Code Green Networks debuts

By Ellen Messmer, NetworkWorld.com, 04/04/06

Code Green Networks, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based start-up, makes its debut today with a gateway appliance for monitoring unauthorized outbound transmissions of sensitive content.

Richard Hay, executive vice president of marketing, says the Code Green Networks Content Inspection device is best used to monitor documents in various languages containing intellectual property, such as source code or legal content.

"The primary focus is intellectual property," he noted about the appliance, which starts at $50,000. The device monitors, but doesn't block, outtbound content sent via e-mail, FTP, Web mail or other protocols.

Code Green, funded with $30 million in venture capital from Bay Partners, Sierra Ventures and others, joins a growing crowd of competitors in what's sometimes called the "extrusion prevention" market. These include Vontu, Vericept, Fidelis, PortAuthority and Reconnex.

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What "extrusion prevention" market. Monitoring technologies do not "prevent" anything. They only make you aware of problem areas; you are then still required to deal with them. If your trade secret has found its way to a foreign country, or embarassing information is leaked, well its probably too little, too late.

Posted by: Rob Lewis on April 4, 2006 02:20 PM

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