Northern Europe's Leading Airline Group Selects RSA(R) Data Loss Prevention Suite to Secure Its Information Assets

SAS Group Chooses Security Division of EMC to Help Discover and Protect Sensitive Customer Data Throughout Large and Complex IT Environment

BEDFORD, Mass., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), today announced that SAS Group, the leading airline group in Northern Europe, has selected the RSA(R) Data Loss Prevention Suite to help discover and secure sensitive information that resides within the SAS IT environment.

The SAS Group has an extensive IT infrastructure from large datacenters to many smaller remote sites. With 40 million passengers and 831 daily departures in 2008, SAS processes and stores vast amounts of sensitive data such as customers' Personally Identifiable Information, passenger lists, payment information, and business information, throughout this complex IT environment. To help protect this data and ensure regulatory compliance, SAS required an integrated and scalable data loss prevention solution that could efficiently identify sensitive data no matter where it resides and take the necessary actions to secure it.

"As more information within SAS is stored, processed and communicated across various platforms and applications, the task of identifying where sensitive data is and applying security measures to protect it is becoming increasingly challenging," said Goran Ostberg, Director SAS Group IT security. "With the RSA Data Loss Prevention Suite, we can efficiently scan our IT environment to identify where sensitive information lies, apply the proper controls to protect it, remove it or replace it, thereby helping to reduce the risk of its loss."

The RSA Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Suite is an integrated suite of data security products that are engineered to leverage common policies across the infrastructure to discover and protect sensitive data from loss, leakage or misuse in a datacenter, on the network, and on endpoints.

"After evaluating several DLP solution providers, we were particularly impressed with RSA because of its honest and open approach to understanding our needs and requirements. It presented a dedicated and professional team that showed us the level of collaboration we could expect from an ongoing relationship with RSA," said Ostberg. "Based on our product reviews, we found the RSA Data Loss Prevention Suite to be the most comprehensive solution and, with its advanced classification capabilities, it was the most accurate in identifying sensitive data. The fact that we can use DLP to discover sensitive data on Microsoft Sharepoint(R) and other Microsoft(R) applications that we use at SAS was an important factor in our selection process as well."

The RSA DLP Suite provides one of the most comprehensive data loss prevention policy and classification libraries in the industry with more than 122 different policy templates. Leveraging RSA's pre-built policy and classification library, customers like SAS can reduce risk by securing more types of sensitive data while reducing the costs associated with false positives.

"Our customers associate the SAS brand with reliability and trust," said Ostberg. "Our alignment with RSA demonstrates to our customers that we are fully committed to a customer satisfaction strategy that includes protecting their Personally Identifiable Information."

"Protecting sensitive information is mission critical to today's large enterprises, particularly those that store sizeable amounts of Personally Identifiable Information" said Chris Johnson, Vice President EMEA at RSA, The Security Division of EMC. "We look forward to working closely with SAS Group to manage information risk by proactively locating and controlling sensitive information as it lives, moves and transforms throughout the IT environment."

The SAS Group is the leading airline group in Northern Europe, offering air transportation and airline-related services. Scandinavian Airlines and Blue1 are members of Star Alliance(TM), the world's largest airline alliance. The Group also includes the airline Wideroe, as well as the partly owned airline Estonian Air. SAS EuroBonus, founded in 1992, is the SAS Group's loyalty program with more than 3.5 million members. In 2008, the SAS Group transported 40 million passengers to over 150 destinations. Read more at www.sasgroup.net.

About RSA

RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is the premier provider of security solutions for business acceleration, helping the world's leading organizations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. RSA's information-centric approach to security guards the integrity and confidentiality of information throughout its lifecycle -- no matter where it moves, who accesses it or how it is used.

RSA offers industry-leading solutions in identity assurance & access control, data loss prevention & encryption, compliance & security information management and fraud protection. These solutions bring trust to millions of user identities, the transactions that they perform, and the data that is generated. For more information, please visit www.RSA.com and www.EMC.com.

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