Document encryption, protection made easy by Check Point

Issued by Global Research Partners for SecureData

Johannesburg, 19 Jul 2010

SecureData Security, part of JSE-listed SecureData Holdings and the sub-Saharan distributor for Check Point Software Technologies, today announced the latter's acquisition of privately held Liquid Machines, a leader in data security.

Liquid Machines' award-winning products prevent the misuse, modification, loss or theft of intellectual property and sensitive information residing in documents. Liquid Machines specialises in data protection and has 12 issued and pending patents for document encryption and content security. The acquisition will broaden Check Point's extensive data security portfolio.

Check Point's data security strategy focuses on securing data throughout its life cycle; Check Point Full Disk Encryption prevents data loss due to lost or stolen devices, Check Point Virtual Private Networking (VPN) turns any network into a secure and encrypted communication channel, and Check Point's recently announced Data Loss Prevention products prevent sensitive data from being leaked out of the organisation. The Liquid Machines technology will be part of Check Point's future product suite and will enable secure sharing of documents.

“Liquid Machines provides the best technology for end-to-end data security and thus is a natural extension of what is already offered by Check Point Security Technologies portfolio to ensure all sensitive data is fully secure with the addition of document encryption,” commented Doros Hadjizenonos, product manager at SecureData for Check Pont Software Technologies. “This is becoming increasingly important as the Internet and e-mail allows users to disseminate more sensitive information inside and outside a company, and therefore an organisation's ability to secure its content and data is becoming paramount.”

Liquid Machines is a US-based company, headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, and is a market leader in the field of enterprise rights management. Liquid Machines was founded in 2001 and its customers include Fortune 100 companies in the financial services, utility and industrial sectors.

For further information, please contact Doros Hadjizenonos at tel. +27 11 790 2500; fax +27 11 790 2599; e-mail dorosh@securedata.co.za.

Check Point Software Technologies

Check Point Software Technologies is the leader in securing the Internet. Check Point offers total security solutions featuring a unified gateway, single endpoint agent and single management architecture, customised to fit customers' dynamic business needs. This combination is unique and is a result of its leadership and innovation in the enterprise firewall, personal firewall/endpoint, data security and VPN markets.

Check Point's pure focus is on information security. Through its NGX platform, Check Point delivers a unified security architecture to protect business communications and resources, including corporate networks and applications, remote employees, branch offices and partner extranets. The company also offers market-leading endpoint and data security solutions with Check Point Endpoint Security products, protecting and encrypting sensitive corporate information stored on PCs and other mobile computing devices. Check Point's award-winning ZoneAlarm solutions protect millions of consumer PCs from hackers, spyware and identity theft. Check Point solutions are sold, integrated and serviced by a network of Check Point partners around the world and its customers include 100% of Fortune 100 companies and tens of thousands of businesses and organisations of all sizes.

SecureData

SecureData is a specialist, value-added distributor of perimeter, application, network, endpoint, storage and identity information security solutions and risk management solutions for the African sub-continent and Indian Ocean islands. A cross-section of the available solutions from SecureData illustrates wide coverage of the following information security and risk management domains: business continuity, security appliances and devices, hardware authentication, identity and access management, security and vulnerability management, secure content management, threat management and security services.

SecureData's information security and risk management solutions include best-of-breed solutions, devices and appliances for the perimeter, data centres, applications, network, endpoints, messaging and Web. In addition, as a value-add to vendor, channel and customer, SecureData also provides a full complement of support, pre-sales and professional services around the solutions positioned in each discrete security vertical.

For more information, visit SecureData at http://www.securedata.co.za.

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