[May 16, 2012]

Enterprise Information Protection Leader Verdasys Extends First DLP Solution as a Managed Service in Europe

Verdasys, the leading provider of Enterprise Information Protection (EIP) solutions for the Global 2000, today announced the immediate availability of the company's managed Data Loss Prevention services in Europe. The two new offerings, Verdasys (News - Alert) Managed Service for Information Protection (MSIP) and Verdasys Information Protection as a Service (IPaaS), provide businesses on-demand data protection technology hosted within Verdasys' secured European facilities.

MSIP offers a fully-managed EIP solution hosted, supported, and maintained by Verdasys experts; IPaaS allows end users to deploy and manage their own enterprise data policies with no additional setup or infrastructure costs. The first enterprise data loss prevention solutions to be offered as managed services, MISP and IPaaS were initially announced in January in the United States, and are now rolling out throughout Europe.

Since 2003, more than 200 Global 2000 customers and government agencies around the world have trusted Verdasys to help implement successful enterprise data protection programs. With its MSIP and IPaaS offerings, Verdasys delivers more options to help companies minimize the cost of data security by combining its proven experience deploying enterprise solutions with the ease and flexibility of a managed srvice.

The technology behind both MSIP and IPaaS is Digital Guardian, the flagship data protection platform solution from Verdasys. With its layered, contextual risk insight and data-centric policy enforcement, Digital Guardian offers complete protection of intellectual property, trade secrets and privacy data in highly collaborative and regulated industries. As the foundation of Verdasys' managed services, the Digital Guardian hosted solution represents a faster and simpler time-to-value for companies implementing enterprise DLP, and offers a much lower total cost of ownership (TCO) compared to less functional technologies that require large investments in hardware, software, and headcount to operationalize.

"We are excited to extend our managed service offerings to European companies that are under pressure to maintain current security staffing levels and need to show faster time to project value," said Verdasys CEO Jim Ricotta (News - Alert). "In addition, we offer European workers privacy protection unique to Digital Guardian; no collection of personal data, but instead collection of descriptive event data, anonymization of all users, events and machines and real-time education of workers to risky activities to protect them from violating company policies. We see a tremendous potential for the managed services model to help European clients implement advanced information protection which can cost-effectively manage the biggest risks to their critical data," Ricotta added.

MSIP and IPaaS customers are provided Digital Guardian management servers hosted in secure and high-availability Verdasys facilities, and can either be administered by Verdasys (MSIP) or by the user's security team (IPaaS). With Digital Guardian's tamper-resistant agents, encrypted agent-to-server communications, and configurable forensics capture, no actual customer data is transmitted to the hosting environment in order to provide full risk analysis, alerting, and reporting. Both hosted solutions continuously monitor data, application, and system access and usage whether end users are online, offline, or in virtual environments, and applies their company's specific risk-based policy controls to adhere to data governance and compliance rules without impeding normal business operations.

The Verdasys MSIP and IPaaS solutions are available immediately; prices per month per endpoint are based on a volume curve. Specific pricing information is available from Verdasys Sales, [email protected].

About Verdasys

Verdasys (Twitter (News - Alert): @Verdasys_inc) provides Enterprise Information Protection (EIP) solutions that secure proprietary and sensitive data and the integrity of business processes essential for Global 2000 companies to successfully compete in today's highly collaborative and mobile environments. Digital Guardian, recognized as a Leader in Gartner's (News - Alert) 2011 Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention, is a centrally managed data security platform that discovers, classifies, monitors, controls and encrypts sensitive information at rest, in use and in motion across desktops, laptops, mobile devices, email, web transactions, terminal servers and enterprise applications. Millions of Digital Guardian agents are licensed and deployed across global leaders in financial services, insurance, technology, manufacturing, and healthcare industries around the world. Companies serious about information protection choose Verdasys.

Digital Guardian is a trademark of Verdasys. All other marks are the property of their respective owners and are used for identification purposes only.

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