Windows IT Pro Names Consul's InSight Security Manager 5.0 2004 Editors' Choice Award Winner

Consul InSight Security Manager Recognized for Contribution to IT Community's Fight to Protect Confidentiality of Information Assets

Penton Media's Windows IT Pro announced today that Consul's InSight(TM) Security Manager 5.0 (InSight) was selected a winner in the Security category of the 2004 Windows IT Pro Editors' Choice Awards.

"Recognition from technical experts in the industry is an honor, and is the ultimate 'seal of approval' for the products that won," said Peg Miller, associate publisher, Windows IT Pro. "The Windows IT Pro Editors' Choice Awards were created as a way to give leading technology companies industry-wide recognition for developing innovative products and services that connect the IT community. The awards program recognizes outstanding vendors who have developed products and services that make a difference in the IT community."

"Consul InSight Security Manager 5.0 provides an enterprise-wide view of security-related events by consolidating the security-related information from a number of disparate network devices in heterogeneous operating systems like Windows, UNIX, Linux, and other OSs, as well as firewalls, databases and Web application servers," said Michael Otey, technical director, Windows IT Pro.

This prestigious award recognizes companies that offer innovative products and services and can illustrate their use through successful case studies in the categories of Administration and Management, Data Management, Infrastructure Solutions, Messaging and Mobility, Hardware and Security.

"The recognition by Windows IT Pro helps validate our success in providing a critical component to protecting information across an enterprise," said Joe Sander, CEO and president of Consul risk management. "InSight creates detailed reports on user activity and asset accountability, providing executives with the information to make educated decisions on establishing and auditing acceptable use policy. This makes InSight the optimal security event audit and compliance solution that has helped hundreds of organizations and government agencies reduce operational risk and comply with regulatory mandates. We believe that as a result of the close relationship that we have with our colleagues in the IT community together we are making a real difference in protecting the confidentiality of the customer and employee data, and corporate information assets for which they are responsible."

Consul InSight is pivotal in some of today's most vital compliance, security event management and identity and access management initiatives. Only by quickly and easily revealing who touched what within the company and comparing that activity to an established internal policy or external regulation defining appropriate use, can organizations successfully deliver the first layer of defense for information protection.

About Windows IT Pro

First published in 1995, Windows IT Pro is the editorial leader in its field and the hub of the Windows IT community. Since its inception it has grown into an information network that includes the magazine, three print newsletters, 12 direct-request email newsletters, Web sites and in-person events such as Web seminars, road shows, trade shows and conferences. The magazine has a paid subscription base of 102,000; more than 2.3 million IT professionals are reached through the Windows IT Pro network every month. The magazine is published in 13 languages and has an international reach into 160 countries.

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About Consul InSight(TM) Security Manager

The Company's flagship product, Consul InSight, delivers powerful, automated security event audit and compliance software that monitors, reports and investigates both malicious and accidental violations. Only Consul InSight uses a patent-pending W7 methodology to consolidate, normalize, and analyze vast amounts of user and system activity, delivering instant alerts and reports on who touched what information and how those actions may violate external regulations or internal security policies. New Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA and ISO 17799 Regulatory Compliance Management Modules for Consul InSight act like an auditor to streamline compliance efforts, offering regulation-specific, out-of-the-box policy templates, a dashboard and dozens of regulation-specific reports.

About Consul risk management, Inc.

Consul risk management, Inc., a worldwide leader in security event audit and compliance solutions delivers to the market The InSight Required(TM) for sound compliance, security event management, and identity and access management initiatives. With its roots as the premier provider of mainframe administration and audit products, Consul's enterprise solutions monitor, report and investigate both malicious and accidental violations of information use against external regulations and internal policies.

Consul has more than 300 customers in nearly two-dozen countries, including the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Fidelity Financial Services, Kroger, Wachovia, The New York Times, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Office Depot, Ford and many government agencies. Named "Organization of the Year" by ISSA (Information Systems Security Association), the Company has dual headquarters in the United States and The Netherlands and is represented by 25 partners worldwide, including BMC Software. For additional information about Consul and its products, services and partners, please contact Consul at 1 800.258.5077 or +31 (0) 15.251.3333 (Worldwide), or at www.consul.com.