MedStar Health
Information is at the very heart of your business. Information, and in particular High Business Impact (HBI) information, is a critical digital asset that must be protected voraciously and without compromise. HBI can take a number of forms, including secret recipes, source code, marketing plans, product specifications, sales forecasts, clinical trial data—and each of them serve as a critical and foundational component to your business process. Loss of this information to a competitor, to the public, or accidental disclosure could compromise your competitive edge or ability to continue conducting business altogether.
Risks to your sensitive information can be manifest in a variety of ways:
- Malicious insiders
- Corporate espionage
- Misconfigured IT systems or security
- Broken business process
- End-user error in handling sensitive information
Most information protection solutions perform well when protecting information that is generally static and fixed-format, including Social Security numbers and credit card numbers—things that are obvious. However, these same solutions fall short of providing comprehensive coverage for information that is non-obvious and generally not of fixed format, which includes most forms of HBI information. To further exacerbate the problem, HBI information continues to evolve—as do the threats that you are protecting it from.
Reconnex provides solutions that help identify and protect your sensitive information. Reconnex has developed a high-performance, appliance-based information protection system that intelligently monitors, classifies, and protects information as it is in motion, at rest, or in use, to provide customers with real-time protection against incidents that compromise your sensitive information. The capture database, a capability unique to Reconnex, allows users to mine historical information in order to understand what their sensitive information is, who uses it, who it is sent to, and how. Other solutions that do not provide such a capture capability require that you engage all content owners and stakeholders to manually define what their sensitive information is. With Reconnex, you can “let the data tell its story” and quickly understand what data is sensitive and how it should be protected.
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The capture database is the cornerstone of the Reconnex learning capabilities, and allows you to:
- Examine historical network information for investigation or to better understand application, traffic, and user patterns
- Tune rules according to content changes or to address emerging threats, and test them against historical information to validate accuracy quickly
- Apply data mining and analytics against the capture database, so you can quickly understand who is sending specific types of data to specific users, how, and when—and turn this into an effective information protection policy
