DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 20, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Palisade Systems, an industry leader in the Data Security and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) markets, announced today the latest offering of their patented PacketSure Data Security Platform, version 9.1. Enhancements in this release allow businesses the ability to control their employees' use of Social Media and access to web sites based on the time of day. This release also adds reporting tools to allow businesses to measure the amount of time their employees spend on various web sites in addition to time spent using Social Media.
This release also adds a new tool which detects and categorizes the use of cloud based (SaaS) applications. It provides insight into which applications are being used and by whom in your organization. Cloud based applications are sorted into the following categories:
- Accounting and Financial
- Business Intelligence
- Collaboration
- Customer Relationship Management
- E-Commerce
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Human Resources
- Marketing
- Project Management
- Sales Automation
- Supply Chain Management
- Source Code Management
- Storage and Backup
"Signing up for Cloud Services is easy for anyone to do," said Guy Helmer, CTO of Palisade Systems. "Monitoring cloud usage helps keep data secure by recognizing who is using what apps and verifying that there are no unexpected and or unauthorized services being used."
These new features are found in the full suite of Palisade Systems' product offerings, which include:
- Palisade Web Monitor — to manage protocols, identify and filter out malware and to control user access to unproductive web sites.
- Palisade Data Monitor — to discover and monitor confidential data in use on your network and to secure information essential to your business.
- Palisade DLP — our award-winning data loss prevention (DLP) solution with complete data protection functionality in an all-in-one, simple solution, at a price you can afford.
About Palisade Systems
Palisade Systems, Inc. is an industry leader in the Data Security and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) markets. Focused on delivering data security solutions for enterprises, Palisade's provides a phased approach to improved data security with Web Monitoring, Data Monitoring and DLP solutions based on Palisade's patented PacketSure Data Security Platform. This approach enables healthcare, financial, government and education organizations to monitor and secure sensitive and proprietary intellectual property from leaving data networks, defines and enforces access to internal network resources, and enforces compliance with federal privacy and industry security regulations such as HIPAA/HITECH, PCI DSS, SOX and GLBA. For more information visit http://palisadesystems.com or call 1.888.824.0720.
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