Oakley upgrades offering that manages insider threats

Oakley Networks on Monday announced an upgrade to its insider risk management offering that features a unified policy engine for protecting both the network and desktop PCs from data leaks.

Available now, the SureView 5.0 suite includes both SureView, software that monitors all desktop communications and applications, as well as Oakley’s CoreView network appliance, which analyzes content searching for potential policy breaches or unauthorized actions.

With version 5.0, the policy engines for both products have been unified so that policies can be established once and automatically applied to both network and desktop communications, according to company officials. This unification also means administrators don’t need to manage separate systems, they add.

The upgrade was announced at the Gartner IT Security Summit in Washington, D.C., this week.

Version 5.0 includes user alerts that warn employees when they’re using a mobile storage device excessively, handling customer data carelessly and other low-priority violations, officials say. The upgrade scans and tags outbound e-mail to be routed, quarantined or encrypted, based on preset policies.

Oakley has added more than 200 prebuilt policies to this release that apply to a range of needs, such as intellectual property and customer privacy protection as well as compliance with regulations. The new version also allows for clustering multiple appliances together for greater performance, they say.

In addition to monitoring network and endpoint activity, SureView includes tools to reconstruct incidents, aiding in investigations into data breaches and policy violations.

SureView 5.0 ranges in price from $50,000 to $100,000, depending on options selected.