Tiversa Reinvents Enterprise Security by Focusing on DLP's Achilles Heel: The Extended Enterprise

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Tiversa today announced the findings of new research that reveals 93% of P2P-related data disclosures come from outside the corporate perimeter, 68% stemming from suppliers and customers alone. The study is based on actual Tiversa customer data, which includes some of the world's largest and most sophisticated security-focused organizations, many of which are mainstays in the Fortune 500, who have millions invested in information security systems, hardware, partners and personnel.

The Tiversa research reveals the achilles heel of existing industry standards and DLP solutions: the Extended Enterprise, which includes remote employees, customers, trusted partners and the supply chain. With an industry so focused on hardware and software solutions, Tiversa has pioneered a radically different and time-tested approach that effectively addresses sensitive data floating both inside and outside the corporate perimeter. A truly cloud-centric, security service, Tiversa's enterprise program requires no software or hardware and monitors disclosures from any party that you have entrusted sensitive or confidential information - both inside and outside of your corporate perimeter.

Dr. Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of The Ponemon Institute and Tiversa Advisory Board member states, "Many of the measures we were told companies are taking to prevent data loss through P2P networks, such as firewalls, ID management, and monitoring of the World Wide Web, are completely ineffective against P2P files sharing disclosures."

When security professionals are asked what measures are actively being taken to protect their organization's sensitive and confidential data, answers typically range from secure VPN to policies to hardware and software solutions. "From virtual employees, outsourced suppliers, professional services firms, and customers...organizations just can't secure what they don't monitor and manage," commented Tiversa's chief executive, Robert Boback.

Boback goes onto say, "Tiversa handles a variety of breaches on a daily basis . . . anything from confidential cancer and HIV patient records (including name, contact information, SSN and diagnosis) leaked by a hospital billing company to a Fortune 500 corporation's trusted supplier inadvertently disclosing tens of thousands of PII records in an excel file. We see this sort of thing every day and the trend is rapidly escalating." P2P-related data disclosures occurring outside the corporate perimeter have nearly doubled, having risen from roughly 50% to 93% in the last year, according to Tiversa's new findings.

About Tiversa

Tiversa provides P2P Intelligence Services to corporations, government agencies and individuals based on patent pending technologies that can monitor over 450 million users issuing 1.5 billion searches a day. Requiring no software or hardware, Tiversa can locate exposed files, provide copies, determine file sources, assist in remediation as well as helping prevent future disclosures.

For more information on Tiversa, please contact us at (724) 940-9030 or visit our website at www.tiversa.com