Emeryville, Calif., December 9, 2005 —BigFix has been selected as a finalist for the 2006 SC Magazine Awards in the “Best Patch Management” category. The winner of this prestigious industry distinction will be announced at the SC Magazine U.S. Awards ceremony at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif. on February 14th, 2006.

The SC Magazine Awards recognize technical excellence and highlight the important role information security professionals play in shaping the security landscape. The Awards selection process compares products and services to identify the top network security management solutions in a number of categories. Specifically, the Best Patch Management category recognizes the best tool to automate the application of vulnerability-focused software patches intended to defeat worm and virus attacks, such as the recent SQL Slammer attack. Finalists for this coveted award were selected by SC Magazine readers who voted online over a one-month period.

“We’re honored and pleased that readers of one of the industry’s most influential publications recognize BigFix for its innovative security solutions that address customer security requirements throughout the distributed IT infrastructure,” said George Kellar, chief marketing officer at BigFix. “Patch management is one of our most visible successes, proven in production from small to large scale at customers worldwide. This award-winning solution, combined with our capabilities in software deployment and configuration management, endpoint antivirus/anti-spyware security, and network access enforcement provide the comprehensive, real-time visibility and control required to meet the growing security configuration management needs of our customers.”

SC Awards 2006
With over 1,300 product and service nominations from over 330 competing companies globally, the SC Awards are the world¹s leading awards program for the information security industry. The SC Awards program spans US, Asia, and UK. The SC Awards are composed of both the Reader Trust Technology Awards‹voted on by SC readers in each region and the SC Awards Council, a group of carefully selected senior CSOs and the Professional Awards that are judged by a panel of the industry¹s top talents.

Recognizing technical excellence and professional achievement across a variety of different categories, the SC Awards is a truly unique program developed to bring attention to the industry¹s top products and highlight the professionals that have both created them and use them within their companies. These industry achievements are acknowledged during the exciting US Awards ceremony taking place this year at the Fairmont, San Jose on February 14th, 2006. For more information contact Liz Lockard at Liz.Lockard (at) haymarketmedia.com or visit www.scmagazine.com

BigFix Customer Value Proposition
Founded in 1997, BigFix provides comprehensive and innovative security configuration management solutions for real-time visibility and control of computers across the distributed enterprise. BigFix solutions are proven in production at more than 400 companies, government agencies and public sector institutions worldwide, and currently manage over 5,000,000 desktop and mobile clients, workstations, and servers.

The BigFix solution is a scalable and extensible platform that delivers real-time visibility and control over endpoint PCs, servers and mobile devices, enabling IT to discover, analyze, change and maintain security and software configurations faster and more accurately. With the BigFix Enterprise Suite, customers can view and control a wide range of device security and configuration management functions in real-time from a single management platform. BigFix’s advantages in simplifying, reducing the cost and improving the quality of software management make direct contributions to improving infrastructure-wide security and compliance with prevailing laws, regulations and organizational policies.

The company has received numerous awards and industry recognitions, including the 2005 Codie Award for Best Security Product and the SC Magazine Product of the Year Award in 2004.

About BigFix, Inc.
BigFix enables organizations to better manage their global IT infrastructures with solutions to discover, analyze, change and maintain security and software configurations faster and more accurately, resulting in improved processes, greater visibility, better security and more reliable services while reducing costs. For more information, visit http://www.bigfix.com.