02.08.11 - Waltham, Mass. - Bit9, the leader in Advanced Endpoint Protection, today announced that it achieved record growth in 2010, with a 140 percent increase in revenue. Also in 2010, the company increased its global customer base by 60 percent, launched new award-winning products and expanded its strategic partnership program. Demand for Bit9 products in 2010 was fueled by a marked increase in targeted malware and cyber criminal's ability to adapt and evolve threats. Major drivers included over 90,000 variants of the Zeus crimeware building toolkit, the Stuxnet worm, and the China hacking attack first publicly disclosed by Google that compromised more than 30 companies, including many of the largest global enterprises. As a result, organizations are rapidly adopting Bit9 technology to stop these otherwise elusive attacks. "We saw a surge in global customer wins across key industries such as large technology enterprises, government agencies, defense, healthcare and retail over the past year as organizations acknowledged the demand for advanced endpoint protection," said Patrick Morley, CEO of Bit9. "Bit9, leveraging a cloud-based reputation service, has remained true to its heritage of innovation in providing the most effective endpoint security technology based on trust." Strong financial highlights in 2010 include: Global Sales - increased by 140 percent, Channel Sales - increased by over 100 percent with contributions from two new Global System Integrators, four additional VARs, and three new OEM relationships, Customer Base - increased by 60 percent across 18 distinct industry segments, validating the demand for advanced endpoint protection as a foundation for endpoint security, Repeat Business - 30 percent of sales came from existing customers who purchased additional licenses or renewed existing subscriptions, providing strong validation of the impact and value obtained by customers. Partnership highlights of 2010 include: HP/ArcSight - Bit9 joined ArcSight's Common Event Format Program and subsequently launched Bit9 Parity for the ArcSight Enterprise Risk and Threat Management Platform (ERTM). Symantec - Bit9 is a three-year member of the Symantec Developer Program, and in 2010 launched Bit9 Parity for the Symantec Management Platform to ensure the security and integrity of systems being provisioned and patched with Symantec's SMP. IBM/BigFix - Bit9, a BigFix partner since 2008, released Bit9 Parity for Version 8.0 of the BigFix Unified Management Software Platform to ensure the security and integrity of systems being provisioned and patched with BigFix BES. Accuvant - Bit9 has established a go-to-market partnership with Accuvant, the premier information security and compliance management consulting firm. Verifone - Bit9 Parity is an embedded anti-malware solution for the Verifone Windows-based Sapphire Point-of-Sale systems. Gilbarco Veeder-Root - Bit9 Parity is the embedded anti-malware solution for Gilbarco Veeder-Root's new V8.02 Passport® Point of Sale System. MANDIANT - Bit9's Global Software Registry (GSR) is leveraged by MANDIANT Intelligent Response® (MIR) to accelerate incident response and forensic investigations. Kaseya - The Bit9 Global Software Registry (GSR) is leveraged by Kaseya to provide the most comprehensive software identification and asset management. Technology highlights of 2010 company momentum include: Bit9 Parity Suite - The industry leading Advanced Endpoint Protection solution secured numerous awards, including InfoWorld 2010 Top Technology of the Year, Best Anti-Malware Solution in GSN Homeland Security Awards, and was selected for the American Security Challenge 2010 Pilot Award. With the launch of Bit9 Parity Suite v6, Bit9 provides the most comprehensive visibility and protection for the resources most commonly targeted by modern and custom malware. In addition to the product's core features of live inventory, software reputation, application whitelisting and portable storage device control, the endpoint attack surface for threats has been dramatically reduced with the addition of file integrity monitoring, registry tamper protection and memory injection protection. Bit9 Global Software Registry - In 2010, based on escalating demand for more effective protection than signature-based antivirus and behavioral-based intrusion detection, Bit9 facilitated access to its open, cloud-based reputation service through a publicly available Application Programming Interface (API). This web-service is now leveraged by: Government agencies worldwide Numerous anti-malware and threat research organizations Leading incident response, forensics, and e-discovery vendors Next-Generation network monitoring and security vendors Software asset management vendors By providing direct access to the GSR trust and threat ratings for more than 300 million applications and seven billion metadata records, Bit9 enables these organizations to identify and categorize software, identify anomalies, and filter advanced malware. Government highlights of 2010 include: Commitment to Government -Bit9 expanded broadly into the United States federal government market in 2010 as more organizations realized the need for advanced endpoint protection and a software reputation service to establish trust. Bit9 was added to numerous Government Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWAC) including GSA, NASA SEWP, ENCORE II, ITES-2S and NETCENTS to streamline acquisition. Bit9 established strategic alliances with CACI, Iron Bow Technologies, Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Global Solutions, and TKC Integration Services to align with trusted security advisors to the government. Bit9 Parity Suite was submitted for Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ with certification projected for March, 2011 to proactively ensure compliance with government standards. "We are delighted by our 2010 results and the clear demand for Advanced Endpoint Protection," said Gordon Pothier, CFO of Bit9. "Given the aggressive investments we are making to capitalize on the global momentum, we are confident 2011 will continue to demonstrate impressive results." About Bit9 Bit9 is the leader in Advanced Endpoint Protection. The company's award-winning products provide total visibility and control over all software on endpoints, eliminating the risk caused by malicious, illegal and unauthorized software. Bit9 specializes in protecting organizations against the Advanced Persistent Threat. Bit9 leverages the Bit9 Global Software Registry™ -- the world's first open database of software intelligence -- to identify, classify and assign reputation to software, delivering the highest levels of endpoint security, compliance, and manageability. The company's global customers come from a wide variety of industries, such as government, financial services, retail, healthcare, e-commerce and education. 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.