Evaluation by Prestigious NSS Group Confirms Value of Reconnex iGuard 3600 Appliance
Testing Uncovers Powerful Benefits of Using Reconnex Solution for Protecting Information Before, During, and After Threats
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., January 29, 2007
CORE NEWS FACTS
- Reconnex, the expert in information protection, announced today that The NSS Group has tested its iGuard 3600 information protection appliance and found it to provide excellent coverage.
- The NSS Group is an independent security testing facility that is recognized globally for its leadership is testing and evaluating security products.
- The iGuard 3600 addresses the entire protection cycle—securing sensitive content at rest before risk exposure; protecting data from known threats during transmission; and capturing all network content for-after-the-fact analysis.
- The Reconnex appliance comes with a suite of pre-defined policies and rules, and it also gives users the flexibility to define their own. In addition, users can discover and pre-register sensitive and private content such as Intellectual Property (IP) that is known to need protection by scanning data at rest.
- “Security coverage with the default policies proved to be excellent, correctly identifying various types of sensitive data such as credit cards,” according to the report. “In addition, (the iGuard 3600) correctly identified “company confidential” data such as internal memos, earnings reports and source code when transmitted over a wide variety of protocols and on standard or non-standard ports.”
- The NSS Group found that “The HIPAA, GLBA, and SOX policies provided excellent coverage for legal compliance…and the iGuard excels at protecting one of the most critical yet easily exploitable commodities in enterprises today: intellectual property.”
- The report noted that Reconnex’s discovery capability employs “a sophisticated algorithm that produces multiple hashes from each document to handle re-ordering of content. This means that even if a document is renamed or altered slightly, it is likely that it will still be detected by iGuard.”
- “Overall we found the coverage of the iGuard with default policies to be excellent,” said the report. “Once custom content types, rules and policies are factored in, along with iGuard-Discover to protect data at rest, it is hard to imagine a scenario which could not be handled by iGuard.”
Commentary
- “The content monitoring and filtering market is an exciting growth area in network security on which NSS is focusing increasing attention for detailed technical analysis and benchmarking,” says Bob Walder, CEO of NSS Group. “We see the threat landscape evolving such that deeper content-awareness for monitoring, discovering and prevention of these risks is a natural evolution from yesterday's firewall and IDS systems. Reconnex is one of the players in this exciting market focused on the appliance approach.”
- “The findings of The NSS Group provide a strong validation of our powerful and unique approach to protecting all content on the network, including such complex information as IP,” said Faizel Lakhani, vice president of marketing at Reconnex. “Today more than ever, organizations need a way to protect all their information assets, even those that are unique, and to defend themselves against both known and unknown threats. Only Reconnex provides this type of comprehensive protection.”
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About The NSS Group
The NSS Group is the world’s foremost independent security testing facility, offering a range of specialist IT, networking, and security-related services to vendors and end-user organizations world-wide. The NSS Group security testing laboratories are available to vendors and end-users for fully independent testing of networking, communications, and security hardware and software. Output from the labs, including detailed research reports, articles, and white papers on the latest network and security technologies, are made available on the NSS web site at http://www.nss.co.uk.
About Reconnex
Reconnex is the leader in information monitoring and protection appliances designed for any organization – including enterprises, government agencies or educational institutions – that wants to protect its brand, maintain compliance, or secure sensitive information. Reconnex’s simple-to-deploy appliance delivers accurate detection while protecting an enterprise before, during, and after any threat to corporate privacy or intellectual property. 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.
For more information about Reconnex, please visit www.reconnex.net or call 866-940-4590.
