FREMONT, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 1, 2016) - Attivo Networks®, the leader in deception for cyber security threat detection, has been named the Gold winner of the 2016 Global Excellence Awards® for deception based security and a Silver winner for Intrusion Detection, Prevention or Combinations.

Presented by Info Security Products Guide, the industry's leading information security research and advisory guide, the security industry celebrated its 12th Annual 2016 Global Excellence Awards in San Francisco by honoring excellence in security products, people and companies. A panel of more than 50 industry veterans selected this year's winners.

"For Attivo Networks to win such coveted awards is a wonderful achievement, especially considering the caliber of the other nominees," said Attivo Network's CEO, Tushar Kothari. "Every organization concerned with protecting their most critical assets should be looking at deception as part of their security infrastructure. Our deception platform has proven to be the most comprehensive and effective solution in the market and this award is a big step in validating our approach."

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About Attivo Networks
Attivo Networks® is the leader in dynamic deception technology, which in real-time detects intrusions that are inside network, data center, cloud, and SCADA environments before the data is breached. Leveraging high-interaction deception techniques, the Attivo BOTsink® Solution lures BOTs and APTs to reveal themselves, without generating false positives. Designed for efficiency, there are no dependencies on signatures, database lookup or heavy computation to detect and defend against cyber threats. Attivo solutions capture full forensics and provide the threat intelligence to shut down current and protect against future attacks. www.attivonetworks.com