Mobile Active Defense Positioned in the 'Niche Players' Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Mobile Device Management Software

ATLANTA, April 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile Active Defense, a leading provider of Smartphone and Tablet Device Mobile Enterprise Compliance Security solutions, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the "Niche Players" quadrant of the "Mobile Device Management Software Magic Quadrant."(1)

"We consider our positioning in the 'niche players' quadrant by Gartner confirmation of our mission to enable customers to unlock the power of secure information to improve mobile business performance," said Rob Smith, Co-Founder and CTO of Mobile Active Defense. "We continue to innovate as we execute our product roadmap. With the 2010 launch of the Mobile Enterprise Compliance Security (MECS) server, we introduced a truly revolutionary product that will change the face of the mobile security industry and further enhance our market position."

As the various smartphones make an even greater impact on the enterprise, companies are struggling on how to manage policy, security and support. Enterprise Mobile Device management (MDM) software is evolving to offer smartphone (and other device) support across a variety of platforms. On a global basis, there are more than sixty companies in this space. Forty-two companies deemed as potential candidates were sent questionnaires and 23 of them met the inclusion criterion for this Magic Quadrant.

The MECS server solution implements stringent controls that can not be defeated by the employee, and is locked down to the degree required by organizations, especially those that are under compliance regulatory mandates. MECS extends existing enterprise and network security policies across mobile platforms with complete encryption, Geo-Location and granular firewall controls, a suite of anti-virus, malware, content filtering, device management tools and recently added Application Access Control (AAC), extending beyond the white/blacklisting of applications to actually monitor how applications behave and remediate if they should behave badly.

Winn Schwartau, Chairman of M.A.D. Partners, LLC, commented on the honor of being included in this prestigious quadrant by saying that: "The way we protect the mobile end point has to change in light of today's adoption of the various smartphone and tablet devices that are infiltrating Enterprises, whether IT likes it or not. MECS addresses all the components of MDM along with security and compliance regulation functionalities."

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant.

The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

(1) Gartner "Mobile Device Management Software Magic Quadrant" by Phillip Redman, John Girard and Leif-Olof Wallin, April, 2011.

About Mobile Active Defense

The award-winning Mobile Active Defense MECS Server Solution is the flagship product made by M.A.D. Partners, LLC, The Smartphone Security Company. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA and offices in San Jose, CA, London, England and Mainz, Germany. The Mobile Enterprise Compliance and Security (MECS) server implements stringent controls that can not be defeated by the employee, and is locked down to the degree required by organizations, especially those that are under compliance regulatory mandates. MECS extends existing enterprise and network security policies across mobile platforms with complete encryption, Geo-Location and granular firewall controls, a suite of anti-virus, malware, content filtering, device management tools and recently added Application Access Control (AAC), extending beyond the white/blacklisting of applications to monitor how applications behave and remediate if they should behave badly.

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SOURCE M.A.D. Partners, LLC