Protegrity and Linoma Partner to Expand Data Protection Capabilities


STAMFORD, CT--(Marketwire - May 12, 2010) - Protegrity USA, Inc., an innovative leader in providing Data Security Management Solutions, and Linoma Software, a leader in providing innovative technologies for securing data and automating data movement within IBM i environments, announced today a technology partnership to extend the breadth of the Protegrity Data Security Platform to support sensitive data protection within IBM i environments.

Through this partnership, Protegrity has integrated the Protegrity Data Security Platform, one of the broadest protection platforms in the market and the first to offer flexibility in data protection supporting encryption, tokenization, format controlled encryption, monitoring, and masking, with Linoma's Crypto Complete software. With the addition of Linoma's Crypto Complete to its data security platform, Protegrity can now support data protection requirements within IBM i environments, thus bringing a more comprehensive and complete solution to the market.

Through this technical integration, Protegrity and Linoma Software are now able to offer solutions to protect data at rest across platforms, enabling the products to exchange keys and logs seamlessly and securely. The combined Protegrity and Linoma offering brings the IBM i community consistent security across its processing platforms, and protection for many vulnerable legacy applications resident on them. Linoma Software's well established expertise in the IBM i environment, coupled with Protegrity's extensive Data Security Platform supporting data protection in open system databases, Mainframe environments, file servers, and applications, brings integrated answers and technology to the IBM i protection needs.

"Protegrity is delighted to be partnering with Linoma Software. Linoma brings a market leading product into the Protegrity Data Security Platform. The integration with Crypto Complete will enable Protegrity to extend our existing data protection support onto the IBM i, while enabling us to continue to solve enterprise data protection needs with award winning enterprise data protection solutions," said Iain Kerr, CEO of Protegrity.

"As a leader in IBM i product development, Linoma is excited to provide our Crypto Complete encryption and tokenization solution to further Protegrity's data protection support. The importance of our partnership is to deliver complementary business solutions to meet increasingly complex customer demands," said Bob Luebbe, CEO of Linoma Software.

For more information on the joint Protegrity Linoma solution, please contact us at sales@protegrity.com.

ABOUT PROTEGRITY
Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut USA, Protegrity delivers centralized data security management solutions that protect sensitive information from acquisition to deletion across the enterprise. Protegrity's customers maintain complete protection over their data and business by employing software and solutions specifically designed to secure data, manage the data via a centralized policy, and generate detailed security reports.

The company's singular focus is on developing solutions that protect data. Protegrity employees are security technology specialists with deep expertise in data security techniques, encryption key management, and security policy in distributed environments. Maximize security with minimal business impact with Protegrity Data Protection System, the high performance, transparent solution optimized for the dynamic enterprise.

To learn more, visit www.protegrity.com or call 203.326.7200.

Protegrity is a registered trade mark of Protegrity Corporation. 

ABOUT LINOMA
Founded in 1994, Linoma Software provides innovative technologies for protecting sensitive data and automating data movement. Linoma Software has a diverse install base of over 3,000 customers around the world including corporations, non-profit organizations and government entities. With its dedication to research, development and superior customer service, Linoma Software is recognized as a leader in software development.

To learn more, visit www.linomasoftware.com or call 402.944.4242.

Linoma Software is a registered trademark of Linoma Group, Inc.

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