CMT Adopts Symantec Data Loss Prevention Solution

Computer Media Technologies, Inc. has supplemented its value-added-reseller agreement with Symantec Corporation to consult, sell and deploy the Symantec Data Loss Prevention solution as part of CMT’s new Absolute Management practice, which helps organizations to protect their most sensitive data and empowers them to safely conduct business. By adopting Symantec Data Loss Prevention, CMT strengthens its ability to help customers reduce their risk of data loss, demonstrate regulatory compliance, and safeguard their brand and reputation.

Symantec Data Loss Prevention delivers a unified solution to discover, monitor, and protect sensitive data across endpoint, network, and storage systems – whether users are on or off the corporate network. Data Loss Prevention helps organizations find confidential data wherever it is stored, understand how it is being used, and define security policies once and enforce them everywhere.

CMT’s Absolute Management practice integrates Symantec Data Loss Prevention with other best-of-breed solutions from Symantec, including asset management, archiving, compliance and endpoint security. Absolute Management enables CMT’s customers to manage risk, protect their confidential data and meet regulatory compliance requirements such as Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry (PCI), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and more than 44 state privacy laws. CMT also offers complimentary risk assessments powered by Symantec to gain visibility into an organization’s data risk and compliance issues.

"Businesses’ reliance on high-speed networks and mobile computing means that corporations are essentially without walls and protecting the perimeter is no longer enough. Our customers need to protect the data itself. They require a data loss prevention (DLP) solution that is able to tell the difference between sensitive company data and harmless data, then take action to protect the sensitive data," said CMT President and CEO Kurt Klein. "Integrating Symantec Data Loss Prevention within our Absolute Management practice allows CMT to provide an entire solution suite that meets the needs of our customer rather than just individual point solutions."

"Data loss prevention measurably reduces the risk of sensitive information being exposed outside of an organization, and companies of all sizes today are seeking ways to prevent data breaches," said Rob Greer, senior director of product management for Data Loss Prevention solutions at Symantec. "CMT offers in-depth knowledge and skills to help customers implement Symantec Data Loss Prevention and integrate the solution with complementary Symantec technologies."

CMT has met specific requirements around technical and sales accreditations for data loss prevention, which enhance CMT’s ability to plan, install, configure and maintain Symantec solutions to remedy customers’ data flow and protection challenges. As a Symantec Platinum Partner and Symantec National Partner, CMT has demonstrated its success in selling the Symantec portfolio to customers nationwide, giving them the confidence that their information is protected wherever it is used or stored. CMT was also named Symantec’s VAR of the Year in 2008, recognizing the company for its depth of expertise and commitment to selling Symantec’s security and availability solutions.