Microsoft plans to embed technology from RSA into future
products to enable businesses to protect sensitive data.
Through the partnership, Microsoft will build the
RSA Data Loss
Prevention (DLP) classification technology into its platform
and future information protection products, which it said would
allow users to centrally define information security policy, and
automatically identify and classify sensitive data in an IT
infrastructure.
Microsoft has been working for several years to make its
products more secure through a strategy called
trustworthy computing.
Version 6.5 of RSA's DLP Suite will be the first deliverable of
the RSA and Microsoft partnership. Scheduled to ship later this
month, version 6.5 will include support for Microsoft Active
Directory RMS, part of Windows Server 2008. RSA said the
integration will allow businesses to apply automaticallyRMS-based
information access and usage policies, based on the sensitivity of
information. Microsoft and RSA said that this integration with
Active Directory will help users implement data loss prevention
controls tied to employee identity or group membership.
