Verizon Business is predicting that it will break new
ground in the security market with a new set of managed
data-protection and data-loss-prevention services.
The announcement comes part of a package of launches to address
growing security challenges by the company, nearly a year
after it acquired
managed security service giant Cybertrust .
The services are designed to help prevent malicious requests
that could compromise a company's database and also support new
tools that track data as it flows throughout the enterprise.
Available beginning in July, a management and monitoring service
will scrutinise software and appliances for database auditing and
prevention/database activity. These software and appliances will
be designed to act as effectively act as a security buffer,
preventing malicious requests that could compromise a
database.
The second service will involve management and monitoring of
data-loss prevention technologies, allowing customers to outsource
to Verizon Business the tracking and monitoring of their data,
whether it is at rest, in transit or in use. The service will be
available beginning in September.
"These new managed offerings will support the holistic approach
we are taking to protect business data, no matter where it resides
in the enterprise," explained Kerry Bailey, vice president of
Verizon Business Security Solutions.
Bailey outlined the new scenario where critical data flows in
and out of extended enterprises to partners, customers and
suppliers all around the world. Verizon says that an extended
enterprise environment makes it difficult, if not impossible, to
know where confidential corporate data resides at any time and that
keeping data safe has become complex, costly and time-consuming for
businesses.
To put the launch into context, Verizon business quoted research
from an unnamed source that suggested the repercussions of data
loss on a business could be enormous and long-lasting. The research
was said to find that more than 162 million records were reported
lost or stolen in 2007, more than triple those reported in
2006.