First Data Security and Loss Prevention Software Solution for Linux

Verdasys, Inc, has announced Digital Guardian for Linux environments. With support for Linux, Verdasys extends the capabilities of the Digital Guardian Solution beyond Windows and Citrix environments to meet the growing demand from manufacturing, hi-tech, entertainment and bio-tech customers who are increasingly leveraging the Linux platform for some of their most critical operations.In these highly competitive industries where anti-piracy and the protection of intellectual property and trade secrets are so critical, customers rely on Digital Guardian's unique context and content based discovery, classification, monitoring and control technology to meet their data security needs, the company says. Digital Guardian's policy based email and file encryption, "community of trust" collaboration and application logging capabilities offer a competitive advantage by identifying and reducing the risk associated with sharing sensitive data across both online and off line business processes extending to privileged users including employees, partners, suppliers, and outsourced service providers.

"We have been working with Verdasys over the past few years and are thrilled by its commitment to meet its customers' requirements and support complex company operations," said Ken Venner, CIO, Broadcom Corporation. "Digital Guardian's host based security technology uniquely empowers organizations to monitor, control, audit and prevent data from wrongful disclosure while automatically enforcing data security policies and procedures. The release of a Linux solution enables us to deploy this protection technology into mission critical IP areas such as our hardware and software source code development environments," he added.

Working closely with long standing customer Broadcom, a major technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, Verdasys was able to design and develop the Linux offering to meet Broadcom's demanding real-world requirements and ensure the future success of Linux deployments to all customers. The Broadcom and Verdasys partnership will continue to explore additional applications of Verdasys technology and a continued close relationship reinforces both companies' commitment to deliver industry-leading products.

"Verdasys has had great success in the semiconductor industry with the Digital Guardian solution," said Nicholas Stamos, president, Verdasys. "Industry leader Broadcom was an early Verdasys customer and formed a strategic partnership with us to develop a Linux agent. With the release of the Linux agent for Digital Guardian, Broadcom now has a complete solution for monitoring and protecting intellectual property throughout their enterprise. We look forward to working with our other hi-tech, manufacturing, bio-tech and entertainment customers to enable the complete protection of their IP," he added.