Avinti and The Technology Suite Partner to Provide Crimeware and First-Instance E-mail Threat Protection to Northeastern United States.LINDON, Utah Lindon is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States. The population was 8,363 at the 2000 census. By 2004 its population had been estimated to increase slightly to 8,489. Geography Lindon is located at (40.338552, -111. -- New Partnership Will Focus on Safeguarding Valuable Data of Financial and Health Care Organizations Through Proactive Virtual Machine Testing of E-Mail Attachments In an effort to protect organizations in the Northeast against confidential data breaches, Avinti Inc., the leading provider of e-mail outbreak threat prevention, and The Technology Suite today announced a strategic partnership that will bring the highest level of protection against targeted and unknown crimeware threats that arrive on e-mail attachments. The Technology Suite, a managed security service provider in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , provides leading-edge security solutions to its clients that safeguard against increasingly frequent data breaches. By offering the Avinti iSolation Server as a vital layer of security, The Technology Suite can protect its clients from targeted and previously unknown crimeware threats using malicious e-mail attachments to steal confidential data and harm IT infrastructure. iSolation Server provides this essential protection by pre-testing attachments for harmful active content at the network gateway in a virtual machine. "As a security services Security services are state institutions for the provision of intelligence, primarily of a strategic nature, but also including protective security intelligence. Examples include the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom, and the company, our focus is on providing the highest level of security for our clients by providing them with innovative products that reduce the chances of a security breach," said Brett Scudder, president and chief executive officer of The Technology Suite. "By opening and testing suspicious attachments before they reach end-users, iSolation Server safeguards company data, keeps our clients in compliance with government regulations, and prevents the costs and embarrassment of disclosing a data breach. It's the exact kind of protection that our customers are demanding." A focal point focal point n. See focus. of the partnership will be working with health care and financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. organizations -- two industries that handle highly confidential information Noun 1. confidential information - an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" steer, tip, wind, hint, lead -- to more securely lock down their data and intellectual property from breaches and data leaks. Partnering with The Technology Suite also allows Avinti to be an active participant in two New York-based IT security organizations -- The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Information Technology Security User Group (http://www.nyitsug.net) and The New York Information Technology Security Association (http://www.nyitsa.net). Working with these user groups and The Technology Suite enables Avinti to integrate with other security companies and professionals, and collaborate with top IT executives in the Northeast regarding the development and awareness of IT security. "Forward-thinking organizations look to innovative managed-service providers like The Technology Suite to protect them from emerging threats that lurk on the horizon," said Ken Krull, chief executive officer of Avinti. "We are excited to partner with The Technology Suite to provide New York-area businesses essential protection from never-before-seen e-mail crimeware constantly appearing on the threat landscape." About Avinti Inc. Avinti Inc. enables organizations to safely use e-mail as a critical communications tool without fear of malicious, costly threats for which no signature pattern exists. Using cutting-edge virtual machine technology, Avinti's iSolation Server is the first e-mail security solution to close the window of vulnerability A window of vulnerability or wov is a time frame within which defensive measures are reduced, compromised or lacking. The term is used with reference to military defences of strategic assets, and also by analogy in computer software to a software vulnerability which is open from unknown threats, testing the intended behavior of e-mail attachments to determine a message's threat potential. Founded in 2002, Avinti works with existing antivirus and e-mail security solutions in a layered security Layered security is a new term used by information protection and online security vendors that describes the practice of leveraging several different point security solutions to protect the digital identities and information of consumer, enterprise or government environments. approach that eliminates Trojan horses It may never be fully completed or, depending on its its nature, it may be that it can never be completed. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome.
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