Digital Guardian acquires Savant Protection

Acquisition extends the Digital Guardian Data Aware Endpoint Security Platform to fixed- function devices.

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Digital Guardian, the only endpoint security platform purpose built to stop data theft, has acquired Savant Protection, a provider of advanced application whitelisting solutions. Savant Protection delivers the most secure application whitelisting solution which defends endpoints and servers from Advanced Persistent Threats, zero-day attacks and unknown malware. The company was founded in 2006 and launched its application whitelisting solution, Savant Enforcer, in 2007. Enforcer utilizes a unique whitelist on each individual endpoint which eliminates the single-point failure risk inherent with a central whitelist approach. Easy to administer through an administrator console or the local user interface, Savant Enforcer is capable of protecting endpoint systems against malicious applications whether they are on the corporate network or fully disconnected.


The acquisition of Savant Protection and the Savant Enforcer product enables Digital Guardian to:
• Extend its endpoint security platform to fixed-function devices including point-of-sale systems (POS), industrial control systems (ICS), Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) and SCADA systems.
• Enhance Digital Guardian’s policy-driven app control capability with the industry’s most flexible endpoint and user-driven application whitelisting approach.
• Strengthen the current Digital Guardian PCI compliance solution by adding a “trusted change management layer” required to meet many of the PCI-DSS v.3.1 controls.


Savant Enforcer, Version 5.1, is generally available today and installed on hundreds of thousands of endpoints globally. It will continue to be sold as a discrete product by Digital Guardian until the technology is fully integrated into the Digital Guardian Endpoint Security Platform in late 2015.

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