RSA, The Security Division of EMC, and Lumension Team Up To Help Businesses Better Secure Sensitive Data
By building DLP technology into the infrastructure, RSA and
Lumension plan to be able to offer customers a complete data protection solutionBEDFORD, Mass. and SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA, The Security
Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC) and Lumension, a global leader in endpoint
management and security today announced the execution of an agreement to help
organizations better protect sensitive information and share it in a more secure
manner. The businesses plan to work together to further expand information-aware
capabilities into the IT infrastructure by embedding parts of the RSA Data Loss
Prevention Suite into Lumension products.
Organizations are faced with the challenge of explosive digital data that needs
to be secured and managed, along with increased collaboration and support for
mobile and open devices and platforms. There are point solutions that can
address these challenges, but they require that multiple policies and
technologies be pulled together and independently managed, which is costly and
complex. To help address these issues, RSA and Lumension plan to work together
to provide the market with a more robust and comprehensive data protection
solution that will be designed to help provide greater data security with less
complexity, reduced total cost of ownership, and less impact to business
productivity. By building DLP technology into the infrastructure, RSA and
Lumension plan to be able to offer customers a complete data protection solution
from gateway to endpoint with common policies and common classifications of
sensitive data.
"Organizations are looking for ways to leverage their existing infrastructure to
prevent threats that originate externally and internally," said Charles Kolodgy,
research vice president for Security Products at IDC. "The collaboration between
RSA and Lumension is designed to provide organizations the capability to deploy
granular policies on permissible data protection activity on the endpoints
without the need to install multiple agents resulting in simplified security
operations and management."
As part of their technical agreement, Lumension will license the RSA Data Loss
Prevention (DLP) Suite software development kit (SDK), with the goal of building
RSA DLP classification technology and expert RSA DLP policy libraries into
future versions of its Lumension Device Control product module. The RSA DLP SDK
would also be engineered to enable Lumension endpoint security products to work
seamlessly with the rest of RSA's DLP offerings for networks and datacenters.
The goal of the resulting integration and collaboration would be designed to
deliver the following capabilities:
-- A Common DLP Policy from network gateway to storage to endpoint and onto
removable media such as USB devices and recordable CD/DVD ROM.
-- Comprehensive content awareness across data transferred off the endpoint
and onto removable media. This would enable organizations to not only
apply policy to file types but to also apply policy to data within file
types such as social security numbers etc.
-- Ability to define highly granular polices on permissible activity and
data types on the endpoint without impacting organizational
productivity.
-- Single console, single agent solution that increases visibility across
data location, policy and movement while reducing administrative burden.
"Companies continue to struggle to protect sensitive data across the
enterprise," said Christopher Young, senior vice president of products at RSA,
The Security Division of EMC. "RSA is continuing to expand our ecosystem of DLP
partners that can help solve this problem, by building security into the
infrastructure as opposed to bolting on costly and complex point tools. Our
relationship with Lumension, along with our strategic partnership with Microsoft
and Cisco are designed to help customers protect sensitive information as it
moves within and across organizational boundaries."
"Today, businesses need more agility in ensuring their workforce can be as
productive as possible. However; agility no longer needs to come with an
increased risk of data loss or breach," said Rich Hlavka, senior vice president
of business development for Lumension. "This collaboration with RSA will
eventually provide our customers with enhanced data protection capabilities from
content aware device control to a complete end-to-end DLP solution that
leverages market leading DLP technology from RSA, and superior endpoint
management and security solutions from Lumension. We believe this new enhanced
solution will be providing superior data loss protection with less TCO while
affording maximum business productivity."
About RSA
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is the premier provider of security solutions
for business acceleration, helping the world's leading organizations succeed by
solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. RSA's
information-centric approach to security guards the integrity and
confidentiality of information throughout its lifecycle - no matter where it
moves, who accesses it or how it is used.
RSA offers industry-leading solutions in identity assurance & access control,
data loss prevention, encryption & key management, compliance & security
information management and fraud protection. These solutions bring trust to
millions of user identities, the transactions that they perform, and the data
that is generated. For more information, please visit www.RSA.com and
www.EMC.com.
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