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posted on 29 February 2008 10:23

Mountain View, Calif., Feb. 26, 2008 – Reconnex, the leader in data loss prevention appliances, today introduced its Data Loss Profiler, a turnkey appliance that enables enterprise security personnel to learn what confidential and sensitive data is leaving the network and where it is going.

Minutes after connecting the Data Loss Profiler to the network, organizations have an index of all content leaving the network and can query the index to learn what information is being communicated and to whom. The results of these queries provide the basis for creating procedures and policies to protect valuable data assets or to investigate specific data losses. While the Data Loss Profiler is optimized to work in Reconnex DLP solutions, its learning capabilities also add value to legacy DLP products that have no inherent ability to use an organization’s actual traffic to determine policies and rules for protecting against data loss.

The Reconnex Data Loss Profiler offers a number of key features and benefits to organizations looking to extend protection to sensitive business information:

- The appliance automatically—and constantly—indexes and classifies all content leaving the network, not just known content covered by existing policies

- Users do not need to know in advance which information is sensitive—the Data Loss Profiler automatically learns data loss patterns directly from network interactions

- Customers can query the content index to learn if it contains sensitive information and where this information is going

- Understanding data risks enables organizations to determine if they need a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution and helps them create best-practice policies for securing sensitive data

Legacy DLP products typically assume that an organization’s business processes and policies are clear and known to everyone, and will search for fixed-format data, such as credit card or Social Security numbers, that are subject to these processes and policies. Content that does not match existing rules and formats—even if it is crucial to the organization—is discarded. The Data Loss Profiler indexes all content and context, rather than relying on existing policies and processes when it searches for information, thus providing the most thorough search of content crossing the network. The query and search capabilities of the Data Loss Profiler can show the completeness and accuracy of current rules and policies in preventing data loss, so that security personnel can make the appropriate adjustments to protect corporate IT.

Appliance Helps CIOs Deal with Top Priorities
The new Reconnex appliance helps CIOs deal with their top two priorities, as reported in the Gartner EXP CIO report Making the Difference: The 2008 CIO Agenda, a worldwide survey of 1,500 CIOs across 33 countries and 23 industries by Gartner Executive Programs (EXP). The Data Loss Profiler provides CIOs with the business intelligence they need regarding data leaving the network, so their organizations can uncover—and address—their business process issues. Gartner reports that the top business priority for CIOs is business process improvement and their top technology priority is business intelligence applications.

“Reconnex has figured out the weakest link in data loss prevention, which is creating and tuning rules to detect and protect confidential data on the network,” said Dr. Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of The Ponemon Institute. “With Profiler, customers can learn where their sensitive information is without any upfront knowledge of what they need to protect.”

Organizations can deploy the Reconnex Data Loss Profiler as a stand-alone solution for learning about content leaving the network. Or they can deploy it with their existing DLP solution to learn if their business rules are protecting data correctly, to determine if their DLP solution needs to enforce other rules and policies, and to learn if they need to create new policies. In addition, organizations can use the appliance to find out how well new processes they have developed are working.

“The Data Loss Profiler fills an unmet corporate need,” said Faizel Lakhani, vice president of marketing at Reconnex. “Based on data on American businesses, about 8,000 U.S. companies could benefit from a DLP solution, but less than 5 percent currently have DLP in place. Most organizations don’t even know how serious the data-loss challenge is, and they don’t want to throw money at a problem without understanding the real value of a particular solution. Only our Data Loss Profiler automatically indexes and classifies all content leaving the network, which is the first essential step to enabling CIOs to help develop and improve business processes and policies for protecting valuable data assets.”

The Reconnex Data Loss Profiler is a turnkey, rack-mounted, hardware appliance, available in 1U or 3U configurations. The product requires no tuning or other manual effort; the user simply plugs it in and it is ready to go.

Price and Availability
Organizations can use the Data Loss Profiler during a seven-day free trial, and if they find it is a valuable addition to their security arsenal, they may purchase the appliance and all learning applications for $19,995. Customers can purchase a software key that upgrades the Data Loss Profiler to a full Reconnex iGuard system, which includes a complete rules engine and full data-in-motion monitoring and protection, at any time in the future.

For More Information
Gartner EXP CIO report, Making the Difference: The 2008 CIO Agenda
Data Loss Profiler data sheet

About Reconnex
Reconnex's award-winning data loss prevention appliances are designed for any organization – including enterprises, government agencies, or educational institutions – that wants to protect its brand, maintain compliance, or secure sensitive information. Reconnex delivers accurate protection against known data-loss threats and provides the only solution that automatically learns of and defends against new threats as they evolve. A privately held company based in Silicon Valley, Calif., Reconnex protects information for over one million users today.

For more information about Reconnex, please visit www.reconnex.net or call 866-940-4590.