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Tizor Launches Discovery Service to Help Corporations Locate Sensitive Data and Identify Risks
(Market Wire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) MAYNARD, MA, January 30 / MARKET WIRE/ --
Tizor
Systems, a leading provider of enterprise data auditing and protection
solutions for the data center, today announces the Tizor Discovery Service.
This service, which includes a risk assessment scorecard, helps enterprises
locate sensitive data assets, identify risks associated with current
operating practices and develop plans to mitigate those risks. These
activities are key to complying with regulations such as the Payment Card
Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
(GLBA).
Most companies have sensitive information scattered across the enterprise.
Customer information (credit card numbers, Social Security numbers),
employee information (SSNs, addresses, salary and medical information) and
operational information (financial data, IP) can reside in databases and
file shares unprotected. Regulations such as PCI, GLBA, SOX and the
Personal Data Privacy Act of 2007 require companies to protect data
determined to be private. However, most companies are unable to address
this requirement because they don't have the tools to find and classify
private data. This lack of visibility into critical data assets leaves
companies exposed to significant risks such as data theft, data breaches
and unapproved data access.
The Tizor Discovery Service uses Mantra data activity monitoring technology
to automate the process of discovering where data is located and how it is
being used. Data discovery pinpoints the location of data such as credit
card and Social Security numbers stored in both production databases and on
file shares in spreadsheets and word documents. Data Activity Monitoring
determines the usage patterns and risk profiles for all users and
applications that access critical data. The service includes a risk
assessment report with an overall risk rating. Tizor consultants work
closely with client companies to review the findings of the risk assessment
and develop remediation plans.
Each Discovery Service client receives an executive summary and detailed
report covering:
-- Where PCI, GLBA and other sensitive data is located
-- Who is accessing critical data assets
-- What activities privileged users are conducting
-- Incidents of suspicious user behavior
-- When failed transactions and other high risk activity is occurring
-- What steps to take to mitigate or eliminate the risks
The Mantra data activity monitoring system is in use at Fortune 500
companies and is recognized as a leading technology by industry analysts.
"Tizor Systems is a Leader in the enterprise database auditing and
real-time protection market because it provides strong support for
alerting, audit and compliance reporting, performance, policy
administration, the discovery of private data... Tizor's is one of the few
products that have the ability to audit both relational databases and
unstructured data residing on file servers and in mainframe applications.
This broad support enables enterprises to implement a unified data auditing
and protection solution across the enterprise." (The Forrester Wave:
Enterprise Database Auditing and Real-Time Protection, Q4 2007, Forrester
Research, Inc., October 2007)
"Many of the organizations that we speak with are forthcoming about the
fact that they do not know where all their sensitive data is, nor do they
have a baseline on how that data is being used," stated Joel Rosen,
president and CEO of Tizor. "Such information forms the foundation for
meeting PCI and other regulations. If you don't know what you've got and
what's happening with it, it's pretty near impossible to manage it."
Tizor Discovery Services are available immediately. For more information
visit http://www.tizor.com/Services/Tizor-Discovery-Service or call Tizor
at 800-231-8224.
About Tizor
Tizor provides the world's largest companies with the only enterprise data
auditing and protection solutions capable of monitoring, reporting and
alerting on all critical data activity across the enterprise data center --
databases, file servers and mainframe applications. Tizor's global
enterprise customers include financial institutions, insurance companies,
retailers, manufacturers, healthcare providers and airlines, among others.
These companies rely on Tizor's Mantra solutions to protect critical data
assets, detect data breaches and provide data-related compliance, including
SOX and PCI.
Headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts, Tizor is a member of IBM's Data
Governance Council and the PCI Vendor Alliance. Visit Tizor's Website at
http://www.tizor.com or data auditing blog at
http://blog.tizor.com.
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