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Microsoft partners with EMC

The collaboration is designed to bring out a new approach for protecting information

Friday, December 05, 2008

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MUMBAI, INDIA: EMC, an IT service provider, and software giant Microsoft Corp today announced that they have expanded their technology partnership to help companies to protect sensitive information and share it in a more secure manner.

The companies would be working together with a built-in 'systems' approach that would help to protect information throughout the infrastructure based on content, context and identity, said a press release.

The partnership would take advantage of resources and technology from Microsoft and RSA, the security division, EMC.

Microsoft would build the RSA data loss prevention (DLP) classification technology into the Microsoft platform and future information protection products, it added.

The collaboration is designed to enable organizations to centrally define information security policy, automatically identify and classify sensitive data virtually anywhere in the infrastructure and use a range of controls to protect data at the endpoints, network, and data center.

The RSA's DLP Suite 6.5 would be engineered to integrate tightly with Microsoft active directory rights management services (RMS) within Windows Server 2008.

Christopher Young, senior vice president of products at RSA, EMC, said, "Companies continue to struggle to protect sensitive data across the enterprise Point solutions require that multiple policies and technologies be stitched together and independently managed, which is costly and complex."

He added that by building technology such as RSA DLP classification into the infrastructure, Microsoft and RSA are providing a new approach that balances the need to help ensure protection with accessibility.

RSA and Microsoft's new approach would address customer needs through an end-to-end solution with fewer point tools to buy, deploy and manage. It would allow customers to centrally manage and apply their information security policies, based on user identity, to wherever information lives or is used, the release added.

"Our expanded partnership with EMC's RSA security division is centered on dramatically lowering the cost and complexity of information protection while allowing customers to take full advantage of perhaps their greatest asset: their information. The approach is about built-in solutions, versus bolted-on," said Douglas Leland, general manager of the identity and security business group, Microsoft.

He added that the collaboration is also a key example of the Microsoft commitment to help customers secure their environments, boost productivity and reduce IT costs through solutions that incorporate both identity and security technologies.

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