HP's Global Security Consulting Practice Wins Award

September 5, 2002 Hewlett Packard Global Security Consulting Practice has been awarded the Academy Award for the Best Security Service by Secure Computing Magazine. This award recognizes the HP Security Centers for the quality and breadth of its offering, as well as their ability to meet the advice, management, and solution delivery requirements of their clients. This is the second year in a row that HPs Global Security Consulting Practice has won this award.

The Global Security Consulting Practice provides clients with both defined and customized offerings in the areas of security awareness and policy, risk mitigation, infrastructure services, and security integration services. HP's Security Centers, located in Seattle and Hong Kong, offer clients a complete testing and development environment where HP security experts can run tests to penetrate client Internet-connected systems, perform gap analysis, and present alternative risk assessment solutions based on a client's particular requirements and need for managing risk.

Combined with its global partners, HP offers end-to-end security solutions in Public Key Infrastructures (PKI) and Enterprise Access Control. The combination of an extensive portfolio and the expertise from HP's Global Security Consultant's positions it as a leading global security practice. HP's Global Security Consulting Practice has successfully delivered security solutions in each region of the world; both as stand alone solutions as well as ensuring secured business solutions.

With over 100,000 readers, SC Magazine is the largest international information security publication focusing on the security marketplace and over 1000 guests attended their sixth annual Secure Computing Awards event held in London recently. Security product users, information technology and security professionals, and a panel of independent judges judge these awards.

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