WALLIX recognized among Product and Innovation Leaders in the KuppingerCole 2017 Leadership Compass for Privileged Access Management (AcT)

WALLIX is a cybersecurity software vendor dedicated to defending and fostering organizations' success and renown against the cyberthreats they are facing. For over a decade, WALLIX has strived to protect companies, public organizations, as well as service providers' most critical IT and strategic assets against data breaches and “insider” threats, making it the European expert in Privileged Access Management.

Today, WALLIX is proud to announce that it has been named among the Leaders in Product and Innovation categories of the KuppingerCole2017 Leadership Compass for Privilege Management. These new recognitions confirm the maturity of the WALLIX's Bastion technology and its ability to meet the functional requirements of the Privileged Access Management market. Last year, WALLIX was also selected as “Best Buy” by SC Magazine and awarded at the 2016 Computing Security Awards.

KuppingerCole considers also WALLIX as a Technology Leader and a Market Challenger and highlights its major strengths:

• Supports a broad number of systems
• Leading-edge session logging and recording capabilities
• Full support multi-tenancy, thanks to the WALLIX web portal for multi-Bastion and multi-tenant organizations
• Well thought-out road map, becoming increasingly feature-complete

WALLIX clearly is among the leading-edge vendors in the market with the following rating:

• Security: strong positive
• Functionality: strong positive
• Integration: positive
• Interoperability: positive
• Usability: strong positive

KuppingerCole, founded in 2004, is a global Analyst Company headquartered in Europe focusing on Information Security and Identity and Access Management (IAM). KuppingerCole stands for expertise, thought leadership, outstanding practical relevance, and a vendor-neutral view on the information security market segments, covering all relevant aspects like: Identity and Access Management (IAM), Governance & Auditing Tools, Cloud and Virtualization Security, Information Protection, Mobile as well as Software Security, System and Network Security, Security Monitoring, Analytics & Reporting, Governance, and Organization & Policies.

For further information, please contact clients@kuppingercole.com

A software vendore providing cybersecurity solutions, WALLIX Group is the European specialist in privileged account governance. In response to recent regulatory change (NIS/GDPR in Europe and OVIs in France) and the cybersecurity threats affecting all companies today, the WALLIX Bastion helps users protect their critical IT assets: data, servers, terminals and connected objects. This PAM suite is the first market solution to have been awarded first-level security certification (CSPN) by France's National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) and thus meets all of the criteria for regulatory compliance.

WALLIX accompanies more than 400 companies and organizations on a day-to-day basis, securing the access to more than 100,000 hardware and software resources. Its solutions are marketed through a network of more than 90 resellers and trained and accredited integrators. Listed on Euronext under the code ALLIX, WALLIX Group is a leader on the PAM market with a strong presence throughout Europe and EMEA. Alain Afflelou, Dassault Aviation, Gulf Air, Maroc Telecom, McDonald's, Michelin, and PSA Peugeot-Citroën trust WALLIX to secure their information systems.

The WALLIX Bastion was a winner at the 2016 Computing Security Awards and has been rated Best Buy by SC Magazine. The company is a member of BPI Excellence, a champion of the Pôle Systematic Paris Region cluster and a founding member of the Hexatrust grouping of cybersecurity companies.

For more information, visit the WALLIX website at: www.wallix.com ; twitter @wallixcom

Source : Actusnews