STEALTHbits Introduces Free Tool to Manage SharePoint Versioning

Glen Rock, NJ – February 23, 2012 – STEALTHbits Technologies, the provider of the industry’s most comprehensive IT management and compliance platform for Microsoft-based systems, applications, and data repositories, today announced the release of StealthTOOLS™ Library Advisor for SharePoint, a free utility designed to quickly identify content versioning issues within SharePoint Document Libraries. Library Advisor for SharePoint empowers data custodians to take part in proactively reducing cost for their organizations while promoting a greater level of security and operational integrity within the SharePoint environment itself by pinpointing which document libraries are causing capacity and other issues.

The task of managing content within SharePoint implementations is daunting for administrators and data custodians, due in large part to the often incorrectly configured SharePoint feature of versioning. STEALTHbits’ Library Advisor for SharePoint, the second product available in the StealthTOOLS freeware product portfolio, is a “plug-n-play” utility designed for anyone who populates, administers, or monitors SharePoint Document Libraries. It aims to solve the versioning dilemma, providing deep insight into Document Library configuration issues, stale documents and versions, best-practice violations, and capacity metrics, allowing technical and non-technical audiences to proactively manage the growth and stability of the Libraries they own.

“Users may not realize that they have hundreds of versions of the same document in their SharePoint environment. When you multiply this by the number of documents created within an organization, it adds up to a significant waste of space,” said Adam Laub, vice president of global product management at STEALTHbits. “With Library Advisor for SharePoint, STEALTHbits allows administrators to quickly and easily identify and eliminate stale or improperly versioned documents to free up space. Our ultimate intention is to help maintain a steady rate of data consumption – or even a decline in data usage – within a SharePoint environment so space can be used most efficiently.”

 The StealthTOOLS Library Advisor for SharePoint includes a robust set of features that enable users to:

• Pinpoint versioning configuration issues such as Libraries with no document version limit
• Identify stale documents and versions as candidates for deletion
• Determine the location of non-Office files consuming space within SharePoint
• Follow Best Practices through the identification of issues with folders, content types, and document metadata
• Gauge capacity limitations and thresholds proactively to avoid potential losses in productivity

Availability
StealthTOOLS Library Advisor for SharePoint is available for download immediately at http://www.stealthbits.com/download-library-advisor-sharepoint

STEALTHbits will showcase its new StealthTOOLS Library Advisor for SharePoint solution at RSA Conference 2012 in San Francisco, February 27th – March 2nd, Booth # 2736. To schedule a meeting at the show, please contact Jordan Bouclin or Bree Bolognese at (401) 490-9700.

About STEALTHbits

STEALTHbits Technologies, Inc. offers the industry’s most comprehensive IT management and compliance platform. Built from the ground up to collect, analyze, remediate, and report on data and systems critical to compliance success, STEALTHbits’ technology platform provides a single, unified framework for the management of Microsoft infrastructure and beyond, truly bridging the ever-widening gap between IT Management & Compliance groups within organizations large and small. Since 2001, STEALTHbits Technologies, Inc. has delivered powerful solution sets that address specific business problems across Active Directory, Exchange, Public Folders, SharePoint, Data and Access Governance, Systems Governance, and BlackBerry and ActiveSync. Learn more at www.stealthbits.com and follow STEALTHbits on Twitter.

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Press Contacts:

Bree Bolognese or Jordan Bouclin

SVM Public Relations

(760) 754-7025 or (401) 490-9700

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STEALTHbits Introduces StealthINTERCEPT™ Directory Authority for Active Directory

New Product Line Offers Precision, Real-Time Control over Directory and File System Activity

Glen Rock, NJ – February 14, 2012 – STEALTHbits Technologies, the provider of the industry’s most comprehensive IT management and compliance platform for Microsoft-based systems, applications and data repositories, today announced the release of StealthINTERCEPT^™ Directory Authority, a new product line solving critical problems related to compliance, data leakage and insider control by providing real-time, in-line analysis of and controls over any directory and file system changes.

