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Talent management solutions provider Workstream delivers hosted human resource services and telemanagement that encompasses recruitment and career development, performance planning, compensation planning, and outplacement services, among other things. The company has a customer list that suggests it is a leader in its chosen field—-a list that includes such Fortune 500 companies as Dell, Verizon, Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Kaiser Permanente, and Wells Fargo.
Ottawa, Ontario,- and Maitland, Fla.,-based Workstream (www.workstreaminc.com) serves its offerings via SaaS (software as a service) over the Web, hosting applications and data on behalf of its blue-chip clients. Of course, this means Workstream’s clients are entrusting the company with their precious, confidential data.
“It was important from a security point of view that we house their data and protect their data in the applications from any types of intrusion, whether they are classic viruses or things that come in through SQL injections or cross-site scripting (XSS) and various different mechanisms that threats are done through a hosted service on the Web,” says Mike Gioja, CIO and executive vice president of products and services for Workstream.
For his part, Gioja saw host intrusion and protection as the last lines of defense, and so he sought a technology that would protect data from such threats, particularly in the areas where rapid and ongoing changes would happen. “And new threats are coming out all the time that we [need to] quickly react to and be in the position to protect the HR data that we have,” he says.
Gioja looked at products from several major players for this line of defense but ultimately decided to use Ottawa, Ontario,-based Third Brigade’s Deep Security (www.thirdbrigade.com), a hosted intrusion detection and prevention system.
Complete article: Deep Protection: Third Brigade’s Deep Security Protects Workstream From Intrusion
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