nexTier Networks Mitigates SMBs' Data Security Risks With New, Affordable Data Leak Prevention Appliances

SANTA CLARA, CA, Jul 21 (MARKET WIRE) --
nexTier Networks, the company redefining data leak prevention (DLP) with
semantic analysis, today announced the immediate availability of a new
class of DLP products designed to help small and mid-sized businesses
(SMBs) mitigate data security risks. The new Compliance Enforcer 100 and
200 appliances leverage nexTier's powerful DLP algorithms with semantic
DNA analysis for advanced accuracy, automated security policy management
and compliance reporting in a single, centralized administrator's
console. As a result, companies can reduce data security and compliance
administration and enforcement from weeks to just minutes while
minimizing data breaches and internal malicious threats.

According to a recent study by IDC, 60 percent of all corporate data is
accessed via an endpoint. As the perimeter of SMB endpoints continues to
expand, encryption is no longer a viable protection option for company
data. The nexTier solution delivers data security far beyond encryption
and protects companies against both inadvertent and malicious attacks
while complying with government and regulatory mandates. Using a unique
DLP approach with a highly defensible, patented technology for data leak
prevention, nexTier safeguards both structured and unstructured data with
rapid deployment and minimal human intervention.

One of the biggest challenges for companies today is protecting
ever-increasing amounts of sensitive data, and that data is increasingly
unstructured and harder to discover. Access to sensitive documents needs
to be tightly controlled. nexTier's Compliance Enforcer solution enables
organizations to identify and protect their information no matter where it
is located in the enterprise by automatically discovering sensitive
information and applying semantic intelligence to determine what the
document's content is, who can access what data, and where it can and
cannot be sent to enforce business policies and compliance.

The result is increased visibility into all information across the
business and greater control and protection of that information.
Additionally, nexTier's language-independent algorithms interpret and
correlate the unique DNA of data to determine and apply security policies
in real-time. Highly resistant to evasion, nexTier's algorithm can
determine the origin of information even if data has been retyped into a
brand new document, or rearranged and reworded in an evasive or
subversive manner -- minimizing internal threats and malicious intent.

"Recent trends clearly show that enterprises are taking serious interest
in implementing technologies that could aid in securing sensitive
enterprise data from being extruded and used with malicious intent," said
Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst, Achyuthanandan Sampath. "nexTier
Networks' unique approach to DLP could comprehensively secure data leaks
by automatically identifying sensitive information and preventing leakage
by applying security policies in real-time. In a short time span, the
company has emerged into a leading innovator in the DLP domain."

Aimed at enabling small businesses to address increased security threats
in the face of budgetary pressures and stringent data compliance
regulations, nexTier's Compliance Enforcer is now available as a 1U or 2U
rack-mountable server appliance. The appliances proactively protect
information at the gateway, departmental level or across the enterprise,
delivering a simple, plug and play approach to DLP. Built from the ground
up to significantly reduce deployment time to less than an hour,
Compliance Enforcer cuts configuration and initial set-up time to minutes
and eliminates the requirement of on-going manual pre-tagging and
pre-processing of sensitive data. This reduces both short and long-term
total cost of ownership.

Using nexTier's patented advanced identity and role-based contextual DLP
paradigm, the Compliance Enforcer leverages existing enterprise
directories (LDAP, Active Directory, RADIUS, Human Resources databases)
and other information repositories for fast and consistent policy
deployment. An advanced DLP Policy Synthesis Engine eliminates laborious
policy setting processes further by automatically applying technology to
achieve the highest granularity found in DLP solutions. Once installed,
security personnel may use nexTier's Conceptual-Contextual Policy
settings to monitor and control who can access and send what information
to whom and through what protocol or application.

"Enterprises of all sizes are increasingly being required to meet the
mounting demands of regulatory compliance, putting the SMB at a distinct
disadvantage in terms of cost and personnel," said Tarique Mustafa, CEO
and founder of nexTier Networks. "nexTier's Compliance Enforcer
appliances give small businesses an affordable, easy-to-deploy DLP
solution that protects data in real-time, while identifying threats and
performing remediation activities with recommended actions. nexTier's DLP
technology also addresses the significant limitations of other DLP
products by greatly reducing deployment time and keeping data storage
requirements to a minimum."

Pricing & Availability

nexTier Networks' Compliance Enforcer products are now shipping as
pre-built and pre-configured appliances. Compliance Enforcer is easily
customizable and starts at US $30,000 for 100 users. With its Compliance
Enforcer product, nexTier offers the most affordable DLP with
unprecedented accuracy and real-time analysis, providing best return on
investment to meet compliance and security needs. For more information
contact: info@nextiernetworks.com.

About nexTier Networks

Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley USA, nexTier Networks
introduced the industry's first semantically-aware data leak prevention
technology. nexTier's DLP protects data based on its contextual and
conceptual meaning, using a powerful correlation engine and security
algorithms to identify, classify and protect large volumes of information
in real-time, with unprecedented accuracy. nexTier was named IDG's Network
World "10 IT Security Companies To Watch" List and was awarded Frost &
Sullivan's 2009 North American Network Security Infrastructure Protection
Excellence in Technology of the Year Award, recognizing the company's
achievement in creating innovative technology. The company was founded by
Silicon Valley security veteran Tarique Mustafa and is backed by a team,
board and advisors that include leading authorities from companies like
Symantec, McAfee, VeriSign, Cisco, Juniper, GreenBorder, Sygate and
Securify. For more information, see http://nextiernetworks.com/.

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