Vontu 6.0 Automates Protection of Confidential Data on Servers and Desktops;
Prevents Data Loss via HTTPS and FTP; Provides Industry-Specific
Policy Enforcement
RSA CONFERENCE - SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Vontu, Inc.
announced today the industry's only Data Loss Prevention solution for both
data in motion and data at rest. Unlike any other solution on the market,
Vontu 6.0 enables Fortune 500 enterprises and government agencies to discover
and protect confidential data on servers and desktops, monitor and prevent
confidential data from leaving the network, and automatically enforce data
loss prevention and encryption policies. An enterprise-class solution, Vontu
6.0 sets a new standard for Data Loss Prevention, delivering the highest
accuracy and scale available to meet the needs of Fortune 500 companies.
"To protect our customers' information, as well as our intellectual
property, we must be able to stop confidential data, both at-rest and
in-motion, from leaving our organization," said Gene Fredriksen, Vice
President of Information Security, Raymond James Financial. "Vontu has been
the cornerstone of this effort, and the new 6.0 release promises to extend our
data loss prevention capability to address new threats and ensure policy
compliance."
Until recently, Fortune 500 companies have focused primarily on network
security against outside intrusion by hackers, viruses and spam. In 2005, a
series of highly-publicized data breaches caused information security
executives to shift their focus to protecting the data itself. With identity
theft and trade secret violation incidents on the rise, both business and
government are under significant pressure to protect sensitive information
such as customer data and intellectual property. To date, 22 states have
passed consumer data protection laws, and the U.S. Congress is expected to
pass national consumer data security legislation this year.
At the same time, the urgent need to protect trade secrets is increasingly
apparent, as businesses lose competitive advantage with every breach of
intellectual property (IP). The threat of data loss caused by company
insiders, whether malicious or inadvertent, is compounded by new threats such
as the use of encrypted network traffic like Secure HTTP (HTTPS), since
security teams have no insight into its use, or misuse. All of these factors,
from regulatory compliance to competitive pressure to new threats, combine to
make enforcement of data loss prevention policies a top priority for IT
Security.
"As the first company founded to deliver Data Loss Prevention solutions,
we continue to lead the industry in helping organizations answer three basic
questions: Where is my confidential data? Where is it going? And how do I
fix the data loss problem?" said Joseph Ansanelli, chairman and CEO of Vontu.
"Our world class team, track record of innovation and customer success has led
to the adoption of Vontu by some of the largest organizations in the Fortune
500."
The Vontu 6.0 suite enables business and government organizations to
safeguard customer data, company information, intellectual property and
sensitive or classified information, whether it is located on servers and
desktops (data at rest) or exiting the network vial email, web mail or other
Internet protocols (data in motion). Vontu 6.0 comprises four products, Vontu
Discover and Vontu Protect for data at rest, and Vontu Monitor and Vontu
Prevent for data in motion. All four products leverage the Vontu Enforce
platform for automated enforcement of data loss prevention policies.
"Data breach and trade secret violations cost businesses millions in lost
revenue, brand damage, lawsuits and fines," said Stacey Quandt, Research
Director, Security Solutions and Services at AberdeenGroup. "Organizations
need to be able to not only detect violations, even in encrypted
transmissions, but also automatically prevent the inadvertent and intentional
leakage of confidential data."
Vontu 6.0 Adds Power to Address New Threats
Vontu 6.0 sets a new industry standard for data loss prevention and
uniquely addresses the changing requirements of Fortune 500 enterprises and
government organizations with the following new capabilities:
-- Vontu Protect: A new product in Vontu 6.0, Vontu Protect adds automated
enforcement to the capabilities of Vontu Discover, which scans servers
and desktops to locate exposed confidential data at rest. Vontu
Protect enables organizations to automatically quarantine and delete
sensitive files, enforce workforce-compliance, access-control and
encryption policies, as well as enforce data retention policies by
removing outdated content. Vontu benchmark data demonstrates that one
out of 50 files on open network shares contains confidential data.
Unprotected data at rest is data at risk.
-- HTTPS Monitoring and Prevention: According to industry research, as
much as 20 percent of web traffic occurred over Secure Socket Layer
(SSL) protocols in 2005, and that number is expected to rise to 30
percent in 2006. This trend presents a challenge to IT Security, which
has until now been blind to confidential data transmitted via HTTPS. To
provide visibility into encrypted Secure HTTP traffic (HTTPS), Vontu
6.0 integrates with Blue Coat ProxySG, the industry's leading secure
proxy appliance, to monitor HTTPS content for sensitive information and
block communications that violate policy. Vontu 6.0 can inspect
content in secure communications such as secure web mail, bulletin
boards or Instant Messaging, as well as anonymizing services that
circumvent controls. With the addition of this capability, Vontu 6.0 is
the only data loss prevention solution to provide 100 percent coverage
of web traffic.
