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ClearPoint Metrics and LogLogic Connect to Provide Comprehensive IT Risk Management Solution

(Jan 13, 2008)-- ClearPoint Metrics, the IT and Information Security performance metrics company announced the availability of data connection capabilities between ClearPoint's Security Performance Manager and LogLogic's Compliance Suites.

LogLogic Compliance Suites offer a window into all user activities across an organization's IT infrastructure and provide a real-time view of adherence to multiple regulations and standards. With ClearPoint's new data adapter LogLogic's enterprise customers can leverage ClearPoint's security performance management solution to obtain advanced metrics on internal IT security initiatives and cost effectively communicate the state, quality, and effectiveness of their initiatives throughout the organization.

The LogLogic Compliance Suites automate the analysis of log data generated by all applications, databases, systems, and network devices. In doing so, the software offers businesses insight into where data is moving and who is accessing it. In addition to helping companies meet industry compliance regulations, such as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), that require the collection and analysis of log data, LogLogic Compliance Suites address enterprise risk management, information retention policies, and IT risk management. They can also help increase overall operational efficiency, reduce IT budgets, and reduce ongoing compliance costs. Currently, LogLogic has baseline reporting capabilities such as exporting reports into CSV, PDF or HTML formats. With data integration with ClearPoint's Security Performance Manager, valuable LogLogic data can be integrated with ClearPoint's visual metrics and scorecarding system to deliver the hard facts and data that lead to more informed decision making and reliable compliance assessments.

"Though collecting log data is mandatory for many industry compliance regulations, businesses that want to maintain best practices for security and accountability can leverage ClearPoint's solutions to develop policies that mitigate risk," said Dominique Levin, executive vice president of marketing and strategy for LogLogic. "ClearPoint's data adapter will help us provide LogLogic customers with a clear concise view of ongoing IT risk to ensure the effectiveness of their information security initiatives."

The ClearPoint Metrics Security Performance Manager(TM) enables IT and security executives and their teams to successfully measure, monitor, and communicate the state, quality, and effectiveness of their information security investments, enhancing and supporting their governance, risk, and compliance initiatives with reliable performance metrics.

The Security Performance Manager(TM) automates the entire process of designing, calculating and communicating Key Performance Indicators to help IT organizations manage and minimize asset risk and exposures. The solution is designed to consistently gather hard facts and reliable data; profile high-risk users, assets, and concentrations of risk, confidently communicate the state and effectiveness of major initiatives, proactively align IT initiatives with business priorities and save substantial time and cost in compliance assessment, reporting, and audits.

"The addition of LogLogic to the ClearPoint family of metric data sources partners is significant," said Jim Acquaviva, CEO of ClearPoint Metrics. "Our customer's success is predicated on obtaining hard facts and data from strategic data stores, such as LogLogic, and creating useful and actionable metrics that communicate the efficacy of internal controls and the business value of investments."

ClearPoint's portfolio of over 50 adapters provides connections to a large number of critical security and business applications, including threat managers, anti-virus, incident managers, intrusion detection and prevention, identity and access managers, asset managers, network/system managers, vulnerability scanners, vulnerability managers and patch managers.

For more information, visit www.loglogic.com and www.clearpointmetrics.com

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