BigFix Racks Up Perfect Score and "Best Buy" in SC Magazine NAC Test

Market Wire, July, 2008

BigFix, Inc., a leader in high-performance enterprise systems and security management solutions, reports BigFix Network Access Control received SC Magazine's Best Buy Award for NAC tools in a group product review appearing in the publication's July 2008 issue. BigFix earned a five star overall rating, as well as a perfect string of five stars across all test criteria, including features, ease of use, performance, documentation, support, and value for money.

SC Magazine stated that BigFix Network Access Control is "a true top shelf product with easier administration than most, while still including a massive number of features." In addition to BigFix Network Access Control, the group test included Bradford Networks NAC Director, ForeScout Technologies CounterACT, NetClarity NACwall Micro, Sophos NAC Advanced, StillSecure Safe Access, and Symantec Network Access Control 11.

"We've always known that BigFix NAC is a great product -- adding significant ease of management as well as automated remediation for large NAC installations," said Dave Robbins, President and CEO of BigFix. "Now with the SC Magazine review, everyone else will know it too. It's a gratifying win for our engineers as well as the customers and partners who helped us shape and perfect BigFix NAC."

BigFix Network Access Control supports NAC solutions by helping enterprises set and maintain desired configurations to proactively meet network admission standards. This helps prevent BigFix-managed computers from getting caught in NAC quarantines and automates the process of evaluating and remediating computers that deviate from prevailing configuration standards. BigFix NAC effectively stops NAC from being a "denial of service" gatekeeper function to a mechanism for preventive security configuration management.

To read the complete review, please visit: http://www.scmagazineus.com/NAC-tools/GroupTest/133/ . For more information about BigFix Network Access Control, please visit: http://www.bigfix.com/products/nacsupport.php .

About BigFix

Founded in 1997, BigFix®, Inc. is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise systems and security management solutions that revolutionizes the way IT organizations manage and secure their computing infrastructures. Based on a revolutionary architecture that distributes management intelligence directly to the computing devices themselves, BigFix is radically faster, scalable, more accurate and adaptive than legacy management software. Today, BigFix provides real-time visibility and control for over 8 million computing devices for 900 customers worldwide. The BigFix customer list counts many of the world's largest and most prestigious organizations in every industry including financial services, retail, education, manufacturing, and public sector agencies. More information can be found at www.bigfix.com .

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