By Melanie Turek, Senior Vice President, Nemertes Research Inc.
March 24, 2006

News that Protegrity, a privately held end-to-end data-security company, is acquiring OmniSecure, a privately held company focused on file-level encryption, supports Nemertes’ finding that information stewardship must cut across all levels of data, both structured and not. The combined products will help IT executives who want to protect corporate data for security and compliance purposes; fully 91% of the IT executives that participated in Nemertes recent benchmark, “Information Stewardship: Holistic Data Management in the Enterprise,” say their companies are regulated by at least one government-mandated law, and 75% consider data protection “vital” to their organizations.

Protegrity’s Secure.Data encryption technology lets administrators set various security levels, with unique encryption keys assigned for each database column and row. The software is designed to allow granular control, including the ability to specify exactly which data items to protect, who manages security, and who can gain access at the data-item level. It also lets managers track security and access measures through detailed logging capabilities.

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