New Research Highlights Need to Focus On Data-centric
               Security to Reduce Damaging Breaches

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 12, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 


  -- Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA), the world's number one independent
     provider of data integration software, today announced the availability
     of an important new research report from the Ponemon Institute entitled
     Safeguarding Data in Production & Development: A Survey of IT
     Practitioners.
  -- The Informatica-sponsored report reveals the continued vulnerability of
     sensitive and confidential data due to lack of controls and safeguards to
     keep unauthorized employees and third-parties from accessing the
     information.
  -- Alarming findings across 663 surveyed IT and IT security practitioners
     include:





  -- Data compromise/theft remains rampant: 50% of respondents have had data
     compromised or stolen by a malicious insider such as a privileged user.
  -- Unbridled DBA access heightens risk: 73% say their database
     administrators can view sensitive data in clear text mode, increasing the
     risk of a breach.
  -- Call centers put sensitive customer data into play: 76% say their call
     center personnel view, or will likely view, sensitive data such as credit
     card numbers in the clear.
  -- Organizations are under-coping: 68% have difficulty restricting user
     access to sensitive data, 66% have difficulty complying with privacy/data
     protection regulations, and 55% lack confidence that they would even
     detect data theft/loss from their own production environments.
  -- Penalties are high, but budgets are low: Even though the cost of a data
     security breach is high, only 33% of respondents say they have budgets
     adequate to reduce the insider threat.





  -- Where traditional persistent data masking safeguards data by masking,
     dynamic data masking provides real-time role-driven masking of sensitive
     data in production and development environments to ensure compliance with
     privacy regulations.
  -- Dynamic data masking has emerged recently as a flexible and economical
     data protection technology that addresses a number of gaps in existing
     solutions. Survey respondents cite among its most important advantages:





  -- Customizable access: 67% believe the most important feature of a dynamic
     data masking solution is the ability to customize what users see based on
     their unique access privileges.
  -- Simplicity: 59% say it is to avoid alternative, more intrusive methods
     such as encryption and tokenization.





  -- The market's first dynamic data masking solution, Informatica Dynamic
     Data Masking empowers organizations to cost-effectively address current
     and future data privacy regulations through a comprehensive mix of
     real-time data anonymizing, blocking, auditing and alerting in a single
     environment.




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Supporting Quotes:


  -- "Insider data security threats, both malicious and unintentional,
     represent an enormous and expanding risk exposure," said Dr. Larry
     Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute. "Widespread
     outsourcing, cloud computing and CRM call centers all aggravate an
     already difficult situation. It is clear from this study that
     organizations need to seek out new and innovative ways to simply and
     conclusively address the insider security challenge."
  -- "Dynamic Data Masking ensures that both IT and business users using
     applications and tools access personal information on a need-to-know
     basis," said Kobi Hirsh, Partner Communications, Chief Information
     Security Officer.
  -- "Informatica enables organizations to cost-effectively augment encryption
     and other protection measures in order to govern data access for DBAs,
     call center representatives, service providers, developers and others who
     might otherwise see data in the clear," said Adam Wilson, general
     manager, ILM, Informatica. "The Ponemon survey reveals customers are
     looking for data security to: 1. Safeguard data without impacting
     database or application code and performance 2. Dynamically mask
     sensitive information based on the user's privilege level and 3. Cast a
     protective net across production and near production environments."




Additional Links


  -- Webinar: Data Privacy and Protection in Production and Development
     Environments: New Research from Ponemon Institute
  -- Blog: Where Are the Data Security Weaknesses in Your Cloud Solution?




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