Local ICT security specialist, J2 Software, has partnered with SECUDE, a global provider of IT data protection solutions. This new offering will help customers to protect their sensitive data against loss and theft, and also provide compliance to various laws and industry regulations.
SECUDE offers an enterprise endpoint data protection solution that provides intelligent technology to secure and manage enterprises' endpoints. Through SECUDE's rapid deployment technology, enterprises can dramatically cut down deployment and administrative costs, while providing full end-user transparency without requiring any end-user training.
J2 Software Managing Director John Mc Loughlin says important enterprise data resides on mobile endpoints. "Companies must figure out how to cost-effectively manage different brands and generations of globally dispersed computers, while implementing corporate security policies, ensuring legal compliance and preventing data loss."
SECUDE's FinallySecure Enterprise seamlessly integrates into existing software management infrastructure; optionally, it provides its own Web-based management and reporting console.
He says FinallySecure Enterprise enables you to handle data anywhere, anytime, while meeting legal compliance and data protection requirements. "The solution offers strong user authentication even before the boot-up process. Also, users can authenticate through the optional use of smart cards/token or digital certificates, thus making their laptops truly secure."
FinallySecure Enterprise encrypts the entire content in a laptop's hard disk, thus safeguarding an organisation from potential financial loss and consequential legal issues, even if the computer falls into the wrong hands. FinallySecure Enterprise's dedicated management console offers greater administrative flexibility and reduces cost.
Furthermore, SecureFolder Enterprise ensures the highest level of security for your sensitive and confidential data. It uses complex algorithms to encrypt entire folders that are stored locally or on network drives.
Mc Loughlin says SecureFolder Enterprise offers far greater flexibility compared to other encryption solutions available. "This solution preserves the folder structure, which is a major advantage compared to container encryption solutions. It offers a centralised management console for encrypted folders."
Users can be authenticated either through secure software tokens, smart cards or USB tokens. This allows certificate-based authentication of group members for centrally stored documents. The new role-based intelligent authorisation system elegantly separates the functions of system administration, security management and users.
"This gives SecureFolder Enterprise clear advantages over other solutions - sensitive data can even be protected effectively from system administrators. The LDAP connection allows convenient and simple administration," he concludes.
For more information, contact J2 Software on 0861 00 J TWO (5896) or e-mail john@jtwo.co.za.
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J2 Software
J2 Software is a leading South African IT security company. While most organisations are now starting to realise the impact of data theft and abuse of IT resources by employees, J2 recognised the need to protect against this activity some time ago. J2 Software was born after the founders identified an opportunity in the IT market in South Africa and the rest of Africa. They saw a growing need for information security solutions which were comprehensive, simple to deploy, easy to use and good value for money. After tireless searching and investigation, J2 Software was officially launched in 2006.
Shortly after inception, the customer list of J2 Software started to grow rapidly; and this continues to be the case to this day. J2 Software has provided services and solutions to numerous renowned, forward-thinking companies with sites running in South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
J2 Software provides solutions and services to various organisations that have a requirement to secure their sensitive information as well as implement, monitor and enforce internal security policies. In recent times, organisations are placing a far higher priority on the security, accountability and control of their most prized asset, their information.
Adding to this is the ever growing pressure being placed on companies and their directors to maintain the security and control of the sensitive data of their clients, as well as the necessity to conform to various local and international compliance regulations.
With the continued rise of identity theft and confidential data leakage, the need for our product offering is not only an advantage, but an absolute necessity.
SECUDE
SECUDE is an innovative global provider of IT data protection solutions. The company was founded in 1996, in collaboration between SAP AG and the Fraunhofer Institute.
In early 2011, SECUDE sold its application security solutions to SAP AG in order to focus on creating endpoint security technology. SECUDE helps customers protect their sensitive data against loss and theft, so that customers can achieve compliance with various laws and industry regulations.
SECUDE became a member of the SAP PartnerEdge programme and Value-Added-Reseller (VAR) channel partner of SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG in 2011.
Since February 2012, SECUDE has been appointed as channel partner of SAP (Schweiz) AG. Apart from SECUDE's own solutions, SECUDE can offer to customers, software licences, consulting and implementation services for SAP NetWeaver Single Sign-On.
SECUDE has the confidence of many Fortune 500 and DAX-listed companies and employs more than 80 professionals in its subsidiaries throughout Europe, North America and Asia. www.secude.com.
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