The Office of the Auditor General of Alberta Selects Application Security, Inc.'s AppDetectivePro™ for Database Audit and Assessment

Online, January 5, 2010 (Newswire.com) - NEW YORK - Application Security, Inc., the leading provider of database security, risk and compliance (SRC) solutions for the enterprise, today announced that the Auditor General of Alberta has standardized on AppDetectivePro for database SRC audits. They will use AppDetectivePro's agentless database scanning technology to perform database discovery, User Rights Reviews and vulnerability assessments to increase the effectiveness of annual internal control and security audits while providing additional value to auditees.

With tens of thousands of licenses shipped globally, AppDetectivePro is the de-facto standard for database SRC audits worldwide. AppDetectivePro discovers, examines, reports and proposes fixes for database security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. The solution provides the Auditor General of Alberta with the automated audit and reporting functionality necessary to efficiently evaluate the security of government databases.

Because it is agentless, AppDetectivePro can be rapidly implemented and provide immediate benefits. The solution provides auditors, IT advisors and internal audit teams with detailed compliance reports and a comprehensive view of an organization's database asset inventory, vulnerability profile, access controls and entitlements to sensitive information.

"It is critical that we are able to efficiently evaluate whether government databases have effective security and access controls to protect the sensitive data hosted and processed by them," said Patrick Dunnigan, IT Audit Principal, Auditor General of Alberta. "After evaluating six vendors, we selected AppDetectivePro because of its market leadership, agentless software architecture, vulnerability knowledgebase, comprehensive multi-platform coverage, and its User Rights Review capabilities."

"The Auditor General of Alberta is required to annually assess and report on the internal controls and security of its auditees' IT environments," said Rob Chapdelaine, vice president, worldwide sales and distribution, Application Security, Inc. "AppDetectivePro efficiently provides a detailed database assessment, by eliminating manual processes and streamlining assessments and audits of database entitlements and vulnerabilities."

About Application Security, Inc.
Application Security, Inc. is the leading provider of agentless database security, risk and compliance (SRC) solutions for the enterprise. Application Security, Inc.'s agentless approach - AppDetectivePro for auditors and IT advisors, and DbProtect for the enterprise - delivers the industry's most scalable database SRC solution and is in use around the world in the most demanding environments by over 2,000 customers. The company was named to Inc. Magazine's 2007 (Inc. 500) and 2008 list of America's Fastest Growing Private Companies, and was also named to the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 by Deloitte & Touche.

For more information, please visit www.appsecinc.com.
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