HyTrust Wins Best of VMworld - Gold Award

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 3, 2015) - VMworld 2015 - HyTrust Inc., the Cloud Security Automation Company, has received the prestigious "Best of VMworld" Gold Award for Security, Compliance and Virtualization. This category recognizes companies that work to improve data center or cloud security by monitoring and protecting hypervisors, cloud workloads, guest operating systems and virtual networks, and enforcing security and compliance best practices. The company was recognized for its innovative work with HyTrust CloudControl for NSX, which extends the capabilities of its cloud security platform and the virtual appliance that sits between administrators and VMware vSphere, adding critical access controls, visibility and secure multi-tenancy to the virtual infrastructure. It also features an industry-first separation of duties and monitoring access to enhance security configurations and policies in this critical virtualized network environment.

"We're gratified to be once again honored with the Best of VMworld - Gold Award, and we extend our thanks and appreciation to the awards committee," said HyTrust Co-Founder and President, Eric Chiu. "Our goal has always been to help establish the control, visibility and data security needed to ensure that workloads in cloud and virtualized environments can run securely from the time they are created until they are decommissioned. Every solution in our portfolio is designed specifically to ease and enhance top-tier security without hindering productivity, and we're delighted to be recognized for our efforts."

The Best of VMworld Awards recognize the most exceptional products, and winners are described as exceling at innovation as well as key areas such as performance, ease of integration into an environment, ease of use and manageability, functionality, value delivered, and ability to fill a needed market gap. A team of expert judges, consisting of editors, independent analysts, users and consultants, selects the winners.

About HyTrust (www.hytrust.com)
Cloud Under Control^™.
HyTrust is the Cloud Security Automation company. Its virtual appliances provide the essential foundation for cloud control, visibility, data security, management and compliance. HyTrust mitigates the risk of catastrophic failure-- especially in light of the concentration of risk that occurs within virtualization and cloud environments. Organizations can now confidently take full advantage of the cloud, and even broaden deployment to mission-critical applications.

The company is backed by top tier investors VMware, Cisco, Intel, In-Q-Tel, Fortinet, AITV, Granite Ventures, Trident Capital, Epic Ventures and Vanedge Capital; and its partners include VMware; VCE; McAfee; Splunk; HP Arcsight; Accuvant; RSA and Intel.

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