01.27.2010 – Waltham, Mass. – Application Whitelisting company Bit9, Inc. finished 2009 as the leader in the application control and application whitelisting market. Bit9 was named the winner of an independent, competitive product review, beating out its competitors. And in 2009, Bit9 acquired numerous Fortune 1000 enterprise customers who are using Bit9 Application Whitelisting to protect their brands and sensitive data from zero-day attacks and unknown malware.
Last year, the company tailored its application whitelisting solution to address different compliance, security and operations challenges facing public and private enterprises across all industries.
As cyber attacks targeting federal, state and local government agencies saw a dramatic increase, so did Bit9 Parity’s adoption in the government ecosystem. Bit9 Parity for Government was released to help agencies ensure FISMA compliance and automate security controls as recommended by the Consensus Audit Guidelines (CAG). In 2009, Bit9 Parity for Government was employed by multiple agencies in the Department of Defense, state and local institutions, and major Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC). Bit9 saw an increase in these government agencies, which have been targeted by Advanced Persistent Threats.
2009 showed continued customer momentum for Bit9, whose portfolio remains the largest among application whitelisting vendors. A few of the new customers in 2009 include:
In 2009, Bit9 released version 5.0 of the Bit9 Parity™ Suite and received multiple awards honoring Bit9 Parity as the top application whitelisting solution in the industry. Bit9 Parity Suite 5.0 was named the winner of the InfoWorld Test Center’s competitive product review of application whitelisting solutions, receiving, “the highest score ever given.” InfoWorld went on to credit Bit9 Parity with a 2010 Technology of the Year Award, identifying the solution as a best and most innovative product in the IT landscape for 2010. Bit9’s capability of linking application control with comprehensive visibility and reportable risk metrics, “not only raises Bit9 Parity Suite 5.0 above competing whitelisting products, but most security products in general” reported InfoWorld.
Last year, Bit9 began offering the Bit9 Software Reputation Service™ made possible by the growing Bit9 Global Software Registry (GSR). Bit9 reputation services include Software Identification, Software Categorization, and Trust Factor.
Top Awards in 2009 included:
On the partnership front, Bit9 expanded the scope of its solution with key alliances in 2009.
Strategic Alliances:
Technology & Industry Alliances:
In 2009, Bit9 executives were invited to speak at multiple security and business conferences including:
About Bit9, Inc.
Bit9 is the pioneer and leader in Enterprise Application Whitelisting. The company’s award-winning solutions provide total visibility and control over all software on Windows computers, eliminating the risk caused by malicious, illegal and unauthorized software.
Bit9 leverages the Bit9 Global Software Registry™ – the world’s largest database of software intelligence – to identify and classify software, delivering the highest levels of endpoint security, compliance, and manageability. Bit9’s global customers include companies in a wide variety of industries, such as government, financial services, retail, healthcare, e-commerce and education.
In the current Application Whitelisting competitive product review, InfoWorld awarded Bit9 Parity with the highest score ever given and named the Bit9 the top Application Whitelisting vendor in the industry.
Bit9 was awarded a prestigious $2M United States federal research grant in 2003 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology-Advanced Technology Program (NIST ATP) to conduct the research that is now at the core of our application whitelisting solutions. Bit9 is privately held and based in Waltham, Massachusetts. For more information, visit http://www.bit9.com or call +1 617.393.7400.