Overview

Watchful Software provides advanced persistent security solutions that keep sensitive information safe from security breaches resulting from accidental or malicious disclosure.

Watchful was formed to protect an organization’s most critical asset after its people – its information. The company addresses the growing need for protecting sensitive and proprietary information against accidental or malicious theft, leakage, or loss. Leveraging key technologies including advanced encryption algorithms, digital rights management, and eBiometrics, Watchful has developed a suite of solutions that ensure only authorized personnel have access to enterprise systems and information, protecting against potentially massive economic and competitive damage from cyberterrorists and information thieves.

In a world where confidential information is increasingly stolen, leaked, and lost, a key imperative for information professionals is to secure and protect the corporation’s most critical asset (after its employees) – its information. However, decades of investment into “securing the perimeter” through upgraded firewalls, IPS/IDS solutions, etc. have proven that simply hardening the network isn’t enough, as there will always be users coming and going across network boundaries, putting virtually all data at risk of malicious or accidental disclosure. Despite increasing investments on preventive and reactive measures, information loss continues daily. This has spawned initiatives to secure not just the network, but the information itself, using what has become known as data-centric security.

Watchful’s flagship offering RightsWATCH delivers the leading data-centric solution for securing information and data, ensuring that information is kept protected no matter where it is, inside or outside the network, and regardless of who has access to the network and systems. Protection is enforced on the files/data itself, instead of only on the system or network, thus being effective even when there is unintended or accidental access.