GuardianEdge Selected by Seattle Children's Hospital to Secure Sensitive Healthcare Information

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Mon Jun 1, 2009 8:04am EDT

  SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jun 01 (MARKET WIRE) -- 
GuardianEdge, the leader in endpoint data protection, today announced
that Seattle Children's Hospital, one of the best children's medical
centers in the country according to U.S. News & World Report, has
selected GuardianEdge Hard Disk Encryption to secure all of the
hospital's laptops and selected work stations, as well as GuardianEdge
Removable Storage Encryption to protect information stored on removable
devices such as USB drives.

    "At Seattle Children's Hospital, we want our doctors, nurses and
researchers to be able to focus on patient care and not worry about
information security. I had worked with GuardianEdge solutions in the past
and wanted to introduce them here because of their centralized
manageability and ability to integrate easily within existing
infrastructures," said Wes Wright, vice president and chief technology
officer at Seattle Children's Hospital. "As a result of this deployment,
our IT staff is secure in the knowledge that patient information on
laptops and USB drives is safe and encrypted."

    Seattle Children's Hospital serves as the pediatric and adolescent
academic medical referral center for Washington, Alaska, Montana and
Idaho and is the teaching, clinical and research site for the Department
of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

    With all of the research data and Patient Health Information (PHI)
traveling through hospitals' IT infrastructure, it is imperative that they
are equipped with data protection solutions. Lost data in the form of PHI
or confidential business information can severely affect an organization,
impacting its reputation and compliance with state and local privacy
regulations. The deployment of GuardianEdge solutions not only gives
hospitals a competitive edge, but it also helps them mitigate risk.

    Wright will be participating in an eSeminar with GuardianEdge discussing
the necessity for health care organizations to secure their sensitive
information. The eSeminar, titled, "Emerging Data Protection Priorities
for Healthcare," will be held on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 10 a.m.
Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) / 1 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). For more
information, please click here.

    About GuardianEdge

    GuardianEdge, the leader in endpoint data protection for the enterprise,
offers award-winning solutions to protect sensitive data on end-user
devices including laptops, desktops, portable storage devices and
smartphones. GuardianEdge products offer a breadth of encryption, port,
device and file type control technologies while establishing a
market-leading position in solving the operational issues of deployment,
management, scalability, reporting, auditing and user productivity at the
lowest possible total cost. Millions of users worldwide depend on the EAL
4 certified, enterprise-software standards-based GuardianEdge Data
Protection Platform to safeguard confidential or proprietary information,
to ensure compliance with regulations for maintaining consumer privacy
and to enable secure enterprise mobility.

    GuardianEdge data protection solutions have been deployed by leading
organizations including Lockheed Martin Corporation, Lincoln Financial
Group, and The Hertz Corporation as well as numerous government agencies
including the U.S. departments of Veteran Affairs, Defense, Energy, State
and Education and the California Department of Healthcare Services. For
additional information, please visit: http://www.guardianedge.com/.

    

Media Contact:
Derek James
McGrath/Power Public Relations
408-727-0351
derekj@mcgrathpower.com

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