With Quest One Identity Manager Data Governance Edition, Quest Software (NASDAQ: QSFT) has introduced a product that complements the Quest One portfolio of Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions with capabilities for managing access to unstructured data in Microsoft Windows file shares, Network-Attached Storage (NAS) and Microsoft SharePoint environments. Quest One Identity Manager Data Governance Edition answers a significant need in the marketplace, given the challenges and complexities of assuring the proper handling of sensitive unstructured data.

The Quest product leverages a proprietary algorithm that recognizes patterns of data access, and translates that insight into actionable intelligence for policy definition, monitoring, reporting and control. This provides the realistic approach needed for managing data access challenges regarded up to now as being difficult to tame using legacy approaches, such as determining content ownership and managing access among highly dynamic collaborators. Quest One Identity Manager Data Governance Edition…