ADDISON, Texas, Aug. 21, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Securonix, the industry leader in big data security analytics and user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA), announces the winners of its inaugural Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. The Awards recognize forward thinking security leaders who are demonstrating a long-term vision to elevate the role and impact of security in their organizations, and have implemented cutting edge cybersecurity solutions to realize this vision.

“Today’s threat landscape is extremely complex with sophisticated hackers, nation states, and malicious/careless insiders all posing significant risks to organizations. In order to tackle these cyberthreats, we need to replace legacy tools with next-gen security technologies,” said Nanda Santhana, SVP of Customer Success. “We understand that change is difficult, and with these Awards, we want to recognize the difficult charge these leaders are taking on in improving the status quo.”

The winners were selected based on rigorous and exhaustive selection criteria. The organizations demonstrated a deep current understanding of cybersecurity challenges facing our businesses and nation today, as well as the foresight to define and implement cybersecurity programs and solutions of tomorrow. Each one of the winners has played a crucial role in shaping the Securonix products and functionality, and continues to provide valuable input to the Securonix product and engineering teams.

Select winners of the 2018 Securonix Cybersecurity Excellence Awards are:

2018 Best SNYPR SIEM Deployment of the Year AmerisourceBergen Corporation

2018 Best Insider Threat Deployment of the Year Pfizer Corporation

2018 Best Security Analytics Deployment of the Year BNY Mellon

“AmerisourceBergen’s cybersecurity vision is to have a 360-degree view of our global environment to predict, detect and respond faster to cyber threats with rich context and actionable intelligence,” said Umesh Yerram, Chief Data Protection Officer at AmerisourceBergen. “This is possible with the support of organizations like Securonix, which provided us with a scalable, flexible platform to ingest vast amounts of enterprise data, and leverage machine learning and behavior analytics.”

“We operate in the healthcare industry and are responsible for a significant amount of highly sensitive data, including proprietary information, intellectual property, and drug research,” said Christopher Marquart, CISO of Pfizer. “Insider threats are a fact of life and an insider threat program is a key corporate initiative. Securonix has given us a solid foundation that gives us visibility, protection and has already helped prevent insider-based data breaches.”

The Securonix Cybersecurity Excellence Awards will be distributed at a special awards gala at the 2018 Evanta Global CISO Executive Summit in Hilton Head, South Carolina on August 21 st , 2018.

About Securonix Securonix is redefining the next generation of cyber-threat detection using the power of machine learning and big data. Our purpose-built security analytics platform analyzes logs and network events in real time to identify actionable threats. Securonix provides out-of-the-box content to detect insider threat, cyber threats, cloud threats, and fraud activity.

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