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Vontu brings data security to the end-point
02/02/07
Vontu has
announced the industry's first integrated, enterprise-class Data Loss
Prevention solution to enable universal policy enforcement for data at
rest, in motion and at the endpoint.
The company's
major new product release, Vontu 7, delivers a broad array of
capabilities, including content-aware monitoring of USB drives and
other removable storage devices, new data-at-rest discovery features,
Asian language detection, and enhanced workflow and reporting
capabilities for the global enterprise. By securing the data itself,
regardless of network boundaries, Vontu 7 provides security for the
world of high-speed bandwidth, mobile devices and virtual
organisations.
"The world has
changed and it is time to rethink security," said Vontu CEO Joseph
Ansanelli. "We now do business in a wide open world with a virtually
unlimited ability to share, store and use information. Vontu 7 allows
organisations to manage policies universally for all major data types
and risk points, extend coverage globally across national boundaries,
and enforce the protection of data no matter where or when."
Breaches of
personal data have reached pandemic proportions -- more than 100
million Americans have been exposed to potential identity theft
according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. What's more,
intellectual property loss poses a real threat to every business. More
than 50 percent of companies reported data loss incidents in the last
12 months, according to the 2006 Global Security Survey by Deloitte
Touche Tohmatsu. Not surprisingly, data loss prevention is now the top
category of promising new security technology, cited by 40 percent of
respondents in the December 20, 2006, CISO Survey Results by Merrill
Lynch.
Due to highly
publicised data breaches involving mobile devices, data loss
prevention has also become a top priority for endpoint security teams.
According to a survey of data security decision-makers conducted by
Forrester Consulting and released by Vontu today, more than half of
respondents (52%) have lost confidential data through removable media
such as USB drives in the past two years. Data loss via USB drives and
other removable media is the top concern (72%) for endpoint security,
followed by Trojans, spyware and other threats.
The Vontu 7
suite enables organisations to safeguard intellectual property and
other confidential data, whether it is located on servers, desktops
and laptops (data at rest), exiting the network via email, web mail or
other Internet protocols (data in motion) or copied to USB drives and
other removable storage devices (data at the endpoint). The Vontu 7
suite comprises the following product components:
Data at Rest
- Vontu Discover
scans file servers, desktops, laptops and other data repositories,
including Lotus Notes and SQL databases, for confidential data that
violates policy
- Vontu Protect
secures confidential data at rest with the ability to automatically
quarantine sensitive files
Data in Motion
- Vontu Network
Monitor inspects all network communications for confidential data that
violates data security policy
- Vontu Network
Prevent proactively stops policy violations via email, web, secure web
and FTP, and can also conditionally tag and route data to an
encryption gateway for secure delivery
Data at the Endpoint
- Vontu Endpoint
Monitor delivers visibility and control over confidential data on USB
drives, CD-ROMs, iPods, and other removable media, as well as
downloads to local drives
Policy Enforcement
- Vontu Enforce
provides central policy enforcement for accurate detection, policy
management, access and privacy control, workflow and reporting across
data at rest, in use, and at the endpoint
Technology Architecture
- Vontu Data
Loss Prevention Platform is the unified technology foundation across
the Vontu 7 data-at-rest, in-motion, and endpoint components,
delivering enterprise-class system management, scale, security and
integration
Vontu 7
represents the most significant R&D investment in the company's
history, with four times the scope of any previous release. It was
developed in response to feedback and requirements from Vontu
customers, including some of the largest, most data-driven companies
in the world. To extend Vontu's product leadership position, Vontu 7
introduces many innovative new capabilities. Here are five of them:
Data Loss Prevention at the Endpoint
Vontu 7 is the
first vendor to offer an enterprise-class endpoint DLP product that is
fully integrated with DLP capabilities for data in motion and data at
rest. Using the same accurate detection and policy enforcement as the
Vontu network-based products, a new, agent-based product, Vontu
Endpoint Monitor, delivers visibility and control over confidential
data copied to removable media like USB storage drives, CD-ROMs and
iPods, or downloaded to local drives in violation of security
policies. The Vontu 7 multi-tier architecture scales to support tens
of thousands of endpoints, while ensuring superior stability and
manageability.
New Capabilities for Data at Rest
New features in
Vontu 7 expand the coverage of data at rest by allowing organisations
to discover exposed confidential data stored in content management
systems and databases, including Lotus Notes and SQL databases such as
Oracle. With Vontu 7, Vontu enables discovery of more data storage
types than any other solution. New rapid remediation features enable
incident responders to gain visibility into metadata on exposed data
at rest, such as file owner, Access Control List (ACL) privileges and
date last modified. These details are critical for incident response
teams to quickly triage and remediate data at rest incidents.
Asian Language
Content Detection
Vontu 7 is the
first DLP solution to provide comprehensive support for detection,
remediation, reporting and policy authoring across Asian languages,
including Chinese (simplified and traditional), Japanese, and Korean
across data in motion, at rest and at the endpoint. All Vontu
detection technologies are enabled for double-byte character sets.
Vontu now supports 32 different languages spanning Europe, Asia and
the Americas.
Enforcement for Data in Motion
In today's
market, the ability to proactively prevent email, web and other
Internet transmissions that violate data security policies has become
a core requirement. Vontu 7 offers open integration with Mail Transfer
Agents (MTAs) from leading enterprise-class secure messaging vendors
to enable organisations to automatically detect and prevent data
breaches via email in real-time. The Vontu SMTP Reflector API
integrates with enterprise-grade MTAs including Symantec Mail Security
8300, the IronPort C-series, Sendmail, CipherTrust IronMail, the
Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway, Postfix and others.
Incident Correlation
Vontu 7 enables
first responders reviewing incident data to look for incidents with
similar characteristics. For example, they can see all incidents from
the same employee, or all incidents where the sender and recipient are
the same. Incident Correlation can help identify patterns that denote
broken business processes or malicious intent.
Nick Gibson, editor
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