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Intellitactics Releases Intellitactics Security Manager Summer 2006, Simplification Reduces Time to Value, Flexibility Enhances Threat Management and Compliance Reporting

First security information and event manager to offer control monitoring and reporting to enforce security policy.

Reston VA, August 8, 2006—Intellitactics today announced the general availability of Intellitactics™ Security Manager Summer 2006. The new release dramatically simplifies the implementation and administration of security information and event management (SIEM), allowing organizations to accelerate their time to value while improving security operations and optimizing workforce resources. Security Manager Summer 2006 introduces advanced control monitoring and reporting to enforce security policy to strengthen the protection of enterprise information, delivers an improved workflow to detect insider threats and resolve security incidents, and provides an advanced reporting system to accelerate the creation of reports for decision support and compliance audits.

Randall K. Davis, President and CEO of Intellitactics, shares the Company’s philosophy on making the value of SIEM software more accessible: “Today’s buyers wants to experience SIEM value without a long and expensive implementation - and they also want the flexibility to adapt the solution to reflect their unique enterprise security policy. This new release of Security Manager is distinguished by simple implementation and administration with unequaled adaptability and flexibility to address enterprise specific requirements. This release takes threat management to a new level and takes cost out of sustaining a compliance environment.”

A significant component of this release is the introduction of control monitoring and reporting. According to a report by Paul E. Proctor, Research Vice President, Security and Risk, Gartner, Inc., “Information security officers need to understand their responsibilities from three perspectives, or lenses: architecture, process, and controls. The report then goes on to say, “The controls lens presents security as a set of controls to address reasonably anticipated risks. In total, the list of controls can be thought of as how an organization protects itself...” (Information Security Through the Controls and Policy Lens, January 24, 2006.)

Pamela Casale, Chief Marketing Officer for Intellitactics, explains the importance of this innovation: “There has been a lot of hype in the last year, positioning SIEM products or log managers as “compliance managers.” We wanted to put some teeth into the claim. Controls are the common denominator of enforcing policy and enforcing policy is fundamental to compliance. Many of our customers are working to comply with any combination of SOX, PCI, HIPAA, or GLB requirements. This feature of Security Manager enables our customers to be secure and be compliant where controls define the link between threats, mitigation, and risk reduction.”

“One of the major ways that organizations are responding is with an increasing interest in the control view of managing security,” explains Sunil Bhargava, Vice President of Product Management for Intellitactics. “Security Manager analyzes security events and escalates events as alerts that notify analysts of control violations or exceptions. Combined with Security Manager’s event monitoring, ability to prioritize alerts based on automated risk scoring, and integrated incident management, this capability of managing from the controls perspective simplifies the complexity of sustaining compliance and increases the value of implementing a SIEM solution.” Security Manager adds this new dimension to security event management by incorporating a meta-controls catalogue, which is a superset of controls from known frameworks like ISO, COBIT, and NIST.”

Another area providing immediate value is the advanced reporting system. “This is an area customers often use to demonstrate and quantify value,” continues Bhargava. “In addition to hundreds of pre-defined reports, this release features a report wizard that lets users modify existing reports and create new reports from templates. We wanted to make it simple without limiting the power to create reports that meet enterprise needs.” Bhargava says that group-based access control, automated scheduling, distribution of reports in multiple formats, and an accessible repository of published reports exceeds customer expectations for an enterprise class reporting system.

 

Intellitactics Security Manager Summer 2006 Highlights

Control Monitoring and Reporting

  • Ability to monitor and report on control performance
  • Analyzes security events against the controls selected to limit risk and maintain compliance; maps security events to controls from leading frameworks such as NIST and ISO 17799
  • Ships with a complete catalogue of meta-controls that automatically produce control alerts and over 200 pre-defined control reports

Advanced Reporting System

  • New 4-step report wizard modifies existing reports and creates new reports from templates
  • Provides automated scheduling and distribution of reports in multiple formats including PDF, HTML, and CSV
  • Includes a managed web-based repository of published reports
  • Simplified report system administration and access control

Advanced Security Assurance Metrics and Security Dashboard

Intellitactics SAM is an executive dashboard featuring practical security assurance metrics. Metrics enable organizations to measure the value of security investments and provide key performance indicators to:

  • Justify security budgets
  • Highlight success and assign accountability
  • Provide business context for decision making

Improved Work Flow

  • Automated alert assignment and notification
  • On-demand alert visualization and integrated (web-based) visual analytics for managing events
  • Expanded actions for operators and analysts from an event and from an alert
  • Contextualized Alerts - alert scoring model assesses nine key risk factors associated with alerts; automated assessments determine both the business and security risk presented to the organization by each alert

Simplified Implementation and Administration

  • Pre-defined reports, correlations, escalations, and metrics combined with intuitive interface for user configuration provides the added value of including corporate knowledge without the cost or time to required to customize
  • Customers can expect to get immediate value from standard implementation of Security Manager

About Intellitactics, Inc.
Headquartered in Reston, VA, Intellitactics provides the world’s leading enterprise security management solution used by security analysts, operations, and risk officers to achieve cost-effective regulatory compliance; mitigate risk by automating security operations; and accelerate incident resolution to ensure the availability of critical business services. Intellitactics' industry leading Security Manager empowers organizations to simplify the complex mandate to be secure and compliant with just one solution. Security Manager combines event, alert, and incident management to mitigate exposure to cybercrime, with extensive automated analysis and reporting. A strong complement to Security Manager is Intellitactics™ SAM, which measures security value and features security assurance metrics™ on a configurable dashboard. Intellitactics was awarded Common Criteria Certification in December 2004, making it the first software provider to earn this certification as a security information and event management solution. Founded in 1996, Intellitactics is backed by JMI Equity Fund LP and Lazard Technology Partners and is ranked by well-known industry analysts as a market leader known for innovative solutions and a commitment to customer success. Visit us at www.intellitactics.com.

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Pam Casale
marketing@intellitactics.com
877-746-7658