Last updated: Feb. 22, 2004

Accenture
Faced by an ever-growing and often bewildering set of security challenges, companies in every industry are turning to Accenture, a world leader in management consulting and technology services. Accentures security practice has over 750 experienced security professionals around the globe with the skills, experience and proven assets to help you support your high-performance business with high-performance business security. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills, and technologies to help clients improve their performance. With more than 83,000 people in 48 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$11.8 billion for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2003.

Avanade
Avanade is a global technology integrator for Microsoft solutions and a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture. Avanade helps customers use Microsoft technology to deliver a lower total cost of ownership for their infrastructure and application investments. Avanade's security technologies and processes include Patch Management, Security Risk Assessment, Identity & Access Management and VPN Quarantine solutions.

Computer Associates
Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) is the recognized leader in management software with unparalleled depth and breadth in security management. The eTrustTM portfolio consists of security solutions which enable a holistic view of security, comprised of Identity, Access and Threat Management joined by eTrust Security Command Center.

Getronics
Getronics has a strong reputation as a solutions architect and an infrastructure management provider. Getronics works closely with Microsoft's Security Business Unit and has a worldwide team of 400 security experts. Getronics has extended its core capabilities to include enterprise-wide security planning, design, deployment and Network & Security Operations Center services for customers using Microsoft technologies.

International Network Services Inc.
INS's Security Portfolio comprises one of the largest and most experienced security consulting teams in the world, deeply engaged in the science, technology, and art of information protection. This portfolio encompasses a full lifecycle of security solutions, including security strategy and business alignment, operational risk and security assessments, security technology design and implementation, identity management through sound authentication and access control, enterprise security management, vulnerability and incident management, and security compliance and testing. INS is a Microsoft Gold Security Partner.

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
The CGE & Y Identity & Privilege Management (IPM) offering provides planning (feasibility study, business case generation/validation), preparation (technical analysis & design) and implementation (technology & business process) for companies who can see the value of rationalizing and integrating IPM for their IT systems. CGE & Y uses its flexible, proven approach to allow clients to implement an IPM system for employees, customers, and/or partners. CGE & Y will likely implement an IPM solution based on Microsoft's Identity Integration Server (MIIS) that would integrate with Microsoft's Active Directory.

Network Associates, Inc.
Network Associates offers consumer/home office, small/medium businesses and corporate/enterprise users simple and cost-effective proven security solutions to protect Microsoft environments. These solutions protect your servers and databases from malicious known and unknown viruses, worms and buffer overflows such as the recent MS Blaster/LovSan.

The McAfee Protection-in-Depth Strategy delivers a complete set of system and network protection solutions differentiated by intrusion prevention technology that can detect and block worms to protect your Microsoft environment before damage occurs.

PricewaterhouseCoopers
PricewaterhouseCoopers, a leading professional services firm, provides security and privacy services to Global 2000 organizations. Its trained professionals combine IT knowledge and security expertise with business understanding to deliver security solutions including patch management, identity management and secure wireless and VPN solutions, to Microsoft customers. Using its Enterprise Security Business Model(tm), a comprehensive approach to building end-to-end security, PricewaterhouseCoopers helps organizations assess, design, implement, and maintain a secure, high-performance business infrastructure.

RSA Security
With more than 12,000 customers around the globe, RSA Security provides interoperable solutions for establishing online identities, access rights and privileges for people, applications and devices. Built to work seamlessly and transparently in complex environments, the company's comprehensive portfolio of identity and access management solutions - including authentication, Web access management and developer solutions - is designed to allow customers to confidently exploit new technologies for competitive advantage. RSA Security's strong reputation is built on its history of ingenuity and leadership, proven technologies and long-standing relationships with more than 1,000 technology partners.

Symantec
Symantec, the world leader in Internet security technology, provides a broad range of enterprise, SMB and consumer products and services for the Microsoft platform, including client, gateway and server security solutions for virus protection, firewall and VPN, vulnerability management, intrusion detection, Internet content and email filtering, and security outsourcing.

Trend Micro
Trend Micro, Inc. is a global leader in network antivirus and Internet content security software and services. Trend Micro focuses on providing customers with comprehensive security strategies to manage the impacts of known and unknown threats to information, through such initiatives as Trend Micro Enterprise Protection Strategy. Citing its strategy and vision, the Gartner Group has hailed Trend Micro as a visionary malicious-code management supplier for four consecutive years.

Unisys
Unisys, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Security Solutions, employs proven expertise and wide-ranging experience in designing, implementing, and managing security solutions for enterprises and governments worldwide. Security offerings include advisory, implementation, and managed security services (network and application), identity & access management (IAM) solutions, and physical security. Unisys is also an active participant and contributor to Microsofts Security initiatives, focusing especially on assessments, patch management, and IAM. Organizations rely on Unisys every day to help them address security challenges and create new ways of doing business.

VeriSign
VeriSign and Microsoft have worked together to bring the very best security services to customers, including the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management (Active Directory, Windows Server) and ActivCard (Customer engagements). VeriSign recently announced VeriSign Security Intelligence and Controlsm Services, which define a holistic enterprise security model based on using integrated, collective, and pervasive intelligence to drive conclusive actions. Security Intelligence and Control empowers enterprises by giving them information and intelligence needed to take a proactive approach to security.