Gartner Places Positive Technologies as the Most Visionary in Visionaries Quadrant

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LONDON and BOSTON, July 22, 2015 /PRN=KYODO JBN/ --

Positive Technologies, a leading provider of security solutions, today

announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the "Visionaries" quadrant

of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls. Positive

Technologies is placed the furthest to the right in the Visionaries quadrant

based on its completeness of vision.

"We are one of the smaller vendors in this Magic Quadrant but we believe what

has really helped us achieve our position here is that we are very focused on

innovation and growing rapidly," reveals Elaine Mullan, International Marketing

Manager, "We are a visionary with unique leading-edge security features.  We

have a strong capability to protect business applications including SAP."

"We consider Gartner's positioning of Positive Technologies in the Visionaries

quadrant as recognition of our ongoing commitment to keep our research and

development approach as unconventional as possible," explains Dan Tara, VP

Business Development, "The threat landscape has developed in complexity.  The

market recognizes traditional firewalls, load balancers with application

security features are no longer sufficient. High security solutions focused on

application security itself are now essential to ensure organizations are

protected. PT Application Firewall(TM) offers our customers a radical solution to

manage the effects of this changing cyber security landscape.  For a truly

revolutionary application security solution our customers use our source code

security testing solution PT Application Inspector(TM) in tandem with PT

Application Firewall(TM).

Every organization globally is exposed to cyber security risk with application

security central to reducing the risk being felt by business which can include:

reputational risk, downtime, data breach and financial losses and fines.  The

pressure on business has moved up the line from security departments to the CIO

with the recognition that cyber security is a board room issue and without a

robust security policy and solution the risk increases to a critical level and

potentially very damaging to the organization.

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Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls, Jeremy D'hoinne,

Adam Hils [http://www.gartner.com/analyst/16887 ], Greg Young

[http://www.gartner.com/analyst/19535 ], Nicole Papadopoulos

[http://www.gartner.com/analyst/46092 ], 15 July 2015

About Positive Technologies

Positive Technologies, a pioneer of the cyber security industry, provides a

comprehensive suite of products and services including: Vulnerability

management; Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), including SCADA and TELCO

systems; Advanced malware detection; Compliance management; Threat analysis and

Application security to over 1000 global enterprise clients.  For more

information visit http://www.ptsecurity.com

Contact: Elaine Mullan, +44(0)2088498498, elaine.mullan@ptsecurity.com

Source: Positive Technologies