Mobile Armor, Inc. in "Visionaries" Quadrant of Mobile Data Protection Magic Quadrant
Product Mix Squarely Aligned to Address Growth Areas Identified by Report
St. Louis, MO. October 6, 2008 - Mobile Armor, Inc., a global provider of electronic data and asset protection software and solutions, announced today that it is positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of the newly released Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection (MDP)" report.(1)
"We are pleased that Gartner has placed Mobile Armor in the Visionaries Quadrant in their most recent MDP report. We believe this is recognition of us as a visionary, which is precisely how we would describe ourselves." said Mobile Armor Chairman and CEO, Chand Vyas. "It was our objective when founding Mobile Armor to develop the premier solution for the protection of data, one of the most critical assets we have. Unburdened by legacy technology, our solution is developed from the ground up to leverage the significant advances in technology in the past few years. With the growth in our customer base, we expect to move to the Leaders Quadrant in future reports."
Mr. Vyas noted that Mobile Armor intends to differentiate itself by providing:
- Innovative developments in Mobile Data Protection (MDP), Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Enterprise Key Management (EKM) technologies
- State-of-the-art modular architecture that supports continuous improvement and interoperability
- Comprehensive support for multiple hardware and platforms
- Wide range of authentication methods, including Smart Cards, RSA SecurID and ColorCode, Mobile Armor's unique graphical authentication method.
- Revolutionary Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering
About Mobile Armor
Mobile Armor is a Saint Louis based American company that provides data security solutions to the U.S. Army. Other notable customers include various military and civilian agencies and customers in healthcare and financial services verticals. Mobile Armor offers a solution that provides centralized management of all mobile devices, including desktops, laptops, PDA's, smart phones, and removable drives (including thumb drives). The company is a recipient of the coveted U.S. Data at Rest Tiger Team blanket purchase agreement for its data encryption products. These products are certified to meet the standards and guidelines for security set by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 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.
(1)Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection" by John Girard, Ray Wagner, published 23 September 2008.
Media Contact
Robert Grupe of Mobile Armor, Inc.
+1-314-590-0900
