Bedford, MA—

RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC) today announced that the RSA NetWitness product was named “Best Security Solution” in the GOVTek Executive Government Technology Awards presented by the Government Technology Research Alliance (GTRA). The program celebrates government and industry IT leaders whose vision, innovation and accomplishments in 2011 have improved the way government delivers services, interacts with citizens, shares information and protects its national assets.

The RSA security management and compliance portfolio was also further recognized by GTRA with two additional nominations for the RSA Archer GRC platform in the categories of “Best Security Solution” and “Best Transparency Solution.”

Performing full packet capture and session recreation, the RSA NetWitness solution includes the NextGen infrastructure and a suite of applications that provides comprehensive network forensics and situational awareness. By providing visibility into, context around, and continuous monitoring of all network traffic, the RSA NetWitness solution offers an unprecedented, complete record of everything that is happening across the enterprise.

“With more than 75% of U.S. Federal agencies deploying the RSA NetWitness solution, it has become the de facto platform for threat detection, security analysis and network forensics,” said Amit Yoran, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Security Management and Compliance at RSA. “This tremendous honor along with the positive nominations of our RSA Archer solution, underscores that we are delivering on our mission to provide critical capabilities and actionable security intelligence to government agencies so that they can know everything and answer anything.”

Enabling a meta-view of an organization’s global network, the RSA NetWitness solution increases the value derived from existing technology investments and enhances the responsiveness of IT in addressing security events, conducting forensic research and responding to regulatory compliance requirements.

Unlike point solutions requiring an appliance for every new threat, the RSA NetWitness solution provides a single platform for the detection of emerging adversaries and advanced, zero-day threats. Data recorded by the solution is reused for a variety of purposes, permitting economy of scale and efficiency of SOC operations. This “Big Data” aggregation and data re-use model, and central analytics on an N-tier architecture differs from current models where security investments become obsolete or lack the agility to scale across numerous environmental factors.

“RSA NetWitness has been a proven leader with their innovative and vital solutions to government security,” said Kelly Yocum, CEO and co-founder of GTRA. “We were honored to recognize RSA NetWitness as the ‘Best Security Solution’ award winner at the awards ceremony.”

The GOVTek Executive Government Technology Awards are presented by the Government Technology Research Alliance. GTRA is a non-profit organization comprising public and private sector leaders dedicated to the development and success of the government IT community. GOVTek Award winners were selected by GTRA Council Members, the GTRA Industry Advisory board and the GTRA Board of Directors.

GTRA brings together executive-level government technology security, enterprise architecture, green IT and health IT leaders to collaborate, strategize and create innovative solutions. The semi-annual GTRA SecureGOV Council Meeting addresses the security topics identified through research with the government GTRA Council members and industry experts. By sharing best practices and lessons learned, knowledge is exchanged in a peer-to-peer forum, resulting in actionable government-wide strategic plans and cutting-edge solutions.  Through a unique collaborative methodology, GTRA is revolutionizing the way government does business.

About RSA

RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is the premier provider of security, risk and compliance management solutions for business acceleration. RSA helps the world's leading organizations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. These challenges include managing organizational risk, safeguarding mobile access and collaboration, proving compliance, and securing virtual and cloud environments.

RSA offers industry-leading solutions in identity assurance & access control, data loss prevention, encryption & key management, compliance & security information management and fraud protection. These solutions bring trust to millions of user identities, the transactions that they perform, and the data that is generated. For more information, please visit www.RSA.com and www.EMC.com.