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Provilla Picked by Orchard Supply Hardware to Maintain Compliance

(June 07, 2007)-- Provilla, provider of ultra-accurate, intelligent endpoint solutions for data leak prevention, today announced Provilla LeakProof has been selected by Orchard Supply Hardware (OSH) as part of its compliance initiative to protect the privacy of sensitive employee and customer data at the company’s headquarters in San Jose, California. By using LeakProof, OSH can ensure that every port and data type on every desktop and laptop PC is secured by the most advanced data leak protection solution, unobtrusively, 24/7, on or off the network, and without impacting user productivity.

A leading chain of home improvement and garden retail stores with 85 locations throughout California, OSH will employ Provilla LeakProof on all its corporate desktop computers, as well as on laptop computers carried by their mobile work force. The comprehensive protection of the privacy of customers and employees was the key driver in the selection of Provilla by OSH, especially in light of recent costly breaches of privacy by retailers.

“Prompted in part by the fallout from recent, high-profile security events involving customer data, retailers must address the need for data leak prevention as a key component of their compliance initiatives,” said Antonio J. Espinosa, CEO for Provilla. “Provilla LeakProof fits well with the highly distributed nature of modern retail environments, which multiply the opportunities for data leakage and theft. LeakProof’s intelligent architecture does not require expensive, high-maintenance appliances everywhere to protect every endpoint, yet it offers better protection than any other solution on the market today.”

LeakProof quickly and unobtrusively prevents data leaks without compromising legitimate communications through superior, content-aware endpoint enforcement of granular security policies. Comprehensive forensics and on-demand scanning of all confidential data throughout the organization provide powerful tools for addressing compliance regulations such as PCI, CA SB-1386, GLBA and Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), enabling enterprises to determine if confidential, unencrypted data exists on laptops and desktops.

“As OSH prepares itself to become an independent company, the protection of the valuable OSH brand and reputation is of critical importance,” said Martin H. Hodgett, chief information officer of Orchard Supply Hardware. “Provilla LeakProof gives us the flexibility we need to protect information at our headquarters and in our retail outlets. Provilla also has the capabilities to scale with us as we begin our aggressive growth plan.”

Unlike other so-called total protection solutions that only monitor an endpoint’s USB drives and other removable media, Provilla LeakProof intelligently blocks the transfer of confidential data through any network or I/O port, including USB, Firewire, PCMCIA, Bluetooth, WiFi, IrDA, serial and parallel ports. LeakProof also monitors connections to personal email services, instant messaging systems, web sites, ftp servers, and peer-to-peer networks. It also protects laptops and PDAs – even when they are offline – and works on corporate or public networks.

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