The InfoWorld Test Center provides in-depth technical analysis on key products, solutions and technologies for sound buying decisions and business gain. As a result of its technical labs review and scores earned in testing criteria relevant to enterprise buying decisions, such as ease-of-use, features and security, PortAuthority v5.0 was rated "Excellent" by the Test Center.
"With some ILP solutions you get good usability, while others are technically impressive," wrote reviewer Mike Heck of InfoWorld. "It's rarer to see one that does both so well, which is my conclusion after testing PortAuthority 5.0. The clinchers for me were getting policy management and administration right."
PortAuthority Technologies is a leader in the ILP and Content Monitoring/Filtering markets. It delivers content-aware security solutions that reliably and accurately control the unauthorized distribution of sensitive information for data privacy, confidential information protection, and compliance with U.S. and international regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), and many others using more than 150 built-in policy templates. With more than 27 patents pending, only PortAuthority stops information leaks by continually monitoring internal and outbound communications, inspecting data- at-rest and data-in-use, and delivering policy enforcement in a real-time and accurate manner.
According to the review, PortAuthority v5.0 earned its "Excellent" Rating for improvements over previous product versions in the areas of security, including protecting data-in-motion, at rest and in use; Web-based user interface and usability; policy management, with more than 150 pre-built policies that can be applied universally across the enterprise; and reliability and enterprise scalability.
The review continued, " ... PortAuthority 5.0 should reduce IT staff workload compared with competitive offerings...policy management is easier and more detailed. Overall, false positives and false negative alerts were under 1 percent, which is somewhat better compared with other products I've tested. PortAuthority 5.0's Web incident management and reporting side also underwent serious retooling."
According to the vendor, PortAuthority is the industry's first and only content-aware ILP solution to provide organizations with comprehensive protection for their data-in- motion, data-at-rest and data-in-use. Only PortAuthority allows companies to reliably, accurately, precisely, and selectively stop information leaks over outbound mail, web communications, internal email and networked printing to ensure data privacy, protection of confidential information, and regulatory compliance. Its features include real-time monitoring and reporting; granular policy management for selective blocking and enforcement; automated private data classification and protection for files, databases and endpoints; more than 150 pre-built policies and reports; "3 Clicks Manageability" for reporting and compliance; and plug-and-play appliances purpose-built for data security. It protects information in more than 370 file formats, the most in the industry, including structured and unstructured data, text, graphics, and CAD documents. In addition to native monitoring and enforcement, PortAuthority integrates with infrastructure systems and applications such as messaging and encryption gateways, web content-filtering gateways, directory services, data repositories and document management systems.
