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Gila, GlobeImmune, UB Health Services, All Select Elemental Security's New Policy-Based System for Network Security

Posted on: Friday, 1 December 2006, 18:01 CST

Elemental Security, Inc. (Elemental), the award-winning pioneer of new technology in enterprise information security, today announced continued market growth from new organizations who selected the ESP solution and accolades from industry thought leaders. Gila Regional Medical Center, in Silver City, New Mexico, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Health Sciences Schools' IT department (UB Health Sciences), and GlobeImmune Inc., all have deployed Elemental Security Platform (ESP) this year in order to address their security, compliance, and risk management challenges.

Elemental's rapid acceptance by client organizations and 21 industry accolades since its launch in 2002 reflect a strong demand for a common-sense approach to security investment that is driven by the business objectives of the organization rather than the "threat du jour." Its Elemental Security Platform (ESP) provides a visionary solution to overcome the challenges caused by point security solutions and multiple regulatory compliance demands, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI, Gramm Leach Bliley and HIPAA.

The winner of a Network World All-Star Award for its implementation of ESP across multiple networks with separate ownership, UB Health Sciences credits ESP with a $20,000 return on investment in its first year of implementation (http://www.networkworld.com/allstar/2006/092506-security-case-studies .html?page=4#buffalo.) (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)

Gila Regional Medical Center, considered the medical hub of southwest New Mexico, selected ESP to help automate the extraordinary demands of proving their security posture and compliance in so many areas. "Historically it has taken multiple safeguards to achieve compliance both to regulations and an organization's own policies," noted David Furnas, Chief Information Officer, Gila Regional Medical Center. "The solutions don't often interface well with each other and so it can be a significant challenge to collect and correlate all of the information these safeguards produce and get to the point where you have actionable information. Elemental has filled that compliance gap for us."

"An automated technology solution providing both the security required by regulations and a way to translate the nebulous regulations into actionable policy and technical controls would greatly save organizations time, thereby saving money," noted Rose Ryan, Research Analyst, IDC. "Elemental currently delivers such a solution and we expect new advances from an updated release later this year."

Elemental's unified policy management platform makes the state and activity of users and computers fully transparent, enabling customers to directly translate their business and organizational objectives into specific policies for all users and systems. Using Elemental, security administrators can easily assess the security posture of machines and networks, and make proactive decisions about managing risk.

"ESP allows GlobeImmune to effectively and demonstrably improve our level of security and configuration policy compliance, without increasing staff. We have been able to make great gains for a very reasonable capital investment and operating cost," said Mark Lund, Director of IT, GlobeImmune. "It's proactive, and in real time. Our security of mission critical assets has been greatly improved by implementing Elemental's enforcement functionality."

"Companies ought to consider security as part of business process and policy, aligning governance, compliance, and risk management activities to drive business performance and directly affect business outcomes," said Dan Farmer, CTO, Elemental Security. "This means that companies must meet business needs while doing the best possible job of protecting their networks -- creating high-level security policies that can then be translated into desired security states on each and every affected machine on the network. The idea of optimizing your security policies and procedures is really no different than optimizing your supply chain or your ERP software. It starts with going back to basics and taking a holistic overview of the business, identifying important assets that have critical problems that are likely to occur and then protecting them using risk analysis and sound security best practices."

About GILA Regional Medical Center

Established in 1983, Gila Regional Medical Center is the largest hospital in a radius of nearly 100 miles and provides a wide range of services to the people of southwest New Mexico, including Grant, Luna, Hidalgo and Catron counties. Owned by Grant County and managed by Quorum Health Resources, GRMC is a non-profit hospital with more than 600 employees. The hospital is known for its friendly, patient-centered care and is the only Planetree-affiliated hospital in the State of New Mexico. For more information, visit www.grmc.org.

About GlobeImmune

GlobeImmune, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company pioneering the discovery, development and manufacturing of potent, targeted molecular immunotherapies called Tarmogens for the treatment of cancer and infectious disease. The Company's lead product series, GI-4000 for the treatment of cancers of the lung and gastrointestinal tract, is currently in Phase 2 clinical trials. The Company initiated a Phase 1b trial for its second product, GI-5005, a Tarmogen for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C infection in July 2005. GlobeImmune was originally founded in 1996 by three faculty members at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center: Drs. Alex Franzusoff, Donald Bellgrau and Richard Duke. GlobeImmune recently raised over $38.4 million in Series B financing to support continued clinical development of its lead programs.

About The State University of New York at Buffalo, Health Sciences Schools' IT department

UB's five health sciences schools are the School of Dental Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and School of Public Health and Health Professions. The University at Buffalo is a premier research-intensive public university, the largest and most comprehensive campus in the State University of New York system.

About Elemental Security, Inc.

Elemental is an industry leader in enterprise policy and risk management. Using its award-winning Elemental Security Platform (ESP), organizations can directly translate their business objectives into specific policies for all users and systems on their networks. For the first time, enterprises can use a single product to obtain measurable and comprehensive metrics for their security policy needs and compliance requirements. Founded in December 2002, Elemental is a privately held company backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Mayfield, Sequoia Capital and Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. Red Herring and AlwaysOn have awarded the company their annual awards for the top private companies. Elemental was also named the "Most Innovative" company at the RSA Conference 2006, and earned 2006 "Private Security/Start-up to Watch" honors from Red Herring and Network World. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., and has offices throughout the U.S. Go to http://www.elementalsecurity.com for more information.

Elemental and the Elemental Security Platform, among others, are trademarks or registered trademarks in the United States and certain other countries of Elemental Security, Inc. Additional company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of other individual companies and are respectfully acknowledged.

Source: Business Wire

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