BlueCross(R) BlueShield(R) of South Carolina Deploys Sana Security's Anti-Malware Solution to Secure Critical Information Assets; More Than 1600 Servers and 2000 Workstations Further Protected Against Unknown Attacks.

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Sana Security, Inc., a security software company, today announced that BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina has chosen Primary Response(R) to provide immunity from known and unknown information threats. Driven by strict compliance regulations, BlueCross Blue Shield selected Primary Response for instant and constant protection that reduces attack risk, increases system efficiency, and improves visibility without relying on signatures, updates or scanning. Sana's anti-malware software leverages behavior-based heuristics and rules-driven decision making to protect enterprises from zero-day attacks, spyware, keyloggers, rootkits and Trojans.

An independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina provides health insurance to South Carolinians and serves Medicare beneficiaries and the U.S. military TRICARE health plan beneficiaries in numerous states. To meet strict federal regulations, enforced by the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) and given the company's distributed network, consisting of 1600 servers, in three data centers, supporting 17,000 end-users and 2000 workstations, BlueCross BlueShield required a security solution that could scale across the network to offer increased privacy and protection for all its electronic health information. Primary Response provides a fitting solution that integrates easily into its existing framework, adapts readily to its dynamic IT environment and provides instant and constant protection for its core information assets. Departing from signature solutions, the Active Malware Defense Technology (Active MDT), which sits at the backbone of Sana Security products, offers Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina a multi-behavioral approach to proactively protect its server applications.

"Malicious attacks are getting more and more creative, so a viable Defense in Depth policy is the only way to stay ahead of the curve," said Brett Arion, manager, network services NSOC/SIM, BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. "Given the advances Sana is making in providing behavior-based solutions that adapt to changing environments and can detect threats in real-time, without impeding productivity, Primary Response affords us an advanced, scalable solution while helping us meet the strict federal regulations that govern our industry."

Sana Security's Primary Response threat protection software centrally manages both client and server agents, including mobile and remote users. Its "always on" approach is designed to operate almost completely independent of IT administration, enabling it to be quickly deployed and configured to scale across thousands of servers and PCs in complex enterprises. Primary Response integrates with existing enterprise data stores, including Microsoft Active Directory, for accelerated time to deployment by leveraging administration authentication and general user and group management.

"Constant uptime is crucial for an industry that manages health insurance and can't afford the downtime associated with signature updates and patching fire drills. Taking servers offline to load a new patch or test a signature update is not an option," said Timothy Eades, senior vice president of sales and marketing, Sana Security.

"The broad adoption of Primary Response across the healthcare industry is further validation of its comprehensive protection in securing valuable information assets. Primary Response provides BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina the proactive measures necessary to ensure always-on protection allowing them to focus on what's important -- their customers."

The combination of out-of-the-box protection, adaptive profiling technology and behavioral heuristics, enabled by Sana's Active Malware Defense Technology (Active MDT), provides organizations a high performance, scalable product that quickly deploys across the enterprise to offer instant and constant protection for core information assets. Primary Response goes beyond traditional security methods to offer an anti-malware product that provides automatic protection of newly discovered applications, policy enforcement, system level security and self-protection against malicious tampering.

Primary Response SafeConnect (PRSC), the newest addition to the Sana Security product family of anti-malware software, combines ease-of-use for the PC user with a high standard of threat detection, prevention and removal to combat malware threats and unwanted programs.

About Sana Security

Sana Security creates award-winning security software that is autonomous, aware of environment change, adaptive to new threats and active in preventing attacks before they do harm.

Sana Security provides anti-malware software for immunity against threats, both known and unknown. Unlike reactive, legacy solutions that require updates, signatures and scanning, Sana's products offer enterprises, small businesses and consumers instant and constant protection against threats, increasingly complex attacks, data compromise and identity theft.

Sana Security's suite of centrally managed, standalone and on demand solutions drives innovation in anti-malware solutions. Sana Security, together with its research organization Sana Labs, is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, with offices in global business and technology centers. For more information, visit www.sanasecurity.com or contact the company by phone at 650-292-7100.

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