Mitigation of insider threats is imperative

Issued by Global Research Partners for SecureData

Johannesburg, 06 Sep 2010

SecureData Security, part of JSE-listed SecureData Holdings and the sub-Saharan distributor for Imperva, a leader in data security, today announced the latter's File Security product line, the latest addition to the company's SecureSphere Data Security Suite.

SecureSphere File Firewall prevents unauthorised access to unstructured data residing on file servers and network attached storage (NAS).

SecureSphere File Activity Monitoring (FAM) allows enterprises to monitor access to sensitive file data, establish an audit trail for compliance and reduce data access rights to a business-based need-to-know level. With this product expansion, Imperva's data security suite helps enterprises protect not only Web applications and databases, but file systems as well.

“Critical business data exists everywhere within an organisation, for instance, in databases, applications and, most commonly, on file servers,” commented Oliver N"othen, Product Manager at SecureData for Imperva's products.

“Valuable business documents, intellectual property such as software source code, finance spreadsheets, and many other types of data are stored in these files. Nevertheless, businesses today still lack the appropriate tools needed to monitor access to sensitive data regardless of where it resides and secure sensitive file data within their organisation; and, securing file systems is essential if companies wish to successfully comply with the latest King III, PCI, SOX or any other mandated security, governance and compliance-orientated legislation and/or recommendations. According to IDC, 80% of all business data is file data and is growing at a rate of 60% annually.”

Imperva's File Security products allow businesses to:

* Analyse who has access to, who owns, and who has accessed sensitive data.
* Identify where access is 'excessive' and can be reduced.
* Monitor access and alert and/or block access that violates business policy.

In addition, the new product line includes:

* User Rights Management for Files: Companies can aggregate, review, approve or reject rights to sensitive files/folders; quickly identify suspect excessive and dormant rights.
* Real-Time File Access Auditing, Security and Integrity: Companies can audit, alert, and block access to sensitive files/folders.

"Activity monitoring is an important security capability for any organisation. By identifying and detailing unusual activity when accessing information, insider threats can be mitigated and advanced threats that have bypassed traditional security controls can now be detected. Additionally, activity monitoring builds strong forensics capabilities while bolstering compliance programmes to meet growing regulatory mandates," concluded N"othen.

For further information, please contact: Oliver N"othen at tel. +27 11 790 2500; e-mail olivern@securedata.co.za.

Imperva

Imperva, the data security leader, enables a complete security life cycle for business databases and the applications that use them. Over 4 500 of the world's leading enterprises, government organisations, and managed service providers rely on Imperva to prevent sensitive data theft, protect against data breaches, secure applications, and ensure data confidentiality. The award-winning Imperva SecureSphere is the only solution that delivers full activity monitoring from the database to the accountable application user and is recognised for its overall ease of management and deployment.

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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