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Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's Board of
Airport Commissioners (BOAC ) today created an Office of Ethics and Business
Conduct to establish new ethical standards for the City's airports
department, Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), and oversee all complaints
of suspected misconduct. The threat of data loss caused by company
insiders, whether malicious or inadvertent , is compounded by new threats such
as the use of encrypted network traffic like Secure HTTP (HTTPS ), since
security teams have no insight into its use, or misuse.
"Our world class team, track record of innovation and customer success has led
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ensure public confidence, reduce compliance risk and protect competitive
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About The Institute for Financial Excellence
The mission of The Institute is to be the organization of choice for
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-- Develop an initial module for training all employees on their
responsibilities under the Code of Conduct and to introduce them to the
services offered by the new ethics office.0 suite enables business and government organizations to
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Unprotected data at rest is data at risk.0, Vontu has delivered an innovative new detection
solution that enables organizations to fine-tune policies to either
target or exclude specific groups of employees.


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PRESS RELEASE Mayor Villaraigosa's Airport Commission Sets New Ethical Standards

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-- Automate Policy Enforcement.
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-- HTTPS Monitoring and Prevention: According to industry research, as
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6. FTP is often the mechanism to communicate
sensitive customer and employee data to third-party business partners
and outsourced operations.

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Ms. Cooper is the tenth recipient of the Accounting Exemplar Award
and the first woman to receive the award. Vontu 6. To date, 22 states have
passed consumer data protection laws, and the U.

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-- Security Infrastructure Integration: Vontu 6.

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Cooper for her efforts to promote professionalism and ethics in the accounting
profession.


Kennard said she will appoint an interim director of ethics and business
conduct shortly.
An enterprise-class solution, Vontu
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At the same time, the urgent need to protect trade secrets is increasingly
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intellectual property (IP).
"As the first company founded to deliver Data Loss Prevention solutions,
we continue to lead the industry in helping organizations answer three basic
questions: Where is my confidential data? Where is it going? And how do I
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architecture enables centralized policy management and incident
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(TCO). Pricing starts
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According to Vontu customers, the following
differentiators led to the selection of Vontu:

-- Discover and Protect Confidential Data at Rest.

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Cynthia Cooper is most well known for her role in uncovering the corporate
fraud at WorldCom - to date the largest corporate fraud in history."

Kennard told the commissioners the LAWA program will be modeled after
successful programs initiated at corporations and governmental institutions
throughout the U.0 enables Fortune 500 enterprises and government agencies to discover
and protect confidential data on servers and desktops, monitor and prevent
confidential data from leaving the network, and automatically enforce data
loss prevention and encryption policies . All of these factors,
from regulatory compliance to competitive pressure to new threats, combine to
make enforcement of data loss prevention policies a top priority for IT
Security.0 Adds Power to Address New Threats
Vontu 6. This trend presents a challenge to IT Security, which
has until now been blind to confidential data transmitted via HTTPS. Only Vontu 6. Vontu has consistently proven its ability to scale well beyond
the limits of competing products.

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Cooper was awarded the 2003 Maria + Sidney E. Cooper due to her
extraordinary contributions to educating the public about economics, business
and finance.

One of the first actions of this new ethics office will be to conduct an
all-employee survey to measure employee attitudes, knowledge and
perceptions of the current ethical climate of the Department to use as a
benchmark for measuring the effectiveness of the department's ethics
initiatives in subsequent annual surveys.

-- Develop tools and communication devices to reinforce the department's
commitment to the highest standards of ethics and business conduct.0 Automates Protection of Confidential Data on Servers and Desktops;
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Policy Enforcement

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the cornerstone of this effort, and the new 6. In 2005, a
series of highly-publicized data breaches caused information security
executives to shift their focus to protecting the data itself. The new
Directory Group Matching (DGM) detection technology uses corporate
directory data to specify policy based on sender and receiver
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services, insurance , high technology, retail, telecommunications,
manufacturing, media, and healthcare, as well as local and state government
agencies.

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S. Congress is expected to
pass national consumer data security legislation this year.

-- Automated Enforcement and Response Workflow: By leveraging the
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Fortune 500 customers across multiple industries, Vontu 6. As of end of 2005 ,
Vontu customers in North America include:

-- 2 of the top 3 commercial banks
-- 2 of the top 3 credit reporting agencies
-- 4 of the top 9 insurance companies

Vontu Data Loss Prevention was chosen in 90 percent of competitive
evaluations in 2005. Only Vontu 6.

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Cooper was inducted to the 2004 AICPA Hall of Fame, and is the first
woman to receive this distinction.

Along with Senator Sarbanes, Representative Oxley and Sherron Watkins, Ms. Nichols
The Institute for Financial Excellence, Inc. Only Vontu
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This award was presented to Ms. With
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With Vontu 6.

