NetIQ Receives Accolades for Excellence in Security From Redmond Magazine With 2014 Third-Party Reader’s Choice Awards

NetIQ today announced that it has been selected a winner by Redmond's Third-Party Reader's Choice Awards in three categories. NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator earned gold in Active Directory Provisioning/Administration, NetIQ Group Policy Administrator™ received gold in Group Policy Manager and NetIQ's Compliance Management Platform was named a bronze winner in the Compliance Tool category.

The 2014 Third-Party Reader's Choice Award recipients were determined by online survey responses from thousands of Redmond Magazine readers, who manage and augment Microsoft's key platforms across broad categories. The 2014 NetIQ recognition of products by Redmond Magazine readers, includes:

• NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator gives highly tasked Active Directory administrators an automated way to granularly delegates administrative authority, helping them to enforce "least privilege" and reducing organizational risk of security breaches. The solution captures and stores all administrative activity, ensuring a comprehensive audit trail that meets stringent audit demands.
• NetIQ Group Policy Administrator™ is a centralized management tool that allows you to edit, test, review and compare Group Policy Object changes before implementing them in your live environment. This helps you safely implement and alter Microsoft GPOs in your Active Directory environment.
• NetIQ's Compliance Management Platform, comprised of the NetIQ Identity Manager, NetIQ Access Manager, and NetIQ Sentinel solutions, helps organizations continuously monitor for compliance, protect sensitive data, manage security risks and meet compliance audits across physical, virtual and cloud environments.

"Being selected, yet again, this year, as a recipient of Redmond's Third-Party Reader's Choice Awards further validates our continued commitment to our customers and their long-term success," said Geoff Webb, senior director, Solution Strategy at NetIQ. "Today's threat landscape is constantly shifting and organizational information is continuously at risk. Our focus on developing both identity-powered security and compliance solutions remains a priority for NetIQ, and this award is recognition that our customers are confident in NetIQ's commitment to meet their security and compliance demands."

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About NetIQ
NetIQ is a global, enterprise software company with a relentless focus on customer success. Our portfolio includes scalable, automated solutions for Identity, Access, Governance, Security, Systems and Application, Service and Workload Management that help organizations securely deliver, measure and manage computing services across physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. For more information, contact us.

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