Digital Guardian Joins Blue Coat’s Endpoint Alliance Ecosystem as Founding Member

Waltham, Mass. - August 5, 2015 – Digital Guardian the only endpoint security platform purpose built to stop data theft, today announced it will join Blue Coat's Endpoint Alliance Ecosystem as a founding member. Digital Guardian’s Data Aware Endpoint Security Platform will provide validation and containment of threats discovered by Blue Coat’s network security portfolio on endpoints running Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The integration enhances security operations and greatly speeds incident response.

The Digital Guardian Data Aware Endpoint Security Platform protects intellectual property and other sensitive data against insider threats and advanced external attacks targeting the endpoint. The Digital Guardian endpoint agent provides the most complete visibility and control on host systems to detect advanced malware and prevent it from compromising critical systems. Unlike signature-based anti-virus solutions, which only address known threats, the Digital Guardian solution is able to detect and block malware behavior as it unfolds in real time. Digital Guardian also protects host systems when they are most vulnerable: when users are off the company network and unprotected by corporate network defences.

By joining the Blue Coat Endpoint Alliance Ecosystem, Digital Guardian will integrate with Blue Coat’s security portfolio to enhance organizations’ malware detection capabilities, accelerate time to resolution and provide incident response teams with a comprehensive view during an investigation that includes activity across the network and all its endpoints. Alerts from Blue Coat network security solutions can be automatically validated and prioritized with Digital Guardian’s visibility from the endpoint. Incident responders can immediately respond to high priority threats by quarantining endpoints, killing malicious processes and blocking further infections.

Executive Quotes

“It’s critical for organizations to implement a multi-layered defense strategy at both the network and the endpoint level to successfully prevent, detect, and contain advanced threats,” said Doug Bailey, chief strategy officer, Digital Guardian. “We are pleased to join Blue Coat’s Endpoint Alliance Ecosystem as our integrated defense mechanisms will enable security teams to quickly investigate, confirm and stop attackers before they compromise systems and access sensitive data.”

“In order to accelerate incident response times and develop more effective endpoint detection and response capabilities, security teams must be provided with actionable intelligence and data from the network and its endpoints,” said Peter Doggart, vice president, business development, Blue Coat Systems. “The Endpoint Alliance Ecosystem provides customers with a holistic end to end solution that streamlines this process while accelerating incident response and remediation procedures.”

About Digital Guardian

Digital Guardian is the only data-aware security platform designed to stop data theft. The Digital Guardian platform performs across traditional endpoints, mobile devices and cloud applications to make it easier to see and stop all threats to sensitive data. For more than 10 years, it has enabled data-rich organizations to protect their most valuable assets with an on premise deployment or an outsourced managed security program (MSP). Digital Guardian’s unique data awareness and transformative endpoint visibility, combined with behavioral threat detection and response, enables you to protect data without slowing the pace of your business. To learn more please visit: www.digitalguardian.com.