LAS VEGAS – January 15, 2010 – Vanguard Integrity Professionals, the leading provider of enterprise security software for mainframes, today announced that four of the top five life and health insurance stock companies on the 2009 Fortune 500 list* now use Vanguard Security software. These leading insurance companies are leveraging Vanguard’s Security Management and Audit and Compliance Suites to protect mainframe data and applications, streamline security administration, automate audits and ensure compliance with Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), PCI Data Security Standard, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other regulatory requirements.
 
“Life and health insurers are privy to a large amount of customers’ personal and financial information, and it is imperative that this data remain secure and protected,” said Chris Christiansen, program vice president of Security Products & Services at IDC, a global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the IT market. “In today’s computing environment, mainframes are as interconnected with the Internet as any other system, and large enterprises need to ensure that the mission critical data these systems store and process is not vulnerable to attack or inadvertent changes.”

Vanguard software enables large enterprises with mainframe systems to enforce and automate security controls, secure critical data and applications, reduce administration and remediation costs, and ensure compliance with regulations. “Leading companies rely on Vanguard to protect their mainframe data and applications,” said Brian Marshall, director of product development at Vanguard. “The fact that four of the five top life and health insurers have deployed Vanguard software is further proof of how important our solutions are for protecting leading companies’ mission critical assets.”

“Mainframes are more vulnerable to security threats than ever before due to the widespread adoption of TCP/IP earlier this decade,” Marshall continued. “Although leading life and health insurers understand their exposure and are taking precautions by deploying Vanguard’s solutions to increase security, many mainframe users have not yet implemented the controls required to prevent security breaches.”

Vanguard provides the industry’s most comprehensive and effective security management software for mainframe systems. With Vanguard, organizations can improve security protection and automate processes for their IBM z/OS Security Server systems. Vanguard Security Management Suite enables enterprises to strengthen and automate mainframe security, minimize time spent performing routine operations, and improve security staff productivity. Vanguard Audit and Compliance Suite reduces audit and compliance burdens by eliminating many manual processes and enabling auditors and security personnel to automatically extract information required for audits from RACF databases.

Vanguard Enforcer™ won the 2009 GSN Homeland Security Award for Best Intrusion Detection/Prevention System. Vanguard Audit and Compliance Suite and Vanguard Enterprise Security Training are finalists in the 2010 SC Magazine Awards.