- RSA Conference Represents First Public Unveiling of Flagship Offering
- G2 Content Analyzer Prevents Costly Disclosures of Critical Corporate
Information
- First Commercial Product to Detect Terrorist Communications Over
Corporate Networks
SAN FRANCISCO/RSA CONFERENCE 2004, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Reconnex, an
enterprise security company pioneering the development of high performance
security appliances to prevent disclosures of confidential information, will
publicly unveil its newly launched G2 Content Analyzer and two applications
-- the Reconnex Company Confidential Solution and Reconnex Privacy Compliance
Solution -- at this week's RSA Security Conference in booth #543. This
flagship offering consisting of a hardware-based network security appliance
and application suite is designed to safeguard Fortune 500 companies from the
loss of critical corporate information, such as intellectual property, by
identifying and preventing disclosures that occur over a corporate network
that can cause devastating financial losses and irreparable damage. Designed
to prevent all types of disclosures starting on the network -- whether
accidental or malicious and sophisticated in nature, Reconnex's G2 Content
Analyzer is the first hardware-based security appliance with the speed,
accuracy and scalability needed to protect classified corporate information
specific to the financial, technology, government and pharmaceutical
industries.
"An exorbitantly high percent of confidential information disclosures
originate from within an organization as a result of innocent mistakes by
employees, such as when the military budget plan accidentally ended up on
Internet earlier this month. This innocent mistake was a devastating blow for
the Department of Defense who vigilantly maintains the strictest secrecy to
protect our national security," said Don Massaro, president and CEO of
Reconnex. "Our solutions enable companies to effectively reduce the occurrence
of accidental breaches, but we are not naive. While most breaches are
accidental or unintentional, the reality is some are deliberate and malicious
as in the case of industrial espionage and cyber terrorism. Our solutions had
to be sophisticated enough to detect both and distinguish the accidental from
the intentional disclosure."
The sophisticated nature of the Reconnex G2 Content Analyzer allows it to
detect steganography -- the practice of embedding secret messages inside any
digital media, such as digital photos or audio files. Digital media files with
hidden secret messages using steganography appear normal to the common
observer and it is nearly impossible to suspect that anything unusual is
taking place. By providing the first hardware-based product with enough
processing capability to detect steganographic messages sent over high-speed
networks, enterprises now have the ability to stop the most insidious forms of
industrial espionage and government agencies now have a commercial product
capable of uncovering secret methods of communications used by terrorist
organizations.
G2 Content Analyzer -- The Reconnex Company Confidential Solution
Intellectual property theft costs Fortune 1000 companies billions of
dollars each year. Many disclosures of intellectual property are accidental
and caused by innocent employees trying to do their job. For example, an
innocent mistake could lead to a company's intellectual property getting into
the hands of a competitor or classified information being divulged over
unclassified networks. Regardless, the ramifications are catastrophic. The
Reconnex Company Confidential Solution is designed to prevent these types of
mistakes because it looks for unacceptable traffic sent in a multi-vendor
supply chain and is deployable in remote, overseas or third party development
centers. The Reconnex Company Confidential Solution recognizes source code,
confidential design documents or any type of classified information
communicated over any network communication protocol and can track all
communication with competitors.
"As we expand our worldwide business through innovation and creativity,
it's critical that we protect our intellectual property and the material
information in support of our business" said Paul Hooper, CIO Extreme
Networks. "The Reconnex solution is very valuable since it delivers on the
promise of improving our protection against security threats associated with
the accidental disclosure of intellectual property."
But, not all disclosures are so innocent. The Reconnex Company
Confidential Solution is sophisticated enough to recognize the intrinsic
essence of all file formats so that documents can be tracked even if the file
name or extension is modified or changed. For the more insidious forms of
industrial espionage, the Reconnex Company Confidential Solution detects
encrypted information and steganograhic messages and provides alerts if this
suspicious traffic is detected.
