ManageSoft® joins Microsoft® and other industry leaders in the SecureIT Alliance

Initiative unites key industry leaders to bring innovative security solutions to market

ManageSoft®, a leading, privately held provider of intelligent solutions to help enterprises deploy, secure, and manage their client software and computing infrastructures, today announced it has joined the SecureIT Alliance, a Microsoft-led initiative to promote customer-driven, innovative security solutions.

The SecureIT Alliance is a community of industry partners working to provide security solutions for the Microsoft platform. SecureIT Alliance members are collaborating to build innovative new security features and products to address the needs of the industry and of mutual customers. Through well-designed models for interoperability, the alliance aims to enable makers of enterprise-class IT security solutions to achieve better product integration to simplify customer implementations.

Microsoft is developing a community site for the Alliance - www.SecureITAlliance.org - to facilitate these collaborations and provide early access to technical information, beta versions, software development kits, and other tools to help them build products that support future iterations of the Microsoft platform.

"We are delighted to be in the select company of the respected members of the SecureIT Alliance," said Walter J. Elliot, chief executive officer of ManageSoft. "Our customers continue to report to us that IT security is an increasingly critical component of their desktop management agenda. By joining the SecureIT Alliance, we believe we can more quickly deliver higher-quality and more robust solutions to address our customers' PC security issues."

"We are pleased to have ManageSoft join the SecureIT Alliance," said Gerry Albert, senior program manager at Microsoft. "We are committed to working with our partners to help create more effective solutions for our customers by cooperatively addressing the key security challenges facing IT today and tomorrow."

Founding members of the SecureIT Alliance include: Aventail, BindView, Centrify, Citrix Systems, e-Security, F5 Networks, Forum Systems, F-Secure, FullArmor, McAfee, Microsoft, Net Report, NetIQ, Network Intelligence, Panda Software, Ping Identity, Quest Software, RSA Security, Symantec, Trend Micro, Utimaco Safeware AG, VeriSign, Voltage Security, Vormetric, Webroot Software, and Websense.

Note: Information in this press release is accurate at the time of release. However, product specifications and availability, promotions, prices, relationships, contact numbers and other specific information may change over time. 

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