Designed to work in concert with STEALTHbits’ award-winning StealthAUDIT^® Management Platform (SMP) or as a standalone solution, StealthINTERCEPT Directory Authority connects directly to directory and server processes to provide in-line activity analysis and subsequent event consolidation, archiving, reporting and response, including alerting and blocking, thus avoiding all of the debilitating limitations of relying on event logs. Guided by a revolutionary rules engine that enables the modeling of any organization’s security processes and concerns, StealthINTERCEPT dramatically streamlines administrator oversight, operational change control and compliance. StealthINTERCEPT provides the same level of control over Group Policy Objects to offer another critical security control to IT professionals.

“The need for more comprehensive security around AD is a growing requirement for most organizations, but mid-size organizations often struggle to keep tabs on changes to their AD environment,” said Scott Crawford, managing research director, Enterprise Management Associates. “With solutions like StealthINTERCEPT, which allow you to discover changes as they’re happening and provide the ability to proactively lock down objects to reduce unauthorized changes before they occur, mid-size organizations have access to more advanced solutions that are appropriately priced.”

 “As a company looking to gain better insight and control over access to our data assets, we were pleased to find STEALTHbits is offering an affordable solution on a single platform to help us more easily pinpoint what changes are being made and by whom so we can protect our AD environment to ensure compliance and security,” said Donald Cordner, assistant director, Computer Services at Temple University. “There’s tremendous peace of mind in having the ability to know not only who made changes, but also what that change was and where it came from, plus the ability to lock down critical AD objects to prevent malicious or accidental changes to critical places in our AD environment.”

StealthINTERCEPT Directory Authority includes a robust set of features that enable IT professionals to:

• Provide forensics and control over improper insider activity.
• Rapidly identify accidental changes detrimental to IT operations, saving time on investigation, remediation and preventing future occurrences.
• Utilize a single point of control for network directories and file systems, including Active Directory, eDirectory, Windows file servers and filers, and Novell File Systems.
• Easily ensure that organizational security policies are appropriately enforced.
• Dramatically reduce time invested in demonstrating compliance.
• Reduce the risk of data leakage.

“StealthINTERCEPT is all about the changes that have an impact in your Active Directory environment – who made the change, where the change came from, and what the changed object looked like before and after,” said Dave Bullas, Active Directory product manager at STEALTHbits Technologies. “Unlike point solutions or event logs that provide only a singular view or answer about these events, StealthINTERCEPT contains a powerful rules engine that provides users the ability to easily capture AD changes and prevent undesirable changes to critical objects using a single, integrated platform. With this new product line, we’re providing an affordable solution that makes it easy to pinpoint what changes were made and by whom to enable greater visibility for AD administrators.”

Pricing & Availability

StealthINTERCEPT Directory Authority is available immediately through STEALTHbits and through select channel partners. Pricing starts at $12 per network user for Active Directory. For more information, visit http://www.stealthbits.com/, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call +1-201-447-9300. 

STEALTHbits will present its new StealthINTERCEPT Directory Authority solution at RSA Conference 2012 in San Francisco, February 27^th – March 2^nd, Booth # 2736. To schedule a meeting at the show, please contact Jordan Bouclin or Bree Bolognese at (401) 490-9700.

About STEALTHbits

STEALTHbits Technologies, Inc. offers the industry’s most comprehensive IT management and compliance platform. Built from the ground up to collect, analyze, remediate, and report on data and systems critical to compliance success, STEALTHbits’ technology platform provides a single, unified framework for the management of Microsoft infrastructure and beyond, truly bridging the ever-widening gap between IT Management & Compliance groups within organizations large and small. Since 2001, STEALTHbits Technologies, Inc. has delivered powerful solution sets that address specific business problems across Active Directory, Exchange, Public Folders, SharePoint, Data and Access Governance, Systems Governance, and BlackBerry and ActiveSync. Learn more at www.stealthbits.com and follow STEALTHbits on Twitter.

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STEALTHbits and StealthAUDIT are registered trademarks of STEALTHbits Technologies, Inc. The STEALTHbits logo and all other STEALTHbits product or service names and slogans are registered trademarks or trademarks of STEALTHbits Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.

