Service that monitors suspicious online activity now available to banks nationwide.

• Position: Sage Data Security

A service called nDiscovery is now available for financial institutions nationally through Sage Data Security, South Portland, Maine. The service uses application, operating system and device logs to uncover suspicious and potentially dangerous network activity, including internal system misuse, unauthorized access, malicious applications and security breaches.

Financial services firms are required to monitor network activity daily, and while most capture event log activity, it is difficult and costly to fulfill the separation-of-duty requirement of using nonnetwork-authorized personnel to evaluate the data. The nDiscovery service goes beyond real-time event logging to provide an independent, outsourced service from trained security experts who review the data daily as well as over time to uncover suspicious and threatening network and user activity, www.sagedatasecurity.com accounts. Its marketing campaign involves in-branch posters and brochures plus a mix of newspaper and radio ads.

Worldwide says its service includes assignment of a specially trained coordinator who personally assists the victim by doing the necessary paperwork, making appropriate phone...