BigFix Business Strategy, Platform and Products Win Accolades in 2007

Market Wire, December, 2007

BigFix®, Inc., a leader in real-time IT security and management solutions for the distributed enterprise, today announced that 2007 has been a record year for industry recognition. Over the past 12 months, BigFix has been identified by a broad range of leading business institutions and IT magazines as the company to watch for IT management and security solutions. Winning praise for rapid growth, strategic business direction, and the unparalleled technology strength of the BigFix Discovery 7 platform and product suites, BigFix continues to outdo its nearest rivals.

"BigFix works as we say it does, and these numerous accolades and continued market growth substantiate our claims," said BigFix President and CEO Dave Robbins. "BigFix enables IT to master increasingly dangerous threat environments, as well as crucial compliance and operations initiatives by enforcing IT policies on every computer, all the time, from anywhere in the world. It's as simple as that."

A key part of the company's success in 2007 has been the delivery of innovative enhancements to the award-winning BigFix platform: BigFix Discovery 7, BigFix Data Leak Prevention (DLP), BigFix AntiThreat, BigFix Endpoint Defender, and BigFix Power Management. BigFix Discovery 7 added a range of new features to help organizations achieve control of their IT infrastructures. The platform's unique ability to provide real-time endpoint visibility and control through its single-agent, single-console, on-demand architecture was recognized by publications such as eWeek, Network World, Red Herring, and SC Magazine, as well as the American Business Awards, and the Software & Information Industry Association Codie Awards.

The launch of BigFix DLP provided a comprehensive solution to one of the biggest IT issues of the year -- how to manage data and enforce IT Policy on fixed and mobile assets. BigFix DLP was singled out by SC Magazine in its Data Leak Prevention Group Test with a perfect five-star score and "Best Buy" award from the review, beating all other data leak prevention tools on the market.

SC Magazine Labs also recently selected BigFix as an industry innovator in security infrastructure. In its feature naming BigFix an innovator, SC Magazine wrote: "BigFix uses a policy-based approach that allows querying the infrastructure in real time instead of querying a database that may or may not be up to date. Policies can be snapped in easily, so updating or adding policies is no more difficult than updating your TV's cable box. This leads to the driving BigFix vision: any device, anywhere, any time. Instead of using a client-server architecture, BigFix pushes the agents to the endpoints. Querying those agents gives a near real-time operational view of the network."

BigFix, Inc. was also honored by Deloitte & Touche's Technology Fast 50, a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, and life sciences companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. BigFix was the third fastest growing company in the Software and Information Technology category, with an increase in revenues of 3,863 percent from 2002 to 2006.

The full list of awards and accolades picked up by BigFix in 2007 includes:

BigFix Platform:

--  SC Magazine, Industry Innovators 2007 - BigFix recognized as the
    premier security infrastructure solution.

--  2007 Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Codie Awards -
    BigFix received two awards as best security solution and best distributed
    computing solution.

--  SC Magazine Policy Management Review - BigFix platform received five
    stars and a "Recommended" rating.

--  2007 American Business Awards - BigFix named a finalist in unified
    security and systems management category.
    

BigFix Products:

--  SC Magazine, Data Leakage Prevention Group Test - BigFix DLP awarded a
    perfect five-star score, and named "Best Buy," beating all other DLP
    products including McAfee's Data Leak Prevention Appliance.

--  eWEEK Excellence Award - BigFix solution number one in vulnerability
    assessment and remediation category.

--  Network World 2007 "Best of the Tests" - BigFix chosen as the best
    solution in remediation management category.
    

Company:

--  Deloitte and Touche Technology Fast 50 Program for Silicon Valley -
    BigFix, Inc. was ranked the third-fastest growing technology company in a
    ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, and
    life sciences companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.

--  Red Herring "Top 100" - BigFix, Inc. honored as a finalist in the
    magazine's annual list of privately held technology firms in North America
    that have been recognized for their part in "Driving the Future of
    Technology."
    

This year BigFix also added two world-renowned cyber security experts to the BigFix Executive Advisory Board: Howard Schmidt, former White House cyber security expert and director of the Department of Homeland Security; and Andy Purdy, previous acting director of the National Cyber Security Division/US-CERT of the Department of Homeland Security. Schmidt and Purdy advise BigFix and its customers on cyber security strategy, technology and government policy.