Press Contacts:

Bree Bolognese or Jordan Bouclin

SVM Public Relations

(760) 754-7025 or (401) 490-9700

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File Share Entitlement Review: Finding the Owner

One thing top of mind for information security professionals in 2012 is understanding who has access to what and being able to provide clear, concise reporting around it. We call it Access Governance or Data Governance and it consists of entitlement reviews, access reviews, or audit reporting. The terms overlap and the complete superset of product features around this challenge can seem overwhelming and difficult to comprehend. At STEALTHbits, we simplify things. We’ve developed quick-win solutions that get you from where you are today to the next step with a proven and pragmatic methodology.

Data Owners

One small example is how we’re able to identify owners of file shares and other resources. First, we have an algorithm that provides a list of probable owners based on a number of factors – who has rights, who is doing what, etc. The algorithm is adjustable to meet specific requirements, but we know that there isn’t an algorithm on earth that could determine ownership with 100% accuracy across large scale environments. So, we leverage the STEALTHAudit Platform survey modules to reach out to probable data owners to ask them if we’re right.

If we are, we provide a set of instructions on what we need them to do. If they’re not, we move on to the next probable owner to see if we can track down the right people. Each step of the way, we report on where things stand: which shares are high-risk, which have owners, which are still awaiting response, etc.

In large scale environments, there is no easy button. But there is experience and expertise. Experience counts. If you’re trying to figure out who owns your content, let’s chat and we’ll let you know what we’ve learned about this challenge as we’ve helped a number of the world’s largest organizations solve it.

Open File Shares: A Pragmatic Approach

A number of STEALTHbits’ customers have reported that their #1 audit challenge boils down to open file shares. Auditors are clearly concerned with access and while it’s difficult to understand access rights across millions of individual files, it’s immediately apparent when there are file shares that are open to anyone.

But, how do you approach a problem that spans across thousands of servers? Do you implement a monitoring solution for three months? Manually sift through each one? Well, you could do either of those things. And if you’re interested in activity monitoring, we’ve got the best solution on the market. But, I’d argue that the best way to deal with open shares is to move through a quick, pragmatic process that scopes resources, identifies high-risk, and automates cleanup without significant infrastructure or investment.

STEALTHbits has developed a step-by-step approach to closing down open file shares and has proven it out at a number of the world’s largest organizations. It’s simple to deploy, uses a just single server, can scan remotely, and it works. We’re able to provide real results in about one week. Give us 5 days, and we’ll have your arms comfortably around the problem and your mind at rest.

If there were an award for Supersleuth Marketing Team of the year, STEALTHbits' would be on the short list. We've crept around corridors and hid out in conference rooms to bring you the latest buzz on groundbreaking products that'll be out soon. Earlier this year, we brought you a first look at StealthINTERCEPT, a game-changing real-time Active Directory solution. Now, we've cornered Dave Bullas, Product Manager for Active Directory, and convinced him to answer just a few questions about the latest thing to be coming through STEALTHbits' doors in the near future.

Daria: We saw "StealthMAINTAIN for Active Directory" written on a whiteboard in Conference Room B the other day. What can you tell us about it?

Dave: Absolutely nothing. It's classified, eh?

Daria: But the blogosphere wants to know! Is it a new product?

Dave: I can't give you a lot of details, but if you think about the name, StealthMAINTAIN, maybe it'll become a little clearer.

Daria: Maintain – like maintenance? Maintenance and clean-up?

Dave: Exactly – this product will be an extension to our existing SMP for Active Directory solution, and will allow users to perform remediation and provide them with insight into AD groups, users, and computers.

Daria: How is that different from what we have today?

Dave: It will give admins information from across their environments, allowing them to make decisions about changes much quicker. Since AD is a critical part of the File System, Exchange, SharePoint, and more, this solution will really provide visibility beyond what they can currently see, like effective rights and circular nesting across various data repositories.

Daria: Sounds cool!

Dave: We think so. But I have to head to meeting now.

Daria: But we have more questions!

Dave: This conversation never happened.