Herndon, VA -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/13/2011 -- Xceedium Inc., the leader in Zero Trust Access Control solutions, today announced that it has been named an award finalist in multiple categories in the Network Products Guide 6th Annual 2011 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards Program. Xceedium is recognized as a finalist for the 2011 Best Overall IT Company of the Year award and the 2011 Hot Company award.

This award recognition is the latest in a growing list of accolades that Xceedium has received from Network Products Guide and other leading publications. This is the third consecutive year Xceedium has been honored as a Hot Company by Network Products Guide.

"It’s an honor to be recognized as one of the Best Overall IT Companies of the Year by Network Products Guide," said Glenn Hazard, XceediumCEO. "This is another validation of the increasing need for solutions like Xceedium’s to combat insider threats, whether they are from a privileged IT user or third party outsider."

Xceedium’s GateKeeper appliance secures and audits access from privileged users-company employees, partners, consultants and IT staff-to computing infrastructure. It allows organizations to enforce access control policies and contain users in a manner that enables them to see only the network resources to which they have access. It also creates detailed, centralized and actionable audit trails so organizations can effectively manage risk and maintain compliance with the security requirements of PCI, FISMA, NIST-800.53, FIPS, HIPAA, NERC and other regulations. Highly regulated and security conscious organizations have identified the Xceedium GateKeeper as a must-have product to meet their evolving privileged access control needs.

This year’s Hot Companies and Best Products award winners will be honored in Las Vegas on Tuesday, May 10, at the 6th annual awards dinner. For more information on this year’s finalists, please visit: http://www.networkproductsguide.com/hotcompanies/2011/.

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About Xceedium Inc.
Xceedium is the leading provider of Zero Trust Access Control solutions. The Xceedium GateKeeper is being used by large and mid-sized enterprises, as well as leading federal government agencies to meet their stringent security and compliance needs. This world-class technology allows organizations to control access to their network based on who the user is, and contains the user to explicit resources, eliminating the risk of allowing un-trusted third parties and privileged users on their networks. Coupled with cutting edge monitoring capabilities it also lets commercial and government organizations easily meet increasing compliance requirements including PCI, FISMA, NIST-800.53, FIPS, HIPAA and NERC . It is FIPS 140-2 Level 2 and EAL2, EAL3 certified with EAL4 in process. For more information, visit http://www.xceedium.com. For more on the GateKeeper, watch our two-minute video explainer: http://tinyurl.com/2b8gwuj.

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