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RSA, The Security Division of EMC, today announced that it is positioned in the Leaders quadrant within Gartner's 2008 Magic Quadrant for Content Monitoring and Filtering and Data Loss Prevention. This designation was based on the RSA Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Suite's completeness of vision and ability to execute, and appears in the June 2008 report by Eric Ouellet and Paul Proctor entitled "Magic Quadrant for Content Monitoring and Filtering and Data Loss Prevention."
Gartner defines Data Loss Prevention tools as those "used to prevent inadvertent or accidental loss or exposure of sensitive enterprise information using content inspection technologies." The report also states, "We have long believed that integrated network, endpoint and discovery capabilities - with a centralised management console capable of distributing a consistent set of policies and providing usable back-end workflow for alerting on and remediating violations - [is] the ultimate goal and destination of this market."
"We believe that our position in the leaders' quadrant of the Data Loss Prevention Magic Quadrant reflects the completeness of our vision and validates that we are positioned to provide solutions that address the overall process of helping to secure data in a holistic manner," said Dennis Hoffman, Vice President and General Manager, Data Security Group, and Chief Strategy Officer at RSA, The Security Division of EMC. "We continue to be vigilant in enhancing our DLP offerings, bringing significant enhancements to market with our 6.0 release which was announced last month, starting integration on all our data security products, and collaborating with industry leaders like Cisco so that customers can discover, monitor, and enforce the use of sensitive data directly into the infrastructure - no matter where it moves, how it moves or where it is."
The RSA DLP Suite is engineered to provide unified, seamless data policy orchestration across the enterprise, allowing customers to discover and monitor sensitive data and apply the appropriate enforcement mechanisms to secure sensitive data across the IT stack. The DLP Suite includes RSA DLP Endpoint, RSA DLP Network, and RSA DLP Datacenter, with overall management of the Suite provided by the RSA DLP Enterprise Manager.
Gartner, Inc.'s Magic Quadrant positions "vendors in a particular market segment based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. According to the report, "Leaders" in the DLP market have demonstrated a good understanding of client needs and offer comprehensive capabilities in network, discovery and endpoint."
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted June 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is the premier provider of security solutions for business acceleration, helping the world's leading organisations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. RSA's information-centric approach to security guards the integrity and confidentiality of information throughout its lifecycle - no matter where it moves, who accesses it or how it is used.
RSA offers industry-leading solutions in identity assurance & access control, data loss prevention, encryption & key management, compliance & security information management and fraud protection. These solutions bring trust to millions of user identities, the transactions that they perform, and the data that is generated. For more information, please visit www.RSA.com and www.EMC.com.
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