LAS VEGAS, November 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Vanguard Enforcer(TM) Impresses Judges with Leading Edge Intrusion 
Prevention and Management Capabilities

Vanguard Integrity Professionals, Inc. today announced that its Vanguard
Enforcer solution was honored with the 2009 GSN Homeland Security Award for
Best Intrusion Detection/Prevention System.

"This was one of the most hotly contested categories in the Awards
program," said Government Security News Chairman Adrian Courtenay. "Vanguard
Enforcer was a big hit with our panel of judges, probably because it goes
beyond event monitoring and actually finds vulnerabilities and prevents
intrusions by continuously inspecting the underlying security
implementation."

Vanguard Enforcer protects critical infrastructure and major applications
for federal agencies and large enterprises by ensuring that configuration
controls and compliance standards are in place and enforced. The underlying
technology behind the solution is used to assure system integrity and
fault-tolerant security for systems on manned space flight missions for NASA
(National Aeronautics and Space Administration). With an EAL3+ Common
Criteria (CC) certification rating, Enforcer continually identifies policy
violations, vulnerabilities and threat agents and can be configured to take
immediate action without human intervention (autonomous security). As a
component of Vanguard's Assurance and Compliance Solution suite, Enforcer was
developed to exceed the most demanding intrusion management requirements for
sensitive and mission critical systems.

"We are honored that GSN recognized our intrusion management solution
with this prestigious award," said Vanguard CEO/CTO Ronn Bailey. "We take
great pride in developing services and solutions that protect critical
infrastructure and automate complex security management processes. The needs
of the nation state and those of corporate America are not so different. With
Enforcer, we have demonstrated that one solution can serve national security
interests and ensure economic survival at the national level and in the
private sector equally well."

Vanguard executives are actively engaged with leaders in the government,
DoD, intelligence community and private sector to promote industry best
practices, advance cyber policy and raise awareness about new security risks
and threat sources.

"The competition was stiff, and our panel of independent judges had to
make some very tough choices, but we think we've identified the 'best of the
best' for 2009," said Jacob Goodwin, the editor-in-chief of GSN: Government
Security News (http://www.gsnmagazine.com/), who oversaw the evaluation
process.

The Annual Homeland Security Awards Program was created by GSN to honor
the dedicated government officials who have created and executed effective
security programs across the country, along with the leading vendors in IT
and physical security who have researched, developed and supplied innovative
security solutions during the past year.

About Vanguard Integrity Professionals

Vanguard Integrity Professionals provides enterprise security software
and services that solve complex security and regulatory compliance challenges
for government agencies and large enterprises around the world. With
solutions for Audit and Compliance, Security Administration, Intrusion
Detection and Identity and Access Management, Vanguard automates processes
necessary to identify and mitigate security risks. For more information,
visit www.go2vanguard.com.

Vanguard Enforcer is a trademark of Vanguard Integrity Professionals,
Inc. Any other marks belong to their respective companies.