WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 18, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Digital Guardian, the only security solution to protect data from insider and outsider threats with a single endpoint agent, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the "Visionaries" Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protectioni. This is the third consecutive year of inclusion. Digital Guardian is also included in the "Leaders" quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention.ii
"With the rash of recent high-profile data breaches, data security must continue to be elevated on the IT priority list," said Connie Stack, CMO of Digital Guardian. "As the threats to data continue to propagate, Digital Guardian remains focused on protecting data on the endpoint from any threat—regardless of origination. We believe that our positioning in the Magic Quadrants for Mobile Data Protection and Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention confirms protecting data must be a central tenet of a contemporary security program."
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About Digital Guardian
Digital Guardian offers security's most technologically advanced endpoint agent. Only Digital Guardian ends data theft by protecting sensitive data from skilled insiders and persistent outside attackers. For over 10 years we've enabled data-rich organizations to protect their most valuable assets at the endpoint. Our unique contextual awareness, transformative endpoint visibility, and flexible controls let you minimize the risk of data loss without slowing the pace of business.
i Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection" by John Girard, September 2014.
ii Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention" by Eric Ouellet, December 12, 2013.