RSA, The Security Division of EMC, has announced that SAS Group, the airline group in Northern Europe, has selected the RSA Data Loss Prevention Suite to help discover and secure sensitive information that resides within the SAS IT environment.
The SAS Group has an extensive IT infrastructure from large datacentres to many smaller remote sites. With 40 million passengers and 831 daily departures in 2008, SAS processes and stores vast amounts of sensitive data such as customers’ Personally Identifiable Information, passenger lists, payment information, and business information, throughout this complex IT environment. To help protect this data and ensure regulatory compliance, SAS required an integrated and scalable data loss prevention application that could efficiently identify sensitive data no matter where it resides and take the necessary actions to secure it.
“As more information within SAS is stored, processed and communicated across various platforms and applications, the task of identifying where sensitive data is and applying security measures to protect it is becoming increasingly challenging,” says Goran Ostberg, director SAS Group IT security. “With the RSA Data Loss Prevention Suite, we can efficiently scan our IT environment to identify where sensitive information lies, apply the proper controls to protect it, remove it or replace it, thereby helping to reduce the risk of its loss.”
The RSA Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Suite is an integrated suite of data security products that are engineered to leverage common policies across the infrastructure to discover and protect sensitive data from loss, leakage or misuse in a datacentre, on the network, and on endpoints.
“After evaluating several DLP application providers, we were particularly impressed with RSA because of its honest and open approach to understanding our needs and requirements,” says Ostberg. “It presented a dedicated and professional team that showed us the level of collaboration we could expect from an ongoing relationship with RSA. Based on our product reviews, we found the RSA Data Loss Prevention Suite to be the most comprehensive application and, with its advanced classification capabilities, it was the most accurate in identifying sensitive data. The fact that we can use DLP to discover sensitive data on Microsoft Sharepoint and other Microsoft applications that we use at SAS was an important factor in our selection process as well.”
The RSA DLP Suite provides one of the most comprehensive data loss prevention policy and classification libraries in the industry with more than 122 different policy templates. Leveraging RSA’s pre-built policy and classification library, customers like SAS can reduce risk by securing more types of sensitive data while reducing the costs associated with false positives.
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