- Offerings Combine NextLabs' Leading Policy-Driven Information Risk
Management Software with IBM's GRC and Security Expertise to Deliver the
Most Relevant Vertical-Industry Solutions -
SAN MATEO, Calif., April 8, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- NextLabs(R), Inc., a
leading provider of policy-driven information risk management software for
Global 5000 enterprises today announced the availability of Information
Compliance and Protection solutions for the Financial Markets, Design &
Manufacturing, and the Aerospace & Defense industries at the RSA Conference
2008 in San Francisco. NextLabs will showcase the solution suite at the IBM
Pavilion from April 8-10.
The effort expands upon the eGRC for Information Export Control
solution that NextLabs and IBM delivered last year as part of IBM's Data
Centric Security Initiative. This suite of solutions can help companies
improve compliance and reduce data risks, inside and outside the
enterprise. Each of these solutions combines a set of easy to customize
applications and reports with industry best-practices, and utilizes
easy-to-deploy software from NextLabs. Enterprises can now achieve
regulatory and industry compliance goals, while reducing gaps in control
and lowering the costs of risk management across their business ecosystem
and information assets.
The Information Compliance and Protection solutions include:
Data Loss Prevention
Information on desktops or mobile devices is easily leaked when copied
to removable media, uploaded or copied to unsafe areas such as unsecured
FTP, or misdirected via e-mail or IM to wrong recipients. It is important
to protect proprietary data from inappropriate access and disclosure, even
when users are on the network or disconnected while educating them of
policies, and automating document workflow and remediation procedures to
eliminate user errors and simplify use.
Export Control for Technical Data
Technical data disclosure is tracked and audited to comply with
authorized use and export licenses, while denying improper party access, as
information is accessed and handled across borders, extended enterprises,
and the global supply chain. In addition, users are educated of safe
handling policies, remediation procedures are automated to enable
compliance, and inappropriate disclosure is pre-vented.
Intellectual Property Protection
It is essential to protect intellectual property across global supply
chains and during product lifecycles to reduce risk of data loss, and
enable safe and compliant communication and collaboration between project
teams. The application enforces non-disclosure internally between teams to
avoid conflicts of interest and IP misuse. Appropriate handling procedures
are automated to improve compliance, avoid loss, and inappropriate
disclosure. Most importantly, it protects confidentiality across extended
enterprises to support partner collaboration. Data loss across end-points
and communication channels is prevented, with complete auditing and
reporting to ease audit and compliance.
Enterprise Entitlements Management
Centrally configure, administer, enforce, review, and audit
fine-grained access policies and authorizations. Standardizes the
management of entitlements across unstructured data repositories to reduce
the cost of administration; simplify the audit of authorizations for
compliance; and enable IT to implement fine-grained access control across
applications quickly to react to business change, regulations, or legal
inquiry of entitlements across unstructured data repositories. This
solution immediately helps organizations reduce the cost of administration;
simplify the audit of authorizations for compliance; and enable IT to
implement fine-grained access control across applications quickly to react
to business change, regulations, or legal inquiry.
Information Barriers
Comply with industry regulations by auditing and enforcing boundaries
during communications and collaboration. Identity-driven policies prevent
information sharing between groups of users by requiring the proper use of
confidential data to avoid violations.
Audit & Compliance
Gain visibility and understanding of the location, access rights, use,
and distribution of material nonpublic information. Reporting and
analytical capabilities provide:
-- Inventory details -- centrally aggregates information on "what, where
and who" by identifying material nonpublic information, its location,
and the rights associated with its use.
-- Entitlement audits -- reports and audits access rights for material
nonpublic information, and analyzes if access rights are properly
granted.
-- Activity audits and compliance monitoring -- provides run-time
introspection of user activity throughout the material nonpublic
information lifecycle.
-- Ease audits, improve compliance, accelerate conflict and disclosure
analysis, and proactively implement information compliance.
