The Manitowoc Company, Inc. Selects Shavlik Technologies to Simplify and Automate Patch Management

Business Wire, July 12, 2007

Manitowoc's Foodservice Group Expects 90% Reduction in Time and Resources Required to Deploy Critical Patches

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Shavlik Technologies, LLC, a leading automated vulnerability and security configuration management provider, today announced that The Manitowoc Company, Inc., a global capital goods manufacturer, recently selected Shavlik NetChk([TM]) Protect to simplify and automate the deployment of critical patches for systems within Manitowoc's Foodservice Group (FSG). Manitowoc Foodservice Group designs and manufactures commercial ice-cube machines, beverage dispensers, and refrigeration systems on a global basis. As part of its operations, Manitowoc's Foodservice IS team must manage and secure servers, workstations, and laptops located in the US and China.

"Our team manages numerous desktop applications, such as Adobe, Java, and QuickTime, which have required us to devote the equivalent of two full time employees, continually applying patches to these applications manually," stated Hal Armstrong, the IS technology manager for Manitowoc Foodservice Group. "We chose the Shavlik solution because, out-of-the-box, it provides us with the support we need to auto-deploy patches to these applications, and we expect that, once fully deployed, NetChk Protect will allow us to reduce this resource allocation by almost 90% and significantly shorten our window of risk. Additional savings are being recognized due to Shavlik NetChk's ease of use - we can now assign our entry level system administrators to manage the patch process and focus our senior engineers on projects that drive our business."

"We are pleased that Manitowoc Foodservice Group selected Shavlik NetChk Protect to automate their patch management process," said Chris Schwartzbauer, vice president of sales and marketing for Shavlik Technologies. "We are seeing strong growth in our patch management business, especially our deployments to larger enterprises struggling to keep up with the rate of vendor patches being released each month. Our ease of use and management continues to provide our customers industry leading time-to-value. They recognize that an investment in a comprehensive solution for automated assessment, remediation and management will greatly reduce time, cost and organizational risk."

About Shavlik NetChk Protect

Shavlik NetChk Protect provides integrated patch management and application control. The solution offers a simpler more automated approach to enterprise vulnerability management, while at the same time addressing the needs of the larger enterprise with features such as support for highly distributed environments, flexible deployment options, rich reporting capability, and up to the minute assessment data.

About Shavlik Technologies

Shavlik Technologies, LLC is the market leader in the simplification of complex enterprise network configuration, compliance and security. Shavlik's solutions support an organization's need for Active Vulnerability Management - the automated and continual process for preventing, detecting, and removing critical security threats from corporate networks while maintaining policy-driven security configurations.

Founded in 1993, Shavlik Technologies is the de facto industry standard for patch management solutions. With more than 10,000 customers worldwide, Shavlik is trusted to provide the most up-to-date security patch data and the most comprehensive discovery capability to maintain a customer's overall network security integrity. Company CEO Mark Shavlik is a founder of the patch management industry as he teamed with Microsoft in 1999 to create the patch engine for Microsoft Base Security Analyzer (MBSA). This technology is still used by an installed base of millions of users across the globe. Shavlik also licenses its technology to more than 20 leading security companies such as IBM, BMC, Symantec and iPass. Shavlik's products have won multiple awards from leading industry trade journals. For more information, contact Shavlik at www.shavlik.com or call 1-800-690-6911 or 1-612-331-6737.

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