Oct. 19, 2009 (Business Wire) -- Guidance Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: GUID), The World Leader in Digital Investigations™, today announced that Government Security News has named EnCase® Cybersecurity the winner in the “Best Cyber Crime Investigative Software” category of its first annual Homeland Security Awards. The company will be recognized next week in a ceremony at the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday, October 27, 2009.
“We are delighted to have been selected by Government Security News as a Homeland Security Award winner,” said Victor Limongelli, President and CEO for Guidance Software. “With the ever-increasing number of threats to data security and instances of cyber attacks, the need to proactively seek out undiscovered threats has made EnCase Cybersecurity a truly groundbreaking product.”
“Congratulations to Guidance Software on being named the top cyber crime investigative software solution in this inaugural year of the Homeland Security Awards,” said Jacob Goodwin, editor in chief of Government Security News. “This selection puts it into an elite group of vendors and government agencies who, in the quest for a more secure homeland, have demonstrated excellence and innovation during the past year.”
EnCase Cybersecurity enables organizations to identify and analyze undiscovered threats, such as polymorphic or metamorphic malware, packed files, and other advanced hacking techniques that evade traditional network- or host-based defenses. Its powerful investigative capabilities provide organizations with the ability to search across their networks for sensitive or confidential data, such as credit card numbers, account numbers or intellectual property, and mitigate risk by wiping sensitive or confidential data from unauthorized locations, and removing malware and malware artifacts from hard drives, RAM, and the Windows Registry on laptops, desktops, and servers. Its disk-level forensic access of data on endpoints provides visibility into endpoint risk, with the ability to compare endpoints against a trusted baseline and/or an included hash database (both whitelist and blacklist).
Guidance Software has built an impressive list of government agency customers for its EnCase solutions, including the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, SEC, State Department, Department of Justice, Department of Defense, and others. Additionally, EnCase® software has achieved necessary accreditations for deployment on government networks, including DIACAP, FIPS 140-2 and Common Criteria EAL2.
About Guidance Software (GUID)
Guidance Software is recognized worldwide as the industry leader in digital investigative solutions. Its EnCase(r) platform provides the foundation for government, corporate and law enforcement organizations to conduct thorough, network-enabled, and court-validated computer investigations of any kind, such as responding to eDiscovery requests, conducting internal investigations, responding to regulatory inquiries or performing data and compliance auditing - all while maintaining the integrity of the data. There are more than 30,000 licensed users of the EnCase technology worldwide, and thousands attend Guidance Software's renowned training programs annually. Validated by numerous courts, corporate legal departments, government agencies and law enforcement organizations worldwide, EnCase has been honored with industry awards and recognition from eWEEK, SC Magazine, Network Computing, and the Socha-Gelbmann survey. For more information about Guidance Software, visit www.guidancesoftware.com.
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