Oakley Networks next week is expected to introduce an appliance that lets customers scan content to detect disclosure of sensitive information.

The appliance, called CoreView, is based on traffic-monitoring equipment gained through Oakley’s acquisition of Inetd.com in May for an undisclosed price. Tom Bennett, vice president of marketing at Oakley, says the CoreView appliance can watch for outbound transmission of sensitive information, such as Social Security numbers or intellectual property.

Competitors in data-leak prevention products — sometimes called extrusion detection — include PortAuthority, Reconnex, Vontu and Vericept.

Often a data breach occurs not through malice but by mistake. “The behavior that brings about erroneous disclosure sometimes is simply the ignorance of people who don’t know they shouldn’t be sending certain things,” Bennett says.

The CoreView appliance, which supports 850Mbps of traffic, can inspect content based on security policy and alert security managers to unauthorized transmissions. Although most likely it will be used as a perimeter device, CoreView also can be deployed within the network at LAN segments for an internal view of what’s transited across the corporate intranet.

In addition to its content-monitoring capabilities, CoreView, which costs $65,000, can be used as a general traffic-monitoring tool to determine bandwidth usage and types of traffic.

In adapting the Inetd.com gear, originally called NetContExt, Oakley has given the CoreView graphical interface a similar look to the Oakley host-based SureView software for the desktop. But CoreView and SureView still require use of different management consoles, a drawback that Oakley Networks intends to address in the future by developing a shared-management framework.

According to a survey released today by the Ponemon Institute, which asked 853 IT professionals their opinions about how effective their organizations are in detecting data breaches, 59% said they believe their companies do detect them. However, only 37% said their companies are effective in preventing them.

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