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Shavlik Technologies, LLC Shavlik Technologies Launches OEM Partner Program New PatchITÔ Alliance Program Enables OEMs to Participate in Growing Security Patch Management Market St. Paul, Minn. (December, 2002) – Shavlik Technologies, LLC, a leading provider of vulnerability assessment and remediation tools for the Microsoft platform, today announced the formation of its PatchIT Alliance Program. The program is designed to enable Shavlik OEM partners to participate in the fast-growing security patch management market. According to Aberdeen Group, security patch management is a $2 billion worldwide market opportunity. “The sheer volume of advisories, vulnerability alerts, and suggested fixes make security patch management a time-consuming manual process that too often falls below the line in the priority list,” said Eric Hemmendinger, research director for security and privacy at Aberdeen Group. “Shavlik's offering takes much of the time and guesswork out of the equation, turning security patch management into something that is an achievable best practice. Suppliers that intend to facilitate customers' efforts to achieve security currency would be well served to look at Shavlik as an enabling partner.” About the Shavlik PatchIT Alliance Program The Shavlik PatchIT Alliance Partner Program is designed to enable OEM partners to capitalize on Shavlik’s industry leading HFNetChkPro patch management technology. HFNetChkPro makes it a snap for network administrators to scan thousands of computers across the enterprise, detect missing or misconfigured patches, and easily push patch updates to remote computers as soon as updates are issued. The enterprise-class functionality found in HFNetChkPro includes remote management, automated PatchPushÔ deployment, ability to conduct scans and patch deployments by assigned groups, and robust, customizable reporting options. In addition, Shavlik’s patch management solutions take the guess work out of patch management and configuration management. The products are tied directly into Microsoft’s XML database, allowing administrators to know exactly what each patch is intended to do, and empowering administrators to receive new updates minutes after they are issued by Microsoft. Shavlik Announces PatchIT Alliance Partner Program, Page 2 of 2 The PatchIT Alliance Partner Program was created for OEM partners of all sizes who want to participate in the growing security patch management market. Partners range from vendors who wish to license and redistribute Shavlik’s free product, to vendors who wish to engage in joint patch management product development based on Shavlik’s proprietary technology. Eligible OEM candidates include system management tool vendors, intrusion detection system vendors, anti-virus vendors, managed security system providers (MSSPs), vulnerability assessment providers and vendors who supply patches for their own applications. Successful OEM partners of Shavlik’s PatchIT Alliance Program include Microsoft Corp. Microsoft currently OEMs Shavlik’s technology both as system management tool vendor and as a patch provider for its own products. As a vendor of system management tools, Microsoft integrates Shavlik technology within its popular Microsoft System Management Server (SMS) product so administrators can see which computers need system and security updates. As a patch provider, Microsoft licenses Shavlik technology to distribute free patch management solutions to its worldwide customers. The tool, called HFNetChk, was developed by Shavlik and has more than one million downloads. Heading up the PatchIT Alliance Partner Program is Scott Dowd, Shavlik’s OEM channel manager. Scott brings a wealth of expertise to the Shavlik team, having built successful OEM and marketing programs at companies including Secure Computing, Espiria and DataComm. Companies interested in becoming Shavlik PatchIT Alliance partners can contact Scott at (651) 426-6624, or at [email protected]. About Shavlik Technologies Founded in 1993, Shavlik Technologies, LLC is a privately held software product and consulting firm located in St. Paul, Minnesota. The company’s family of network security tools for the Microsoft platform helps organizations stay abreast of new external and internal security threats, including hacker and malicious code attacks. The company’s flagship product, Shavlik HFNetChkPro, is licensed to Microsoft and has hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. Shavlik customers include Coca Cola, the FDA, Pfizer, UCLA, the US Navy and Google. Shavlik is headquartered at 4750 White Bear Parkway, St. Paul, MN, 55110. The company can be reached via phone at (800) 690-6911, via fax at (651) 426-3345, via email at [email protected], or via the Web at http://www.shavlik.com. ### - more - Media Contacts: Jim Azevedo/Marie Rothhauser Dovetail Public Relations (408) 395-3600 [email protected]/[email protected] Rebecca Martin Shavlik Technologies (651) 407-5290 [email protected] |