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Palomar Pomerado Health Selects Vontu to Help Ensure PCI and HIPAA Compliance

(Sept 24, 2007)-- Vontu, announced that Palomar Pomerado Health, North San Diego County's largest healthcare provider, has selected Vontu Data Loss Prevention to protect its confidential patient and employee information. With Vontu, the company can automate data loss prevention policies and demonstrate compliance with data privacy regulations including the Payment Card Industry's Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Palomar Pomerado Health selected the Vontu Data Loss Prevention suite for its unified policy enforcement across all of its product components, including the Vontu Discover and Vontu Network Monitor products. Vontu Discover enables the organization to find and secure confidential data located on file servers, web servers, desktops, laptops, databases and other data repositories. Vontu Network Monitor detects sensitive data exiting the network via email, IM, Web, Secure Web, FTP or other Internet protocols.

"We value the security of our customers' records just as we do their health," said Luba Halich, IS Security Officer, Palomar Pomerado Health. "Vontu gives us visibility and control over patient medical information and allows us to demonstrate compliance with privacy regulations for the healthcare industry."

Palomar Pomerado Health evaluated several solutions and selected Vontu for its ability to protect both stored data and data in use, as well as its platform scalability and remediation workflow. Today, the company is using Vontu Network Monitor to inspect the content of all outbound network traffic for its 3,500 employees. At the same time, Vontu Discover is being used to scan file servers, desktops, laptops, databases and other data repositories for confidential information that violates data security policies.

"Palomar Pomerado Health joins a growing number of healthcare organizations who are deploying Vontu solutions to protect the privacy of patients and employees, meet compliance objectives and protect their brand reputation," said Steve Roop, vice president of products and marketing at Vontu. "These organizations recognize that safeguarding their confidential information is vital to their business, and they have adopted data loss prevention solutions from the industry leader."

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