SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - February 11, 2008) - SkyRecon Systems, (
www.skyrecon.com) the
premier provider of integrated, proactive endpoint security solutions,
today announced the release of version 5.0 of its unified endpoint security
product StormShield™. As a natural complement to existing endpoint
anti-virus products, StormShield offers the most system and data protection
layers available in a single lightweight agent and single management
console. Key to version 5 is the compliance auditing and reporting tools
surrounding the dynamic policy management capabilities.
SkyRecon's StormShield solution protects businesses from the real threats
of data leakage, data theft, system misuse, unauthorized access, and
zero-day attacks. Not cobbled together through acquisition or disparate
technology integrations, StormShield was designed and built from its
inception to be a single, lightweight security agent with multiple
protection layers working together to protect both the system and the data.
The integrated StormShield services include device control, file-based
content encryption, application control, host-based intrusion prevention
(HIPS) and firewall, wireless security, and network access control (NAC).
Automatically using the appropriate services together at the right time for
the right situation, StormShield's system protection layer combined with
the data protection layer ensures that sensitive data stays secure and in
the hands of the business -- not a hacker or competitor.
"StormShield addresses each critical aspect of endpoint protection,
providing protection for both the endpoint system itself and the data that
the system hosts and has access to," said Sean Martin, CISSP, SkyRecon VP
of Marketing. "StormShield protects both physical and virtual enterprise
endpoints, including mobile laptops that are routinely taken beyond the
often-protected physical perimeter of an organization -- therefore
introducing greater risk of attack, data loss, and misuse."
StormShield version 5.0 delivers policy-based secure content encryption,
which uses a multi-user file/folder encryption model, not a full disk
encryption model. This flexible file-based model, along with its multi-key
capabilities, enables the wide-scale deployment of endpoint encryption
where organizations may have otherwise passed up the opportunity to employ
such a valuable technology.
Unlike full disk encryption that can be resource intensive and can either
hinder IT operations or bypass IT security policy, StormShield's file-based
encryption supports the realistic day-to-day operations of IT as it relates
to the often-competing business and security requirements. With
StormShield, organizations can define policies that enable IT to manage the
configurations and patches for the endpoints while maintaining the desired
protection for the users' sensitive business data residing on the endpoint
without interrupting the end-user.
Additional Version 5 enhancements include:
-- Compliance auditing & reporting
-- Improved intrusion prevention and buffer overflow protection
-- Enhanced removable and integrated device control: IrDA, LPT, COM,
PCMCIA
-- Increased customer-driven SIEM integration capabilities
With StormShield's integrated secure content encryption, device control and
network access control, organizations can define a single location-aware
endpoint-based policy that prevents sensitive data from being removed from
their endpoint systems, leaked from unauthorized network locations, and
extracted through the use of unauthorized removable storage devices.
As the policy can be dynamically changed based on network location,
increased security can be automatically applied as the endpoint leaves the
secure perimeter of the internal network.
Pricing & Availability
While each service can be purchased and used separately, SkyRecon
StormShield pricing starts at $40 per node depending on number of services
activated and $132 per node for all services enabled. Discounts apply to
volume purchases. StormShield version 5 is available end of February 2008.
About SkyRecon Systems Inc.
Founded in 2003 in Paris and with US headquarters in San Jose, Calif.,
SkyRecon Systems is a provider of system and data security solutions for
200 enterprises in 40 countries. In March 2007 the company raised $6.5
million in a second round of venture financing from Ventech and ACE
Management to establish US operations and to develop a reseller channel.
The company enjoys strategic partnerships with Microsoft and Juniper in
support of its engineering and sales efforts. SkyRecon received the
prestigious Red Herring 100 Award and has been named "Entrepreneurial
Security Company of the Year" by Frost & Sullivan. In 2007 it received a
Readers Trust finalist award by SC Magazine. More information on SkyRecon
Systems can be found at
www.skyrecon.com. SkyRecon Systems Inc., 2033
Gateway Place, Suite 500, San Jose, CA 95110. Tel. (877) 239 3057.
Contact Information: Press Contact:
Sean Martin, CISSP
smartin@skyrecon.com
(949) 878-0592