products Guide, the industry’s leading information security research and advisory guide, has named its firewall log and configuration monitoring software, Firewall Analyzer, a finalist for the 2013 Global Excellence Awards in the Most Innovative Security Product (Software) category. Info Security has also named EventLog Analyzer, ManageEngine’s IT compliance and event log management software for SIEM, a finalist for the 2013 Global Excellence Awards in the Security Information/Event Management (SIEM) category.

These prestigious global awards recognize security and IT vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products and solutions that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of security and technologies. The winners will be honored in San Francisco on February 27, 2013, during the annual awards dinner and presentation for Info Security’s 9th Annual 2013 Global Product Excellence Awards.

Firewall Analyzer is agent-less log analytics and configuration change management software for network security devices. Over 3,500 organizations worldwide use Firewall Analyzer to monitor their network perimeter infrastructure in real time. Security administrators and MSSPs use Firewall Analyzer for end-point security monitoring and analysis, change management, employee Internet monitoring, bandwidth monitoring, capacity planning, policy enforcement, and security and compliance audit reporting. Firewall Analyzer is vendor-agnostic and supports most commercial and open source network firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPNs, proxies and related perimeter security devices.

“We have always believed in staying ahead of the curve both in technology adoption and product innovation,” said Ajay Kumar, product marketing manager, ManageEngine. “This recognition from Info Security Products Guide is a testament of ManageEngine’s commitment to help organizations successfully address their IT management and security challenges.”

EventLog Analyzer is award-winning SIEM software used by over 4,500 organizations worldwide to meet IT security audit and log management challenges. EventLog Analyzer lets organizations automate the entire process of managing terabytes of machine-generated logs by collecting, analyzing, searching, reporting and archiving from a central location. In turn, enterprises can mitigate internal threats, conduct log forensics, monitor privileged users and comply with HIPAA, SOX, FISMA, GLBA, PCI and other IT regulatory mandates by intelligently analyzing and reporting on enterprise systems, applications, devices and other custom log events.

“It is an honor to be selected as a finalist by Info Security Products Guide in the security information and event management category,” said Kumar. “This recognition underscores ManageEngine’s relentless drive to stay customer focused and deliver a cost-effective SIEM solution for increasingly cost-conscious enterprises.”

EventLog Analyzer and Firewall Analyzer are also finalists for the Best Deployment and Case Studies category in the USA and Asia Pacific, respectively.

For more information on Firewall Analyzer, please visit www.fwanalyzer.com and for EventLog Analyzer, visit www.eventloganalyzer.com. For more information on ManageEngine, please visit http://www.manageengine.com; follow the company blog at http://blogs.manageengine.com, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ManageEngine and on Twitter at @ManageEngine.

Related ManageEngine Resources

Firewall Analyzer

• Online demo: http://demo.fwanalyzer.com/
• Support and User Forums: http://ow.ly/9I7Rp
• Customers: http://ow.ly/9I7T8

EventLog Analyzer

• Online demo: http://demo.eventloganalyzer.com
• Support and User Forums: http://ow.ly/d5stl
• Customers: http://ow.ly/d5sjR

About Info Security Products Guide Awards

SVUS Awards organized by Silicon Valley Communications are conferred in four annual award programs: The Info Security’s Global Excellence Awards, The IT Industry’s Hot Companies and Best Products Awards, The Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards, and Consumer Products Guide’s Best Choice Awards. These premier awards honor organizations of all types and sizes from all over the world including people behind them, the products, performance, PR and marketing. To learn more, visit www.svusawards.com.

About ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer

ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer is log analytics and configuration management software for network security devices like firewalls, proxy servers, intrusion detection systems (IDS)/intrusion prevention systems (IPS) and virtual private networks (VPNs). For more information on ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer, please visit http://www.fwanalyzer.com.

About ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer

EventLog Analyzer is a web-based, real-time, log monitoring and compliance management solution for Security Information Event Management (SIEM) that improves internal network security and helps you to comply with the latest IT audit requirement. For more information on ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer, please visit http://www.eventloganalyzer.com.

About ManageEngine

ManageEngine delivers the real-time IT management tools that empower an IT team to meet an organization’s need for real-time services and support. Worldwide, more than 65,000 established and emerging enterprises - including more than 60 percent of the Fortune 500 — rely on ManageEngine products to ensure the optimal performance of their critical IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, applications, desktops and more. ManageEngine is a division of Zoho Corp. with offices worldwide, including the United States, United Kingdom, India, Japan and China. For more information, please visit http://www.manageengine.com/; follow the company blog at http://blogs.manageengine.com/, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ManageEngine and on Twitter at @ManageEngine.

ManageEngine is a trademark of Zoho Corp. All other brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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