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Reconnex's inSight Platform Provides Ability to Search All Network Communications for More Effective Protection of Customer and Employee Personal Data.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., November 8, 2005— Reconnex, the expert in enterprise risk management systems, today announced that Norcal Waste Systems, Inc., the most aggressive recycler out of all garbage companies in the United States, has deployed Reconnex’s iGuard appliances to monitor its network communications and provide full event correlation capabilities for the discovery and mitigation of risks.  Norcal, www.norcalwaste.com, selected Reconnex’s iGuard because it is a risk management solution that provides a complete trail of electronic communications by capturing and analyzing, in real time, all data entering or leaving the corporate network. Reconnex’s iGuard enables Norcal to monitor and store all network traffic, providing the most effective tool available for recovery of emails for security purposes. Previously, the company had deployed Reconnex’s e-Risk Rapid Assessment, a unique service that reveals all electronic risk on a company’s network.

“We have over 2,000 employees whose personal information is stored on our network, so we decided to evaluate risk management solutions as part of our constant effort to ensure that we are protecting their information to the fullest extent,” said Michael McLaughlin, network operations manager at Norcal. “I needed a system that not only monitored the data on the network but also stored all network communications and allowed me to quickly and easily search for emails, Webmail, and IM communications. Reconnex provides monitoring capabilities as well as proactive email recovery capabilities.”

Headquartered in San Francisco, Norcal is taking extensive steps to ensure protection of customer and employee information. Norcal was aware that, without technology in place to monitor for hidden threats and the ability to proactively search for network communications to develop an event correlation trail, information in its organization could be exposed. To guarantee HIPAA compliance and to ensure the highest levels of security for its customers’ data, Norcal turned to Reconnex.

Store and Search Capabilities Enable Remediation of Risks at the Root Cause

The Reconnex iGuard analyzes and stores everything entering or leaving the network, giving Norcal the unique ability to search all network communications. Competitive products filter about ninety-five percent of traffic on the network and store less than five percent of the information leaving the corporate network. This means less than five percent of the information critical to an event correlation investigation is actually available.  Using the Event Correlation Engine™ engine of the Reconnex iGuard system, Norcal can ensure compliance with various industry regulations and can conduct immediate investigations on all electronic communication sessions, including e-mails, Webmails, Instant Messages, FTP, P2P, chat communications, and much more.  Norcal is able to analyze all of this information with instantaneous “Google-like™” quick search queries into the stored data and can create a complete audit trail using iGuard’s easy and intuitive Web-based interface.  Reconnex has reduced the amount of time required to search for archived communications from an average of 25 hours per instance to only minutes.
 
“The ability to monitor all network traffic in real time, regardless of content type or protocol, is a huge advantage of Reconnex’s appliance-based approach to risk management,” said Kevin Cheek, vice president of marketing at Reconnex.  “To remediate risks effectively, though, a solution must also provide users with a rolling data retention window of hours, days, weeks, or months of all network communications and with the ability to easily search this collected data for mitigation purposes. The Reconnex iGuard enables our customers to pinpoint exact exposures and provides a complete event correlation trail. Our customers can rapidly remediate these risks to the root cause rather than remaining exposed, ensuring the ultimate protection for their customers’ and employees’ personal data.”

About Norcal

Norcal is parent to companies providing different facets of solid waste services including: collection, recycling, transfer, compost and landfill operations.  Norcal is proud to be 100 percent employee-owned and operated.  Norcal pioneered recycling five generations ago and continues to provide the highest level of customer service in the industry - a commitment born when the company was established in 1921.

About Reconnex

Reconnex is the leading provider of enterprise risk management (ERM) systems that reveal and address the insider threat to compliance risks, competitive risks, corporate governance risks and critical infrastructure risks.  Reconnex enables Fortune 1000 companies, government organizations, and smaller healthcare and financial services companies to protect their brands, shareholder value and mission critical operations by revealing hidden risks in the first 48 hours of deployment.  Without exception, every deployment has enabled these organizations to quickly remediate the risks that could have damaged or destroyed their organization.

Give us two days, you’ll know™. Call Reconnex today at 1-866-940-4590 or visit us on the web at www.reconnex.net.

“I can now sleep at night, because I know exactly where our sensitive customer and account information is going.”

Jeff Karafa
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Community Bank
Dearborn, Michigan