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QRadar Chosen by Leading Payment Processor Provider for Compliance Reporting, Superior Log Management and Increased Security Intelligence

(January 15, 2010) - A worldwide provider of total security intelligence products, Q1 Labs, announced that Regulus Group, a 3i Infotech company and the premier provider of paper and electronic bill presentment and remittance processing solutions in the United States, has implemented Q1 Labs’ QRadar™ family of network security management products. With Q1 Labs’ highly intelligent, integrated and automated QRadar SIEM solution, Regulus is able to ensure that their customers’ personal information is well-protected in accordance with compliance regulations. Additionally, due to QRadar’s unique integration of log management and SIEM functionality, Regulus is also able to conduct threat monitoring and fraud detection, providing Regulus with a complete view of its security posture.

With over 350 network devices ranging from firewalls and enterprise switches to Unix and Windows-based servers and Windows-based desktops, Regulus was looking for a highly intelligent yet cost-effective SIEM solution that didn’t require a lot of hand-holding. The company also wanted to be sure that the product could scale as they grew: Regulus is expecting to have all its critical production systems – including the addition of more than 750 devices – up and running by the end of July. They found QRadar to be the best product to meet their needs today, and with an easy path as they scale and migrate to a full SIEM deployment.

“Our primary goal for deploying a SIEM was to meet compliance mandates, but we wanted to go above and beyond what the various regulations required of us, and use the additional information captured by QRadar to really make our network, and the services and applications it delivers, secure. We want our customers to have faith that we’re keeping their personal information well-protected, and QRadar enables us to do that. Additionally, we chose Q1 Labs over all the other major competitors because they provided us with the most security intelligence and the best customer support,” said Jeff Dalton, technical operations officer for Regulus. “We were also pleased with QRadar being extremely automated, equipped with compliance-driven report templates that were very useful out of the box, which spared us the manpower and resources of having to develop them ourselves. We’re also able to use the reports for meeting multiple regulations across the various industries we serve.”

Regulus was founded in 1995 as a provider of remittance processing solutions. Key to its success and rapid growth has been the company’s long-standing commitment to applying the latest technologies to advance the business of customer transactions. Handling more than 2.1 billion paper and electronic transactions annually, Regulus is the largest outsourced remittance processor and one of the largest outsourced billers in North America. The company services the telecom, insurance, finance, utility/energy and healthcare industries – all of which require the utmost protection of personal information.

“Companies today are under increasing pressure from two major forces – policymakers and cybercriminals. On the one hand, organizations are being required to comply with industry regulations, such as PCI, HIPAA and Sarbanes Oxley, to protect personally identifiable information. On the other hand, cybercriminals are looking for any ‘in’ to a company network where they can extract personal information,” said Tom Turner, senior vice president of Marketing and Channel Sales for Q1 Labs. “The mandates coupled with outside threats are creating the budget for companies to implement security solutions. Therefore they should take this opportunity to leverage SIEM technology, which provides companies with a simple way to garner as much security intelligence from their networks as possible, and provide the audit trail for compliance needs. With these forces in mind, our SIEM solution was designed to scale as Regulus grows, paving the way for Regulus to fully leverage the power of QRadar SIEM as their requirements change.”

For more information, visit www.regulusgroup.com.

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