Vontu Prevent Helps Insurers Guard Policy-Holder Data and Comply With
Regulations
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Vontu, Inc., the leader in Data
Loss Prevention solutions, today announced that American National Insurance
Company (Nasdaq: ANAT) is using Vontu Prevent software to stop the loss of
confidential information, including policy-holder data and other privacy
related information. American National joins a growing list of property,
casualty, life and health insurance companies that use Vontu to prevent data
loss.
"At American National, we take a proactive approach to protecting the
private information of our policy holders. The Vontu Prevent solution is a
key component of our strategy," said Charles Addison, CIO of American National
Insurance Company. "To meet the highest degree of compliance with both our
own data security policies and state and federal regulations, we need a
solution that can accurately detect confidential data, prevent it from leaving
the network and redirect it, if necessary, for secure encryption. Vontu met
all our requirements."
Vontu Prevent is the only solution on the market that proactively prevents
data loss over email and the web. Vontu Prevent integrates with email message
chain and web infrastructure technologies, blocks communications containing
confidential content, and routes messages to an encryption gateway for secure
delivery, enabling enforcement of enterprise-wide encryption and archiving
policies. At American National, Vontu Prevent analyzes email traffic and
routes messages containing confidential content to PGP Corporation's PGP
Universal(TM) for encryption and secure message delivery.
"American National has joined the growing list of leading insurers who are
adopting Vontu Prevent to proactively stop data loss," said Joseph Ansanelli,
chairman and CEO of Vontu. "These Vontu customers recognize that it is not
enough to simply monitor data loss. To avoid the risk of identity theft and
non-compliance, you have to stop data loss incidents before they occur."
With over $17.6 Billion in assets, more than 4,000 employees and 5 million
policyholders in the United States, Western Europe and Mexico, American
National must prevent the loss of policy-holder data in order to demonstrate
compliance with state and federal regulations such as the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA)
and a growing number of privacy related regulations.
About Vontu
Vontu is the leading provider of Data Loss Prevention solutions for both
data at rest and data in motion. Vontu allows organizations to discover and
protect exposed confidential information, monitor all network traffic, block
select email, FTP and web communications, and automatically enforce data loss
prevention policies. By reducing the frequency and severity of both
inadvertent and malicious data loss incidents, Vontu helps organizations
ensure public confidence, reduce compliance risk and protect competitive
advantage. Vontu customers include Fortune 500 companies in financial
services, insurance, high technology, retail, telecommunications,
manufacturing, media, and healthcare, as well as local and state government
agencies. Vontu was awarded IDG's InfoWorld 2006 Technology of the Year Award
for Best Insider Threat Defense application. For more information, please
visit http://www.vontu.com.
SOURCE Vontu, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Marianna Vyridi of Horn Group,
+1-415-905-4021, or mvyridi@horngroup.com, for Vontu, Inc.
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