Federal agencies

Federal agencies

Would you know if:

  • Government employees or contractor social security numbers, names, and addresses were stored unencrypted on a laptop that was lost or stolen?
  • Mission plans were exposed on a Lotus Notes® database?
  • Sensitive specifications were emailed to an unauthorized contractor?
  • Infrastructure details were copied to a DVD?

Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and confidential data

The Vontu Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Federal solutions allow government agencies and their partners to protect personally identifiable information (PII) such as employee names and addresses or taxpayers' identification numbers - as well as sensitive information whose exposure could have an impact on national security or agency reputation. Vontu DLP solutions enables federal agencies to demonstrate compliance with data security guidelines including the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), OMB 06-16, and Department of Defense (DoD) Guidance on Protecting PII.

Proven to meet the unique requirements of Federal agencies

Federal agencies and their partners trust Vontu DLP solutions to reduce their risk of sensitive data loss. They chose Vontu DLP software because it is the only solution that allows agencies to prevent wrongful disclosure of sensitive data and automatically enforce data loss prevention policies across all data- wherever it is stored or used. Only Vontu's TrueMatch™ detection is proven to deliver the highest accuracy across a complex and widely-distributed enterprise. The Vontu DLP solutions also enables agencies to adhere to federal data privacy guidelines.

Vontu DLP enabled Federal agencies to:

  • Protect PII of agency employees, contractors and U.S. citizens
  • Demonstrate compliance with OMB 06-16, NIST, DoD or FISMA data security guidelines
  • Secure inter-department and inter-agency communications and interaction with contractors
  • Protect confidential plans whose exposure could pose a threat to national security.

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Check out the Vontu advantages for Federal agencies

Federal solution Vontu advantage

Regulatory compliance

For federal agencies that must comply with OMB, NIST, DoD, or FISMA data security requirements, Vontu identifies when employees or contractors have sent, downloaded, or copied sensitive data.

Complete data protection

Vontu DLP solutions are the only integrated Data Loss Prevention suite that combines endpoint and network-based software to prevent the loss of confidential data wherever it is stored or used.

Federal Solution Pack

The Federal Solution Pack jump starts Data Loss Prevention with packaged best practices that include federal agency-specific policies, user roles, recommended response rules to remediate incidents, and pre-defined compliance and risk reports.

Data classification

Vontu DLP solution scans provide specific details about the type and location of sensitive data stored on file servers, document and email repositories, web content and applications, databases, laptops and desktop, and other data repositories. Vontu DLP can automatically quarantine or relocate data to a secured location depending on classification.

Pre-built policy templates

Vontu Federal Solution Pack includes policies for:

  • Employee data protection
  • US Social Security numbers
  • Sensitive but unclassified data
  • Source code
  • Network security
  • Network diagrams
  • Password files.

Detect malicious employee behavior and perform targeted investigations

Vontu DLP quickly detects malicious employee or contractor behavior and supports focused investigations of at risk employees or groups of employees.

Control over sensitive data at the endpoint

Vontu DLP solutions enables Federal agencies to discover sensitive data stored on the endpoint, and prevent this data from being inappropriately used, sent out, or copied to storage devices such as USB drives, CDs/DVDs, or iPods.

Highest detection accuracy for confidential data protection

Vontu's TrueMatch detection suite from Symantec is proven to deliver the highest accuracy across all data- wherever it is stored or used. Deep content inspection ensures high accuracy and minimal false positives.

Laptop theft

Vontu Network Discover from Symantec scans employee laptops, including offline machines, for a complete inventory of which laptops in which Federal agencies contain exposed sensitive data, so appropriate steps can be taken to remove, encrypt, or relocate this data.

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