Vericept and Entrust Announce Strategic Partnership
Partnership to Deliver Best-of-Breed Solution that Integrates Content Monitoring and Control with Fully Embedded Email Encryption
14 Sep 2006
DENVER, CO. and DALLAS, TX. - Vericept Corporation, a leading provider of comprehensive compliance and content control solutions and Entrust, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENTU), a world-leader in securing digital identities and information, today announced a strategic partnership to deliver fully embedded email encryption functionality in a content monitoring and control solution. Under the terms of the agreement, Vericept will integrate the Entrust Entelligence Messaging Server encryption capability into Vericept's Control 360° product providing automatic encryption, compliance and content control to both Vericept and Entrust customers. In addition, Entrust will become a reseller partner of Vericept's content control solutions.
"As organizations rely on email for communication each and every day it is imperative that confidential documents are protected during transmission to avoid interception by unauthorized users, which could result in potential data loss," said Dave Parkinson, President and CEO of Vericept. "Together, content control and automatic email encryption can provide an effective security solution for organizations to mitigate their risk of information loss and protect their corporate brand. As such, this partnership will provide significant value to both Vericept and Entrust customers by providing a very powerful integrated solution not previously available in the marketplace. Being the first content monitoring and control company to partner with a world-leading security vendor to offer fully embedded encryption, compliance and content control demonstrates our ongoing commitment to providing comprehensive solutions that address current customer demands and further validates our market and technology leadership position."
As a result of this partnership, Vericept Control 360° will be powered by Entrust to provide email security against inadvertent data leakage. Based upon Entrust's Entelligence Messaging Server, Vericept Control 360° will provide advanced content control with early identification of violations, automatic email encryption, Email Self-Compliance™ and centralized policy enforcement and reporting. Vericept Control 360° will deliver boundary-based secure email for customers who need to protect sensitive information as it travels over the Internet for compliance or risk mitigation. With this solution, email can be automatically encrypted based on content, or manually encrypted by the end user. By enabling automatic enforcement of corporate policies, organizations can help to control the flow of information in and out of the corporate network and keep sensitive information secure.
"Email has become one of the primary foundations of enterprise communications with customers, partners and suppliers. As a result, managing email and its contents has become one of the top organizational priorities. Customer relationships, regulatory compliance, legal obligations and the overall company brand can be impacted without proper management," said Entrust Chairman, President and CEO Bill Conner. "This OEM agreement and partnership with Vericept builds on the momentum we are experiencing with our own email security solution. The partnership will deliver best-of-breed technologies in content monitoring and email encryption as an integrated solution for our customers."
Key Benefits of Vericept Control 360° powered by Entrust:
- Integrated solution from Vericept and Entrust - trusted market leaders for content monitoring and encryption
- Automatically encrypts data without any user interaction
- Enables automatic, flexible delivery of secure email with external users regardless of their email application, even web based email
- Protects against inadvertent leaks of sensitive data
- Reminds and trains users on compliance and corporate policies
- Controls without impeding the flow of business
"Colonial Bank will benefit greatly from the combined Vericept and Entrust solution," said Chad Smith, Information Security Manager of Colonial Bank. "Our goal is to provide an easier to use encryption method for our internal users, improving on our existing security surrounding customer and company information. The security of our customer and company information is vitally important, and using tools like Vericept and Entrust, we will continue to protect information entrusted to us."
Vericept's 360° visibility provides early detection of impeding threats and insider risks. Utilizing over 70 pre-defined risk categories and custom categories, Vericept monitors all Internet-based communication and identifies areas of immediate financial, reputation and legal risk. By correlating events and analyzing patterns of behavior, Vericept can help organizations to identify an incident before it occurs and take immediate action against serious security breaches that can cause irreversible brand and reputation damage.
The Entrust Entelligence product portfolio is an integrated suite of security solutions that deliver a single security layer across multiple enterprise applications enabling strong authentication, authorization, digital signatures and encryption. Entrust Entelligence helps empower employees to work efficiently, communicate effectively, improve corporate and regulatory compliance and use products and services online.
About Vericept Corporation
Vericept Corporation is the leading provider of comprehensive compliance and content control solutions. Vericept mitigates internal risk by providing enterprise-wide visibility that enables full control of the information exchanged inside and outside an organization. Vericept's patent pending Intelligent Content Control Engine™ dramatically reduces security risks and "insider threats" within an organization. These can include regulation compliance violations, information leaks, inappropriate Internet activity and more. Only Vericept offers comprehensive solutions that provide 360-degree visibility and control of inappropriate activity across all forms of Internet traffic, such as email, chat, P2P, and FTP. Vericept's real-time content capture enables organizations to act immediately and prevent loss of valuable information assets. Vericept's technology is protecting billions of pieces of communication and millions of workstations with over 700 customer's worldwide everyday. Vericept is a privately held company headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
For additional information, please visit the company's web site at www.vericept.com or call 800.262.0274.