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New Intellitactics SAFE Appliances Provide New Opportunity for Any Organization to Reap the Benefits of Effective Information Security Risk Management

(Aprl 09, 2008)-- Intellitactics SAFE (SAFE), a new product line of security appliances for security organizations interested in log management, compliance and decreasing the number of security- and compliance-related incidents has been released. Intellitactics SAFE appliances, simple-to-deploy and easy-to-use, enable every organization to achieve best-in-class results, whether their focus is audit-worthy reports, extreme logging or operational efficiency. The first two appliances, announced at the RSA Conference this week, are: SAFE LP, offering complete logging plus event management in one appliance, and SAFE LA, which simplifies the collection of logs from anywhere and forwards logs to other SAFE appliances or to the company’s enterprise security management solution, Intellitactics™ Security Manager (ISM).

To meet market requirements for the SAFE appliances, Intellitactics partnered with appliance vendor NEI of Canton, MA. Hugh Kelly, senior vice president of marketing with NEI, comments on the partnership: “Working with Intellitactics to develop the appliance platform for the Intellitactics SAFE appliances gave NEI an opportunity to do what we do best – understand the client's business objectives and develop the best appliance platform to exceed their customers' expectations. For the SAFE appliances, Intellitactics is taking advantage of the latest hardware advances and chose to embed NEI's proprietary management capabilities and our appliance-certified OS to ensure SAFE's availability, reliability and security.”

This announcement comes a week after the company announced three new channel partners in North America and released a story on the company’s new active integration and response™ (AIR) technology, which is rapidly expanding the size of its eco-system. With this new product direction, reflected in the SAFE appliances, Intellitactics is stepping into the broader market with a new business model. Scott Crawford, Research Director of the Security and Risk Management Practice with Enterprise Management Associates, comments on the Intellitactics approach: “By offering a diverse suite of products, each with its own complement of valuable functionality, Intellitactics is now poised to deliver SIEM solutions to organizations previously overlooked or underserved by the SIEM market. We think Intellitactics will see success with this new business model that showcases Intellitactics’ thought leadership in SIEM product development and delivery.”

The SAFE appliances deliver stand-alone capability or can be hierarchically deployed when security management is shared between remote locations and headquarters. Each appliance aims to increase accessibility to SIEM, but discards the one size fits all approach of other vendors. SAFE LP, as an example, offers complete functionality on one appliance and is available in several sizes to ensure that the anticipated volume of logs and events can be processed and stored without impacting product performance or reliability. Intellitactics SAFE appliances provide plug-and-play logging and logging plus event management appliances that stand alone or can be combined in a hierarchical deployment for organizations with distributed management of security. SAFE appliances are built to military standards and can be securely managed through a web-based graphical interface.

“For the last few years, many companies have been making do with logging appliances that simply collected and stored logs and found themselves spending many hours and a lot of money on products promising to expose logs with meaningful data. Logs serve a useful purpose, but we wanted the SAFE appliances to deliver an improved result. Because it’s an appliance and because the ‘know how’ is in the box, every organization can be confident that they can implement event management in a way that best fits their environment and reap the benefits of effective risk management,” explains Sunil Bhargava, chief technology officer for Intellitactics.

SAFE LP is the logging plus event management appliance that uncovers hidden information in the logs. SAFE LP’s security events give the organization a jump start on security by eliminating false positives, isolating threats and doing something about them. SAFE LP is ideal for organizations with a compliance focus that benefit from packaged reports for regulatory standards, like HIPAA and PCI DSS, along with a report wizard to create new and edit existing reports. The new Web 2.0 user interface includes a dashboard and an event explorer to rapidly mine the rich store of security information in Intellitactics’ Security Data Warehouse™ (SDW). Users click from any type of notification to event reports or from a dashboard chart to events detail and associated logs in seconds.

SAFE LA is an affordable appliance designed to simply collect logs from any source located anywhere and safely delivers the encrypted, compressed logs to an SDW. The reliable SAFE LA delivers high-performance log collection 365x7x24 and is ideally suited for un-manned remote locations.

Because each appliance is self-contained, you only need one appliance. SAFE is good for the environmentally responsible. Choosing SAFE doesn’t require multiple appliances taking up rack room to accommodate log volume. There is less energy consumed and less energy required for cooling crowded racks.

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