SafeBoot positioned in Leaders Quadrant of leading industry analyst firm’s “Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection, 2007”

on 15 October 2007

SafeBoot, a leading vendor of enterprise-class security software for the protection of data on laptops and other mobile devices, today announced it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the recently released Gartner, Inc. “Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection, 2007” by John Girard and Ray Wagner, published on Sept. 10, 2007. Gartner categorizes companies in the Leaders Quadrant based on their ‘Completeness of Vision’ and ‘Ability to Execute.’

According to the report, Gartner Magic Quadrant leaders “have products that work well for Gartner clients. They have long-term road maps that match Gartner’s vision of the developing needs of buyers in the market. They make their competitors’ sales staff nervous and force competitors’ technical staffs to follow their lead. Their mobile data protection products are well-known to clients, and they encounter little resistance in selling their products.”

“We think Gartner’s evaluation and placement of SafeBoot technology validates our long-standing commitment to ensuring our customers receive the highest possible protection from the escalating levels of data and device theft, misuse and loss,” said SafeBoot CEO Gerhard Watzinger. “SafeBoot’s market-leading reputation has been built by consistently delivering world-class encryption technologies that arm our customers with superlative protection, and the enterprise-grade assurance they need to comply with regulatory mandates.”

High-profile incidents, from TJX Corp. to the Department of Veterans Affairs, have spotlighted publicly the need to protect data at risk, or data that typically resides on laptops, storage devices, PDAs and other mobile devices. Compliance and regulatory mandates in public and private industry have generated a surge in demand for data encryption technology worldwide.

The SafeBoot® suite of data and device security solutions, the flagship technologies of SafeBoot International, helps protect data and devices against the increasing risk associated with loss, theft, and unauthorized access. SafeBoot solutions offer strong, two-factor pre-boot access control and powerful, FIPS-certified encryption technologies.

With more than five million users, SafeBoot’s highly-scalable enterprise solutions are Common Criteria EAL4 and FIPS 140-1 and 140-2 certified, ensuring that they employ strong encryption and secure key management. SafeBoot is the data protection and access control solution of choice for more than 4,200 organizations worldwide, including banks, insurance companies, consultancy firms, governmental bodies, and health care organizations.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.