GuardianEdge Selected by Seattle Children’s Hospital to Secure Sensitive Healthcare Information

Pediatric Referral Center Deploys GuardianEdge Data Protection Solutions

SAN FRANCISCO – June 1, 2009 – GuardianEdge, the leader in endpoint data protection, today announced that Seattle Children’s Hospital, one of the best children’s medical centers in the country according to U.S. News & World Report, has selected GuardianEdge Hard Disk Encryption to secure all of the hospital’s laptops and selected work stations, as well as GuardianEdge Removable Storage Encryption to protect information stored on removable devices such as USB drives.

"At Seattle Children’s Hospital, we want our doctors, nurses and researchers to be able to focus on patient care and not worry about information security. I had worked with GuardianEdge solutions in the past and wanted to introduce them here because of their centralized manageability and ability to integrate easily within existing infrastructures," said Wes Wright, vice president and chief technology officer at Seattle Children’s Hospital. "As a result of this deployment, our IT staff is secure in the knowledge that patient information on laptops and USB drives is safe and encrypted."

Seattle Children’s Hospital serves as the pediatric and adolescent academic medical referral center for Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho and is the teaching, clinical and research site for the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

With all of the research data and Patient Health Information (PHI) traveling through hospitals' IT infrastructure, it is imperative that they are equipped with data protection solutions. Lost data in the form of PHI or confidential business information can severely affect an organization, impacting its reputation and compliance with state and local privacy regulations. The deployment of GuardianEdge solutions not only gives hospitals a competitive edge, but it also helps them mitigate risk.

Wright will be participating in an eSeminar with GuardianEdge discussing the necessity for health care organizations to secure their sensitive information. The eSeminar, titled, "Emerging Data Protection Priorities for Healthcare," will be held on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 10 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) / 1 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). For more information, please click here.

About GuardianEdge
GuardianEdge, the leader in endpoint data protection for the enterprise, offers award-winning solutions to protect sensitive data on end-user devices including laptops, desktops, portable storage devices and smartphones. GuardianEdge products offer a breadth of encryption, port, device and file type control technologies while establishing a market-leading position in solving the operational issues of deployment, management, scalability, reporting, auditing and user productivity at the lowest possible total cost. Millions of users worldwide depend on the EAL 4 certified, enterprise-software standards-based GuardianEdge Data Protection Platform to safeguard confidential or proprietary information, to ensure compliance with regulations for maintaining consumer privacy and to enable secure enterprise mobility.

GuardianEdge data protection solutions have been deployed by leading organizations including Lockheed Martin Corporation, Lincoln Financial Group, and The Hertz Corporation as well as numerous government agencies including the U.S. departments of Veteran Affairs, Defense, Energy, State and Education and the California Department of Healthcare Services.  For additional information, please visit: www.guardianedge.com.

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