SecureWave and Lexar to Offer Enterprise-Level Solutions for the Management of Personal Storage Devices
25 April 2006 - 6:00PM
Business Wire
SecureWave today announced a partnership with Lexar Media, Inc.
(Nasdaq: LEXR), a leading manufacturer of removable flash memory
cards and USB flash drives, to develop and market an
enterprise-class privacy solution for controlling personal storage
devices. The companies plan to jointly make available solutions
that will provide more granular control and cryptographic security
for portable storage devices to ensure compliance with regulations,
prevent malicious and unintentional data leakage, and preserve
corporate assets. Additionally, Lexar becomes the first vendor to
join the SecureWave Hardware Vendor Partnership Program, the
industry's first certification program for portable storage media.
The Program provides hardware manufacturers like Lexar with the
designation of being enterprise-ready, meeting all the criteria
that companies are looking for - scalability, security, performance
and availability. According to a recent Gartner study, loss and
theft of mobile devices is the most common exposure to data leakage
when data is taken outside the office. To mitigate these risks
while still allowing users to enjoy the full benefits of the
devices, policies and controls must be put in place. With
SecureWave's Sanctuary and Lexar's secure enterprise personal
storage devices working in conjunction with each other, users will
be required to utilize only authorized portable devices in
accordance with policies that can govern time, encryption, volume
of data, data transfer and other administrator-set criteria. The
technical integration of support for Lexar's secure enterprise
personal storage devices into SecureWave's Sanctuary also makes
Lexar the first hardware partner that SecureWave will work with on
this type of enterprise-ready solution. "From a business
perspective, personal storage devices like USB flash drives are
incredibly powerful business tools, enabling employees to easily
transfer mass amounts of data from one location to another, and be
productive out of the office. The problems arise when policies are
not developed and strictly enforced for the use of these devices.
This can result in drastic consequences such as data theft and the
compromise of corporate assets," said Joe Unsworth, a Principal
Analyst at Gartner. SecureWave's Sanctuary provides policy-based
control for the devices and applications that can be used on
enterprise endpoints. Using an automated whitelist approach,
Sanctuary allows only those devices and applications that have been
approved for use with its PCs, laptops and servers. The SecureWave
Hardware Vendor Partnership Program allows portable storage device
manufacturers to market all the enterprise benefits of its
solutions while ensuring their commitment to device safety.
"Enterprises need to look no further than to the front page of the
newspaper to see the dangers of not properly managing removable
storage devices," said Bob Johnson, CEO of SecureWave. "By creating
the SecureWave Hardware Vendor Partnership Program and working with
Lexar, a technology innovator, we are able to provide businesses
with security solutions that protect and secure an organization's
private, corporate data while still enabling users to experience
the full convenience and potential of personal storage devices."
"At Lexar, we understand that data stored on our personal storage
devices is often confidential and highly sensitive," said Farshid
Tabrizi, General Manager of Enterprise and OEM Products at Lexar.
"In order to guarantee that our business and government customers
have a simple, reliable way to ensure security we have partnered
with SecureWave to deploy end-to-end policy enforcement
technologies for personal storage devices. This way we can add the
extra layer of security and offer products that are not only
effective at transferring and sharing data, but also at keeping it
safe inside and outside corporate or enterprise networks." About
SecureWave With SecureWave's Sanctuary(R), organizations set and
enforce policies for device and application use that overcome
tomorrow's security and operational challenges today. More than
1,200 enterprises worldwide in the financial, government, military,
manufacturing and healthcare sectors, including CSC, Anglian Water
Services, MTU, Barclays Bank PLC and Norwich Union, utilize
Sanctuary. SecureWave, named a Red Herring Top 100 Innovator, is
headquartered in Luxembourg and services its global customer base
via offices in the U.K., Washington D.C. and Research Triangle
Park, N.C., as well as a network of reseller and service provider
partners worldwide. To learn more about SecureWave, please call
(703) 788-6760 or visit www.securewave.com. About Lexar Media, Inc.
Lexar is a leading marketer and manufacturer of NAND flash memory
products including memory cards, USB flash drives, card readers and
ATA controller technology for the digital photography, consumer
electronics, industrial and communications markets. The company
holds over 97 issued or allowed controller and system patents, and
licenses its technology to companies including Olympus Corporation,
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., SanDisk Corporation and Sony
Corporation. Lexar sells its memory cards worldwide and through an
exclusive agreement, also sells memory cards under the Kodak brand.
Headquartered in Fremont, California, Lexar has operations in
countries around the world. More information is available at
www.lexar.com. Lexar, JumpDrive and the Lexar logo are trademarks
of Lexar Media, Inc. SecureWave and Sanctuary are registered
trademarks of SecureWave SA. All other brand or product names are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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