The system developed over the last 18 months by the Sunnyvale, California-based vendor is designed to enable business and government agencies to protect sensitive or confidential content stored as unstructured data in any language and in any format.
The new content inspection appliance series, which will sell at a range between $50,000 and $100,000, uses a patent-pending process known as deep content fingerprinting.
Fingerprinting can either be carried out automatically by scanning content repositories, or specific pieces of content manually registered via email or web upload. The content scanning engine works across all files to identify and encode confidential content into a set of unique digital fingerprints.
According to Chip Hay, Code Green’s SVP of marketing, the system automatically creates a series of sliding hashes and reduces those hashes to the minimum number that is needed to describe that document. It will then track by IP address anyone sending any fingerprinted document or part of a fingerprinted document, and according to the pre-set policy will log that event, or send an alert to an administrator or compliance officer, he said.
The vendor claims the appliance detects and prevents leaks of structured and unstructured content such as internal memos, customer lists, contracts, CAD drawings, financial documents, source code, product plans, and other confidential information.
Content leakages can stem from accidental or inadvertent disclosure of information through errors in messaging or badly designed business processes, and malicious intent.
The system, which seemingly can be deployed in less than an hour, comes with a series of connectors to the popular enterprise content management suites from the likes of Documentum and Stellent. It can also be used to register and protect fingerprinted content in over 370 file formats such as Microsoft Word, Adobe PDF or AutoCAD.
It will protect information written in English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, German, Russian, and Arabic and sent over any TCP-based protocol as email, web traffic, Instant Messaging, by FTP or peer-to-peer file sharing.
The founders of the company have primed the business with a total of $32m in seed money and venture capital from Bay Partners and Sierra Ventures. The first release of the product is intended for deployment at the gateway or egress point, but forthcoming editions of the appliance will be coupled with the use of lightweight agents to secure internal networks.
