Digital Guardian Named to the “Visionaries” Quadrant of Gartner's 2015 Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection Solutions for Third Consecutive Year

Waltham, Mass. - November, 2015 – Digital Guardian, a next generation data protection platform purpose built to stop data theft, today announced that for the third consecutive year, it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc., in the “Visionaries” Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection Solutions . This year Digital Guardian moved further along the completeness of vision and ability to execute axes.

Mobile data protection solutions defend access to secure data on storage systems in notebooks, removable media, desktops, servers and cloud storage environments.

Through the acquistion of Armor5 in October 2014 and the release of Digital Guardian 7.0 in February 2015, Digital Guardian has further bolstered its mobile data protection offerings, including the addition of in-depth defense features such as advanced threat prevention techniques.

“Our mission is to provide ubiquitous data protection regardless of the threat actor, data type, application, device or point of access,” said Connie Stack, chief marketing officer, Digital Guardian. “The first step toward fulfilling that mission is providing the highest level of protection on workstations and removable media. We’ve taken significant steps toward meeting those requirements both organically and through our strategic acquisition of Armor5. We believe our position as a Visionary in the Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection Solutions demonstrates these efforts while reinforcing the need to protect businesses’ most important asset – its sensitive data.”

In addition to being named a Visionary in the Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection Solutions, Digital Guardian also received the highest score in three out of four Use Cases in the 2015 Critical Capabilities for Mobile Data Protection Solutions report. Digital Guardian received the highest score for “Bring Your Own Device,” “Shared Workstations,” and “Sneakernets on Shared Media.”

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About Digital Guardian

Digital Guardian is a next generation data protection platform designed to stop data theft. The Digital Guardian platform performs across the corporate network, traditional endpoints, mobile devices and cloud applications to make it easier to see and stop all threats to sensitive data. For more than 10 years, it has enabled data-rich organizations to protect their most valuable assets with an on premise deployment or an outsourced managed security program (MSP). Digital Guardian’s unique data awareness and transformative endpoint visibility, combined with behavioral threat detection and response, enables you to protect data without slowing the pace of your business. To learn more please visit:www.digitalguardian.com.