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Vontu Discover Gives Fortune 500 Companies Insight Into Confidential Data Stored on Exposed Shared Network Drives, Web Servers, and Desktops

Posted on: Monday, 25 July 2005, 09:00 CDT

SAN FRANCISCO, July 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Vontu Inc., the leader in Data Loss Prevention solutions, today announced Vontu Discover, the first software product that identifies unsecured confidential data exposed on shared file servers, web servers, and individual desktops. Vontu Discover helps companies prevent data security breaches that may lead to intellectual property loss and identity theft. The solution also enforces access control policies, encryption policies, and reduces the risk of financial loss, regulatory exposure, and brand damage. Vontu Discover is part of Vontu 5.0, also announced today (see "Vontu Introduces the Industry's only Solution to Discover, Monitor, and Prevent Loss of Consumer Data and Intellectual Property.")

The amount of information a typical business manages is growing at 50 to 75 percent per year and is increasingly distributed -- on shared fileservers, desktops, and desktops. Ninety-five percent of unstructured content is unmanaged, essentially invisible to data security teams. Confidential data can easily move from protected to unprotected servers and from authorized to unauthorized users. Unprotected confidential data on shared file servers increases the risk of intellectual property loss and violations of state and federal regulations. Vontu Discover allows companies to understand exactly where confidential data resides and, as part of Vontu 5.0, provides a comprehensive solution to significantly reduce the risk of data loss.

"Vontu Discover extends Vontu's leadership with another market first -- the ability to protect data at rest," said Joseph Ansanelli, CEO of Vontu. "Fortune 500 companies can now take a giant step to prevent data loss by gaining insight and control over the most valuable data in their company."

Many of the recent data security breaches in the media have been the result of poor processes and insiders mishandling confidential data.

"The first step to reduce the risk of a security breach is to understand where confidential data resides so that you can eliminate copies and update access control and stored data encryption policies," said Jim Hurley, Vice President of Research, Security, Compliance and Risk Management at Aberdeen Group. "With Vontu Discover, Vontu addresses both sides of the equation, data at rest and data in motion."

Find Confidential Data within Your Company with Vontu Discover 5.0

Vontu Discover 5.0 extends Vontu's existing network monitoring and blocking capabilities to find at-risk confidential data residing on shared file servers, web servers, and desktops.

Vontu Discover scans and analyzes file content against policies and delivers insight into confidential data at rest. Only Vontu Discover delivers on the requirements of Fortune 500 executives and data security teams:

-- Create Policies to locate confidential customer, patient, or employee data, intellectual property, or any other classified information. -- Remediate Incidents and educate employees. -- Enforce access control and encryption policies by identifying confidential data stored inappropriately on the network. Vontu Discover Key Features Vontu Discover features include: -- Complete Enterprise Coverage. Scans networked file shares, web content servers, and desktops. -- Agentless Desktop and Server Scanning. Scan any file server or desktop for confidential information without installing an agent on the remote system. -- Support for Scan Groups. Create groupings of servers to be inspected to streamline scan efficiency. For instance, a scan group can be created for shared drives of the legal, finance and business development teams to detect exposed merger and acquisition information. -- Repeat Scanning. Recurring scans allow companies to track risk reduction over time. -- Accurate Detection Across all Confidential Information. Detect matches of both database and unstructured data with Vontu's patent-pending Exact Data Matching and Indexed Document Matching. Search by filename pattern or file size. Vontu supports inspection of over 200 document types including zip and tar files.

Vontu Discover leverages the award-winning capabilities in all Vontu 5.0 products including:

-- Universal Policy Management. Vontu Discover shares the same policies with Vontu Monitor and Vontu Prevent, providing a unified approach to data loss. For example, a company can specify one customer data protection policy to discover data on globally accessible file shares, monitor for the data in outbound network communications across all protocols, and enforce the policy by conditionally blocking SMTP and HTTP transmissions with high volumes of customer data. -- Pre-Built Regulatory and Best Practice Policy Templates. Vontu 5.0 includes customizable policies for regulatory enforcement, customer data protection, intellectual property protection, and acceptable use. -- Automatically Enforce Data Security Policies. Vontu 5.0 is the first solution to deliver Automated Incident Response to automatically prevent data security violations, notify employees or their managers, and classify incident severity, all according to policy. -- Based Access Control. Vontu allows you to segment and control access to data based on workflow, sender attributes, policy or by confidentiality of incident data. -- Incident Snapshot for Rapid Remediation. Vontu displays complete incident content including policy details, highlighted match markup, and file location for rapid and actionable remediation. -- Reporting to Measure Risk Reduction over Time. Vontu gives data protection teams and business units insight and knowledge to measure risk reduction over time. Availability Vontu Discover will be available in September 2005. About Vontu, Inc.

Vontu delivers the industry's only Data Loss Prevention solution that discovers exposed confidential information on shared network drives, monitors all network traffic for confidential communications, and blocks select web and email communications. Vontu enables organizations to reduce financial risk, protect customer loyalty and ensure compliance with government regulations. Vontu customers include Global 2000 companies in financial services, insurance, high technology, retail, telecommunications, manufacturing, media and healthcare, as well as large government agencies. Vontu was awarded the Computerworld Innovative Technology Award 2004. For more information, please visit http://www.vontu.com/.

Vontu Inc.

CONTACT: Nicole Catalano of Atomic PR, +1-415-402-0230, ornicole@atomicpr.com, for Vontu Inc.

Web site: http://www.vontu.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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