Orchestria Unveils Next-Generation Data Loss Prevention Software

NEW YORK, NY, September 26, 2007 — Orchestria, the leader in the rapidly growing Electronic Control software category, has introduced the first next-generation data loss prevention (DLP) solution. Orchestria’s new DLP software is a breakthrough in preventing the loss of personally identifiable information and intellectual property through uncontrolled message, Web, and file activity.

The escalating growth of control-free electronic communication has led to a significant increase in financial, legal, and public relations risk for Global 2000 companies and government agencies. A typical employee generates approximately 200 e-mails, messages, and files per day, of which more than 0.1% may be harmful. For an average company with 25,000 employees, this violation rate translates into 5,000 violations per day or 1.25 million potentially damaging actions per year.

Unlike first-generation DLP software, Orchestria provides coverage across all points of risk within an enterprise, detects violations accurately with minimal false positives, and can proactively block true infractions.

Orchestria Multi-Layered Defense – Orchestria Multi-Layered Defense leverages multiple network, server, client, import and archive agents to ensure control across all forms of electronic data, including messages with encrypted and password-protected files, internal messages, disconnected laptops, files at rest, and mobile storage devices – most of which are ignored by first-generation solutions.

Within this approach, Orchestria’s new Network Boundary Agent reassembles messages, Web pages, and files into whole objects at gigabit wire speed, enabling deeper analysis for greater detection accuracy. Orchestria’s new File Scanning Agent executes high-performance analysis of data in file systems, content repositories, and collaboration tools (e.g., Microsoft’s Sharepoint, Exchange Public Folders and IBM Lotus Notes) at rates exceeding 500 GB per hour.

Orchestria Full-Dimensional Analysis – Limited to content-focused inspection, first-generation platforms falsely flag numerous legitimate messages. These “false positives” create a significant review burden and prevent organizations from implementing controls that block or correct messages before they are sent or files before they are saved.

Orchestria’s Full-Dimensional Analysis not only analyzes content, but also dynamically examines content-around-content, message context, the identity of sender and recipients, hierarchy, and user input. This approach can reduce false positives by more than 90% compared to first-generation solutions.

"Inaccurate technologies producing false positive and negative events can be completely ineffective," said Jon Oltsik, Senior Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. "Given this, Orchestria's intelligent approach to detection accuracy and policy granularity is the right combination for these difficult enterprise requirements.”

Orchestria Incident-Appropriate Action – Far beyond passive post-incident review employed by first-generation technologies, Orchestria proactively protects enterprises by matching responses specifically to the type and severity of the violation.

In addition to providing the industry’s leading workflow-enabled review capability, Orchestria supports a variety of “before-the-send” actions including blocking, correcting, and quarantining. This solution also automatically classifies, routes, and stores sensitive messages and files to meet a variety of records management and legal mandates.

Dr. Sara Radicati of The Radicati Group said, “The key advantage with Orchestria DLP is responding to potential violations with automated incident-appropriate actions – from a routine warning, to forwarding to a supervisor, to nothing at all. As it all happens in real time, customers will know that their messages haven’t been banished to a backed-up review queue for hours or even days.”

“Orchestria’s DLP solution provides a new and different approach that fulfills all requirements for effective protection,” said Bo Manning, Orchestria’s president and chief executive officer. “It covers all points of risk within the enterprise, accurately distinguishes violations from false positives, and enables the right action, including proactive protection – all on the industry’s most flexible architecture.”

About Orchestria
Orchestria is the global leader in Electronic Control software that substantially mitigates the risk from the explosion of uncontrolled electronic actions such as message, Web and file activity. The company’s Intelligent Control Layer provides the key underlying capability to effectively automate four converging and ultimately overlapping corporate functions, including Data Loss Prevention, Intelligent Compliance, Legal Hold, and Records and Information Management.

Orchestria’s technology ensures that employees who intend to do damage are stopped, while empowering employees who inadvertently breach policy to correct their actions before they do harm.

Deployed across more than 250 companies in 33 countries worldwide, Orchestria intelligently analyses and actively controls more than 80 million electronic actions every day. The company has 40 patents granted or pending in the field of Electronic Control. For more information, visit www.orchestria.com.

About the Orchestria Whole Object Network Boundary Agent
Orchestria’s Whole Object Network Boundary Agent (NBA) reconstructs complete objects – including messages, files, Web pages and Webmail – in real time and at full gigabit wire speed to reduce false positive and negative detections more than 90% from first-generation DLP products. Featuring complete violation reports showing an entire infraction in its proper context, captured objects are automatically fed into the Orchestria CMS: a centralized supervision and review system with full workflow, escalation, and audit.

Purpose-built for deep-packet analysis, the massively scalable Orchestria NBA utilizes no less than six processing nodes – each with its own CPU and memory that can be expanded in groups of four up to 22 nodes – to identify and rebuild objects without limiting network performance. With optional hardware accelerators that decode SSL-encrypted traffic, even secure sessions can be checked, without the need for a third-party product.

A true bridge device rather than a proxy, Orchestria NBA requires zero reconfiguration of any other system or device on the network. Moreover, built-in hardware and software monitoring ensures fail-safe performance even if a critical component should fail.

The Orchestria NBA can be deployed actively with dual fail-safe ports or passively connected to a router SPAN port, managed switch, or network hub. The device is also capable of address and port filtering, allowing secure sources such as mail servers protected by an Orchestria server agent to be excluded.

About the Orchestria File Scanning Agent
Orchestria’s new File Scanning Agent (FSA) executes high-performance analysis of data in file systems, content repositories, and stored in such collaboration tools as Microsoft’s SameTime and Exchange Public Folders.

Individual FSAs can independently run an unlimited number of tasks, each with its own set of defined local or remote scanning locations. Tasks can be one-time, run continuously, at a set frequency, or at a given time of day. Scanning options include the ability to ignore files that have not changed since the last scan without relying on unreliable operating system flags. Task priority can be adjusted to maximize scanning performance, minimize system impact, or anywhere in between.

Featuring a highly scalable architecture that can analyze data at rates exceeding 500GB per hour, each FSA can be set to automatically exclude known application program files positively identified by the National Software Reference Library (NSRL). By retaining digital signatures of more than 40 million traceable files distributed by application vendors, the NSRL allows a significant proportion of stored data to be excluded after verifying that the file is still in its original form.

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Orchestria
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