Reconnex And PostX Partner To Deliver Industry’s First Content-Aware Email Encryption Appliance
MOUNTAIN VIEW and CUPERTINO, Calif., October 3, 2006 - Reconnex, the information protection experts, and PostX, the leading email encryption provider, today announced plans to integrate the Reconnex iGuard content-aware appliance with PostX’s email encryption appliance. Designed to address organizations’ requirements to protect intellectual property (IP) assets and secure private data, the joint solution will link deep content monitoring capabilities with policies for encrypting sensitive data before it is sent out via email.
Security, and specifically the protection of sensitive data, is becoming crucial for all types of businesses. Most industries today struggle to protect IP and other sensitive data such as source code, patents, drug development, marketing strategies, and even employees’ personal information. Many factors lead to the leakage of this information, including human error, lack of compliance standards in place, outdated technologies, and outmoded business policies.
"Reconnex's partnership with email encryption leader PostX extends the utility of our content discovery and monitoring solution," said Faizel Lakhani, vice president of marketing at Reconnex. "We’ve already seen strong interest from customers looking to automate their IT security by better leveraging content awareness to drive policy actions, such as encrypting traffic. The new relationship with PostX will help us deliver on this vision with the kind of turnkey, purpose-built appliances our customers expect for their security applications."
With the combination of Reconnex’s ability to monitor the content of network traffic and PostX’s patented Messaging Application Platform (MAP), users can automatically discover email with content (or attachments) containing sensitive or protected information and re-direct it to an encryption server before it is sent out of the network. This approach has no impact on existing business processes, is 100 percent transparent to the end-user, and removes IT’s traditional burden of managing blocked or quarantined traffic.
"What makes the Reconnex/PostX approach so unique is that we are both committed to delivering easy-to-use-and-manage security technologies that are combined with a non-intrusive method of automatically identifying and securing specific content," said Scott Olechowski, vice president of product strategy and development, PostX. "Reconnex has the only advanced content monitoring technology on the market with a highly intelligent approach to identifying and isolating information as it moves over the network."
About PostX Corporation
PostX ensures secure encrypted delivery of information vital to business and customer relationships. The company's proprietary technology provides easy-to-use, enterprise-class encrypted communication for regulatory compliance and cost reduction initiatives. Organizations immediately benefit from an increase in effective communications with their employees, partners and customers.
The company is the exclusive secure email provider endorsed by the American Hospital Association (AHA), to provide a standardized secure messaging solution to comply with stringent HIPAA regulations, recommended to the entire AHA network of 37,000 individual health care providers and more than 5,000 hospitals. Additionally, PostX is a founding member and represented on the Board of Governance of the Trusted Electronic Communications Forum (TECF; www.tecf.org), a cross-industry association founded to eradicate spoofing and phishing.
The company is headquartered in the U.S. in Cupertino, CA. PostX partners and customers include ABN AMRO, Aetna, Allstate, BorderWare, Charles Schwab, Children's Hospital, Citi, DirectTV Enterprises, HSBC, IBM, IronPort, Marsh Inc., Mayo Clinic, McAfee, Mercy Health Partners, MessageLabs, Microsoft, RSA Security, Sendmail, Sophos and the United States Postal Service (USPS). For more information, visit www.postx.comAbout 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.
The need for protecting privacy information is clear, as risks can evolve from a variety of sources:
• A malicious insider
• Corporate espionage
• Broken business processes
• Mis-configured IT systems or security
• End-user error in handling sensitive information
• Real World Examples
In a highly publicized privacy incident, data warehousing leader ChoicePoint admitted it had disclosed the personal information of 145,000 individuals, which led to 750 known cases of identity fraud.
In a similar case in higher education, Ohio University discovered one of its servers with Social Security numbers for 137,000 students and alumni had been repeatedly penetrated by US and overseas-based hackers for over one year. Ohio University is now facing a class action lawsuit by those affected alleging violation of privacy.
Traditional Solutions for Protecting Privacy Information
Traditional solutions focus on a single channel of communication, such as email or instant messaging, for monitoring privacy data that might be leaving the network and overlook the total universe of network ports and protocols that could be vulnerabilities points for an information leak. Other solutions strictly use keyword or other matching techniques to filter traffic, which leads to poor catch-rates and high false-positives. Furthermore, most solutions do not store historical data, making it impossible to trace and investigate events leading up to a data breach.
The Reconnex Solution
Reconnex has information protection solutions specifically geared for addressing privacy. Reconnex has developed a high-performance, appliance-based information protection system that intelligently monitors, classifies and captures all information on the network – regardless of protocol or port—to provide customers with real-time and historical protection over information risks.
For addressing privacy and sensitive record information, Reconnex allows customers to monitor for privacy data across all content types and communication channels. Complex analysis & matching techniques take into account relevant content, location in body of content, meta-data, repetition, and other variables for the highest catch-rates and lowest false positives. To protect sensitive record repositories on the network, Reconnex’s document biometrics tag these known content risks and monitor for these records leaving the network, including filtering and blocking modifications of source content such as a single column exported from an Excel file containing Social Security numbers.
