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RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC) announced that it is positioned within the "Leaders Quadrant" in the April 2011 Gartner report written by Vice President and Distinguished Analyst Avivah Litan titled, "Magic Quadrant for Web Fraud Detection." The positioning is based on RSA's "completeness of vision" and "ability to execute" in relation to its RSA® Identity Verification and Protection Suite. 

According to Gartner, the web fraud detection market is comprised of vendors that provide software products or services that help organizations detect and prevent fraud that occurs over the web by:

• Running background server-based processes, transparent to users, that verify users based on where they are, what device they are using, and/or examine what types of information retrievals, navigations and transactions they are executing.
• Comparing this information with either a profile of what's expected of the user or against more generic rules as to what constitutes 'normal' behavior.
• If actual behavior is out of range with what's expected, the transaction can be stopped, and appropriate follow up action can be taken. This can range from asking users to re-authenticate themselves, often using another channel, such as by sending a one-time password sent to the user's mobile phone, or as is more commonly done, by asking the user to answer one or more 'secret' questions that only the legitimate user can presumably answer correctly. Some web fraud detection vendors offer these additional authentication and transaction verification capabilities while others do not.

"We believe Gartner's report confirms RSA's leading position in this market as a trusted provider of solutions designed to help our customers protect the credentials and assets of more than 300 million users worldwide," said Sam Curry, Chief Technology Officer, Marketing at RSA, The Security Division of EMC. "With a threat landscape that is continually evolving and expanding to encompass an even broader array of targets, RSA believes the industry will witness a growth in the importance of Web Fraud Detection solutions based on community collaboration across many industries. We employ this model with RSA's eFraud Network that enables thousands of member organizations to collectively gain broader visibility of threats in real-time to help better detect and significantly reduce fraud attempts."

About the RSA Identity Protection and Verification Suite
The RSA Identity Protection and Verification Suite is one of the most complete and innovative Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) portfolios of strong authentication and anti-fraud technologies. Engineered to protect organizations and their online users against the latest external threats, it includes:

• RSA® Adaptive Authentication, a risk-based authentication and fraud detection platform used by more than 10,000 organizations worldwide for  authentication of more than 300 million users through risk indicators powered by the RSA® Risk Engine, such as device identification, geo-location, behavioral profiling, and fraud data from the RSA eFraudNetwork™ community.
• RSA FraudAction™, a 24x7 service that helps protect organizations against phishing, Trojan, and other online attacks. Powered by the RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center (AFCC), its team of fraud analysts has shut down more than 400,000 illegal websites in 181 countries to date.
• RSA® Identity Verification, a consumer authentication and fraud-prevention service that confirms a user's identity in real time. Using knowledge-based authentication (KBA), RSA Identity Verification challenges users with a series of top-of-mind questions obtained by scanning billions of records in dozens of publicly and commercially available data sources.
• RSA® Transaction Monitoring, an online fraud detection and management system that is designed to detect, flag, and investigate high-risk activities. The RSA Risk Engine evaluates each online activity in real-time and generates a unique risk score that helps reduce fraud.
• RSA® Adaptive Authentication for eCommerce, a secure framework for cardholder protection and fraud management that authenticates hundreds of millions of transactions per year via a range of authentication and card security products, including Verified by Visa®, MasterCard SecureCode™ and JCB J/Secure™.
• The RSA eFraudNetwork service, a cross-institution, cross-platform, online fraud network community, dedicated to sharing and disseminating information on fraudulent activity.

About the Gartner Web Fraud Detection Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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