October 09, 2007

Securent Fills Growing Need for Fine-Grained Access Controls to Information Residing in Disparate Data Repositories

Organizations Turn to Leader in Entitlement Management to Safeguard Sensitive Data and Avoid Legal and Financial Repercussions from Noncompliance with Complex Regulations

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Oct. 9, 2007 — Securent, Inc., an award-winning leader in the entitlement management market, today announced that its Entitlement Management Solution (EMS) is proving to be an indispensable tool for organizations that need to secure data across disparate data repositories.

Enterprises are faced with ever-increasing regulatory requirements to safeguard and enforce appropriate access to sensitive information across distributed applications and data stores, which often each have their own native security mechanisms. Managing access policies across these disparate data stores is complex, costly, and exposes the organization to significant security vulnerabilities. To address these demands, organizations are turning to Securent to effectively protect their data by centrally creating, enforcing, reviewing, and auditing fine-grained access policies across heterogeneous and distributed databases.

Securent EMS provides end-to-end protection of sensitive data by adding consistent and seamless policy enforcement to databases, including those offered by Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, and Sybase, to complement existing policy enforcement capabilities at the application and presentation layers. By providing unmatched, fine-grained, policy-driven controls, and visibility, Securent EMS enables organizations to meet their constantly growing data security and compliance requirements.

Securent’s data security solution applies not only to corporate databases but also to the increasingly prevalent data abstraction layer that many enterprises are deploying. Forrester Research has coined the term "information fabric," which refers to a virtualized data layer that integrates information from heterogeneous data and content repositories to deliver accurate real time information to business users. In the April 2007 report “Information Fabric 2.0: Enterprise Information Virtualization Gets Real,” Noel Yuhanna, Forrester Research principal analyst, writes: “An important component of the information fabric is data access security. The information fabric architecture enables centralized data access and control, enforcing an even stricter level of data access security than what is found in traditional applications and DBMS. With the information fabric, each person’s access to information is based on confirmed identity in a specific usage context, offering a more granular level of access control. Therefore, when designing an information fabric strategy, architects and security professionals should make data access security a top priority, right from the initial planning stage.”

“Deploying Entitlement Management for data repositories and the virtualized data layer can yield great benefits, including consistent compliance, enhanced visibility and security, and accelerated application development schedules,” said Sekhar Sarukkai, CTO of Securent. “In fact, our customers have found that these benefits provided a healthy return on their investment, often in excess of 300 percent in the first year alone, and immediately bolstered their compliance initiatives.”

About Securent Entitlement Management Solution
A scalable and cost-effective alternative to custom coding fine-grained access controls into applications, Securent EMS enables organizations to secure sensitive applications and data with ease and precision by using a proven XACML-based solution to create, enforce, review, and audit fine-grained access policies across heterogeneous application and IT environments distributed throughout the enterprise. Securent EMS provides centralized management and visibility over entitlements for application services and databases and is a key infrastructure service in an effective service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployment. The results include improved security and compliance with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Basel Capital Accord (Basel II), and the National Association of Securities Dealers Rule 2711 (NASD 2711).

About Securent
The leader in Entitlement Management, Securent enables organizations to secure sensitive applications and data with ease and precision. Securent’s Entitlement Management Solution (EMS) is the industry’s most robust and proven XACML-based solution, allowing organizations to administer, enforce, review, and audit fine-grained access policies across heterogeneous application and IT environments distributed throughout the enterprise, all with centralized management and visibility. The significant cost, time to market, and compliance benefits of EMS have been proven at many Fortune 500 customers. Securent has been recognized as a pioneer and industry leader by leading analysts, including Gartner and Burton Group. Securent was named one of Info Security’s “Hot Companies” for 2007 and has won product awards in the categories of Entitlement Management and Policy Management. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Securent is backed by Greylock Partners and Onset Ventures. For more information, please visit www.securent.com.

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