King's College Hospital Chooses Promisec Spectator for Enterprises to Secure Internal Network

March 29, 2007; 01:15 AM

Promisec Ltd., a leading provider of clientless endpoint security management (CESM) technology, announced today that its Spectator for Enterprises™, has been selected by King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London to secure its 3,000-endpoint network. Promisec’s agentless solution helps the hospital to significantly reduce endpoint administrative and security tasks and increase the productivity of IT staff as well as that of endpoint users, while decreasing its exposure to internal threats, both malicious and accidental.

King’s College Hospital is one of the United Kingdom’s largest and busiest teaching hospitals. The hospital chose Promisec’s Spectator Professional for Enterprises due to its clientless approach to detecting potential endpoint weaknesses and ability to remediate identified threats. Promisec also enabled a layered approach to internal network security through its centralized third-party management platform to ensure compliance with security policies and software licensing.

"Promisec Spectator gives us comprehensive visibility into endpoint activity and greater control over our network,” said Derek Farlow, ICT Security Manager at King’s College Hospital. “Its clientless approach makes deployment quick and easy, and the software’s versatility enables us to secure our endpoints simply while enforcing that security across the entire organisation from a single point in our network."

After reviewing other endpoint security solutions, King’s College Hospital purchased Spectator for Enterprises to manage more than 3,000 network endpoints and ensure that internal network compliance initiatives are satisfied. Spectator for Enterprises is installed on a single server and provides agentless single point of management for the organization’s extensive network of Windows-based computer systems.

King’s College Hospital needed a solution that would be able to identify and fix deviations from its security and software usage policy without adversely affecting its network performance. Due to the number of different people using the network it was difficult to keep track of users’ activity and the software and hardware used on their workstations. The solution had to complement the hospital’s existing IT infrastructure without involving any major changes to the status quo due to the limited resources available . Spectator for Enterprises’ was the ideal choice because of its complete range of threats addressed, its ease of deployment and simple yet powerful operation.

About Promisec Spectator for Enterprises

Promisec Spectator for Enterprises provides near real-time, clientless endpoint security monitoring and remediation and management of third-party security applications on the internal network to ensure business continuity, corporate policy compliance and data integrity. The software installs on a single server or workstation for centralized monitoring and management of the entire corporate internal network to ensure enterprise-wide adherence to corporate security policies. Promisec Spectator for Enterprises also identifies malware, spyware and other attacks and intrusions by eliminating snapshot deviations across all endpoint connected systems.

“We are very pleased to be the endpoint security product of choice for King’s College Hospital and safeguarding its network with Promisec’s highly effective approach to endpoint security management,” said Hilik Kotler, vice president of business development and co-founder of Promisec. “By meeting critical requirements with our simple yet powerful solution, Promisec provides institutions such as King’s College Hospital with assurance that their IT operations will remain secure under their watch.”

About King’s College Hospital

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of London’s largest and busiest teaching hospitals, with a unique profile of providing strong local services for more than 700,000 people in South East London, and a focused set of tertiary specialties offered to patients across a wider geographic area. It is recognised nationally and internationally for its work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac and haemato-oncology. For more information visit http://www.kch.nhs.uk/.

About Promisec

Promisec, Ltd. is an award-winning technology leader in agentless endpoint security management software. The company offers industry proven internal network security solutions in use by Global 2000 organizations, including AGF, AmeriQuest and Comverse. The company’s flagship product, Promisec Spectator for Enterprises, protects against business disruption from internal network threats with the only agentless endpoint security software to deliver both monitoring and remediation and the ability to manage third-party security products for a layered approach to corporate network security. Privately held and founded in 2004, Promisec’s main headquarters are located in Israel with offices in New York, Boca Raton, London and Paris. The company’s U.S. headquarters are located at 461 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor in New York City, NY 10017. Visit the Promisec Web site at www.promisec.com.

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