RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE:EMC) and Lumension, a global leader in endpoint management and security today announced the execution of an agreement to help organizations better protect sensitive information and share it in a more secure manner. The businesses plan to work together to further expand information-aware capabilities into the IT infrastructure by embedding parts of the RSA? Data Loss Prevention Suite into Lumension products.

Organizations are faced with the challenge of explosive digital data that needs to be secured and managed, along with increased collaboration and support for mobile and open devices and platforms. There are point solutions that can address these challenges, but they require that multiple policies and technologies be pulled together and independently managed, which is costly and complex. To help address these issues, RSA and Lumension plan to work together to provide the market with a more robust and comprehensive data protection solution that will be designed to help provide greater data security with less complexity, reduced total cost of ownership, and less impact to business productivity. By building DLP technology into the infrastructure, RSA and Lumension plan to be able to offer customers a complete data protection solution from gateway to endpoint with common policies and common classifications of sensitive data.

As part of their technical agreement, Lumension will license the RSA? Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Suite software development kit (SDK), with the goal of building RSA DLP classification technology and expert RSA DLP policy libraries into future versions of its Lumension? Device Control product module. The RSA DLP SDK would also be engineered to enable Lumension endpoint security products to work seamlessly with the rest of RSA?s DLP offerings for networks and datacenters. The goal of the resulting integration and collaboration would be designed to deliver the following capabilities:

• A Common DLP Policy from network gateway to storage to endpoint and onto removable media such as USB devices and recordable CD/DVD ROM.
• Comprehensive content awareness across data transferred off the endpoint and onto removable media. This would enable organizations to not only apply policy to file types but to also apply policy to data within file types such as social security numbers etc.
• Ability to define highly granular polices on permissible activity and data types on the endpoint without impacting organizational productivity.
• Single console, single agent solution that increases visibility across data location, policy and movement while reducing administrative burden.