BeyondTrust Makes PII More Easily Identifiable

Public and private organizations face the unenviable task of protecting sensitive Personal Identity Information (PII) from a barrage of attacks that can come from virtually every corner of the world. When this type of information is given to financial services, the healthcare industry and an HR department, it has to be protected at all costs if these organizations want to keep the trust of their customers.

Retina from BeyondTrust, powers the discovery of sensitive data on remote systems more securely and easily than most other products in the industry.

Existing data discovery solutions perform these tasks by deploying a persistent agent on a host such as data loss prevention (DLP), or in network-based scanning solution that performs the search opening of every file in the network and checks the data for PII. When this type of search is being performed, it can disclose sensitive data over insecure network paths. Additionally, this technique is time-consuming and network intensive.

On the other hand, the Retina Network Security Scanner provides a simpler and more secure method of discovering sensitive data. The Retina Local Scanning Service is a temporary agent capable of assessing local vulnerability. It can find sensitive data, report on the asset, identify the file, the path and type of data that has been discovered in the query. This ability along with the different solutions Retina provides, gives customers integrated threat intelligence so they can prioritize threat analysis and implement remediation actions.

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI (News - Alert) DSS) is a requirement designed to ensure organizations that store, transmit, and process credit card information have to provide a secure environment for anyone that has a Merchant ID (MID).

Further, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), was enacted by Congress and one of the protection capabilities it offers is an establishment of national standards for electronic healthcare transactions and a form of national identification for health insurance plans, employers, and providers alike. Both of these regulations and standards have to be strictly followed by ensuring that workstation and servers in which this type of data is stored is being encrypted, secured, and being tracked. The loss of this data can result in heavy fines from different regulatory bodies.

"We’ve heard time and again that asset and data discovery have been a significant pain point, especially when it comes to identifying critical pieces of information across the network. Integrating this latest data discovery feature into Retina Network Scanner provides our customers an even more powerful, comprehensive solution," said Michael Yaffe, senior director of Product Marketing at BeyondTrust.

As the only provider of context aware security intelligence, BeyondTrust has more than 25 years of experience of protecting sensitive information around the world. Its client base includes more than half the companies listed on the Dow Jones industrial average including: eight of the world's 10 largest banks, eight of the world's 10 largest aerospace and defense firms, seven of the 10 largest U.S. pharmaceutical companies, and a variety of institutions of higher learning around the world.