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GuardianEdge Named to the Leaders Quadrant In Mobile Data Protection Magic Quadrant
Sydney, Australia, September 4, 2009 – Unixpac, the IT security products distributor announced today that one of its vendors – GuardianEdge has been positioned by industry analyst firm Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the 2009 “Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection”[1] report. Unixpac is the Australian distributor for GuardianEdge products. GuardianEdge delivers the industry’s first enterprise-class solution for protecting sensitive information residing on end-user devices such as laptop PCs, portable storage media, and smartphones. “Mobile data protection is an important issue as many enterprises continue to address regulatory requirements and consequences from lost and stolen laptops and other mobile devices. IT professionals need solutions to protect their mobile devices and data from internal and external threats.” said Tom Piotrowski the Managing Director of Unixpac. “Guardian Edge was always at the forefront of mobile data protection technology and Unixpac as Guardian Edge's distributor in Australia, we are pleased to see that vendor's efforts have been recognised again by such prominent placement in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for the technology.” Piotrowski added. The report, authored by Gartner Vice President and Distinguished Analyst John Girard, and Gartner Research Vice President Eric Ouelett, discusses the overall market for mobile data protection for notebook computers and smaller handheld devices such as PDAs and smartphones. Vendors in the space are evaluated based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. Designed and built on accepted industry standards for enterprise software deployment and management, the GuardianEdge™ Data Protection Platform scales to support the largest deployments, while delivering availability and redundancy along with unsurpassed manageability and feature richness. The platform, which is comprised of GuardianEdge Hard Disk Encryption, GuardianEdge Removable Storage Encryption and GuardianEdge Device Control, combines with GuardianEdge Smartphone Protection and GuardianEdge Advanced Authentication to deliver the industry’s most complete endpoint data protection portfolio. Many organisations select GuardianEdge because of the company’s focus on delivering solutions based on accepted industry standards for enterprise software deployment and management. This provides strong endpoint data protection capabilities with no learning curve or intensive investment in new IT infrastructure. ABOUT GUARDIAN EDGE GuardianEdge, the leader in endpoint data protection for the enterprise, offers award-winning solutions to protect sensitive data on end-user devices including laptops, desktops, portable storage devices and smartphones. GuardianEdge products offer a breadth of encryption, port, device and file type control technologies while establishing a market-leading position in solving the operational issues of deployment, management, scalability, reporting, auditing and user productivity at the lowest possible total cost. Millions of users worldwide depend on the EAL 4 certified, enterprise-software standards-based GuardianEdge Data Protection Platform to safeguard confidential or proprietary information, to ensure compliance with regulations for maintaining consumer privacy and to enable secure enterprise mobility. ABOUT UNIXPAC Pty Ltd. Unixpac, founded in 1989, is a market leader in the distribution of
 IT security solutions and services in Australia and New Zealand. Unixpac currently offers the largest and most complete portfolio of IT security solutions. With its Security-In-Depth approach the company efficiently helps its partners and clients to find best available solutions for their security problems. Unixpac offer includes the most visionary and best performing technologies as often described that way by industry analysts. These solutions are being used by Australia’s largest enterprises and government organizations. For more information, visit the company’s web site at www.unixpac.com.au. # # # For more details please contact: Gosia Luszpinska +61 2 9953 8366 0404 62 04 96
