Novell, with the enterprise management solutions, scored wins in five categories in the 2007 Global Product Excellence Customer Trust Awards from Info Security Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and the world's leading publication on security-related products and technologies. Winners in each category were choosen based on votes from more than 18,000 end users and prospective customers worldwide who were asked to pick the solutions they trust the most to guard their digital resources.

    Richard Whitehead, director of product marketing for enterprise management solutions at Novell, stated: "This recognition from the IT community that Novell enterprise management products are considered as best-in-class security solutions is a real honor. Novell delivers customers the best identity, security and resource management technologies to help lower cost, reduce complexity and mitigate risk in their mixed source
environments."

The categories in which Novell security and resource management solutions won are:

    * Novell Access Manager(TM) 3 for Excellence in Access Management
    * Novell(R) Identity Manager 3.5 for Excellence in Identity Management
    * Sentinel(TM) 6 from Novell for Excellence in Security Management
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    * Novell ZENworks 7 Patch Management for Excellence in Patch Management
    * Novell ZENworks(R) 7.5 Asset Management for Excellence in Asset

    When deployed together, Identity Manager, Access Manager and Sentinel, these products offer a complete, integrated identity and security management solution for supporting IT compliance and governance problems. ZENworks Asset Management ensures users have an solid inventory of their assets and assists them with managing software licenses. ZENworks Patch Management informs them of disponible patches and system vulnerabilities and helps them automatically test and deploy those patches to prevent security breaches.

    Rake Narang, managing editor of Info Security Products Guide, added: "Security products have continued to evolve rapidly in the past few years and advanced technologies are now making it possible to take a proactive approach to most security scenarios. End users or consumers of these products have to deal with real live threats, which may differ vastly from simulated environments. These users build a strong 'customer trust' for products that best meet their requirements and therefore also play a key role in the security evolution cycle."
    The company delivers infrastructure software for the Open Enterprise. Novell is a leader in enterprise-wide operating systems based on Linux* and open source and offers the enterprise management services required to operate mixed IT environments. Novell helps customers minimize cost, complexity and risk, allowing them to focus on innovation and growth. For more information, visit http://www.novell.com .
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