FREMONT, CA--(Marketwire - October 12, 2009) - Via Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco, CA & SC
World Congress New York City, NY -- dataguise (http://www.dataguise.com), a
leading innovator of security solutions for protecting sensitive data
across the enterprise, today announced the next generation of the company's
popular dataguise security solution -- dgdiscover™ 3.0 and dgmasker™
3.0. Version 3.0 is the industry's first integrated solution for
comprehensive sensitive data discovery and masking. It is designed to find
structured database repositories across the network, search and discover
sensitive data in structured databases, and then mask or de-identify to
protect sensitive data.
With dataguise, organizations now have access to a single product that
finds, searches and masks sensitive data across all databases throughout
the enterprise. This allows organizations to create corporate masking
policies for faster adherence to compliance regulations, lower risk of a
data breach, and reduced reliance on cumbersome single database masking
solutions.
"Sensitive data stored in non-production databases are exposed to abuse or
negligence from outsiders but mostly from enterprise employees. Potential
abusers, whom data masking aims to deter, are mainly users of test
databases (programmers, testers and database administrators)," says Dr.
Joseph Feiman, Research Vice President and Gartner Fellow. "Adopting data
masking will help enterprises raise the level of security and privacy
assurance against insiders' and outsiders' abuses. At the same time, data
masking will make enterprises compliant with the security and privacy
standards recommended by regulating/auditing organizations."
Find IT, Search IT, and Mask IT.
In many organizations, sensitive information is scattered in unprotected
databases and file servers across corporate infrastructure.
Although most enterprises have taken measures to control access to critical
data in their production environments, this protection does not always
extend to non-production data. Enterprises are continuously cloning
production data to support development, testing, QA and pre-production
deployment. As a result, sensitive data can be inadvertently propagated
throughout the extended enterprise. This can include employee data such as
Taxpayer IDs, employee names/addresses, and dependent information, customer
information such as credit cards and card expiration dates, and
intellectual property or classified information. The need to satisfy
requirements for regulations such as, HIPAA, PCI and PII as well as data
theft prevention and sound governance make it imperative that organizations
implement the necessary processes to block exposure of this sensitive
information. The first step is finding the databases containing the
sensitive data.
Leading organizations, including Amgen, Facebook, John Muir Hospital, and
the University of California Berkeley, have turned to dataguise as their
partner in the protection against sensitive information loss or theft.
dataguise offers the first integrated product offering of its kind to
combine both discovery of databases containing sensitive data,
identification of the data at risk in the database and Masking In Place
(MIP) of the information for seamless security. dgdiscover 3.0 empowers
these organizations by quickly determining where sensitive information
resides throughout the enterprise and dgmasker 3.0 then de-identifies
information targeted for use outside of the production network.
dataguise provides a high level of automation to deliver fast and reliable
discovery without extensive management overhead. Unlike alternative
offerings, the solution was developed to be simple and user friendly,
resulting in a relatively low dependency on professional services for
implementation and support. Both dgdiscover and dgmasker scale for use in
small and medium size enterprises to the largest multi-national
corporations for unlimited enterprise-wide discovery and masking.
Additional benefits of dgdiscover and dgmasker:
-- Rapidly determines where databases are running;
-- Quickly analyzes what tables/columns contain sensitive data for
masking recommendation;
-- Easy to deploy enterprise class software without network hardware
installation requirements;
-- Searches structured data repositories: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL,
Teradata, Sybase, MS Access;
-- Searches unstructured data repositories for file formats that include
Text, MS Office, PDF, XML, CSV and LOG;
-- Pre-defined templates for PCI, HIPAA, and PII compliance regulations
-- Ability to easily create and add custom policies;
-- Provides an easy-to-interpret graphical summary of search results
-- Secures data in non-production environments;
-- Preserves business data rules so as not to break applications.
"The identification and protection of sensitive information across
enterprise networks is a top priority to ensure more complete data
protection," said Jim Krantz, President and CEO of Krantz Security
Associates, New York City, New York, a leading dataguise reseller.
"dataguise mitigates the risk of unauthorized use of information because,
with masking, the data is usable for testing, but is not associated with
sensitive information in any way other than format. In addition to critical
protection of information assets, dataguise automation significantly lowers
total cost of ownership compared to alternatives for unmatched ease-of-use,
value and security."
"Prevention of unauthorized use of privileged corporate information is a
mandatory business directive in industries covered under rigid compliance
mandates. This is especially true in the healthcare, biotech, government,
and insurance industries," said Allan Thompson, SVP, BD, Marketing &
Product Strategy for dataguise. "No other solution combines the DNA of
structured and unstructured database knowledge with security, and provides
the breadth and depth of dataguise in finding, searching and removing
sensitive data from unauthorized access. For organizations under strict
regulatory guidelines, dataguise brings a critical security layer that
ensures conformity."
Pricing and Availability
The dataguise security solution, featuring dgdiscover 3.0 and dgmasker 3.0,
is available immediately with pricing based on environment and
configuration. Organizations with security concerns reviewed in this
announcement can learn more about dataguise by visiting www.dataguise.com.
About dataguise
dataguise offers automated and advanced database security solutions to help
ensure regulatory compliance and protect against data theft. dataguise
dgdiscover focuses on sensitive data discovery and classification across
the enterprise and the company's dgmasker product solution provides secure
masking of database content with unprecedented flexibility and
functionality across heterogeneous environments. For more information, call
510-824-1036 or visit www.dataguise.com.
Contact Information: Agency Contact:
Joe Austin
Ventana PR
(818) 591-2646