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Verdict is in! Department of Justice Executive Office for United States Attorneys Select Intellitactics Security Manager to Enforce Security Policy
Intellitactics’ enterprise security management solution automates processes for security operations, accelerates incident resolution and automates reporting; provides underpinnings for FISMA-compliant environmenReston, VA, November 3, 2006—Intellitactics announced that the Department of Justice Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) selected IntellitacticsTM Security Manager, IntellitacticsTM SAM (security dashboard that works with Security Manager), and Intellitactics Advanced AnalyticsTM as the centerpiece of a security management program designed to automate security operations, align real-time security operations with risk management strategies, and address requirements for FISMA/FIPS compliance reporting. Security Manager and Intellitactics SAM will be used to build and maintain a sustainable FISMA/NIST-compliant environment that will protect the agency’s information assets by accelerating incident response and provide immediate access to reports to resolve compliance issues and validate that controls implemented to enforce security policy are working.
The EOUSA provides the United States Attorneys with general executive assistance and direction, policy development, administrative management direction and oversight, operational support, and coordination with other components of the Department and other federal agencies. These responsibilities include certain legal, budgetary, administrative, and personal services, as well as education regarding legal matters.
Security Manager combines security event and information management to increase the effectiveness of security operations in stopping attacks, responding to incidents, and enforcing policy. It consolidates and correlates security events, generates and ranks actionable security alerts, automates reporting, and delivers security assurance metrics. The suite will be implemented at EOUSA’s Washington DC Headquarters office as well as at a remote Security Fusion Center. The solution will be integrated with EOUSA’s security management architecture to automate the consolidation and analysis of events from applications, perimeter devices, operating systems and other data sources to accelerate the agency’s ability to respond quickly with immediate action to contain attacks regardless of the scope of the attack.
According to a report by Gartner, Inc., “When an organization is under cyber attack, minutes really do matter… Cybercrime is now driving targeted and stealthier malware attacks, decreasing the available time to effectively respond. No amount of prevention can eliminate all failures, so all organizations must be prepared to respond appropriately.” The report then goes on to say, “Identifying the scope of an attack can be very difficult if manually auditing disparate log and event data, most of which is extremely voluminous and irrelevant... During the first minutes of an attack, organizations must work toward identifying the attack type, scope and vectors and then implement the appropriate controls to contain the attack and quarantine any compromised hosts… The ability to perform immediate action is crucial.” (Essential Incident Response Activities During the First 24 Hours, Amrit T. Williams, Greg Young, Jay Heiser, January 2006.)
Security Manager will be used to validate that processes and controls prescribed by NIST are working to ensure EOUSA’s compliance with FISMA standards to reduce risk. Intellitactics SAM will be configured to display practical security assurance metrics™ reflecting risk posture and control performance. With the solution’s real-time access to prioritized security alerts, investigative ability, and security assurance metrics, EOUSA will be able to:
- Establish and sustain a FISMA-compliant environment to protect information assets
- Take immediate action on incidents posing the greatest risk to the agency
- Perform forensics and trend analysis
- Accelerate detection of camouflaged activity prevalent in internal attack scenarios and challenging hybrid attacks
- Communicate key performance indicators to illustrate detection and incident response, demonstrate opportunities for improvement, assign accountability, and provide business context for decision making
Pamela Casale, chief marketing officer for Intellitactics, comments on EOUSA’s selection process: “In seeking an enterprise security management solution, EOUSA had high expectations for functionality, lifecycle costs, and most important, performance. They were looking for a solution that could adapt to centrally manage their complex infrastructure and stand up in real time to analyzing a high number of disparate security events. Security Manager is a complete solution with imbedded knowledge to detect violations of NIST controls and report on FISMA compliance.”
Security Manager transforms millions of events into a more manageable number of actionable alerts to accelerate incident response. By reducing false positives, Security Manager enables security analysts to quickly investigate alerts and incidents to preempt malicious insiders or sophisticated attackers on the outside. A highly automated reporting system, provides hundreds of reports categorized by NIST controls and/or FISMA standards with an intuitive wizard to edit existing reports or create new reports without being competent with a query language.
Intellitactics SAM is a security dashboard that features security assurance metrics™ used by managers to measure and communicate security value. SAM visualizes key performance indicators and other information used to make decisions, create policy, and define strategy. SAM’s security assurance metrics are derived dynamically from information managed by Intellitactics’ Security Manager, user provided enterprise variables, and other sources of information like physical security devices. These practical metrics are developed in cooperation with and used by companies worldwide to characterize the state of enterprise security. Intellitactics Advanced Analytics works with Intellitactics Security Manager and extends the visual analysis of events available as a standard feature of the operation console. Advanced Analytics presents hundreds of thousands of events through a 'single pane of glass,' enabling a security analyst to quickly go deep to discern low and slow internal attacks, thereby minimizing impact and costs associated with clean up and recovery. Advanced Analytics graphics are useful for forensic analysis, trend analysis, and visually tracking security situations over time.
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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