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Byres Security Wins Frost & Sullivan Award for Industrial Network Security

ControlGlobal.com
06/02/2010

Byres Security Inc. (BSI) of Vancouver, Canada, has been presented with the Frost & Sullivan "2010 World Customer Value Enhancement Award in Industrial Network Security Solutions." The honor marks recognition for the Tofino Industrial Security Solution in the industrial network security market.

Frost & Sullivan named Byres Security its 2010 World Customer Value Enhancement Award winner for its focus on enhancing the value that its customers receive and for outstanding achievement in the areas of leadership, technical innovation, customer service and strategic product development. The award highlights Tofino's effectiveness as a high-mean-time-between-failure (MTBF) solution specifically designed for industrial control environments that operate seven days a week with no downtime. It also calls out the fact that the Tofino solution protects against outside threats as well as accidental internal threats.

"Winning the 2010 Customer Value Enhancement Award for Industrial Network Security is an honor and a testament to the approach we have taken with the Tofino Industrial Security Solution. We designed it from the ground up to meet the needs of industry," remarked Eric Byres, security expert and CTO of Byres Security.

"This award represents a significant tribute for our company and I want to recognize and thank the partners that helped shape our products and make them available across the markets we serve:  MTL Instruments, Honeywell, Hirschmann, Invensys and our Tofino Certified VARs. "said Joann Byres, CEO of Byres Security. "I also want to recognize our hard working employees without whom this would not be possible. Finally I would like to especially acknowledge Boeing, Exxon-Mobil, Shell and other companies who have adopted and supported our Tofino products."