ENTERPRISE INFORMATION PROTECTION

In today’s business world, Intellectual Property (IP) can often represent a significant portion, even a majority, of a company’s assets. Whether it is source code, patents, the design for a new product, or blueprints for a new technology, medicine, or industrial process, intellectual property can be critical to a company’s ability to compete in its industry. Intellectual Property can come in many forms ranging from text documents to images, CAD documents, drawings, and software code and often needs to be shared throughout many individuals and groups within and outside of the company in order to be utilized to its full potential. This need for collaboration surrounding such valuable information introduces the potential for serious risk. When Intellectual Property is lost, litigation is often not enough nor is it even possible to recover the true value of the lost information.

IP can be compromised through theft and accidental loss, but is just as often compromised by privileged users selling it to competitors or disgruntled employees bringing it to their new place of employment. These losses are not only immense in their monetary value, but can cripple a company’s competitive advantage. Many companies only solution is to implement restrictive and cumbersome security policies and solutions that slow down the rate of collaboration and are often circumnavigated by ‘well-intentioned’ employees simply looking to be more efficient.

Verdasys was born of a previous company’s IP data loss incident and its Enterprise Information Protection solution, Digital Guardian, was designed specifically to protect Intellectual Property. Since its launch in 2003, Verdasys has worked closely with customers in the manufacturing, pharmaceutical and technology sectors to continuously improve Digital Guardian’s capabilities to protect IP. With over 120 customers in the G2000, our experience with real-world global deployments has enabled our services team to create and deliver highly effective, business enabling, and practical solutions for protecting data. Verdasys’ solutions are the foundation of a comprehensive enterprise-wide security program. These solutions do not offer one static bundle of capabilities to protect your IP, but enable your company to continuously adapt and improve the program as your business and the threats to your IP change.

Digital Guardian provides comprehensive Intellectual Property protection by providing complete discovery, monitoring, control, and audit capabilities of data as it moves across applications, devices and/or channels of communication used by all trusted and privileged users. Digital Guardian effectively "locks down" sensitive data where it is most vulnerable - at the "point of use," providing the most complete protection for intellectual property in almost any form including:

• Flexible and integrated context and content awareness help accurately find and define Intellectual Property across multiple data structure types
• Actionable and persistent classification of Intellectual Property files so that data security policies can be applied across a global enterprise. Once a file is classified, classification is propagated to all derivatives of that file. If a user copies information from one classified file and pastes it into a new one, the new file will be classified as well.
• Monitoring and control of high risk transactions involving the use of Intellectual Property including; data being written to CD or USB device, uploaded via private e-mail account, cut and pasted between applications, printed, screen captured or transferred to a remote file location
• Integrated full disk, file, and email encryption of sensitive data to supporting global collaborative environments
• Secure outsourcing and partner collaboration
• Monitor and record all activity around and usage of files. Information automatically organized into comprehensive forensic reports, providing a full audit trail.
• Risk-based assessment of user activity and flexible warnings to prevent data compromise