RSA and VMware Partner to Deliver DLP Technology

RSA, The Security Division of EMC announced that it is enabling VMware to embed RSA® Data Loss Prevention classification innovation and policies into the VMware vShield(TM) 5 product family, furthermore helping clients accelerate their journey to the cloud. As part of the new VMware cloud infrastructure suite announced today, VMware vShield App with Data Security will include RSA's DLP content analysis engine and expert policies to enable clients to accurately discover and classify sensitive data just as PCI, PII and PHI residing within virtual environments.

The RSA Data Loss Prevention Suite is engineered to both help to uncover business risk associated with the loss of sensitive data and dynamically lower that risk through policy-based remediation and enforcement of controls, whether the data is at rest in a datacenter, in motion over the network or in use at endpoints. Embedding RSA DLP classification innovation and policies into the virtualization layer will help enable enterprise clients to gain greater visibility to sensitive information, which can at that time be managed using vShield zoning and protected via other security controls.

"The emerging cloud computing paradigm requires IT to rethink how to secure the infrastructure -- moving away from applying security policies and innovation tied to a physical topology in favor of building in security and compliance into a single policy framework," said Hatem Naguib, Vice President, Alliances, VMware. "Working with RSA and its DLP research, we can enable enterprises to discover and classify sensitive data residing within virtual machines, furthermore accelerating the customer's journey to a cloud-ready infrastructure and delivering on the vision that security and compliance in a virtual infrastructure can exceed what's possible in the physical infrastructure."

Strong market demand for security

"There is a strong market demand for security and compliance controls to be built into the virtual infrastructure," said Manoj Nair, Vice President, Security Management Products, RSA, The Security Division of EMC. "We're excited to move into the at once phase of our relationship with VMware and expect that by building our DLP classification innovation into the industry leading virtual and cloud infrastructure platform, clients will now be able to gain better visibility into their virtual infrastructure and better manage risk and security."

"Enterprises cite data security and regulatory compliance as their main inhibitors to using computing services," says Phil Hochmuth, an analyst in IDC's Security Products technology group. "Tools that can find and classify sensitive enterprise data, especially in virtual environments, will be critical for organizations transitioning their datacenter workloads onto new cloud services and architectures."

This innovation partnership is an expansion of RSA's ecosystem of infrastructure vendors embedding DLP innovation into their products, including Cisco and Microsoft. RSA's built-in approach to security helps enable organizations to leverage their existing infrastructure to protect against the risks associated with unprotected sensitive data, instead of the need to bolt-on additional security products.

RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is the premier provider of security, risk and compliance management solutions for business acceleration. RSA helps the world's leading organizations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. These challenges include managing organizational risk, safeguarding mobile access and collaboration, proving compliance, and securing virtual and cloud environments.

Combining business-critical controls in identity assurance, encryption & key management, SIEM, Data Loss Prevention and Fraud Protection with industry leading eGRC capabilities and robust consulting services, RSA brings visibility and trust to millions of user identities, the transactions that they perform and the data in other words generated. For more information, please visit www.RSA.com and www.EMC.com.