Software addresses European data security requirements.

Vontu, Inc. Nov 10, 2006

Press Release Summary:

Vontu v6.0 helps prevent loss of confidential customer data and intellectual property while ensuring regulatory compliance. Vontu Discover and Vontu Protect identify and secure confidential data exposed on open file shares, web servers, and individual desktops and laptops. Vontu Monitor and Vontu Prevent inspect network communications for confidential data in motion, while Vontu Enforce enables companies to build, deploy, and enforce data loss prevention policies.

Original Press Release:

Vontu Introduces Data Loss Prevention Solutions to the European Market

Vontu Product Suite Addresses European Data Security Requirements

LONDON, Oct. 24 // - Vontu Inc., the leader in data loss prevention solutions, has formally announced its entry into the European market. The Vontu product suite, Vontu 6.0, is specifically designed to address data security requirements for domestic and multinational companies doing business in Europe.

"Organizations around the world are all struggling with the same information security challenges," said Joseph Ansanelli, CEO of Vontu. "They are trying to understand where their confidential data is stored and exposed on laptops, desktops and file servers, where it is being sent over email, the web, or any internet channel, and how to enforce their policies to prevent the loss of sensitive information."

Data loss from within the corporate network is the most pressing security issue facing enterprises today. While companies have spent millions of pounds on fortifying their networks against external attack, the number-one source of data leaks comes from employees inside the corporate walls. Data breaches usually occur because companies do not have sufficient visibility into where confidential data actually resides on their networks - whether at rest or in motion. Sensitive information is often sent out via email or web mail, or is copied to laptops and other mobile devices that are easily lost or stolen.

Vontu is the global market leader in data loss prevention software. Its fully integrated product portfolio is the industry's most comprehensive solution to the problem of confidential data loss, enabling organizations to discover and protect confidential data, to monitor and prevent data from wrongful disclosure, and to automatically enforce data security and privacy policies. Vontu works closely with organizations to reduce the frequency and severity of both accidental and malicious data loss incidents - protecting reputation, safeguarding customer data and intellectual property, and ensuring regulatory compliance.

The Vontu solution has been specifically designed to help European companies and multinational corporations enforce data loss policies. In addition to the standard feature set, Vontu 6.0 supports the following European requirements:

o Support for over 10 country-specific and European regulatory policy
templates, including the EU Data Protection Directive, UK Data
Protection Act of 1998, Human Rights Act of 1998, and the Caldicott Report.
o Employee Privacy Safeguards - Vontu allows organizations to prevent
data loss while still meeting legal requirements on monitoring European
Union employees. First responders to data loss violations can review
incidents without revealing sender identity or message content,
protecting the privacy of the employee while mitigating risk.
o Language support - Vontu's policy language and detection technologies
support all Western European languages, including French, Spanish,
Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, and English.

The Vontu data loss prevention product suite consists of five components. Vontu Discover and Vontu Protect identify and secure confidential data at rest that is exposed on open file shares, web servers, and individual desktops and laptops. Vontu Monitor and Vontu Prevent inspect all network communications for confidential data in motion and proactively stop data security violations over email, web communications, and file transfer protocols. All four modules are managed by a central platform, Vontu Enforce, that enables organizations to build, deploy, and automatically enforce consistent Data Loss Prevention policies.

Vontu's expansion coincides with the publication of UK Survey: Confidential Data At Risk, a research report from the Ponemon Institute - sponsored by Vontu - which reveals that 57 percent of UK companies surveyed reported the loss of one or more laptop computers containing sensitive information during the previous 12 months. This report exposes the need for UK companies to discover where their confidential data is stored and where it is being sent, which are the first steps towards better data security. (See related press release: Ponemon Institute Releases UK Survey on Confidential Data at Risk.)

About Vontu

Vontu is the leading provider of Data Loss Prevention solutions for both data at rest and data in motion. Vontu allows organizations to discover and protect exposed confidential information, monitor all network traffic, block select email, FTP and web communications, and automatically enforce data loss prevention policies. By reducing the frequency and severity of both inadvertent and malicious data loss incidents, Vontu helps organizations ensure public confidence, reduce compliance risk and protect competitive advantage. Vontu customers include Fortune 500 companies in financial services, insurance, high technology, retail, telecommunications, manufacturing, media, and healthcare, as well as state and federal government agencies.

Vontu has received numerous awards, including SC Magazine's 2006 U.S. Excellence Award for "Best Enterprise Security Solution" and Global Award for "Best New Security Solution," as well as IDG's InfoWorld 2006 Technology of the Year Award for "Best Insider Threat Defense." For more information, please visit www.vontu.com/ .

Source: Vontu Inc.

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