Microsoft plans RSA DLP tie-up months after RSA's deal with Cisco

Microsoft wants to eat Cisco's lunch again. On the menu this time is data loss prevention. Microsoft Thursday announced plans to integrate RSA's DLP technology into its products, seven months after Cisco announced a similar partnership with the EMC security division.

In April, Cisco said it would integrate data-classification techology from RSA's DLP Suite with Cisco's DLP capabilities in the network and on desktop and server endpoints, while RSA would use Cisco policy enforcement capabilities with the RSA DLP Suite. Today, Microsoft and RSA said their strategic partnership calls for RSA to engineer its DLP Suite 6.5 (which is expected to ship later this month) to "integrate tightly" with Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management Services within Windows Server 2008.

Read more about today's deal here. And be sure to return on Monday for Dave Kearns' Network World Security: Identity Management newsletter, which dissects the news. The newsletter will publish here, or you can go here to sign up to receive it.

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