Vontu which is playing in the same space as earlier mentioned Reconnex has just announced a partnership with gateway security vendor IronPort. The partnership includes the delivery of a integrated solution that allows customers to comprehensively address messaging security needs – especially those who have regulatory requirements.

Vontu’s solution is software based and runs on Linux and Windows platforms. It allows organizations to create custom policies that prevent confidential data loss. For example, an email message that contains confidential information is either blocked or can’t be sent to the outside unless it’s encrypted.

IronPort provides email and web security gateway appliances. Especially their email security appliances can be found in many Fortune 500 data centers.

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Reconnex a startup that has specialized in fighting the insider threat just announced a new version of its iGuard appliance. The iGuard appliance allows organizations to discover, monitor, capture and prevent information leakge or IP (intellectual property) theft.

Especially the prevenvtion part will be an extremely useful technology to help companies combat these issues. The fact that a solution like this allows the IT security group to see “what’s going on” in their network – is an eye-opening experience for anyone who is in charge of compliance or security.

Reconnex also offers a free 48-hour risk assesment where they basically drop an appliance into your network and it’ll start looking for (prior defined) strings and information. It’ll then create a – in most cases mind-boggling – report that shows what kind of sensitive information is leaking to the outside world.

There are several other companies that offer solutions against insider threat: Code Green Networks, Vontu, Fidelis, Oakley Networks.

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