RSA-Cisco combined solution
ConvergenceAsia staff
29/06/2009

RSA, The Security Division of EMC, recently partnered with Cisco, a supplier of networking equipment and network management, to embed data classification technology and policies from the RSA Data Loss Prevention Suite into Cisco’s Cisco IronPort email security solutions. RSA’s DLP technology will be fully integrated into Cisco IronPort’s email security platform as a comprehensive subscription software service for helping to prevent the loss of data in motion over email. The combined solution, to be offered as RSA Email DLP for Cisco IronPort, provides accurate and easy-to-use content classification designed to discover and protect sensitive data before it leaves the enterprise through email.

The integrated RSA Email DLP solution is engineered to include a wide selection of pre-defined out-of-the-box policies maintained and updated by RSA’s Information Policy and Classification Research team. The addition of RSA’s DLP technology to Cisco IronPort’s anti-spam, antivirus and encryption solutions is designed to provide customers with the most comprehensive, market-leading solution for inbound and outbound email control and security.

Additionally, customers may extend the RSA Email DLP capabilities for data-in-motion over email to data-at-rest, data-in-use and data-in-motion over web through a tight integration with the RSA Data Loss Prevention Suite, enabling data loss prevention with unified management and a common information classification and policy framework across the enterprise. This also allows customers to benefit from the comprehensive incident workflow and distributed architecture of the RSA DLP suite and achieve simplified management and lower total cost of ownership, while having comprehensive protection for data wherever it resides.

Tom Corn, Vice President of Product Marketing, RSA, The Security Division of EMC said integrating RSA’s market-leading DLP technology into the Cisco IronPort platform fulfills a substantial need for RSA and Cisco customers, offering a solution for DLP that leverages the infrastructure and provides a common framework for security policy and classification to secure data at rest, in motion and in use.

“Today, we are providing accurate and intuitive solutions for monitoring and preventing data loss where it is extremely critical: on email and on the Web. These solutions give our customers an immediate head start on reducing the risk of data loss,” said Keith Valory, Director of Product Management, Security Technology Business Unit for Cisco.

RSA Email DLP is scheduled to be available as a fully integrated subscription software feature on Cisco IronPort’s email security products and services.

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