ArcSight Named a Leader in Info-Tech Decision Diamond for Security Information Management Solutions

Award Recognizes Quality of ArcSight Products and Client Services

CUPERTINO, Calif. - December 12, 2007 - ArcSight, Inc., a leader in enterprise security and compliance management solutions, today announced that the Info-Tech Research Group has placed the ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) as a Leader in its Decision Diamond assessment for the category of Security Information Management Solutions. The Info-Tech Decision Diamond Award recognizes outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace; recipients provide quality products and services to their customers, and the awards program helps enterprise IT decision makers identify a short list of vendors for IT programs.

"For organizations looking to implement a full-featured [Security Information Management] solution, ArcSight ESM is difficult to beat," the Info-Tech report said. "The company is well focused and has a solid ability to deliver. The product itself is feature-rich, highly scalable, and part of a well-designed and integrated family of products."

"Our goal is to help our customers protect their businesses with the best security and compliance management solutions available in the marketplace," said Tom Reilly, president and COO of ArcSight. "Receiving the Decision Diamond Leader Award from Info-Tech Research Group lets us know we're on the right track, and that we are delivering on our promise to our customers."

Ranking vendors by the strength of their offering, their overall stability, viability, ability to execute their strategy for the enterprise and effectively compete in the mid-market, the Info-Tech Decision Diamond Award is a tribute to the contribution of exceptional vendors in a particular category. ArcSight received the highest possible scores for its ability to execute its strategy as well as for its features, support and product architecture.

The Info-Tech report also noted that ArcSight ESM has "rich features with the most comprehensive real-time management capabilities of the products reviewed." "ESM is able to catalog incredibly high volumes of data and still make it readily accessible. Correlation and scalability are the mantras for the tool. Collectively, these findings resulted in a top score."

About Info-Tech Research Group
With a paid membership of over 21,000 worldwide, Info-Tech Research Group (www.infotech.com) is the global leader in providing Information Technology research and analysis.

About ArcSight
ArcSight is a leading provider of security and compliance solutions that intelligently identify and mitigate business risk and deliver a centralized view of enterprise-wide events across heterogeneous infrastructures. This real time and historic view into external attacks, insider threats and regulatory compliance provides enterprises, MSSPs and government agencies with the intelligence and response capabilities required to effectively protect and manage their networks and their businesses.  For more information, see www.arcsight.com. 

ArcSight and the ArcSight logo are trademarks of ArcSight, Inc.

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