PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BeyondTrust^®, the security industry’s only provider of context-aware solutions for privilege and vulnerability management, today announced that the company’s Retina Network Security Scanner was selected as a winner of the 2014 Information Security™ Magazine (ISM) and SearchSecurity.com™ Readers’ Choice Award for Best Application Security Product. The ninth annual Readers’ Choice Awards surveyed Information Security readers to rate top security products in 22 categories, asking participants to only vote on the products in use in their environments.

Application security has become an essential component of enterprise security strategy due to the sheer volume of corporate applications accessed by employees on a daily basis. Nowadays, businesses must continually monitor, discover, and assess the security posture in a mixture of network, Web, and virtual application assets. BeyondTrust’s Retina Network Security Scanner addresses these modern challenges with the use of agent-based or agentless scanning, which can identify specific vulnerabilities, assess risk and prioritize remediation based on a plethora of factors.

“At BeyondTrust, we take pride in the legacy of success of Retina, which empowers companies to efficiently identify IT exposures and prioritize remediation enterprise-wide,” said Brad Hibbert, vice president, product strategy and operations, BeyondTrust. “It is very gratifying that our commitment to the quality of BeyondTrust products and services is recognized by Information Security Magazine and SearchSecurity.com readers.”

Retina Network Security Scanner is available as a standalone application, or as part of BeyondTrust’s broader Retina vulnerability management suite. Most recently announced was Retina 5.20, a new version of the company’s vulnerability assessment technology found in the Retina Network Security Scanner and Retina CS Enterprise Vulnerability Management solutions. The release significantly extends scanning capabilities for virtual, web and network environments. Also announced was the latest version of the company’s BeyondInsight IT Risk Management Platform with the introduction of a behavioral analytics component. These new capabilities support BeyondTrust’s mission to provide its customers with real-time threat intelligence coupled with zero-gap visibility across all cyber attack surfaces.

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About BeyondTrustBeyondTrust empowers security-conscious organizations with Context-Aware Security Intelligence, delivering Privileged Account Management and Vulnerability Management solutions that reduce IT security risks and simplify compliance reporting across heterogeneous IT environments.

Our customers not only mitigate user-based risks arising from misuse of system or device privileges, but also identify and remediate asset vulnerabilities targeted by cyber-attacks. As a result, they address both internal and external threats, while making every device – physical, virtual, mobile and cloud – as secure as possible. BeyondTrust solutions are unified under the BeyondInsight IT Risk Management Platform, which provides IT and security teams a single, contextual lens through which to view user and asset risk.

More than half of the companies listed on the Dow Jones Industrial Average rely on BeyondTrust to secure their enterprises. Customers include 8 of the world's 10 largest banks, 8 of the world's 10 largest aerospace and defense firms, and 7 of the 10 largest U.S. pharmaceutical companies, as well as renowned universities across the globe.

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