Xceedium Appoints Klaus Sonnenleiter as Vice President of Engineering

    JERSEY CITY, N.J., Aug. 20 /EMWNews/ -- Xceedium, a premier provider

of entitlement management solutions that control high-risk users, today

announced that Klaus Sonnenleiter has been named vice president of

engineering. In this role, Klaus will be responsible for overseeing all

aspects of product development and quality assurance.



    "Xceedium is fortunate to get an industry expert like Klaus

Sonnenleiter who brings a wealth of experience in developing, deploying and

managing mission-critical Internet infrastructure," said Cheryl Traverse,

CEO at Xceedium. "Klaus will be instrumental in sustaining Xceedium's

technology advantage and helping to increase the efficiency of our service

infrastructure."



    Previously, Klaus served as vice president of engineering for Iptivia,

Inc., a start-up company in the network management and service assurance

space providing non-intrusive monitoring technology for the routing control

plane. Prior to Iptivia, Klaus led the development group at Micromuse for

six years, where under his management the Netcool/Impact product line

generated close to $100 million. Micromuse was later acquired by IBM for

$865 million.



    "I see a tremendous opportunity for Xceedium to be the undisputed

leader in the entitlement management space," said Sonnenleiter. "Xceedium

is the best solution to help customers centralize and enforce entitlement

policy for high-risk users while meeting compliance requirements with

operational efficiency."

    About Xceedium, Inc.



    Xceedium is a premier provider of entitlement management solutions that

control high-risk users. The Xceedium GateKeeper(TM) is a hardened

appliance that manages and enforces centralized entitlement policy for

high-risk users. Employees and vendors can access critical IT resources

from external and internal endpoints relative to the enterprise network

infrastructure without creating a footprint. Auditors can monitor all user

events and view comprehensive reports for accountability and testing of

controls.



    Enterprise and government clients rely on the Xceedium GateKeeper to

deliver compliance requirements with operational efficiency.



    The Xceedium GateKeeper supports PCI, SOX, HIPPA and other regulations,

is Citrix Ready and has achieved Common Criteria EAL-3, FIPS 140-2, Level 2

and JITC PKI/CAC certifications.



    Xceedium is headquartered in Jersey City, N.J.



    For more information, visit http://www.xceedium.com.