G2 Content Analyzer -- The Reconnex Privacy Compliance Solution
The majority of privacy violations are accidental oversights capable of
affecting millions of customers as in the case when thousands of credit card
numbers are disclosed via a website. Today, many privacy violations not only
result in hefty fines, but also require companies to notify every customer who
then has an option to take legal recourse. The Reconnex Privacy Compliance
Solution is aimed to help financial service providers, the pharmaceutical
industry, and e-retailers take the guesswork out of complying by providing a
"snap shot" of the sensitive information that was exposed so companies know
with 100 percent confidence which customers were affected. It monitors the
network for privacy violations as defined by Federal and State regulations and
provides real-time alerts so that privacy compliance officers can take the
appropriate action within minutes.
Hardware Enables More Processing for Accuracy -- Fewer False Positives
False positives are a serious hindrance to IT staff causing them to chase
phantoms and never correlate the actual security event to the disclosure of
information that occurred over at the content layer of the network. The
Reconnex G2 Content Analyzer is the first high performance security appliance
of its kind to address this with purpose built hardware for speed, accuracy
and scalability. At the heart of the technology, is a high performance
Real-time Content Processing Engine (RCPE) capable of analyzing all the
information flowing over the corporate network. This engine has the ability
to capture, classify, reconstruct and store content flowing over the network
at gigabit speeds. Using patent-pending acceleration techniques, the G2
Content Analyzer offloads the computationally intensive processing of core
primitives to hardware. This purpose built hardware enables the G2 Content
Analyzer to offer the most accurate, most computationally intensive content
recognition techniques that correlate events to actual disclosures of
information allowing customers to win the battle against false positives. At
the click of a mouse, events are tied to what the exposure looked like, what
information was leaked, who sent the information and where it was going. All
incidents discovered are securely stored in a way that is legally-binding for
the purposes of computer forensic investigation and can be used "as is" in a
court of law.
Scaleable with Zero Impact to The Network -- Just Plug and Play
The Reconnex G2 Content Analyzer is built for scalability so that it can
be deployed anywhere in an organization regardless of file formats, user
sophistication, network protocol, application type or network typology. As a
hardware appliance, the G2 Content Analyzer is deployable in minutes and can
sit anywhere on the network -- interdepartmentally or at the exits of an
enterprise network. The Reconnex commitment to building zero impact solutions
means the G2 Content Analyzer can be deployed without ever needing to touch
client desktops or change servers, databases or network storage solutions.
The benefit to customers is that they can deploy a robust solution without
making changes to their network architecture or employees' business workflow.
As a non-intrusive, passive device, the G2 Content Analyzer can be deployed on
any switch or router without impacting network performance, reliability or
availability.
Pricing and Availability
Reconnex allows companies to accurately and cost-effectively assess their
business needs and risks before committing to full deployment with a
customized $10,000 one month Discovery Assessment Program. Deliverables
include a report with an executive summary written to educate executive
management on the state of confidential data as it is disclosed over the
network. The detailed report quantifies and highlights confidential
information disclosures detected that put a company at risk.
The base price for the G2 Content Analyzer is $40,000 and is available
directly from Reconnex by calling 1-866-940-4590.
About Reconnex
Founded in May 2003, Reconnex safeguards confidential information and
reinforces the trust companies have in employees. The company has pioneered
the development of high performance, hardware accelerated security appliances
designed to prevent accidental and intentional disclosures of confidential
information with the accuracy and scalability needed for enterprise
deployments. Reconnex solutions give business line managers the unprecedented
ability to see and control confidential information before it leaves the
corporate network. Reconnex products are deployable in minutes with zero
impact to business workflow. Intuitive Trusted Virtual Views allow different
departments like legal, compliance, finance, sales and HR departments to track
high-valued and sensitive information over the corporate network. Reconnex is
an important part of any company's compliance strategy with high-profile
regulations such as GLBA, Sarbanes Oxley, and HIPAA. For more information,
visit us on the web at http://www.reconnex.net or call 1-866-940-4590.
CONTACT:
Nadia Jamshidi
McGrath/Power Public Relations
408-727-0351
nadiaj@mcgrathpower.com
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