Digital Guardian launches Digital Guardian 7.0 for data protection 'inside and out'

This launch comes as corporate data continues to be the target of threats of all types. With recent high-profile breaches, companies are realizing that the best approach to protect their sensitive information is a data-centric approach. Today, system breaches are inevitable, but losing sensitive data as a result doesn’t have to be. Digital Guardian is the only company to bridge the gap between systems security and data protection.

According to Forrester Research,¹“Almost every enterprise, from an online retailer to a hospital to a government agency, rarely works in isolation and can rarely confine data to within the four walls of the organization… In this new reality, traditional perimeter-based approaches to security are insufficient. S&R pros must take a data-centric approach that ensures security travels with the data regardless of user population, location, or even hosting model.”
 

“Major system breaches with significant data loss continue to happen. But while the threats may change, be it from inside or outside of the organization, the target remains the same: the data,” said Ken Levine, president and CEO of Digital Guardian. “Companies need to completely rethink the way they approach security and adopt a data-centric approach. If we make it even just some order of magnitude harder to steal sensitive data, or render the data useless once outside the network, we will have improved our collective security postures by leaps and bounds. There are no shortcuts in data security, it simply must get done.”

Digital Guardian 7.0

Digital Guardian is the only data protection solution to defend against both insider and outside threats with a single endpoint agent. Digital Guardian has been focused on data protection for 11 years with its patented Digital Guardian Agent enabling centralized data classification, policy definition and enforcement. The latest release is an extension of its proven capability to protect data from insider threats to now protect systems and data from advanced threats. The company has taken a behavioral approach to detect threats in real-time across the attack sequence.
 

Digital Guardian enables visibility, control and protection for all your important data over its entire lifecycle. This release also includes a new content server with out-of-the-box rules and policies to deliver instant value to customers. Digital Guardian has the most comprehensive system coverage with agents for Windows, Linux, Mac and Virtual environments. It offers flexible deployment options where customers can host and manage on premise or choose the Managed Security Program or Hybrid Managed Security Program options.
 

Product Architecture

As Digital Guardian extended the capabilities of its agent functionality, the company also has made it easier to implement policies based on use cases. From a single Digital Guardian Management Console and one endpoint agent, customers have the ability to deploy functionalities for use cases without expensive add-on products or additional endpoint agents. The redesigned product architecture includes:

· Digital Guardian for Visibility and Control enables users to understand exactly where your organization’s sensitive data is and how it’s being used with kernel-level data visibility. It also delivers device control and encryption.

· Digital Guardian for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) adds deeper data visibility and fine-grained control and protection to stop insider threats. It also includes advanced classification by context, content and user with email and file control and encryption.

· Digital Guardian for Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) provides real-time threat protection by following the attack sequence from initial contact through a myriad of attack stages, while offering flexible controls to defend in a manner commensurate to the customer’s risk tolerance. Furthermore, it enhances the existing security ecosystem with integrations to maximize investments in network solutions, like FireEye, and SIEM technologies, such as Splunk.