David Stanley, VP and managing director of EMEA at the Alpharetta, Georgia-based company, said the increased focus on securing outbound data is a response to various trends in the market. In particular, he cited spear phishing, in which he said a hacker targets particular individuals within a company in order to plant a Trojan on their machine so as to rob them of specific information by an automated email or IM message.
This will be part of the next feature release of the firmware (version 6.5.1) on the company’s IronMail appliance for email filtering. The consolidation of management onto a single console will be on the next release of the IronIM appliance, which will be version 2.5.
In its most recent IronMail release (v6.5), CiperTrust added the ability for individual departments within a company to control their own rules for security policy and compliance purposes to the latest version of its IronMail product for email. This was done by introducing the notion of virtual hosting of intellectual property so that an account manager or HR officer could be empowered to create rules specific to their domain.
CipherTrust technical consultant Ed Rowley said it has launched desktop tools so that certain key individuals within an organization to set rules for what the company refers to as the clustering of documents, whereby the system attributes values to individual words within a document and evaluates a message based on the frequency of those words and how they correlate to others in the same text. It detects where words appear to form a pattern, rather like an algorithm, he said. It’s similar to Bayesian analysis, but applied to intellectual property instead of spam.
