Infosecurity Europe: New Products, New Partnership... Win an iPad at Stand L90!

If that darn volcano hasn't interfered with your travel plans and you're in London for this week's Infosecurity Europe 2010 show, do make sure you visit Proofpoint at stand L90 to learn about our latest SaaS solutions for email security, data loss prevention, email encryption and email archiving.

In an announcement we issued yesterday, Proofpoint introduced its Proofpoint 6.1 platform (which powers our flagship Proofpoint ENTERPRISE email security solution) to the European market. New features include multi-protocol (email and Web) DLP capabilities, a new data loss prevention dashboard, an Outlook plug-in for easier access to on-demand email encryption (via Proofpoint Encryption) and other security and performance enhancements. You can read all about it (in English) at the following URL:

http://www.proofpoint.com/InfoSecurity2010News

That release is also available in French and German, as well.

Now today, we've announced a new partnership with Titus Labs, an company that provides email classification and document classification solutions. I have to admit that, before we started working with Titus Labs, I didn't know much about issues such as email classification, protective markings and such, but it turns out that there are a wide variety of regulations that government organizations and other types of enterprises need to comply with that involve the proper classification and marking of both communications (such as email) and documents themselves.

Titus makes some really great solutions in this area and, as you might imagine, there are some terrific synergies between solutions like this and data loss prevention, email encryption and archiving. For example, our press release today describes a couple of use cases:

Titus Labs Message Classification and Document Classification products are widely used by government, military and commercial organizations to classify and protectively mark Microsoft Outlook messages and Office documents. Explicit visual labels and corresponding metadata properties that are applied to email messages and their attachments by Titus Labs solutions can automatically trigger a wide variety of policy enforcement, data loss prevention, encryption and archiving policies applied by Proofpoint solutions.

For example, using Proofpoint ENTERPRISE™ Privacy, protectively marked emails and documents can be automatically encrypted, blocked or quarantined for further review before transmission via email, depending upon what labels have been applied. Similarly, different data retention periods can be enforced based on the classification of a message or its attachments (using Proofpoint ARCHIVE™).

Applications include compliance with a wide variety of regulations including the UK’s GPMS (Government Protective Marking Scheme) and Data Protection Act, the Australian E-Protective Marking standard, ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), HIPAA and other healthcare privacy rules and GLBA, PCI-DSS and other financial data privacy regulations. 

You can learn more about this partnership by reading our full press release, Titus Labs and Proofpoint Partner to Deliver Interoperable Email Classification, Email Security and DLP Solutions to Enterprise and Government Customers Worldwide. Or, better yet, visit our stands at the Infosecurity Europe exhibition, in London’s Earls Court stand L90 (for Proofpoint) or stand J30 (for Titus Labs).

This is a really interesting new area and Titus Labs will be joining us for an upcoming webinar to explain how their solution works and the benefits of using email classification and email security technology together to better protect data.

When you visit Proofpoint's booth, you can also be entered to win an Apple iPad, just by taking our Infosecurity Europe email security trends survey. We have a couple of the new tablet computers on hand that you can use to take our short survey about email security trends in Europe and one lucky respondent will get to take one home!