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InnovationIT Acquisition Improves Data Protection and Job Scheduling:

Acquisition of SQLGuard Worldwide and ProcScheduler.com Expands InnovationIT’s Leadership in Protecting Data, Managing Compliance, Job Scheduling and Mitigating Data-Centric Vulnerabilities.

Washington – December 22, 2014 – InnovationIT today announced the acquisition of data security provider SQLGuard. The company’s automated database security scanning technologies strengthen InnovationIT’s ability to help organizations protect high-value data, reduce security risks and achieve compliance with mandates and regulations.

SQLGuard pioneered the research and development of security software for relational databases and big data stores-helping businesses and government agencies uncover critical configuration mistakes, access control issues, missing patches, or any toxic combination of settings that could lead to denial-of-service attacks, unauthorized data modification and data breaches.

InnovationIT will continue to develop, support and offer both SQLGuard and ProcScheduler products, DatabaseMapperPro, DatabaseMapperLite, ProcScheduler, and will integrate and use those products throughout the InnovationIT portfolio of information security, compliance management and threat intelligence offerings. The acquisition gives InnovationIT the ability to:

Secure data in more places-SQLGuard. deepens InnovationIT’s data and advanced threat protection capabilities, augmenting InnovationIT’s existing managed security services and extending protection of data and management of threats across endpoints, networks, applications and databases.

Improve compliance management-SQLGuard and ProcScheduler. enriches InnovationIT compliance auditing and management services by streamlining and automating the process of testing and monitoring databases so that businesses can improve the way they address the requirements of regulations and mandates including PCI DSS, HIPAA and SOX.

Mitigate more data-centric vulnerabilities- SQLGuard and ProcScheduler. com enhances InnovationIT’s penetration testing and vulnerability management services, with additional database scanning and testing capabilities that offer customers more comprehensive vulnerability scanning, logging and monitoring across their networks, applications and databases.