-- FTP Monitoring and Prevention: Due to their typically large file
sizes, data loss incidents via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) generally
constitute very high risk. FTP is often the mechanism to communicate
sensitive customer and employee data to third-party business partners
and outsourced operations. Unfortunately, FTP transmissions often
contain unencrypted data. In previous releases, Vontu has provided the
ability to monitor both active and passive FTP transmissions. With
Vontu 6.0, organizations can now proactively block FTP transmissions
that contain exposed confidential data.
-- People Aware Detection: Accuracy is often the number one requirement in
evaluations of Data Loss Prevention solutions. Vontu provides the
highest degree of detection accuracy for both documents and database
information with its patent-pending detection algorithms Exact Data
Matching, Indexed Document Matching and Described Content Matching.
With Vontu 6.0, Vontu has delivered an innovative new detection
solution that enables organizations to fine-tune policies to either
target or exclude specific groups of employees. For example, policies
may be tuned to increase scrutiny for contractors or high-risk
employees, or varied based on country or authorization level. The new
Directory Group Matching (DGM) detection technology uses corporate
directory data to specify policy based on sender and receiver
information. This innovation is critical for monitoring inter-
department, broker-dealer, cross-border and other multi-party
communications, as well as managing export control scenarios. With
6.0, Vontu is the only solution to provide accurate detection across
all content types and groups.
-- Automated Enforcement and Response Workflow: By leveraging the
company's expertise in developing data loss prevention practices for
Fortune 500 customers across multiple industries, Vontu 6.0 provides a
set of solution packs, including industry-specific policies, roles,
incident response rules, workflow definitions and risk reporting
options. Vontu 6.0 includes solution packs for the Financial Services,
Insurance, Retail, High Tech, Telecommunications, Pharmaceutical,
Entertainment and Media, and Healthcare industries, as well for the
U.S. Federal Government and companies with operations in the European
Union. These industry best practices enable organizations to rapidly
deploy data loss prevention, optimize the effectiveness of their
incident response teams, and dramatically reduce risk, while providing
a low cost of ownership. Whereas other solutions merely provide policy
templates, Vontu has provided a comprehensive enforcement automation
solution for risk reduction.
-- Security Infrastructure Integration: Vontu 6.0 leverages existing
security infrastructure investments by integrating with best-in-class
solutions to provide advanced monitoring, prevention, investigation and
encryption capabilities. Through standards-based architecture, Vontu
6.0 integrates with solutions from leading forensics, web proxy, mail
transport and encryption providers, including Blue Coat, Cisco,
IronPort, PGP and Symantec.
Why Fortune 500 Companies Choose Vontu
Today, based on the proven global enterprise scale of the Vontu solution,
the majority of Vontu customers are Fortune 500 companies. As of end of 2005,
Vontu customers in North America include:
-- 2 of the top 3 commercial banks
-- 2 of the top 3 credit reporting agencies
-- 4 of the top 9 insurance companies
Vontu Data Loss Prevention was chosen in 90 percent of competitive
evaluations in 2005. According to Vontu customers, the following
differentiators led to the selection of Vontu:
-- Discover and Protect Confidential Data at Rest. Only Vontu 6.0 enables
organizations to accurately locate exposed confidential data at rest
stored on their networks and automatically enforces policies, including
the ability to quarantine, copy or delete sensitive files.
-- Monitor and Prevent Confidential Data in Motion. Only Vontu 6.0
provides the ability to monitor and prevent data loss across multiple
network protocols including email, web mail and web postings, as well
as encrypted web traffic (HTTPS) and secure file transfers (FTP).
-- Accurate Detection Across All Content and Groups of People. Only Vontu
6.0 combines advanced detection technologies to accurately detect
confidential data across all content, including structured and
unstructured data, as well as groups of people.
-- Automate Policy Enforcement. Vontu 6.0 is the only solution to
automate policy enforcement, including remediation, notification and
prevention, in order to drive down resource requirements and reduce
risk.
-- Encryption Visibility and Control. Only Vontu 6.0 enables organizations
to automate encryption policies, prevent information being sent over
encrypted channels and detect unauthorized use of desktop encryption.
-- Safeguard Employee Privacy. Only Vontu 6.0 protects the privacy of
employees to allow companies to comply with international law.
-- Proven Global Scale and Architecture. Only the Vontu two-tier
architecture enables centralized policy management and incident
reporting, coverage of multiple network exit points, including partner
data centers, and enterprise scale at a minimum Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO). Vontu has consistently proven its ability to scale well beyond
the limits of competing products.
Vontu 6.0 will be generally available on March 31, 2006. Pricing starts
at $100,000, and is based on the number of users and the products purchased.
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, Inc,
+1-415-905-4021, or mvyridi@horngroup.com, for Vontu
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