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posted on 24 June 2008 09:20

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Symantec has updated its Vontu Data Loss Prevention software to support native SQL database scanning and so improve customers' ability to prevent inside data theft.

The Vontu software is aimed at data loss prevention (DLP) and enables businesses to find and protect exposed confidential or proprietary data across their IT infrastructure. Symantec acquired Vontu in December last year and this is the second DLP product release since then. There are more than 100 Vontu customers.

The native support for SQL databases, such as Oracle, SQLServer or DB2, means companies can carry out systematic audits of thousands of databases as part of a data loss prevention strategy to quickly inventory them and locate sensitive data which may have been improperly stored.

Vontu DLP supports native scanning of six classes of content repositories -- including file servers, distributed laptops and desktops, databases, document and records management systems (such as Documentum and SharePoint), email repositories, and Web sites (including intranets and extranets).

Vontu DLP delivers three discovery approaches. Agent-based scanning provides benefits when scanning large number of endpoints to enable simultaneous discovery on thousands of machines. Vontu DLP server agents perform distributed scanning of data repositories across remote regional offices and centralized scanning to investigate massive, centralized repositories with millions of documents or database records.

Vontu's Endpoint DLP solution has enhanced operating system coverage for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista, and can perform parallel scanning of thousands of systems by leveraging the Vontu Endpoint DLP agent architecture.

^{[Paul Roberts, news editor.]}