Accellion Named Finalist in Info Security Products Guide's Global Excellence Awards

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Feb 19, 2014) - Accellion, Inc., the pioneer in providing secure enterprise solutions that improve mobile productivity, today announced it was named a finalist for the 10th Annual 2014 Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Awards in the Compliance category. These prestigious global awards recognize security and IT vendors with groundbreaking products and solutions that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of security and technologies.

Accellion's solution enables secure viewing, creating, editing, sharing and syncing of enterprise content, and is designed to support mobile business use. It provides mobile access to data in content stores such as Microsoft SharePoint and Windows FileShares, while maintaining all security and workflow processes that are established in the content store. The product also provides robust IT controls to manage user privileges and access rights that protect data and meet regulatory standards.

In order to ensure compliance within a variety of industries, Accellion's solution is up-to-date on numerous regulations -- it is HIPAA compliant for healthcare industry workers, it complies with SOX for the sharing of personal information, and is FIPS 140-2 certified, to ensure that government agencies can utilize the solution for their collaboration and sharing needs, among others.

"This recognition further validates our commitment to security, efficiency and mobile productivity in the enterprise market, and we are proud this commitment is recognized by Info Security Products Guide," said Yorgen Edholm, CEO of Accellion. "Behind this success is our relentless drive to stay focused on what our customers need most -- a secure, compliant, mobile business solution."

About Info Security Products Guide Awards
SVUS Awards organized by Silicon Valley Communications are conferred in four annual award programs: The Info Security's Global Excellence Awards, The IT Industry's Hot Companies and Best Products Awards, The Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards, and Consumer Products Guide's Best Choice Awards. These premier awards honor organizations of all types and sizes from all over the world including people behind them, the products, performance, PR and marketing. To learn more, visit www.svusawards.com

About Accellion
Accellion, Inc. is an award-winning private company that provides mobile solutions to enterprise organizations that enable increased business productivity while ensuring security and compliance. As the leading provider of private cloud solutions for secure file sharing, Accellion offers enterprise organizations the scalability, flexibility, control and security to enable a mobile workforce with the tools they need to create, access and share information securely, wherever work takes them. More than 12 million users and 2,000 of the world's leading corporations and government agencies including Procter & Gamble; Indiana University Health; Kaiser Permanente; Lovells; Bridgestone; Ogilvy & Mather; Harvard University; Guinness World Records; US Securities and Exchange Commission; and NASA use Accellion solutions to increase business productivity, protect intellectual property, ensure compliance and reduce IT costs. For more information please visit www.accellion.com or call (650) 485-4300. Follow Accellion's Blog, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

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