Cheryl Traverse President and CEO Xceedium

Xceedium, Inc., the leading provider of solutions for controlling and tracking high-risk users, has announced that it has added groundbreaking Microsoft Windows graphical session recording capability to its award-winning Xceedium GateKeeper solution. Using a patent-pending methodology, the Xceedium windows session recording solution replaces the cumbersome solutions in use today with a comprehensive, fully searchable, lightweight offering that provides organizations with actionable
information to meet compliance requirements.

Current point solutions for Windows session recording are not easily searchable, and give a company only partial visibility into the activities of high-risk users who access the entire critical network infrastructure. This makes testing for controls and meeting compliance requirements complex, costly, and in some cases impossible.

“It is clear that the Xceedium policy management and enforcement solution to control high-risk user activities was developed by people who have personally experienced the most painful aspects of compliance and security operations,” said Martin Dion, chief technology officer at Above Security. “Windows session recording completes this elegant solution that will continue to gain market share.”

Xceedium's patent-pending Windows session recording is the first solution of its kind that captures RDP protocols rather than video files, so it requires less bandwidth and produces records that are more easily queried.  With the addition of Windows session recording, the Xceedium GateKeeper provides visibility and control over the entire life cycle of high-risk user activities, including restrictive access, policy enforcement, tracking, full recording of both CLI and Windows sessions, and targeted reporting, making
it ideal for any organization that must meet compliance requirements. And since the Xceedium methodology for session recording is agent-less and appliance-based, it cannot be circumvented, so it provides an unmatched level of security.

“A comprehensive Windows session recording solution must be easily searchable and tie user policy to controls in an easy-to-read format,” said Cheryl Traverse, president and CEO of Xceedium. “Most organizations are required to track, audit and report on controls for high-risk users, but lack an efficient, all-in-one tool to do so. We are thrilled to provide a purpose-built solution that arms companies with easy access to the information they need to efficiently and cost-effectively test for controls.”

Key technologies and features of Xceedium's Windows graphical session recording include:

• Capturing raw RDP protocols rather than video files enables auditors to
easily search for activities, incidents and controls.
• Incidents and activities of high-risk users can be bookmarked and linked
back to specific controls.
• An agent-less, appliance-based approach that is extremely difficult to
defeat, even for the savvy high-risk user.
• An unobtrusive, low-overhead, reduced footprint solution.

Xceedium is the premier provider of solutions that reduce the complexity and cost of controlling and tracking high-risk users. Employing unique and patent-pending technologies, the Xceedium GateKeeper™ line of hardened appliances delivers restrictive access, compartmentalization, containment of users to authorized areas, monitoring, tracking, recording and comprehensive
reporting to meet compliance requirements. Companies gain the ability to securely administer remote infrastructure, control vendor access, automate compliance and manage outsourcing risk.

Xceedium GateKeeper is deployed in the largest enterprise, government and SMB environments. An ever-expanding client base includes household names in healthcare, pharmaceutical, financial services, retail, MSP and other key verticals. Xceedium has been honored with a number of prestigious industry awards, including recognition by Forrester Research as a “Hot Company to Watch”, by Gartner, Inc. as a “Cool Vendor in Infrastructure Protection 2009”, and by Red Herring as a “Top 100 Global Company”.