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“The Active Directory Integration and Centralized Management capabilities of GuardianEdge are especially useful in enabling us to implement an advanced security solution that demonstrates our commitment to client privacy and confidentiality -- and, as such, plays an important role in differentiating us from our competitors.”

—Joe Rumpler, IT shareholder, Clark Schaefer, Hackett & Co.

GuardianEdge Solutions Overview

Endpoint Data Loss Protection for the Enterprise

Organizations increasingly recognize the need to reduce or eliminate the risks associated with security breaches by securing endpoint data at rest on hard drives, moving across ports, portable storage devices and other mobile pathways, or at end-of-life on unneeded PCs. The GuardianEdge solution provides a complete enterprise framework to protect data on endpoints from theft or loss—inside or outside the perimeter.

From compliance fines to loss of intellectual property, brand equity and customer confidence, the consequences of failing to protect sensitive or legally protected data on endpoints can reverberate throughout the enterprise. Organizations need to reduce or eliminate the risks associated with data breaches by securing information no matter where it is at all stages of its lifecycle.




The High Cost of Failing to Safeguard Endpoint Data

In addition to the privacy provisions of GLBA, HIPAA and FISMA, many states as well as foreign governments are adopting tough disclosure laws similar to California's SB1386. Companies that compromise the security of consumer information or fail to disclose such breaches also face vigorous prosecution and enforcement actions by national government agencies, such as the US Federal Trade Commission and the UK's Financial Services Authority. These actions can lead to crippling fines and loss of customer confidence, as well as forced settlements with affected individuals.

The GuardianEdge Data Protection Platform provides an integrated approach to implementing a full scope of endpoint data protection measures, including encryption of hard disks, strong authentication of users, protection for data on removable media, and policy-based access controls for I/O ports and their associated devices.

It allows organizations to define and implement the full suite of policies required to protect their data with a single product solution. These policies are delivered to the GuardianEdge security modules on the endpoints through the GuardianEdge Data Protection Framework. This centrally managed framework enables the core security and management services required to implement controls such as policy management, user authentication, key management, provisioning, backup, recovery, monitoring, and reporting. This infrastructure further leverages industry-leading integration with Microsoft's Active Directory to provide the out-of-the-box scalability, robustness, and availability demanded by enterprise IT environments.

Additionally, by coupling the implementation of data protection policies with existing domain management tools, privileges and practices, enterprises can easily map data policies to their organizational structure, business processes as well as the roles of machines and users.

This unified approach lowers the cost of ownership by eliminating redundancy and ensures that misalignment of policies and their administration do not create hidden exposures. It comprises an integrated set of solutions that includes: