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eIQnetworks Combines GRC Audit Management with Next-Generation SIM to Streamline IT Assurance

(Nov 04, 2007)-- eIQnetworks, provider of integrated security, risk and audit management solutions,  announced the immediate availability of the next evolution of its flagship SecureVue solution. SecureVue 3.0 adds governance, risk and compliance (GRC) audit management, network behavior anomaly detection (NBAD) and 3-D visualization to its existing next-generation security information management (SIM) solution, providing enterprises with an integrated security, risk and audit platform to radically simplify IT assurance.

“As IT and business operations teams become more skilled at identifying, analyzing and remediating security issues, they will take on more and more security responsibilities,” wrote Paul Stamp, principal analyst at Forrester in his recent report, Security Information Management Market Forecast, 2007 To 2011. “Thus, it will become commonplace for information security teams to be more interested in setting and overseeing policy than with the specifics of its implementation. SIM will be the primary tool for enabling operations teams and security teams to collaborate on: turning business policy into specific configurations and requirements; assessing the risk of ongoing security issues; and coordinating the response to security incidents.”

Historically, enterprises have managed audit and security functions with multiple point products. The latest version of SecureVue provides an advanced framework that combines GRC audit management with next-generation SIM to help organizations strategically address evolving security and compliance challenges and improve operational efficiencies. By using eIQ’s integrated security, risk and audit platform, enterprises are able to realize significant business benefits, including:

*Reduced management complexity and cost;
*Increased collaboration between NOC, SOC and compliance teams;
*Faster identification and remediation of hard-to-detect security incidents; and
*Improved enterprise-wide security, policy and compliance management, with support for COBIT, ISO 17799, ISO 27000, NIST 800-53, CA 1386, FISMA, GLBA, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX and more.

“Meeting regulatory mandates and conforming to industry best practices prove challenging for all organizations subject to security and compliance audits,” said Ernest Quaglieri, chief information security officer at The State of Rhode Island. “Disparate point solutions create inefficiencies between network, security and operations teams. An integrated platform like SecureVue enables The State of Rhode Island to foster inter-departmental collaboration.”

Unlike other GRC solutions that rely on third-party data sources, SecureVue integrates GRC functionality with next-generation SIM to provide enterprise-wide visibility and support for specific regulations, best practices, internal policies and controls. Leveraging a comprehensive library of more than 5,000 control objectives, SecureVue helps define, monitor and measure overall compliance via:

*Knowledge Base Packs: streamline best practice and regulatory implementation by mapping requirements to specific IT controls;
*Executive Dashboards: display current and historical regulation, best practice, control and policy trends;
*Wizard-based Mapping: accelerates creation, approval and maintenance of evolving internal and external requirements;
*Extensive Drilldown: quickly identifies the why, when, where and how of policy and audit violations and provides information required to achieve compliance; and
*Audit Reports: present all relevant data to show compliancy to specific requirements.

SecureVue’s GRC audit module is built on a fully extensible architecture, enabling organizations to easily establish internal policies, tailor business requirements and add additional regulations and best practices.

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