Prestigious security magazine lauds Lighthouse Gateway’s creative approach to delivering robust identity and access management via the cloud.
LINCOLN, RI — December 8, 2011 — Lighthouse Security Group announced today that it has been recognized as an IT security innovator in SC Magazine’s annual awards issue. The Lighthouse Gateway cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution was featured in the “Access Control” category of the “2011 Innovators” section of SC Magazine’s December 2011 issue. Acknowledging that access control is a mature segment of the IT security marketplace, the magazine praised Lighthouse Gateway for its truly innovative approach to IAM.
“We are, of course, extremely pleased to have been recognized by this prestigious security magazine,” said Lighthouse Security Group CTO Eric Z. Maass. “SC Magazine is one of the most prominent publications in the IT security space. Each year in December the magazine honors key security vendors with awards and recognizes companies like Lighthouse for their innovative solutions to security challenges in established or emerging fields. We are proud to be a part of this ‘Best of 2011’ edition.”
Lighthouse Gateway is an award-winning IAM-as-a-Service (IAMaaS) solution based upon IBM Tivoli software. Lighthouse Security Group based the system on IBM’s enterprise-class software, added powerful governance technologies that simplify configuration and administration, and made the resulting innovations available via the cloud as a cost-effective and comprehensive IAM service. SC Magazine named Lighthouse an Innovator for “making IBM ‘Big Iron’ capabilities in IAM available to smaller organizations at an affordable price and within their means to support.”
“SC Magazine named IBM ‘best security company’ this past year, recognizing IBM as a leader in IT security across the board — including IAM,” Maass said. “Unfortunately, traditional IAM projects can easily become complex and costly, making them difficult to swallow by organizations outside of the enterprise class. Historically, companies either needed to accept that complexity and cost or settle for less capable technologies. SC Magazine recognized Lighthouse for developing a creative solution to that problem, which allows organizations of any size to cost-effectively, efficiently and easily acquire best-of-breed IAM.”
Quick to deploy and easy to use, Lighthouse Gateway delivers the power of a comprehensive IAM platform with all the benefits of the cloud. It enables companies of all sizes to eliminate the cost and complexity associated with traditional IAM software and the need for in-house IAM expertise. Large organizations have selected Lighthouse Gateway because it delivers robust capabilities without the need to deploy and manage an on-premise infrastructure. Smaller firms and midmarket companies utilize Lighthouse Gateway to gain access to the IAM functionality they need but generally cannot afford.
“Each year for the past four years, SC Magazine has recognized innovators in a few select categories. The publication defines Innovators as ‘those companies that have the vision, imagination and creative management to become the leaders in our industry.’ Lighthouse saw the need for comprehensive IAM in companies of all sizes, and developed a way to provide that without reinventing the wheel. It’s a value proposition that resonates with small firms all the way up to the enterprise,” said Maass.
Lighthouse Gateway provides a comprehensive set of IAM capabilities in three major areas of service: Identity Management, Web Access Management and Federation. To learn more about Lighthouse Gateway or for a live demo, contact Lighthouse Security Group at info@lighthousecs.com, 888-542-8030 or request a call. To see more of the product on-demand, tour Gateway or watch a recent Lighthouse Gateway webcast. For more information about Lighthouse Gateway and the advantages of cloud-based identity and access management, visit www.DiscoverLighthouseGateway.com.
About Lighthouse Security Group, LLC
Lighthouse Security Group, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lighthouse Computer Services, Inc., is a premier provider of cloud-based Identity and Access Management (IAM) services. Founded in 2007, the company serves clients throughout Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Manufacturing, Higher Education, and the Department of Defense. With an engineering heritage rooted in both IBM and defense-technology leader Lockheed Martin, Lighthouse Security Group is home to a team that comprises industry authorities, patent-holding innovators and world-class IAM talent. The company’s major operations include its market-leading Lighthouse Gateway cloud IAM offering, commercial systems integration services and information security services for the U.S. Department of Defense. For more information visit http://www.DiscoverLighthouseGateway.com.
Contact:
Anne Gormley
Lighthouse Computer Services, Inc.
Tel: 888-542-8030 ext. 115
E-mail: agormley@lighthousecs.com
