SPOTLIGHT

End Point and Data Leakage Protection

Organizations are facing a growing and rapidly evolving set of security threats, including: IT outsourcing, cybercrime, workforce mobility, and data breaches. KBW together with our key partner of operational endpoint management and security solutions help protect our customer’s vital information and manage their critical risk across network and endpoint assets.

Endpoint Protection

Today’s Endpoints are no longer confined to an office desk in a controlled environment. As mobility is needed, the usage of notebooks and remote PC’s has increased. Employees can now install unauthorized and illegal applications on laptops and PCs which can cause increased support calls, performance issues and downtime.

The Endpoint Solution that KBW offers protects and centrally manages the endpoints from known and unknown malware as well as provides application control.

Application control allows an organization to have application white listing. This approach ensures that only authorized applications are allowed to run, preventing the execution of malicious code.

Key Functionalities

  • Application Discovery: Automatically determine what applications are in use through a non-blocking audit option, as well as through a variety of scanning tools to assess the current state.
  • Endpoint Security Policy Definition: Define security policy with global and user- and/or machine-specific rules based on organizational needs using a “whitelist” approach.
  • Full Signature Matching Capabilities: Recognizes, blocks and removes viruses, worms, Trojans and other types of malware such as keyloggers, hijackers and rootkits.
  • Unique Behavioral Analysis: Protects against new and unknown malware (zero-day exploits) using multiple methods.

Data Leakage Protection

DLP offering is to empower KBW customers to prevent data loss and theft by enforcing removable device usage and data encryption.

Data breaches resulting in the loss/theft of sensitive data remain a major concern. In fact, more than 85% of companies surveyed had at least one reportable breach and 63% experienced multiple (between 6 and 20) reportable breaches.

It is expensive to recover from a data breach; not only the hard costs (e.g., notification, free credit checks, etc.), but also in terms of lost customer trust and brand equity resulting in lost business. In fact, recent statistics put the average total cost of a corporate data breach at $6.6 million, with lost business accounting for 69% of breach costs.

This concern over data loss/theft has spawned a myriad of regulations, including pan-national (e.g., EU directive 45/2001), national (e.g., SOX, GLBA and HIPAA), state (e.g., CA SB 1361) and even industry-specific standards (e.g., PCI DSS), which apply to almost all public and private organizations no matter where they operate. For instance, in 2010 Massachusetts will require businesses that collect information about that state’s residents to follow comprehensive information security requirements; these apply to both in-state and out-of-state companies with operations or customers in Massachusetts. Ensuring compliance with all of these regulations adds another layer of risk to your organization. Failure to comply can result in very real economic damage, both directly in terms of cost and indirectly in terms of lost customers and business.

(Taken from Lumension® Data Protection, LDP-SB-EN-10-02-09)

Key Benefits

  • Protects Data from Loss/Theft
  • Ensures Compliance with Security Policies,
  • Regulations and Industry Standards
  • Enforces Encryption on Removable Devices
  • Enables Secure Use of Productivity Tools like USB Sticks
  • Available for both stand-alone and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) platform implementations