PC Magazine Names WebWatcher New Editors' Choice for Parental Monitoring Software

LOS ANGELES, June 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Awareness Technologies, Inc. today announced that its leading parental computer monitoring software, WebWatcher has garnered a Four-Star / Very Good review and named a new Editors' Choice for parental monitoring software by PC Magazine. In a separate review, Laptop Cop, the company's premier laptop security solution was assigned a Four-Star / Very Good rating.

"We are honored to receive this recognition from such a highly respected consumer technology publication," said Brad Miller, CEO of Awareness Technologies. "We're committed to developing the most powerful and user friendly parental monitoring and laptop security software and this recognition from PC Magazine affirms our two flagship consumer products deliver the most comprehensive features in the industry."

PC Magazine's reviews, conducted by Neil Rubenking, Lead Analyst, OS and Security, highlight WebWatcher's comprehensive monitoring, online portal and dashboard, notifications, web-content filtering and remote reporting, and Laptop Cop's geolocation, remote retrieval and deletion, and web monitoring capabilities.

WebWatcher is the leading parental monitoring software on the market. WebWatcher allows parents to remotely monitor and manage all computer activity, including email, instant messaging, website visits, and social networking activity, as well as block inappropriate websites and programs.

Laptop Cop is the only complete anti-theft solution that addresses all aspects of computer theft. It allows you to immediately begin remotely retrieving and/or deleting any files you wish from your stolen laptop the instant you realize it's gone. Because it offers a complete suite of computer activity monitoring tools as well, you can see everything the thief is doing in almost real-time. You can also control access to everything on the pc - rendering it useless if desired. And in many cases we can even get your computer back to you, often very quickly.

“... if you need to track every PC and Internet action by an at-risk kid, it will do that job very well. Once it's installed, all configuration and reporting is strictly remote,” according to PC Magazine. “... WebWatcher will record every detail and even send you instant notification when it encounters certain words. The fact that all configuration and reporting takes place online pushes WebWatcher over the top, making it our new Editor's Choice for parental monitoring software,” added the magazine.

In addition to PC Magazine's reviews, WebWatcher was recently named "Best Internet Safety Tool," by About.com as part of its 2011 Readers' Choice Awards.  Votes were cast on About.com's Family Computing site for the industry's top products in various categories. WebWatcher also received the TopTen REVIEWS Gold Award for parental, employee and email monitoring.

About Awareness Technologies

As the pioneer in Unified Insider Threat Prevention, Awareness Technologies' SaaS-based service is easily available and affordable for businesses of any size. Architected at the endpoint, clients can access 4 technologies including DLP, web filtering, employee monitoring, and laptop recovery, through one agent download and one control console. Awareness Technologies has over 10,000 businesses world-wide currently depending on its solutions to protect their data from insider threats, and has been named on Deloitte's 2010 Technology Fast 500. For more information, please visit www.awarenesstechnologies.com.

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