Evaluation Based on the Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

Dubai, UAE.-- June 21, 2009 - RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), today announced that it is positioned in the Leaders quadrant within Gartner's 2009 Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).    The positioning is based on RSA's ability to execute and completeness of vision. It appears in the May 29, 2009 report by Mark Nicolett and Kelly M. Kavanagh entitled, "Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management, 2009." 

According to Gartner, "The SIEM market is driven by customer needs to analyze security event data in real time (for threat management, primarily focused on network events) and to analyze and report on log data (for security policy compliance monitoring, primarily focused on host and application events)."

The RSA enVision platform is designed to give organizations a single, integrated 3-in-1 log management solution for simplifying compliance; enhancing security and risk mitigation; and optimizing IT and network operations through the automated collection, analysis, alerting, auditing, reporting and secure storage of all logs. More than 1,700 customers have selected the RSA enVision platform.

"We are extremely proud that the report from Gartner positioned RSA in the Leaders quadrant," said Ahmed Abdella, Regional Manager, Middle East, North & West Africa, RSA, The Security Division of EMC.  "With the rapid expansion of security threats and tightening IT budgets, our customers rely more heavily on their SIEM systems for better threat identification and information risk management.  We believe that our positioning in the leaders quadrant is based on our ability to meet the growing and diverse needs of compliance, security, and IT and network operations personnel within a single product.  I believe this positioning supports our overall vision and strategy of integrating enVision with other key RSA products such as with the Data Loss Prevention Suite®, SecureID®, Adaptive Authentication® and Fraud Action®."

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About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted May 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About RSA
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is the premier provider of security solutions for business acceleration, helping the world's leading organizations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. RSA's information-centric approach to security guards the integrity and confidentiality of information throughout its lifecycle - no matter where it moves, who accesses it or how it is used.

RSA offers industry-leading solutions in identity assurance & access control, data loss prevention & encryption, compliance & security information management and fraud protection. These solutions bring trust to millions of user identities, the transactions that they perform, and the data that is generated. For more information, please visit www.RSA.com and www.EMC.com.

RSA and enVision are either registered trademarks or trademarks of RSA Security Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. EMC is a registered trademark of EMC Corporation. All other products and/or services mentioned are trademarks of their respective countries.

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