AFORE Unveils CypherX Advanced Cybersecurity Solution for Cloud-Hosted Apps and VDI

Ground-breaking CypherX solution offers full security compliance and defense against APT, malware and insider attacks

OTTAWA, Aug. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - AFORE Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of cloud security and encryption management solutions, today announced the CypherX cybersecurity solution for virtual desktops (VDI) and cloud-hosted application platforms. CypherX allows enterprise, healthcare and government organizations to meet stringent regulatory and compliance requirements, and eliminate the threat from a new breed of cyber attacks, while realizing the significant economic benefits of cloud computing.

"Recent national security events, increased use of BYOD and compliance concerns such as new HIPAA regulations, are combining to significantly elevate the issues of cyber threats and data security," said Jonathan Reeves, AFORE's Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer. "CypherX enables organizations to leverage cloud platforms and hosted desktop virtualization services with complete confidence that their data will remain secure and inaccessible to unauthorized users, administrators and insider end-users who often pose the greatest risk to security."

CypherX is the first solution to seamlessly and efficiently secure each individual application and its data, providing the highest levels of granular and persistent data protection, regardless of where the data resides or where it is sent. CypherX places applications in secure virtual containers, encrypting all data and managing access with granular trust policies; data can only be decrypted by authorized users using certified applications on validated machines. CypherX renders data useless for cyber attackers, malicious insiders or cloud administrators, and protects sensitive data even when malware or advanced persistent threats (APTs) penetrate existing security perimeters.

"Current advanced threats are stealthy, persistent and data focused.  APTs tend to bypass defenses of current technologies and insiders - employees, contractors and others with legitimate access to information, go unwatched," said Richard Stiennon, chief research analyst at IT-Harvest. "With today's mobile environments and cloud-based applications, it is imperative that organizations recognize application vulnerability and control who has access to data and how that data is protected and shared, both at-rest and in-motion."

Key features of CypherX include:

• App Lockdown creates a secure virtual container for applications, protecting network, storage and inter-process communications with application-level granularity.
• CypherZones extend data security between groups of protected applications, allowing a complete application stack or workgroup environment to be protected.
• APT Defender ensures protection of data from APTs using proactive data encryption.
• CypherX Manager provides centralized control of security policy across many virtual machines, and integrates with Active Directory and RSA Data Protection Manager.

CypherX provides support for:

• Multiple Hypervisors, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen and KVM
• Multiple Desktop Virtualization Platforms, including VMware, Citrix and Microsoft
• Flexible Deployment models for private, public and hybrid Cloud with enterprise control of security
  

AFORE will demonstrate its patent pending CypherX solution at VMworld 2013, Booth 2146, August 25-28, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

About AFORE:
AFORE Solutions is a leader in security and encryption management solutions for the Cloud. AFORE's CloudLink® secure VSA protects mission critical data in motion and at rest while CypherX provides application lockdown and protection against advanced persistent threats (APT).  CloudLink Secure VSA has been certified Vblock Ready™ by VCE® to run on Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms.  AFORE Solutions is a member of the EMC® Select partner program. For more information visit: www.aforesolutions.com and follow us on Twitter @aforesolutions.

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