Microsoft, EMC team up for security sake

Mumbai: EMC and Microsoft Corp have jointly expanded their technology partnership to help companies better protect sensitive information and share it in a more secure manner. The companies will be working together with a built-in 'systems' approach that helps protect information throughout the infrastructure based on content, context and identity.

The partnership will take advantage of resources and technology from Microsoft and RSA, the security division of EMC. Microsoft will build the RSA data-loss prevention (DLP) classification technology into the Microsoft platform and future information protection products. The collaboration is designed to enable organizations to centrally define information security policy, automatically identify and classify sensitive data virtually anywhere in the infrastructure, and use a range of controls to protect data at the endpoints, network and data center. Additionally, RSA's DLP suite 6.5 will be engineered to integrate with Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management Services (RMS) within Windows Server 2008 soon.

"Companies continue to struggle to protect sensitive data across the enterprise. By building technology such as RSA DLP classification into the infrastructure, Microsoft and RSA are providing a new approach that balances the need to help ensure protection with
accessibility," said Christopher Young, Sr VP--Products, RSA, The Security Division of EMC.

"Our expanded partnership with EMC's RSA Security Division is centered on dramatically lowering the cost and complexity of information protection, while allowing customers to take full advantage of their information. The approach is about built-in solutions, versus
bolted-on," said Douglas Leland, GM--Identity and Security Business Group, Microsoft.