Skybox(R) 4000 Appliance Awarded Perfect Five Star Rating by SC Magazine

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Skybox Security, the leader in automated security risk and compliance management, today announced that the Skybox 4000 Appliance has received a perfect five-star rating by SC Magazine, the leading industry magazine for IT security professionals. The June 2010 issue of SC Magazine's product review states that the Skybox 4000 "offers great modeling with a strong correlated controls view, great simulator and graphical views of risk." Skybox 4000 won five stars in the following evaluation criteria: features, ease of use, performance, and value for money.

The appliance combines the award-winning Skybox View software platform with a pre-installed and hardened server. Enterprise customers now have an alternative method of deploying Skybox security risk and compliance management solutions on a reliable, branded hardware platform that further reduces the total cost of ownership.

Skybox 4000 Appliance is an operational risk management platform that collects, normalizes, and analyzes information from various network assessment tools and security products. Skybox creates a network map, providing a centralized view of network and risk data. The reviewer for SC Magazine appreciated the normalized view of all the combined configuration information which is used to find security gaps in firewalls, verify network compliance with regulations, prioritize critical vulnerabilities, and predict possible cyber attack scenarios.

"We are extremely pleased that the Skybox 4000 appliance has been given a perfect score by SC Magazine," said Gidi Cohen, CEO and Founder of Skybox Security. "IT professionals around the world look to SC Magazine for unbiased reviews, and will now benefit from the thorough review by the evaluators at the publication."

More information about SC Magazine's product review of Skybox 4000 is available here. For the full review, click here.

About Skybox Security, Inc.

Skybox Security, Inc. is the leader in automated security risk and compliance management solutions, helping IT organizations pinpoint and prioritize security risks, compliance, and availability exposures within minutes. Our solutions automatically collect and analyze comprehensive data about network topology and systems, configuration settings, threats and vulnerabilities – anticipating the most urgent IT concerns before harm has been done. Medium to large organizations in Financial Services, Telecommunications, Retail, Government, Utilities, and Defense rely on Skybox Security solutions to reduce risk exposure and achieve compliance. www.skyboxsecurity.com.

NOTE: Skybox® Security is a registered trademark of Skybox Security Inc. All other registered and unregistered trademarks herein are the sole property of their respective owners. Product specifications subject to change at any time without prior notice. © 2010 Skybox Security, Inc. All rights reserved.

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