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Catbird vSecurity Now Certified CVE Compatible

"Our customers expect the highest level of compliance for their virtualized data centers. The CVE standard is the most comprehensive and authoritative source of data for enterprise security vulnerabilities, a key component for ensuring compliance," said Michael Berman, CISSP, Catbird CTO. "Achieving both of these certifications bolsters Catbird's vSecurity's position as the gold standard for enterprise virtualization security and compliance. We are very pleased to join this elite group of fewer than 100 products and services to achieve this mark of compatibility."

A publicly available and free list of standardized identifiers for common computer vulnerabilities and exposures, the CVE standard uses common nomenclature to identify software vulnerabilities and flaws, making it easier to share vulnerability and security exposure data across separate network security databases and tools, and provides a baseline for evaluating the coverage of an organization's security tools.

In embracing CVE, Catbird is able to deliver a measureable security posture to its customers that allows enterprises and security professionals to feel confident that their compliance and security requirements are met. The CVE database now contains more than 38,000 entries, each corresponding to a unique and publicly known security issue. As an international security consortium, experts in government, industry and academia around the world have adopted the CVE standard as the authoritative source for data about critical software flaws.

CVE is funded by the Department of Homeland Security and managed by the non-profit MITRE Corporation. In addition to maintaining the database, the CVE Initiative awards certification to intrusion and vulnerability detection systems that meet the compatibility standard.

Catbird vSecurity is the industry's first and only comprehensive security and compliance solution to protect virtual, physical and cloud infrastructures, delivering best-practice security for hypervisors, virtual machines, and policy/regulatory compliance. The award-winning solution has been recognized for two consecutive years with a finalist award in the Security and Virtualization category at the Best of VMWorld. In 2009, Catbird's vSecurity Cloud Edition became the first security product to win in a Best of VMWorld finalist award in the Cloud Computing Technologies category.

For more information about Catbird's visionary suite of enterprise security and compliance solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, visit www.catbird.com.

About Catbird

Catbird is the industry leader in comprehensive security and compliance for virtualized, cloud and physical environments, and a winner of three Best of Show Finalist Awards at VMworld 2009 and 2008; the Windows IT Pro Best of Tech·Ed 2008 IT Pro Editors Choice Award for Security; and winner of the 2007 VARBusiness Technology Innovator Award for Virtualization. Via Catbird vSecurity and the "Catbird" virtual appliance, Catbird is the only company delivering best-practice security for Hypervisor, Guest VMs and Policy/Regulatory Security Compliance. As companies migrate mainstream servers and desktops to virtual environments, uncertainty over security and compliance can impact deployment plans. Catbird's protection eliminates these worries and keeps virtualization plans on track. Founded in 2000 by Internet pioneer Ron Lachman, the company's in-the-cloud architecture protects thousands of customer systems and networks who rely on Catbird and its partners to protect their valuable IT assets from external and internal threats. The private company is based in Silicon Valley, and is currently recruiting new partners and resellers.

About CVE

CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) is a dictionary list of standardized names for vulnerabilities and other information security exposures. The goal of the CVE List is to make it easier to share data across separate vulnerability databases and security tools. The content of CVE is a result of a collaborative effort of the CVE Editorial Board, which includes representatives from numerous security-related organizations such as security tool vendors, academic institutions and government, as well as other prominent security experts. The MITRE Corporation maintains the CVE List and moderates Editorial Board discussions.

About the MITRE Corporation

MITRE (www.mitre.org) is a not-for-profit national resource that provides systems engineering, research and development, and information technology support to the government. It operates federally funded research and development centers for the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Internal Revenue Service, with principal locations in Bedford, Mass., and McLean, Va.

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