Savant Protection Unveils Enforcer Product; First Application Whitelisting Solut ion Flexible Enough for All Users

Savant Enforcer Stops Malware While Providing Internal IT and MSPs the Ability t o Meet All Users Needs. Hudson, NH, Friday - July 01, 2011 -- Savant Protection ( http://www.savantprote ction.com ), the leading provider of Automated Application Whitelisting solution s, today unveiled Savant Enforcer. The first solution of its kind, Savant Enforc er realizes Savant Protection s vision of providing a flexible application whitelist ing solution that enforces application policies and dramatically reduces corpora te IT and MSP support costs. Unlike other application whitelisting solutions and traditional reactive anti-vi rus solutions, Savant Enforcer s breakthrough product balances the need for privileg ed users to control their computers and IT requirements to protect the organizat ion against malware that bypasses their anti-virus products. "As IT consumerization, social media, and adaptive persistent adversaries contin ue to transcend and undermine conventional security, it is increasingly necessar y to adapt our security and policy enforcement. In the right use cases, applicat ion control can reduce the chances of running malicious, unwanted, and even vuln erable (elective) applications. Vendors such as Savant Protection are focused on helping with these challenges," said Josh Corman, Research Director, Enterprise Security Practice at The 451 Group. With Savant Enforcer, ( http://www.savantprotection.com ) MSPs can provide their customers with proactive endpoint protection that stops zero-day attacks and ev en the most sophisticated targeted malware. MSPs can now offer the highest level of security against malware while being able to provision different levels of t rust to their customers end users: from strict application policy enforcement to en abling them to independently add applications. MSPs can now, for the first time, easily protect their diverse customer environments from un-trusted changes with out restricting approved users from installing the software they need to do thei r jobs. Savant Protection s purpose-built solutions prevent attacks, both known and yet to b e discovered. Its unique and patented approach provides advanced endpoint protec tion, safeguarding each individual computer with personal whitelists. The prefer red application whitelisting solution by MSPs and small to medium sized enterpri ses, Savant Protection stops malware, including targeted attacks, designer attac ks, and zero-day attacks as well as viruses and Trojans. Savant ensures thatmalw are cannot propagate across an organization. Specifically designed for flexibili ty, its ease of implementation and seamless interoperability with anti-virus sol utions means there is minimal need for ongoing administration and no impact or d isruption to the end user. Aside from strong security and management functionality provided by Savant Enfor cer ( http://www.SavantProtection.com ), the product also enables MSPs to reduce their service costs and to significantly reduce unproductive downtime at their customers by limiting the number of endpoint problems that require remediation. "Savant Protection has spearheaded the use of application whitelisting among MSP s," said Kelly Comeaux, CEO of Preferred Data Systems (PDS), a Michigan-headquar tered MSP which specializes in computer system integration and IT management ser vices to small and medium-size enterprises. "With Savant Enforcer we have been a ble to reduce our tech cost by 81% per managed endpoint. Before Savant we would try to fix a machine for 15 minutes and if non-repairable we would reimage the m achine. The software (Savant Enforcer) just will not allow for rogue software to be installed which contributed to most of the problems. This has led to less ma

intenance work and cost to PDS while keeping the customer up and productive and more importantly happy." A dynamic application whitelisting solution, Savant Enforcer achieves that ever elusive balance between security and business enablement, allowing enterprises t o * improve application policy enforcement by only allowing approved software and updates to run; * save time and increase end user and MSP efficiency by provisioning permissions based on user type without adding risk to the organization; * reduce security exposures, providing proactive protection against any unknown or targeted malware that bypasses anti-virus, including drive-by downloads and m alicious attachments. "Savant Enforcer allows MSPs as well as organizations to provide key users, the ones who need access the most but often are the greatest targets of cyber crimin als, to add software themselves without adding risk to the organization," said R obert Kamsler, VP of Engineering at Savant Protection. "By providing the flexibi lity to control the ability to install software based on end user type we can no w help satisfy the business needs of the organization while maintaining the utmo st security. As the application whitelisting solution noted for innovating the t echnology, we are pleased that this solution validates our approach of offering all the security advantages of application whitelisting without the business hea daches." Savant Enforcer: * Automatically adds all user additions to the local whitelist * Provides a unique whitelist for each computer, protecting all users * Includes trusted change filters for all major software updaters * Delivers a log of all user changes * Offers IT support for application lookup and validation * Supports a broad range of user trust options * Works with all major provisioning and endpoint management systems * Supports logs and alerts for SIEM products * Seamlessly works with existing anti-virus About Savant Protection: Savant Protection is a leading privately held vendor of innovative application w hitelisting solutions that fill major gaps in the functionality of other endpoin t security and management products and provide significant operational and finan cial benefits to customers. The company s solutions are easy to integrate with exist ing systems, are not dependent on a central whitelist database, and can stop zer o-day attacks and address the increasing inability of existing endpoint solution s, such as signature-based anti-virus products, to effectively protect against t he growing proliferation of sophisticated, targeted malware.Savant Protection s cust omers are able to lower costs and increase their organization s productivity by mini mizing endpoint incidents that require remediation and cause unproductive downti me for users. Savant Protection is headquartered in Hudson, New Hampshire, USA. http://www.SavantProtection.com Press & Media Contact: Victor Cruz, Principal MediaPR.net Hudson, NH 03051 (978) 594-4134 vcruz@mediapr.net http://www.SavantProtection.com