The Information Compliance and Protection solutions are built on
NextLab's Enterprise DLP(TM) and Compliant Enterprise(R) products and
leverages the patent-pending policy server technologies of NextLabs. The
solutions work with IBM's DB2 database, Tivoli identity and access
management software (TIM/TAM), and WebSphere application server out of the
box. The solutions combine best-in-class software, with industry best
practice recommendations and implementation accelerators, for maximum
customer value. IBM Global Business Services will implement the solution
and provide the design, architecture, policy, and data discovery services.
"Building upon our successful introduction with NextLabs last year of
the eGRC for Information Export Control solution, we are pleased to extend
our collaboration with NextLabs to introduce this suite of high value
solutions as part of our Data Centric Security Model," said Mike Bilger,
Partner IBM Security and Privacy Services. "Our customers have expressed
needs for information compliance and protection solutions, and our latest
offerings are the first vertical-industry focused solutions that help them
achieve their governance, risk and compliance objectives."
The IBM data-centric security model and architecture is a paradigm for
managing enterprise security which puts IT policy making in the hands of
the corporate executives, so that security decisions can be directly
executed without the diluting effect of interpretation at different levels
of the IT infrastructure and with the benefit of seeing direct correlation
between business objective and security mechanism.
"Our goal is to continue to offer highly relevant, vertical-industry
information compliance and protection solutions with out-of-the-box
industry best practices to bring immediate business impact to our
customers," said Keng Lim, CEO of NextLabs. "We strongly believe that
solutions in our Information Compliance and Protection suite will bring
immediate benefit to customers while achieving over 5x ROI in their efforts
to improve compliance and mitigate information risk as part of their
overall corporate objectives to improve confidence, demonstrate compliance
and maintain competitive advantage."
The solutions are immediately available. For more information, please
call 800-898-3065 or visit NextLabs on the Web at http://www.nextlabs.com.
ABOUT NEXTLABS
NextLabs(R), Inc. is the leading provider of policy-driven information
risk management software for Global 5000 enterprises. Our software offers a
cohesive solution for improving compliance and mitigating information risk
by preventing internal and external data loss, eliminating
conflict-of-interest activity, and ensuring proper access to applications
and data.
Our flagship products, Enterprise DLP(TM) and Compliant Enterprise(R),
combine identity-driven policy with fine-grained access control and data
loss prevention technology to protect data and enforce entitlements.
Enterprise DLP is a host-based data loss prevention system that proactively
applies identity-driven policy to prevent external data leaks, conflict of
interest, insider risk, and unauthorized data sharing between employees,
partners and customers to achieve continuous compliance. Compliant
Enterprise is an extensible, XACML-based entitlement management system that
allows enterprises to develop, administer, enforce, and audit fine-grained
authorizations across the enterprise. Compliant Enterprise is the only
solution that provides enterprise-class manageability, productivity, and
scalability with comprehensive, out-of-the-box coverage for applications
and data on servers, endpoints, and mobile devices. By reducing the risk of
data loss and unauthorized access to applications and data, NextLabs helps
organizations ensure public confidence, demonstrate compliance, and
maintain competitive advantage.
NextLabs' partnerships with industry leaders such as IBM, SAP,
Microsoft, Adobe, and PTC bring to market industry-focused solutions that
combine industry best practices with turnkey applications, to meet
customers' governance, risk, and compliance requirements. NextLabs
maintains a growing portfolio of twenty-five pending patents covering four
core areas: fine-grained and contextual access control, user and workflow
remediation, real-time policy enforcement, and the implementation and
deployment of extensible and universal policies.
For more information on NextLabs, please visit http://www.nextlabs.com.
NextLabs, Enterprise DLP, ACPL, Compliant Enterprise, and their
corresponding logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of NextLabs,
Inc. in the United States. IBM is a registered trademark of International
Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or
both. All other company, product, or service names mentioned may be
trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.
SOURCE NextLabs, Inc.
 back to top
Related links:
http://www.nextlabs.com
CONTACT:
Clay Mock, Press Relations of NextLabs, Inc.,
+1-650-577-9101, clay.mock@nextlabs.com
|
