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Intact to distribute InfoWatch solutions

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 20 Jul 2017

Intact Software Distribution has won the distribution rights to the InfoWatch range of internal and external threat protection solutions: Traffic Monitor, Attack Killer and ?ppercut.

InfoWatch Group is an international developer of integrated solutions for enterprise infosec, offering solutions to protect public and private sector entities against both internal and external threats.

According to Simon Campbell-Young, CEO of Intact, InfoWatch solutions offer protection against a range of issues, including leakage, erasure, or spoiling of confidential data, customer-related and personal data leakage, as well as theft, corruption and fraud protection.

In addition, he says InfoWatch solutions protect against actions by malicious insiders, including sabotage, spying for competitors, and corporate resource misuse for personal purposes.

The solutions also offer DDOS protection for business-critical infrastructure assets, and detection and protection of Web app vulnerabilities exploited to access information systems and run malicious attacks.

He says InfoWatch Traffic Monitor is an automated enterprise information flow control system designed to detect information leaks and protect against internal threats. The system controls all electronic information exchange channels, recognises the meaning and content of documents on-the-fly and discovers confidential data and suspicious correspondence in the information flow.

The external threat protection solution, InfoWatch Attack Killer, protects against multi-vector targeted attacks and consists of several modules. "The Custom Code Scanner analyses vulnerabilities in Web application code. AntiDDoS detects and guarantees prevention of DDOS attacks of any scale, and WEB Application Firewall prevents hacker attacks on Web apps and detects Web infrastructure vulnerabilities."

Finally, InfoWatch Appercut was designed to control the quality of business application software code, root out undocumented features, and verify the compliance with the regulatory requirements to secure development.

"The solution enables users to detect developers' errors or backdoors in a code introduced by attackers in order to steal data or money, crack information systems, or disable infrastructure assets," Campbell-Young says.

Andrey Sokurenko, InfoWatch International Sales Deputy Director,says South Africa is a country with developed manufacturing and mining industries, and the InfoWatch Analytical Centre estimates these industries suffer multimillion-rand losses annually from external attacks on infrastructure as well as internal insider threats.

Sokurenko says this damage does not only lead to loss of revenue and an increase in the cost of manufacturing, it poses serious risks to manufacturing secrets and can damage a company's reputation. InfoWatch's solutions were developed to eliminate these risks and prevent internal threats too.

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