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Security:
Reconnex Product Prevents
Disclosures Of Critical Info
Reconnex, an enterprise security company pioneering the development of high
performance security appliances to prevent disclosures of confidential
information, announced the availability of the G2 Content Analyzer and two
applications -- the Reconnex Company Confidential Solution and Reconnex
Privacy Compliance Solution. This flagship offering consisting of a
hardware-based network security appliance and application suite is designed to
safeguard Fortune 500 companies from the loss of critical corporate
information, such as intellectual property, by identifying and preventing
disclosures that occur over a corporate network that can cause devastating
financial losses and irreparable damage. Designed to prevent all types of
disclosures starting on the network -- whether accidental or malicious and
sophisticated in nature -- Reconnex's G2 Content Analyzer is the first
hardware-based security appliance with the speed, accuracy and scalability
needed to protect classified corporate information specific to the financial,
technology, government and pharmaceutical industries.
"An exorbitantly high percent of confidential information disclosures
originate from within an organization as a result of innocent mistakes by
employees, such as when the military budget plan accidentally ended up on
Internet earlier this month. This innocent mistake was a devastating blow for
the Department of Defense who vigilantly maintains the strictest secrecy to
protect our national security," said Don Massaro, president and CEO of
Reconnex. "Our solutions enable companies to effectively reduce the occurrence
of accidental breaches, but we are not naive. While most breaches are
accidental or unintentional, the reality is some are deliberate and malicious
as in the case of industrial espionage and cyber terrorism. Our solutions had
to be sophisticated enough to detect both and distinguish the accidental from
the intentional disclosure."
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The sophisticated nature of the Reconnex G2 Content Analyzer allows it to
detect steganography -- the practice of embedding secret messages inside any
digital media, such as digital photos or audio files. Digital media files with
hidden secret messages using steganography appear normal to the common
observer and it is nearly impossible to suspect that anything unusual is
taking place. By providing the first hardware-based product with enough
processing capability to detect steganographic messages sent over high-speed
networks, enterprises now have the ability to stop the most insidious forms of
industrial espionage and Government agencies now have a commercial product
capable of uncovering secret methods of communications used by terrorist
organizations.
G2 Content Analyzer -- The Reconnex Company Confidential Solution
Intellectual property theft costs Fortune 1000 companies billions of
dollars
each year. Many disclosures of intellectual property are accidental and caused
by innocent employees trying to do their job. For example, an innocent mistake
could lead to a company's intellectual property getting into the hands of a
competitor or classified information being divulged over unclassified
networks. Regardless, the ramifications are catastrophic. The Reconnex Company
Confidential Solution is designed to prevent these types of mistakes because
it looks for unacceptable traffic sent in a multi-development chain and is
deployable in remote, overseas or third party development centers. The
Reconnex Company Confidential Solution recognizes source code, confidential
design documents or any type of classified information communicated over any
network communication protocol and can track all communication with
competitors.
"As we expand our worldwide business through innovation and creativity,
it's
critical that we protect our intellectual property and the material
information in support of our business," said Paul Hooper, CIO of Extreme
Networks. "The Reconnex solution is very valuable since it delivers on the
promise of improving our protection against security threats associated with
the accidental disclosure of intellectual property."
But, not all disclosures are so innocent. The Reconnex Company Confidential
Solution is sophisticated enough to recognize the intrinsic essence of all
file formats so that documents can be tracked even if the file name or
extension is modified or changed. For the more insidious forms of industrial
espionage, the Reconnex Company Confidential Solution detects encrypted
information and steganograhic messages and provides alerts if this suspicious
traffic is detected.
G2 Content Analyzer -- The Reconnex Privacy Compliance Solution
The majority of privacy violations are accidental oversights capable of
affecting millions of customers as in the case when thousands of credit card
numbers are disclosed via a website. Today, many privacy violations not only
result in hefty fines, but also require companies to notify every customer who
then has an option to take legal recourse. The Reconnex Privacy Compliance
Solution is aimed to help financial service providers, the pharmaceutical
industry, and e-retailers, take the guesswork out of complying by providing a
"snap shot" of the sensitive information that was exposed so companies know
with 100 percent confidence which customers were affected. It monitors the
network for privacy violations as defined by Federal and State regulations and
provides real-time alerts so that privacy compliance officers can take the
appropriate action within minutes.
Hardware Enables More Processing for Accuracy -- Fewer False
Positives
False positives are a serious hindrance to IT staff causing them to chase
phantoms and never correlate the actual security event to the disclosure of
information that occurred over at the content layer of the network. The
Reconnex G2 Content Analyzer is the first high performance security appliance
of its kind to address this with purpose built hardware for speed, accuracy
and scalability. At the heart of the technology, is a high performance
Real-time Content Processing Engine (RCPE) capable of analyzing all the
information flowing over the corporate network. This engine has the ability to
capture, classify, reconstruct and store content flowing over the network at
gigabit speeds. Using patent-pending acceleration techniques, the G2 Content
Analyzer offloads the computationally intensive processing of core primitives
to hardware. This purpose built hardware enables the G2 Content Analyzer to
offer the most accurate, most computationally content recognition techniques
that correlate events to actual disclosures of information allowing customers
to win the battle against false positives. At the click of a mouse, events are
tied to what the exposure looked like, what information was leaked, who sent
the information and where it was going. All incidents discovered are securely
stored in a way that is legally-binding for the purposes of future computer
forensic investigation and can be used "as is" in a court of law.
Scaleable with Zero Impact to The Network -- Just Plug and Play
The Reconnex G2 Content Analyzer is built for scalability so that it can be
deployed anywhere in an organization regardless of file formats, user
sophistication, network protocol, application type or network typology. As a
hardware appliance, the G2 Content Analyzer is deployable in minutes and can
sit anywhere on the network -- interdepartmentally or at exits of an
enterprise network. The Reconnex commitment to building zero impact solutions
means the G2 Content Analyzer can be deployed without ever needing to touch
client desktops or change servers, databases or network storage solutions. The
benefit to customers is that they can deploy a robust solution without making
changes to their network architecture or employees' business workflow. As a
non-intrusive, passive device, the G2 Content Analyzer can be deployed on any
switch or router without impacting network performance, reliability or
availability.
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