Kazeon Provides New Line of Defense in Fight Against Identity Theft and Information Leakage

Enables Businesses to Identify Potential Security Breaches and Safeguard Sensitive Customer Information Before It’s Too Late

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Mountain View, CA — December 12, 2006 — Kazeon, a leader in addressing data privacy and security challenges, today announced a comprehensive Data Security solution consisting of products and services to help organizations identify security risks. The Kazeon IS1200-ECS, coupled with a new Risk Assessment Service for Non Public Personal Information, is designed to help organizations prevent sensitive customer information from making its way into the wrong hands. The IS1200-ECS scours laptops, desktops and corporate corporate networks for non-public personal data located anywhere on the network, red-flagging sensitive data that is at risk and/or in non-compliance with industry regulations. The new Risk Assessment Service enables companies to quickly identify risks within their environment and take action.

This latest security offering from Kazeon comes at a time when identity theft is the fastest growing crime in America, fueled by a confluence of factors, including online banking, ecommerce, and other online activities which expose confidential personal information. Consequently, businesses in almost every sector are under increasing pressure and scrutiny to protect sensitive information about the customers they service. Banks, brokers, insurance companies, utility providers and retailers are among those that hold private customer information including social security numbers, credit card numbers and client account numbers. While these companies are subject to strict federal laws and regulations that govern the protection of personal, non-public information, the explosion of data stored in network attached storage makes it increasingly challenging to identify precisely where all of that information may reside and the related security risks.

"With Kazeon’s industry-leading technology we plan to stay one step ahead of our explosive data growth by saving time and money as we efficiently manage our information," said Peter Pordraza, Head of IT Europe at Johns Manville. "Through better management of our information, we ensure that sensitive, business critical and confidential information is secured when necessary while aligning non-critical information on the appropriate tier of storage."

The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), a leading IT analyst firm, is tracking several government and industryspecific information privacy and security regulations. “We believe that these rules will transition from focusing on what organizations must do once a breach of confidential information occurs to guidelines on how organizations must secure this data,” said Brian Babineau, an analyst with ESG. “Information leakage presents an enormous liability to businesses as it can have an immediate impact to business credibility and the bottom line. It is critical that companies arm themselves with the information and tools required to safeguard their customers’ data.”

While each company looks differently at what constitutes sensitive or confidential data, it often includes intellectual property, customer and employee information, source code, competitive information, human resources-related content, financial statements, and patents. Such sensitive or confidential information is usually stored securely at the time of creation, however, it is often later extracted and stored in other, often unsecured areas, including network shares, servers, desktops and laptops. This results in the inadvertent exposure of confidential customer information and presents a real risk for unintentional leakage and outright theft.

Kazeon's IS1200-ECS ensures that sensitive, business critical, and confidential information residing on desktops, laptops and corporate networks is identified and managed, resulting in reduced liability, legal exposure, while delivering an immediate impact on business credibility. With sensitive information often stored within corporate data centers and remote offices which are often scattered across the globe, Kazeon enables companies to discover sensitive information irrespective of physical location.

"We anticipate strong demand for our new security solutions, especially in Europe, and across Kazeon's other key growth markets," noted Ulf Zetterberg, Kazeon's vice president and general manager for EMEA. "With information security as a top line concern for most business leaders, those enterprises operating on a global scale truly recognize the significant, business critical advantages to be reaped from such unprecedented visibility into corporate data."

To provide such visibility, Kazeon monitors and discovers sensitive data residing on network shares, laptops, and desktops. Kazeon can open hundreds of file and document types, including PST files, MS Word documents, Adobe PDF, and many more. Through pattern matching and rule-based extraction, Kazeon identifies sensitive and confidential information specific to vertical industry, compliance, and corporatespecific requirements. Pre-built accelerator templates for non-public information and vertical industries are standard within the product to help companies get up and running quickly.

"Kazeon continues to innovate and deliver solutions that solve real customer issues," said Sudhakar Muddu, CEO of Kazeon. "Today's announcement illustrates our commitment to help customers identify sensitive information across the enterprise. Right now, most businesses are in the dark about the location of sensitive data and due to the power of 'cut and paste,' the risk potential is endless. Customers benefit as Kazeon executes on its Search the Enterpriseª vision for managing and securing all information assets."

The Kazeon Risk Assessment Service is a two-week program during which Kazeon consultants will utilize the IS1200-ECS to index and search up to 5 terabytes of information for social security numbers, credit card numbers and client account numbers. The system flags non-public personal information and Kazeon consultants then provide reports that alert companies to potential security risks. The service is available now at a cost of $17,500 which includes the installation and de-installation of the IS1200-ECS.

More About the IS1200-ECS
The IS1200-ECS is the industry's first product to integrate content-aware indexing, classification, search, reporting and migration together in one package to address compliance, data privacy, and security challenges. The IS1200-ECS includes accelerator templates for healthcare, financial services, high tech manufacturing and data privacy. Accelerator templates enable customers to rapidly and proactively mitigate risk for specific regulatory and business requirements such as HIPAA, SEC 17a-4, SOX, and the PCI data security standard. The IS1200-ECS is the industry's only product that can extract information residing within hundreds of standard and non-standard file formats. Additionally, the IS1200-ECS supports information extraction from file types regularly used in insurance and healthcare, including the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) format standard which is commonly used in medical imaging within the healthcare industry.

Availability
The Kazeon Risk Assessment Service and IS1200-ECS are available now. Please visit www.kazeon.com for additional details or contact your Kazeon sales manager.

About Kazeon
Kazeon is the market and technology leader in Information Management. The company's industry defining and award-winning Information Server product line enables corporations to search, leverage, and secure all of their information assets. Combining the disciplines of search, content management, and infrastructure management, Kazeon delivers integrated and scalable solutions for Information Governance, e-Discovery, and IT optimization. For more information on how Kazeon can help your organization handle growing information management challenges, visit www.kazeon.com