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The Institute for Financial Excellence Announces Keynote Speaker Cynthia Cooper WorldCom Whistleblower at the Sarbanes-Oxley Conference + Exposition

She was
named one of Time Magazine's 2002 Persons of the Year after detecting and
reporting the fraud. She was featured as one of twenty-five
influential working mothers in the November 2004 issue of Working Mother. "Public service is an honor and with
it goes responsibility. She said she hoped it can serve as a prototype for
similar programs in other City departments.0 can inspect
content in secure communications such as secure web mail, bulletin
boards or Instant Messaging, as well as anonymizing services that
circumvent controls.

-- FTP Monitoring and Prevention: Due to their typically large file
sizes, data loss incidents via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) generally
constitute very high risk. Unfortunately, FTP transmissions often
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U. These industry best practices enable organizations to rapidly
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a low cost of ownership. Only Vontu 6.
-- Monitor and Prevent Confidential Data in Motion.

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Cooper is also the 2003 recipient of the Accounting Exemplar Award,
which is awarded annually to an individual who has made notable contributions
to professionalism and ethics in accounting practice or education.

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The BOAC directed the LAWA to establish and maintain an Office of Ethics
and Business Conduct to create and oversee a code of ethics at the City's
airports department while providing a confidential means for employees,
contractors, consultants and others to report instances of suspected
misconduct, without fear of reprisal.0 leverages existing
security infrastructure investments by integrating with best-in-class
solutions to provide advanced monitoring, prevention, investigation and
encryption capabilities.
-- Proven Global Scale and Architecture.

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The Sarbanes-Oxley Conference + Exposition is the definitive event for
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Discover and Vontu Protect for data at rest, and Vontu Monitor and Vontu
Prevent for data in motion.
"Data breach and trade secret violations cost businesses millions in lost
revenue, brand damage, lawsuits and fines," said Stacey Quandt, Research
Director , Security Solutions and Services at AberdeenGroup. Vontu
Protect enables organizations to automatically quarantine and delete
sensitive files, enforce workforce-compliance, access -control and
encryption policies, as well as enforce data retention policies by
removing outdated content.
-- Safeguard Employee Privacy.

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"The Office of Ethics and Business Conduct will establish the highest
standards of conduct to enhance the public's trust in our local
government ," said Mayor Villaraigosa.0, Vontu Protect adds automated
enforcement to the capabilities of Vontu Discover, which scans servers
and desktops to locate exposed confidential data at rest.

About Vontu
Vontu is the leading provider of Data Loss Prevention solutions for both
data at rest and data in motion.com.

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-- Establish a convenient and confidential means for employees,
contractors, consultants and others to inquire about ethics issues, raise
concerns and report instances of suspected misconduct, without fear of
reprisal.
"To protect our customers' information, as well as our intellectual
property, we must be able to stop confidential data, both at-rest and
in-motion, from leaving our organization," said Gene Fredriksen , Vice
President of Information Security, Raymond James Financial."

Vontu 6.0, organizations can now proactively block FTP transmissions
that contain exposed confidential data. Whereas other solutions merely provide policy
templates, Vontu has provided a comprehensive enforcement automation
solution for risk reduction.0 combines advanced detection technologies to accurately detect
confidential data across all content, including structured and
unstructured data, as well as groups of people. Vontu 6.

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My first goal is to ensure LAWA conducts its
business in accordance with the highest standards of corporate citizenship,
with honesty, ethics and integrity , and in accordance with all applicable
rules of law, regulations, policies, procedures and guidelines .

Vontu 6.0 Prevents Loss of Both Data in Motion and Data at Rest

In previous releases, Vontu has provided the
ability to monitor both active and passive FTP transmissions.0, Vontu is the only solution to provide accurate detection across
all content types and groups.0
provides the ability to monitor and prevent data loss across multiple
network protocols including email, web mail and web postings, as well
as encrypted web traffic (HTTPS) and secure file transfers (FTP).

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The resolution approved unanimously by the BOAC also directed the
department to:

-- Publish and distribute a Code of Ethics and Business Conduct for use
by all LAWA employees, contractors, subcontractors and consultants. Unlike any other solution on the market,
Vontu 6.0 release promises to extend our
data loss prevention capability to address new threats and ensure policy
compliance. With identity
theft and trade secret violation incidents on the rise, both business and
government are under significant pressure to protect sensitive information
such as customer data and intellectual property.S. "Organizations
need to be able to not only detect violations, even in encrypted
transmissions, but also automatically prevent the inadvertent and intentional
leakage of confidential data.S. Through standards-based architecture, Vontu
6.
-- Accurate Detection Across All Content and Groups of People.

Vontu 6.0 will be generally available on March 31, 2006.vontu.

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LAWA Executive Director Lydia H. Kennard, who attended her first BOAC
meeting since returning to LAWA on October 8, said, "High standards of
ethics and business conduct are a pre-requisite for everything we want to
achieve at our airports."
The Vontu 6. With
6. Federal Government and companies with operations in the European
Union.

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