RSA, The Security Division of EMC and Lumension, an endpoint management and security provider have executed an agreement to help organisations better protect and share sensitive information securely.
The companies plan to work together to expand information-aware capabilities into the IT infrastructure by embedding parts of the RSA Data Loss Prevention Suite into Lumension products.
By building DLP technology into the infrastructure, RSA and Lumension plan to be able to offer customers a data protection offering from gateway to endpoint with common policies and common classifications of sensitive data.
Under the agreement, Lumension will license RSA Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Suite software development kit (SDK), with the goal of building RSA DLP classification technology and RSA DLP policy libraries into future versions of its Lumension Device Control product module.
In addition, the DLP SDK would also be engineered to enable Lumension endpoint security products to work with the rest of DLP offerings for networks and datacentres.
RSA said that the partnership is aimed at providing capabilities including, a common DLP policy from network gateway to storage to endpoint and onto removable media; ability to define highly granular polices on permissible activity and data types on the endpoint without impacting organisational productivity; and single console, single agent offering that increases visibility across data location, policy and movement.
Rich Hlavka, senior vice president of business development for Lumension, said: "This collaboration with RSA will eventually provide our customers with enhanced data protection capabilities from content aware device control to a complete end-to-end DLP solution that leverages market leading DLP technology from RSA, and superior endpoint management and security solutions from Lumension."
