Stamford, CT – October 19, 2006 – Protegrity® Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise data security management solutions, today releases the Defiance 4.2 Software Security suite, the industry’s first-ever integrated security platform to protect databases, files, & web applications in a single offering. Chief Security Officers and security managers can now focus on securing enterprise data holistically, not just from hardware appliances scattered through the IT infrastructure.
The integration of Defiance DPS data protection, Protegrity VPDisk file security, and Defiance TMS web application threat management, in this integrated suite release, delivers on Protegrity’s Data Security Management™ strategy of end-to-end protection. With Protegrity’s Defiance Enterprise Security Reporter, security administrators now have the proactive power to view and manage security events at all data protection points, throughout the data lifecycle. With compliance reports, active dashboards and detailed audit reporting, security officers can now demonstrate the efficacy of their security policies and reduce the number of days required with auditors to satisfy their assessment of the adequacy of internal controls; having all the information they need in one central interface.
Along with this unified control point for reporting and auditing on security events, Defiance 4.2 builds on Protegrity’s Intelligent Escalation™ functionality for enterprise-wide security response. Events detected by any 4.2 element -- DPS, VPDisk or TMS -- can trigger alerting and an intelligent threat management escalation at enforcement points, for true protection of sensitive data across the entire organization.
Defiance 4.2 also delivers expanded enterprise protection of, and support for, databases and applications on IBM iSeries (AS/400), and IBM z/OS DB/2 mainframe environments.
“The chief security officer today is challenged to define enterprise-wide data security policy, ensure enforcement and demonstrate controls for operational risk management across the organization,” said Gordon Rapkin, president & CEO of Protegrity. “The Defiance 4.2 release gives the CSO a single management platform and a common-sense way of defining and enforcing enterprise-wide security policy with a comprehensive compliance and management reporting capability. In addition, this release enhances our strengths in database, file, and web application protection.”
In addition to integrated alerting, reporting, and management, Defiance 4.2 delivers:
New deployment options for DB/2 on IBM Mainframe systems, providing the industry’s most comprehensive data protection and encryption offering for the mainframe
Protection for IBM iSeries (AS/400), resulting from our partnership with Patrick Townsend Associates
Active Directory & LDAP integration – for ease of maintenance
Defiance TMS auto-discovery – detailed visual layout of web application structures to quickly identify potential security holes
TMS web-application session-load balancing – for dramatically improved performance, scalability, and resource utilization
TMS stateless-session filter, preventing session hijacks
VPDisk expanded platform support to include RedHat Rel 3 and 4, Solaris 10
“Organizations need to review and react to security events throughout the data and application lifecycle, across all platforms.” commented Jon Oltsik, Senior Analyst, ESG. “Protegrity has a unique position in offering protection at the web application, database, file and storage levels,” he said. “ESG believes that there is a lot in bringing these products together in an integrated suite, especially for companies looking for an enterprise-wide security strategy.”
To get more detail on Protegrity’s integrated approach to data security management, and to find out more about specifics of the Defiance 4.2 release, contact Paul Giardina at 203-326-7200, or visit the website, www.protegrity.com.
ABOUT PROTEGRITY
Protegrity Corporation delivers enterprise-wide data security management solutions for end-to-end protection for applications and sensitive data, enabling companies to deploy comprehensive security policies with centralized management and auditing. Protegrity is committed to protecting sensitive data wherever it resides in today’s highly distributed and heterogeneous computing environments.
Protegrity empowers management to take responsibility for sensitive data by mitigating legal and financial risks associated with security breaches and assuring compliance with regulatory requirements for data security.
For more than ten years, Protegrity’s award-winning technology has enabled customers to address and resolve critical security challenges. Protegrity invented the core technology used for data-level encryption and owns key patents for database and application security and protection.
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