SANTA CLARA, CA -- 07/01/08 --
nexTier Networks (
www.nextiernetworks.com),
the company that is revolutionizing information security and data leak
prevention through its unique semantic analysis technology, today announced
immediate availability of the industry's first data leak prevention
solution with built-in semantic analysis and automated security policy
management. nexTier Networks' DLP automatically assigns security values to
discovered network data, classifies the data and applies security policies
based on data context. No other security provider provides such a
contextually aware and complete suite targeting data leak prevention in the
industry today.
One of the biggest challenges for companies today is protecting
ever-increasing amounts of sensitive data, and that data is increasingly
unstructured and harder to discover. Access to sensitive documents needs to
be tightly controlled. nexTier's Data Leak Prevention Suite enables
organizations to identify and protect their information no matter where it
is located in the enterprise by automatically discovering sensitive
information and applying semantic intelligence to determine what the
document's content is, who can access what data and where it can and cannot
be sent to enforce business policies and compliance. The result is
increased visibility into all information across the business and greater
control of that information. Additionally, nexTier's language-independent
algorithms interpret and correlate the unique DNA of data to determine
security policies in real-time. Highly resistant to evasion, nexTier's
algorithm can determine the origin of information even if data has been
retyped into a brand new document or rearranged and reworded in an evasive
or subversive manner.
"Traditional data leak prevention and loss prevention technologies have not
yet delivered solutions that accurately protect all sensitive data in the
enterprise," said nexTier Networks' Founder and CTO Tarique Mustafa.
"nexTier delivers robust security, monitoring all egress points for
potential data leakage and protecting sensitive data across the enterprise
-- from web applications to endpoints. Our system uniquely understands the
data and determines a security policy, based on that context that
determines where that document can, and cannot, go."
nexTier's data leak prevention technologies let enterprises reduce
data-protection administrative tasks from days to minutes, mitigate risk,
automate compliance requirements, and proactively protect information
enterprise-wide. NexTier does not require long deployment cycles and does
not require users to change any behaviors. Instead, nexTier technology
gives companies a real-time and on demand way to not only see who is
accessing, changing, deleting or moving information stored on file systems,
but also to prevent unauthorized or inadvertent data leakage.
"The depth of understanding of the information and ability to classify data
in motion, shown by the nexTier product is amazing, " said Dr. Anton
Chuvakin, recognized security expert and author of "Security Warrior" and
other works. "The company's new approach to DLP will reduce the risk of
negligent or malicious disclosure of confidential and sensitive data."
Chuvakin has just joined nexTier's Technical Advisory Board.
Innovating DLP With Greater Accuracy, More Automation
nexTier Networks technology provides total managed security enforcement and
analytics that fully automate security policies based upon the content of
the data itself. The product can then alert, quarantine, question, block,
archive, or encrypt data according to business requirements. nexTier's
patent-pending self-learning algorithms are scalable across enterprise
deployments of tens of thousands of employees, up to multiple petabytes of
data, and using gigabits of bandwidth demand.
To achieve such a high level of accuracy at the scale of the modern
enterprise, nexTier is introducing two significant innovations that
redefine data leak prevention. Available in this first release are:
-- nexTier's Security-Semantic CORelation and indEXxing (S2 COREX(TM))
algorithms overcome the accuracy, scale and speed limitations of
traditional Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) and other similar algorithms.
Instead, nexTier algorithms discover, classify, and index information in
real-time within the context of data information and security
considerations;
-- nexTier algorithms extract, or "sequence," just enough information
using less than 1000 bytes of space to accurately identify the origin and
security value of data. Much like the uniqueness of human DNA, nexTier's
"Semantic DNA Sequence(TM)" identifies where information came from even if
the information was extensively modified or repurposed accidentally or
maliciously.
Pricing and Availability
nexTier's Data Leak Prevention Suite is available now. Enterprise
deployments start at $50,000 (US).
About nexTier Networks
Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, nexTier Networks is creating a whole new
way to secure business information by firewalling data at the semantic
level. Following years of intensive research and development, nexTier
delivers breakthrough technology that combines semantic analysis with
world-class security algorithms capable of differentiating between real and
fraudulent activities across very large volumes of data in real time with
unprecedented accuracy. The company was founded by Silicon Valley security
veteran Tarique Mustafa and is backed by a team and board of advisors that
includes many leading authorities from companies like Symantec, McAfee,
VeriSign, Cisco, Juniper, Borderware, Sygate and Securify. Automating data
security with unparalleled contextual insight to discover, classify,
assess, and protect sensitive data, nexTier is delivering the next level of
data loss prevention security to businesses today.
Contact:
Jill Ratkevic
nexTier Networks
Email Contact
408-209-5181
